On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:50:26PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > got this off one of my mailing lists. Says a lot about the Asian market. > > >>> > Have I got a story for you. I am living in Korea, and I called up the cable > co to get the cheap cable internet here. They come over to my house and try > to config my computer. It's pretty funny because the guy is looking at a KDE > desktop and he is asking me where the start button is. I tell him it isn't > windows anymore, but he can't believe that there is anything but windows out > there. > > I typed in one line - "dhcpcd" - and everything worked. He couldn't believe > that it was that simple. What's funny is I was trying to get him to say the > magical words, "We use DHCP", but he didn't even know what that was. What was > even funnier is he was surprised that I didn't have to reboot to get it all > to work. > > Jonathan > <<< > > I've heard before that the Asian market is pretty well locked into a > Windows mindset... people there haven't been shown anything other than the > MS desktop. for those companies with mainframes; the knowlege and > understanding of them is a closely held secret, to which one is 'initiated' > after some time... lots of ordinary techs don't even know their company has > one. > Of course, that's not unheard of in this country either. Ignorance is > heedless of race or tribe. :) > Qwest knows that I have a Mac. When I subscribed for DSL I have had _two_ options: PC or Mac... So the references to "certain markets" being "locked" is universally applicable. florin PS: ...and yes I know that Real-Time actively supports Linux but that's a drop in the bucket. -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011207/2e23db4d/attachment.pgp