Social Experiment

debian debiani386 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 15 16:36:27 UTC 2007


Alex Janssen wrote:

[big snip]
>  I also informed her that she now 
> has the coolest screensavers in the office.  She liked leaving them as 
> random rather than choosing one.
>
>   
ya i like the fireworks screensaver in kde the best.

[/snip]
> I was having a little trouble figuring out what to do fix the refresh 
> rate, as the monitor was not recognized, when my factory engineer 
> stopped by and commented "must be that damn linux you were telling me 
> about". 
>
>   
if it doesnt recognize my monitor, i usually set up a generic monitor 
driver and, as long as it works, call it good
> I had prep'd everybody for this eventual change by switching, 2 years 
> ago, to all open source apps, i.e.; Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org 
> ...  those are the main ones.  A number of people have taken those apps 
> home on CD's I've given them.  People are always surprised to hear that 
> they are FREE.
>
>   
good move, as we all know, open source is best ;)
> I'll post results back here as they come in.
>
> Cheers to all you rebels,
> Alex
>
>   
--cj




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