After I purchased my Gateway laptop, I went to them for support after blowing off XP and dual-booting 2000 and slackware. I couldn't get my NIC driver to work under 2000 and contacted them for support via online chat. After 35 minutes of me repeating the question "Can you please just tell me the model of my NIC or not", I finally said, you obviously don't know the question and have wasted my time. I'm going to call now and tell them about my experience. He promptly REBOOTED my machine remotely in the hopes that I wouldn't capture the session. Little did he know I had been saving it every couple of minutes anyway. I called in afterwards relayed the conversation and asked the same question. It took about as long on the phone, but the guy was quick to say that they changed out the models of parts all the time and the info didn't get distributed to the techs. We figured it out via trial and error.
By the way, after several other phone calls for other issues that ended with supervisors actually swearing at me or hanging up on me, I decided Gateway as a company really sucks and it must be their company culture that drives everyone to be so generally bitter and evil. I had much better experiences with Dell.
FYI - The proper way to refer to the planes and service is Concord. Not "The Concorde". It is a small point, but should to speak with anyone that knows anything, or even used the service, you would stand out immediately as uniniatiated by adding a "The".
Now we know the @stake is another mindless puppet of Micro$oft without a shred of credibility or value to the community at large. Every so often we need these things confirmed you know and we appreciate you taking the steps to clarify and remind us of your position. Thanks again.
It's interesting that there are all these other International sites. Did the CDs that supplied these sites come out of his pocket as well? This does cast a wider responsibility for the domain name I suppose.
I'm not sure what there is to be continued since it was one guy giving people free linux CDs. If some other guy wants to do it, I'm sure they can do it, even though he has the fancy domain name. There are certainly plenty of other people giving away cds. Maybe he should donate the domain name to one of the other groups.
http://www.roseindia.net/linux/freelinuxcd.htm
http://linux.fotter.com/
http://www.linuxtrader.com/
No, they aren't worth it. They are a tremendous profit margin for Best Buy, which is why you even get a commission (which you failed to mention) for selling them. The high pressure sales tactics some people employ to push these things thoroughly sours my shopping experience in what should be the equivelant of my toy store. They are much like rebates, they are great for the vendor because people usually don't collect on the value they purchased. It's all a statistical formula at the end of the day. It does appeal to a specific market segment and demand, or else no one would buy them.
Short answer: Because it is.
Long answer (but not nearly long enough):
1. If you ever have the opportunity to look at some of this stuff in a lab, its painfully obvious. Cisco started off as software based routers and has patched in piece by piece to try and cope with their ancient architecture.
Take any vendor such as:
Foundry
Juniper
Riverstone
Extreme
Nortel
and compare competing products between the lines. You will find that *every* time Cisco will be out-performed, out-featured, at half the price.
All of these vendors offer wirespeed platforms with features enabled in hardware so they don't tax the CPU and you can actually turn them all on without melting the device.
2. IOS is much like Windows in the way that is has been band-aided to perform things it was never designed to do. It at some point had support for every nasty networking protocol known to man and poorly ported to the dozens of product lines they have purchased.
And then, oh yeah, to compensate for their underperforming, overpriced products they are constantly executing a policy of brainwashing from the top down. Network engineers are regularly asked to lie and are discredited by Cisco everyday.
Cisco may have to run it past technical folks, but in their case, it means they are all liars. Speaking as someone that works in that environment everyday, I see more underhanded things they do to bribe, lie and brainwash people everyday. Their equipment is the most inferior equipment in the industry, yet they are the biggest. They will be the next IBM (and not in the good way).
Outright theft has always been my favorite course of thought. They are stealing my bandwidth, my cpu cycles, my disk space. Not a big deal for one message, but when it comprises 30% of mail traffic, then that means my operating expense is 30% hire. This is real money they are stealing from me. If they paid me, or anyone (post office) to accept it, fine, thats different. The main reason spam needs to be made illegal is because it is outright theft.
