i purchased my first laptop from best buy in '01. i am now on my 3rd laptop under protection plans. $6800 in machines and i've only paid $2950. the system worked perfectly fine for me. as far as what broke on mine, the lcd was flickering on my first one and the 2nd one the lcd latch broke that kept it closed (they didnt carry the manufacturer anymore so it had to be replaced). i can pretty much guarantee that before my current warranty is out that i'll be getting another one for as much wear and tear i have. people knock warranties all the time but i glad i paid $2950 cause i sure as hell didnt have $6800.
i can personally attest to that same situation. my dad bought me my first laptop for college in 2001, which we bought the protection plan on. two years later the screen was flickering, i took it in for repair and they said is was going ot be too expensive at which point they gave me a $2100 credit and i picked out an alienware (which they sold at the time), paid the difference ($400) and bought another protection plan. my laptop is currently with BB right now cause the latch broke, which was an alienware defect.
i'm a computer sales manager at a large electronics store and what i wish people would realize is that companies are made of people, just like you and me. people expect mechanical precision and instantaneous help when thats just not humanly possible. these plans arent designed to scam people, they are there to try and help them. people just need to be patient. i had to wait on my first laptop repair for 3 weeks, but i was very satisfied with the end result. i seen too many times the manufacturer screwing the customer because the customer is forced to ship it to them, then the warranty covers just defects, which the manufacturer tries to get out of fixing at all costs, not to mention their warranty only lasts for 1 year, and after that repairs and tech support are ridiculous. so i strongly recommend our protection plans because they do go above and beyond what the manufacturer does and yeah, it may take an hour to get someone on the phone, but you also have to remember that there are how many thousands of other people calling at the same time, and that otherwise you probably would have been stuck with a very expensive door stop cause the manufacturer would have left you in the cold.
people need to wake up to the fact that when they shop at a business, they are making an exchange of money for a product, and that business cant stay open if they are constantly giving desktops away for 300 dollars or handing out free cordless phones. i try to give my customers the best value i can, but i wouldnt have a job if the company wasnt making money, just like my customer wouldnt have a job if their company wasnt making money.
we just want to help people find what they need and want, get them what will do the best job for them, and still make our money as well.
...before someone figures out a way to break the system. i read a quote someplace once that said that not even a computer put into a large concrete container with foot thick walls, buried into the ground and guarded is safe from crackers.
I got mine from GTE and it wasn't hard at all to setup. Plug in the microfilters on each phone, plug in the 1 plug -> 2 plug tel adapter and plug the tel wire from the jack into your modem (mine was an external ethernet modem). then you just connect your modem and comp w/ some cat 5, boot up your favorite OS and set it up for DHCP. Actually, I got linux working w/ my dsl quicker than Windows =)
I've always learnt something better when I've had somekind of printed material. I don't like having to sit infront of my box and read the manual on something all the time. Since I'm still in school, I spend a lot of time away from my computer and can't read it until I get home. Having the printed documentation helps. But thats just me...
No kidding. I was just about to download 2.2.8 when I realized that 2.3.2 was just released. Best advise, don't download it unless it has something necessary or something you REALLY want to mess with.
I can't tell you how many places I have seen that slogan. My god, look at VA Research, look at RedHat. Its everywhere. So what's m$ gonna due, sue everyone?
Maybe I'm just not being open minded...
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Why in the world would you want to be forced to buy expensive Mac hardware when you can buy even better PC hardware cheaper? What is the point? So Linux can run on any type of system, that doesn't mean that one is better than the other.
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No kidding, if your gonna run Linux, run it on the system is was originally made for, PC's!!! Whats the point in paying a ton for a Mac to run Linux on it when you can save a load of money and buy a PC and install Linux.
About two, maybe three years ago I met this guy on the old html chats on geocities. He got me started on Linux with Slackware 3.3. Ever since then, I have always used Slackware. I've used other distros but Slackware seems to have something that keeps me going back to it. Long live Slackware!!!
