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Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously?

From	Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@gmail.com>
Subject	Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously?
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:30:03 -0400, Michael Black wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, RayLopez99 wrote:
> 
>> Again, I ask the timeless rhetorical question:  who is seriously using
>> Linux for Serious Work?  Since the first time I've posted this thread,
>> from years ago, only ONE (1) person has shown me they do Serious Work
>> (a defined term--for you first time viewers--I'm talking about an OS
>> that supports the Office Suite).  This one person was a contract
>> manager who insisted on using Linux.  He was valuable enough to his
>> organization that they let him get away with this stunt, and he ended
>> up converting all Linux work into Office format using some emulator
>> like Wine I suppose, or perhaps Linux somehow can export to .docx
>> format, though I don't see how.
>>
>> One person in all these years.  Just one.
>>
>> Case closed.
> 
> What case?
> 
> All of my work is done on Linux, has been for a decade.
> 
> Of course none of it is "serious", as you define it

"Serious work", as he defines it, is limited solely to the use of two or 
three specific applications.  He has no grasp of the difference between a 
job and the tools used to do the job, nor of the fact that beyond the 
scope of word processing and spreadsheeting exists a whole world of 
computing tasks.

> Everything I do has to be done on Linux, I don't wishy-washy jump
> between operating systems. 

There's a whole two apps left which I need for $job, which are Windows 
based.  We're working on eliminating them.

Sad story:

The other net admin disappeared the other day.  Wasn't sure where he got 
to so I went looking.  He was sitting in the accountant's office, poking 
at the accountant's PC.  Seems said PC was having "problems" - slow, 
random lockups, that sort of thing.  Symptomatically, it looked like it 
might be a virus.

Oh, no, can't be that, he runs AV software.  Still, never hurts to check, 
so the other net admin digs up a couple of different AV apps and lets 'em 
run a while.  Not to completion; in 2 hours give or take, the fastest of 
'em is about a third of the way done.  In any case, the results?

One found 17 viruses, the other found 49.  Both in less than a full run.

49 and possibly more viruses, on a machine *with* AV installed.  Not too 
surprising it wasn't a happy machine.

Here's the fun part, IMO: assuming one finished the scan, removed all the 
viruses and got a "clean" report: exactly how much can you trust the 
machine or the report?

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Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 15:07 -0700
  Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-06-10 18:24 -0400
    Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-10 23:54 +0100
      Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2011-06-11 06:56 -0400
  Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-10 23:27 +0100
    Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? JeffM <jeffm_@email.com> - 2011-06-10 17:38 -0700
    Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2011-06-11 01:48 -0700
  Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-10 23:36 +0100
    Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-06-10 18:36 -0400
      Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2011-06-11 01:37 -0700
        Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-11 12:25 +0100
  Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Chris <chrisdhaag@googlemail.com> - 2011-06-10 23:59 +0000
    Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2011-06-10 18:26 -0700
    Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2011-06-11 01:41 -0700
      Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-11 12:26 +0100
        Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Marti Van Lin <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> - 2011-06-11 16:23 +0200
      Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2011-06-11 18:49 -0500
    [Troll] No troll too old to rehash for the umpteenth time Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2011-06-11 06:58 -0400
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            Re: No troll too old to rehash for the umpteenth time JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2011-06-11 18:50 -0500
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                Re: No troll too old to rehash for the umpteenth time RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2011-06-13 13:48 -0700
                Re: No troll too old to rehash for the umpteenth time DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2011-06-13 17:46 -0400
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                Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2011-06-13 00:22 -0700
    Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@gmail.com> - 2011-06-12 15:17 -0700
  Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Lyrik <jenserikbech@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 17:28 -0700
    Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2011-06-11 01:42 -0700
  Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-06-10 23:30 -0400
    Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@gmail.com> - 2011-06-12 15:13 -0700
      Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? An Old Friend <an.old@friend.com.invalid> - 2011-06-13 02:59 +0100
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        Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@gmail.com> - 2011-06-12 22:02 -0700
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        Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? 1PW <1PW@INVALID.net> - 2011-06-13 03:58 -0700
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                Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Gregory Shearman <ZekeGregory@netscape.net> - 2011-06-14 00:45 +0000
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  Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nowhere> - 2011-06-12 14:21 +0200
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      Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-06-12 17:11 -0400
        Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2011-06-13 05:42 +0200
        Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2011-06-13 08:04 -0500
  Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2011-06-12 08:27 -0400
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    Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2011-06-12 10:00 -0700
      Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? hanukas <jukka@liimatta.org> - 2011-06-13 00:45 -0700
        Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2011-06-13 06:42 -0400
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  Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Lyrik <jenserikbech@gmail.com> - 2011-06-13 15:15 -0700
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      Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Chris <chrisdhaag@googlemail.com> - 2011-06-14 12:02 +0000
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