Active Directory Domain on Ubuntu

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/11/2010 23:17, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Saturday, November 13, 2010 07:38 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>> On 13/11/2010 20:43, Christopher Chan wrote:
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>> [pruned]
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>>> Since when do you get educated arguments from trolls like me?
>>>        
>> <FX: Nods heads slowly several times>   True, very true......
>>
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>>>> It's like someone spouting forth about the merits of DOS when it is no
>>>> longer in the picture...... :-) .
>>>>
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>>> But you see, I work in these blooming factories that use DOS on their
>>> control stations and they are not willing to make the big change
>>> to...er...hmm...something that is better but requires them to engineer
>>> their solution.
>>>
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>> At which point I am not sure if you are trying to convince the members
>> of this list to take a certain approach or you are trying to convince
>> those you work for to "see the light"...it's all kinda confusing overall.
>>
>>      
> Well, it goes both ways..."see the light" is usually not a
> problem...they will see that Linux desktops would be easier to manage
> (system wise - desktop wise depends on admin :-p), much more secure,
> more cost effective but they usually come back with "but I need to use
> this or that" and also point out the time involved in retraining. The
> latter is usually no biggee if there were either viable alternatives to
> 'this or that' or you could get 'this or that' to work on Linux. I'd be
> happy to roll out GNOME desktops now that Sabayon provides the bare
> minimum requirement of being able to customize desktops based on group
> membership. What's left is replacements for software like Photo Story 3,
> Windows Movie Maker 2.1, software used by the special needs team. Time
> to get Wine a whirl with some of this stuff.
>    

I think I can see your dilemma, but can't you set-up, say, your own 
desktop using, say, Ubuntu, with all the necessaries including Wine or 
VB so that the Windows' -er- "stuff" will work? Don't have to tell 
anyone - just simply install it all, use it all for some time - dunno, a 
month? - and then spring that surprise and shout, "Gotcha by the short 
and curlies!" :-) . Then take them all out for a feast of Peking Duck in 
the restaurant on the top floor of the Peninsula Hotel - and you'll be 
"in like Flynn" :-) .

BC

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