I travel *a lot* and no one ever touches my stuff. I put it into the machine and I pick it up on the other side. If I get pulled aside, I'm the one that is asked to turn on devices and prove that they are not explosive devices. Which, of course, doesn't mean that if I can make it boot, I can't make it explode. This is also true for Europe, though I find this isn't always the case in Japan for what its worth.
is that you have a job that needs to be completed and you hired this baffoon to complete it for you. Tell him that here is your problem and that he has until close of business to produce a written report discussing the solution. Everything else is not relevant to you, you hired him for his past experience.
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We need to see more of the "open source type's" plan before anyone can make a real decision, but I can say on no uncertain terms that if.org should controlled by advocates of the community then the support to ensure that they are the best qualified will be available.
The alternative would be to turn it over to people with personal interests in milking the.org for what its worth and have no incentive to manage it well since profit is the primary motive
and hopefully the RIAA starts to listen. The only thing they will understand is the lack of cashflow for their products. Unfortunately, I can't see enough technical sophisicated people that care about the issue to make a difference in the long run though.
"Overall I like the spec. I'd like ANY standard spec, particularly for the filesystem
layout. I would like to know that no matter what distro I install I will ALWAYS find file x in/etc or binary y in/usr/bin instead of/usr/local/bin (or vis versa)."
I agree with that. The question is are you getting that from this spec?
Okay, I may be the only one on the short bus today, but I simply don't see the value in the details of the document. It seems to be very vague and incomplete. For instance, under filesystem, in which the question of where to put things is something that many people think about at some point. It makes three references to some special files in/dev. And for shell it just says to use a posix compliant one, well no shit sherlock. I'm personally not impressed by making rpm the standard packet format since in my 7 years of linux usage I haven't ever used a distro that used rpm. Like I said, maybe I'm missing the big picture here.
Everyone seems to be so quick as to deride his methods as immature. I missed the part where he asked your opinion though? It's a guy, and his list, and if you don't like it, you can start your own list I suppose.
Sounds like a great feature that has actually been implemented on some platforms. But until it starts catching on as a trend and other people figure out its usefulness it won't reach the general masses unfortunately. Customer demand and survival of the fitness will dictate if someone picks up the ball and runs with the idea. Try settting up an advocacy website and mailing list to turn your works into actions.
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By the way, after several other phone calls for other issues that ended with supervisors actually swearing at me or hanging up on me, I decided Gateway as a company really sucks and it must be their company culture that drives everyone to be so generally bitter and evil. I had much better experiences with Dell.
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Attn: MS Voucher
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San Francisco, CA 94110
FYI - The proper way to refer to the planes and service is Concord. Not "The Concorde". It is a small point, but should to speak with anyone that knows anything, or even used the service, you would stand out immediately as uniniatiated by adding a "The".
Cheers,
Anyone with common sense.
"this network looks like a bunch of spiders having an orgy" has new meaning...
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Pakistan
Malaysia
Israel
I'm not sure what there is to be continued since it was one guy giving people free linux CDs. If some other guy wants to do it, I'm sure they can do it, even though he has the fancy domain name. There are certainly plenty of other people giving away cds. Maybe he should donate the domain name to one of the other groups. http://www.roseindia.net/linux/freelinuxcd.htm http://linux.fotter.com/ http://www.linuxtrader.com/
No, they aren't worth it. They are a tremendous profit margin for Best Buy, which is why you even get a commission (which you failed to mention) for selling them. The high pressure sales tactics some people employ to push these things thoroughly sours my shopping experience in what should be the equivelant of my toy store. They are much like rebates, they are great for the vendor because people usually don't collect on the value they purchased. It's all a statistical formula at the end of the day. It does appeal to a specific market segment and demand, or else no one would buy them.