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i purchased my first laptop from best buy in '01. i am now on my 3rd laptop under protection plans. $6800 in machines and i've only paid $2950. the system worked perfectly fine for me. as far as what broke on mine, the lcd was flickering on my first one and the 2nd one the lcd latch broke that kept it closed (they didnt carry the manufacturer anymore so it had to be replaced). i can pretty much guarantee that before my current warranty is out that i'll be getting another one for as much wear and tear i have. people knock warranties all the time but i glad i paid $2950 cause i sure as hell didnt have $6800.
i can personally attest to that same situation. my dad bought me my first laptop for college in 2001, which we bought the protection plan on. two years later the screen was flickering, i took it in for repair and they said is was going ot be too expensive at which point they gave me a $2100 credit and i picked out an alienware (which they sold at the time), paid the difference ($400) and bought another protection plan. my laptop is currently with BB right now cause the latch broke, which was an alienware defect.
i'm a computer sales manager at a large electronics store and what i wish people would realize is that companies are made of people, just like you and me. people expect mechanical precision and instantaneous help when thats just not humanly possible. these plans arent designed to scam people, they are there to try and help them. people just need to be patient. i had to wait on my first laptop repair for 3 weeks, but i was very satisfied with the end result. i seen too many times the manufacturer screwing the customer because the customer is forced to ship it to them, then the warranty covers just defects, which the manufacturer tries to get out of fixing at all costs, not to mention their warranty only lasts for 1 year, and after that repairs and tech support are ridiculous. so i strongly recommend our protection plans because they do go above and beyond what the manufacturer does and yeah, it may take an hour to get someone on the phone, but you also have to remember that there are how many thousands of other people calling at the same time, and that otherwise you probably would have been stuck with a very expensive door stop cause the manufacturer would have left you in the cold.
people need to wake up to the fact that when they shop at a business, they are making an exchange of money for a product, and that business cant stay open if they are constantly giving desktops away for 300 dollars or handing out free cordless phones. i try to give my customers the best value i can, but i wouldnt have a job if the company wasnt making money, just like my customer wouldnt have a job if their company wasnt making money.
we just want to help people find what they need and want, get them what will do the best job for them, and still make our money as well.
...before someone figures out a way to break the system. i read a quote someplace once that said that not even a computer put into a large concrete container with foot thick walls, buried into the ground and guarded is safe from crackers.
I'm still wondering if he was being slightly sarcastic about Mandrake's smooth install and having the distro available in Walmart.
:-D
:-(
Personally, I like Mandrake better than any other distro I've used (I started with Slackware about 5 years ago, and it still owns me
The fact that its easy to use and that you can get to the more advanced parts of linux without much hassle makes it a great distro.
I d/led the two install iso's but haven't had time to burn them and play with it
... or does the dock look strikingly like the one from GNOME?
I got mine from GTE and it wasn't hard at all to setup. Plug in the microfilters on each phone, plug in the 1 plug -> 2 plug tel adapter and plug the tel wire from the jack into your modem (mine was an external ethernet modem). then you just connect your modem and comp w/ some cat 5, boot up your favorite OS and set it up for DHCP. Actually, I got linux working w/ my dsl quicker than Windows =)
... I still think Woz kicks serious ass. Like people before me have said, if everyone was like Woz, the world would be a better place. Long Live Woz!
I've always learnt something better when I've had somekind of printed material. I don't like having to sit infront of my box and read the manual on something all the time. Since I'm still in school, I spend a lot of time away from my computer and can't read it until I get home. Having the printed documentation helps. But thats just me...
No kidding. I was just about to download 2.2.8 when I realized that 2.3.2 was just released. Best advise, don't download it unless it has something necessary or something you REALLY want to mess with.
it seems like you spend more time keeping up with new releases to be able to ENJOY it!
I can't tell you how many places I have seen that slogan. My god, look at VA Research, look at RedHat. Its everywhere. So what's m$ gonna due, sue everyone?
Why in the world would you want to be forced to buy expensive Mac hardware when you can buy even better PC hardware cheaper? What is the point? So Linux can run on any type of system, that doesn't mean that one is better than the other.
No kidding, if your gonna run Linux, run it on the system is was originally made for, PC's!!! Whats the point in paying a ton for a Mac to run Linux on it when you can save a load of money and buy a PC and install Linux.
Long Live Slackware!!!
About two, maybe three years ago I met this guy on the old html chats on geocities. He got me started on Linux with Slackware 3.3. Ever since then, I have always used Slackware. I've used other distros but Slackware seems to have something that keeps me going back to it. Long live Slackware!!!
there is a god! maybe they will drop winblows and develope linux? nah, they would probably screw that up too
Hey, there's linux for mac's. right? =) Personally, if your gonna run linux, run it on the systems it was orginally made for.
hehe, hate it when i forget my password =)