I live in Australia and tried for more than 3 months to get my hands on a linux version, at a reasonable price. I had several friends in the same predicament. In the end I gave in and bought a windows version, as the only places I could get the linux versions were all through online retailers, with all the risks associated with that and were also around $100 to $150 more than I could get a windows version from my local retailer for. I was obviously more comfortable saving $150 and knowing that I could take it back to the store if I have any warranty issues, so I bought the windows version, even though I did not want to. Needless to say, once I had updated to service pack 3, I had no space left on my c: drive and it ran like a dog, so I dumped windows and installed Ubuntu, which I am sure many others have done, so the 7:3 ratio i strongly suspect is a very falsely engineered ratio, which does not reflect customers true intentions. I am extremely happy with it in it's current configuration, but would have been just as happy with the Xandros version, if I could have found one at a reasonable price.
No need to hard hack them, just do a search for, and download catnip, it decrypts the output and they can be used to read all sorts of barcodes. I got three of them a few years ago and they are great for inventory, etc. as well as cataloging items at home such as dvd's, cd's even tools and stationery if you print barcodes on them.
You forget they are americans. These arrogant bastards think they are the world. So as far as they are concerned, if it is the best in america, it is the best in the world.. They are so far up themselves, they would know the difference anyway. Let them keep deluding themselves.
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you people keep forgetting PCLinuxOS - it is a great alternative to Windows with a very low learning threshhold.
I use many distros and can say with absolute confidence - the easiest and most user-friendly for windows users to adapt to is PCLinuxOS.
It has the lowest learning curve and is a fully featured distro.
Makes me feel old!!!!
I look after a number of networks and find that Comodo offers one of the best solutions, both free and non-free.
I live in Australia and tried for more than 3 months to get my hands on a linux version, at a reasonable price. I had several friends in the same predicament. In the end I gave in and bought a windows version, as the only places I could get the linux versions were all through online retailers, with all the risks associated with that and were also around $100 to $150 more than I could get a windows version from my local retailer for. I was obviously more comfortable saving $150 and knowing that I could take it back to the store if I have any warranty issues, so I bought the windows version, even though I did not want to. Needless to say, once I had updated to service pack 3, I had no space left on my c: drive and it ran like a dog, so I dumped windows and installed Ubuntu, which I am sure many others have done, so the 7:3 ratio i strongly suspect is a very falsely engineered ratio, which does not reflect customers true intentions. I am extremely happy with it in it's current configuration, but would have been just as happy with the Xandros version, if I could have found one at a reasonable price.
No need to hard hack them, just do a search for, and download catnip, it decrypts the output and they can be used to read all sorts of barcodes. I got three of them a few years ago and they are great for inventory, etc. as well as cataloging items at home such as dvd's, cd's even tools and stationery if you print barcodes on them.
You forget they are americans.
These arrogant bastards think they are the world. So as far as they are concerned, if it is the best in america, it is the best in the world..
They are so far up themselves, they would know the difference anyway. Let them keep deluding themselves.