Short answer: Because it is. Long answer (but not nearly long enough): 1. If you ever have the opportunity to look at some of this stuff in a lab, its painfully obvious. Cisco started off as software based routers and has patched in piece by piece to try and cope with their ancient architecture. Take any vendor such as: Foundry Juniper Riverstone Extreme Nortel and compare competing products between the lines. You will find that *every* time Cisco will be out-performed, out-featured, at half the price. All of these vendors offer wirespeed platforms with features enabled in hardware so they don't tax the CPU and you can actually turn them all on without melting the device. 2. IOS is much like Windows in the way that is has been band-aided to perform things it was never designed to do. It at some point had support for every nasty networking protocol known to man and poorly ported to the dozens of product lines they have purchased. And then, oh yeah, to compensate for their underperforming, overpriced products they are constantly executing a policy of brainwashing from the top down. Network engineers are regularly asked to lie and are discredited by Cisco everyday.
Cisco may have to run it past technical folks, but in their case, it means they are all liars. Speaking as someone that works in that environment everyday, I see more underhanded things they do to bribe, lie and brainwash people everyday. Their equipment is the most inferior equipment in the industry, yet they are the biggest. They will be the next IBM (and not in the good way).
This is the planet that the little backstreet boy or whatever he was should head out for. By the time he gets back, I will be dead...
Outright theft has always been my favorite course of thought. They are stealing my bandwidth, my cpu cycles, my disk space. Not a big deal for one message, but when it comprises 30% of mail traffic, then that means my operating expense is 30% hire. This is real money they are stealing from me. If they paid me, or anyone (post office) to accept it, fine, thats different. The main reason spam needs to be made illegal is because it is outright theft.
Under the "Full WFPC2 Mosaic" Heading
I travel *a lot* and no one ever touches my stuff. I put it into the machine and I pick it up on the other side. If I get pulled aside, I'm the one that is asked to turn on devices and prove that they are not explosive devices. Which, of course, doesn't mean that if I can make it boot, I can't make it explode. This is also true for Europe, though I find this isn't always the case in Japan for what its worth.
http://www.freeradius.org
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http://www.funksoftware.com
is that you have a job that needs to be completed and you hired this baffoon to complete it for you. Tell him that here is your problem and that he has until close of business to produce a written report discussing the solution. Everything else is not relevant to you, you hired him for his past experience.
www.stephenwolfram.com
Another good article about his latest work: On Forbes
We need to see more of the "open source type's" plan before anyone can make a real decision, but I can say on no uncertain terms that if .org should controlled by advocates of the community then the support to ensure that they are the best qualified will be available.
The alternative would be to turn it over to people with personal interests in milking the .org for what its worth and have no incentive to manage it well since profit is the primary motive
and hopefully the RIAA starts to listen. The only thing they will understand is the lack of cashflow for their products. Unfortunately, I can't see enough technical sophisicated people that care about the issue to make a difference in the long run though.
"Overall I like the spec. I'd like ANY standard spec, particularly for the filesystem layout. I would like to know that no matter what distro I install I will ALWAYS find file x in /etc or binary y in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin (or vis versa)."
I agree with that. The question is are you getting that from this spec?
Okay, I may be the only one on the short bus today, but I simply don't see the value in the details of the document. It seems to be very vague and incomplete. For instance, under filesystem, in which the question of where to put things is something that many people think about at some point. It makes three references to some special files in /dev. And for shell it just says to use a posix compliant one, well no shit sherlock. I'm personally not impressed by making rpm the standard packet format since in my 7 years of linux usage I haven't ever used a distro that used rpm. Like I said, maybe I'm missing the big picture here.
Everyone seems to be so quick as to deride his methods as immature. I missed the part where he asked your opinion though? It's a guy, and his list, and if you don't like it, you can start your own list I suppose.
Sounds like a great feature that has actually been implemented on some platforms. But until it starts catching on as a trend and other people figure out its usefulness it won't reach the general masses unfortunately. Customer demand and survival of the fitness will dictate if someone picks up the ball and runs with the idea. Try settting up an advocacy website and mailing list to turn your works into actions.