My workmate Linda brought her computer in to work the other day to get help with copying DVDs. There’s basically two things she does with her computer: Receives e-mails, and copies DVDs. She’s got a hacked-up version of Windows XP on there now that’s been heavily modified to look like Vista, and unfortunately it inherits Vista’s speed disadvantage too. Not too pretty on a low-end laptop!
Anyway, she ended off begging me to reinstall Ubuntu on there for copying her DVDs. I guess I’ll do it when I find time, although I’m not happy that Ubuntu is only being used for DVD burning. Her wireless card doesn’t work on Ubuntu Feisty, so I might wait until Hardy comes along and see if it’s supported.
On that same day, my boss had a phone call from an associate, asking whether we could get in anti-virus software. Since my boss knows nothing about computers, he got me to call Ingram Micro and find out.
While I was doing this, I made some sort of remark about "This is a case of the blind leading the blind". Linda asked what I meant by this, and I said "Oh, I’ve never installed anti-virus software before". She was quite amazed, and asked why I didn’t have anti-virus. I’m sure you can guess what the answer was.
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