[LUG] Worrying, really...

[Jonathan Melhuish <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was quite worried when I walked up to the Nationwide cash machine (next to 
where the 2600 meetings start, I think) and was greeted with:

"Welcome to NT 4.0 (with Internet Explorer).  Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to 
log on"

I was under the impression that they all ran some variant of UNIX, or at 
least something reasonably secure?

And whilst I'm in a particularly anti-Microsoft mood, I found this quite 
funny:  http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~leblancj/my_mojo/stinger.html  - Long live 
Symbian!  (Even better, let's hope they make it reliable and foster easy 
open-source development)

It's also quite worrying how narrow an experience young people have nowadays 
(he says, rubbing his long beared and dreaming of days gone by).  I mentioned 
in one of my Computing A-level classes the other day that one possible 
problem with Visual Basic was that you could only compile your code for 
Windows and hence only on an Intel-compatible platform.  The lecturer gave me 
a bit of a blank look and then recognised that it may be a limitation in some 
circumstances, but what took me aback was that a classmate leant over to me 
and sniggered "But that doesn't really matter, does it, because Macs are crap 
anyway"!

Looks like I'll have to take up the (seemingly unsurmountable) task of 
showing some of these blinkered individuals that there *is* a world outside 
Microsoft!

Cheers,

Jon

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