[ale] Linspire chairman thinks desktop Linux is futile - OT

[Jeff Lightner]

Thereby proving no good deed ever goes unpunished.

For even more proof:
This past weekend I took On Call for my coworker so of course the tape
library chose the weekend to go belly up.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Preston Boyington
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 11:55 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Linspire chairman thinks desktop Linux is futile

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Funny - the Help Desk folks here couldn't figure out how to Ghost NTFS
> when my Windoze laptop hard drive was being upgraded so wanted to
> reinstall with FAT32 (and of course lose everything I had).  
> 
> I went out and got a Gparted boot disk and did the swap myself (and
also
> setup dual boot).  I then burned them a copy of the CD and gave them
the
> instructions.  They never came to get the CD and when I asked recently
> the version of Ghost they use STILL is the one that won't do NTFS.
> 

At the request of my supervisor, I helped recover files from several 
dying drives using various Linux tools.  I personally recovered about 
40% of the material that was salvageable and felt that I had done a good

deed by helping out.

This actually put me on a "watch list" because I used "Linux Stuff" and 
I was subsequently written up for using "non policy" software on the 
company's machines / network.  After questioning their backup practices 
as well as their lineage I decided that helping others out in a business

environment is not worth the aggravation.

A year or so later when I left, I was told they treated my machine like 
it was a bomb.  This made me laugh since I knew it was easily the most 
legit and clean machine in the whole place.


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