On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:42:21 PDT, Roeland Meyer said:
Do you always let your stereotyping lead you by the nose like this ...? Home users ... maybe. Small businesses ... not.
Do you have any evidence that "small businesses" are any more clued than home users? The gym I have a membership at has a PC at the front desk that has Internet connectivity (hey, connectivity is *cheap* when you're in a research park ;) I'm willing to bet that most of the people who work there are *NOT* clued users or sysadmins. The music store I frequent for guitar gear has a PC - the store owner admits that he's a great guitarist, a "not in chapter 11" businessman, and totally clueless about computers - this guy who plays bass fixes it for him when it's totally dead in the water (fortunately for the store, I happen to know the bass player, and that guy *does* have some clue - but I'm positive that nobody told the guys at the store about SirCam, or CodeRed, or anything like that). When David Moore said 'Small Business', he meant *SMALL* business. How many 5-and-10 employee stores out there *DONT* have on-staff sysadmins, but *DO* have PC's that enployees surf the web when business is slow? -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech