[Malvern] Where did the last 2 weeks go?

[Andrew Morris]

The world turned ... politics, religion and banking did their respective 
things and we did not win the lotterrrrrry ... again. Linux and Open 
Source, however, ploughed a furrow that is getting perceivably wider and 
deeper ... and down in the wilds of Somerset, we added a smidgen or 
three ...

<Ring> <Ring>

"Hello"

<Hesitant Asian or East European voice, possibly reading from a script> 
"This is the technical support department of <fill blank as appropriate 
with random commercial-type name>, we have detected a problem on your 
<optional word "windows"> <fixed word "computer" or "pc"> ..."

<Me breaking-in, curtly> "I haven't got one ..." <True for a given value 
of "true" ... I have a laptop with Knoppix>

<Various expressions of stunned surprise>

At which point I put the phone down, usually grinning, although several 
times lately it has been my wife answering, with much the same glee as 
myself, having become an enthusiastic convert via Kubuntu on an Asus 
Eeepc. She cannot now understand why anyone would use Windows, telling 
anyone who will listen, including the her bosses, who have had some 
computer "difficulties" recently. Our son still runs W7, because of the 
free versions of CGI software he runs for his college course ... but is 
now so fed up with it that he is backing-up all his work to a TB USB 
drive so that we can clean his machine and reload with a suitable distro 
... the recent improvements in wine handling his favourite games, plus 
some targeted trojans, seem to have been the tipping point.

Hey, ho ... things happen!


Merry new annum to all


Andy

On 10/01/12 10:14, Phil Ironside wrote:
> Just woken up from hibernation - what's happening man?
>