At a job interview today, my possibly new boss asked me if I knew anything about computer's. When I said yes, he asked me if I could locate an exploded view of a barber 3 piece truck on the net.
With the help of Google, I located one with a quick search. When I went to open the Adobe Acrobat, I found out that it wasn't installed on his new computer. After getting permission to download load it, I went to install it on his Windows XP laptop.
This is where I had an odd experience, I started looking for a bash shell to install it. I caught myself and clicked on the file to launch the installer.
I think it's great that I've started to 'reverse' the old habbit's from years of Windows use.
The job has nothing to do with computer's. It's a freight car/locomotive repair shop.

You should have told him it was impossible to do in Windows. Only Linux can do something like that.

You should have taken his "permission" and took that to mean, "go ahead and put Mandrake on there, I'd really like that."



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Oh yeah, take away something he finds confusing and replace it with something that would look like alien technology to him. That would make a real good impression at a job interview.

it's things like that the do make you see how strange windows is in many areas. at my job we support a couple of DOS apps, as well as windows ones, and having to use type, dir etc... after a cohesive unix shell it's just horrendous, the way that redirection doesn't acutlaly make any logical sense in DOS. e.g. dir > file writes to a file, yet dir > com1 writes to a serial port... that doesn't make any sense any more, when you expect to use com1 as a serial port, which can be accessed by a block file /dev/stty0 etc... so many stragne hacks...

I got the job!!!

Good for you.

Woohoo! Now you'll have many opportunities to get linux on his computer...

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