This story didn't happen in the UK... a little bit south of that, in Spain.
We bought a dozen Acer Aspire "something" preloaded with Linux. It was a pretty good deal and I thought that if they came preloaded with any flavour of Linux it should be pretty simple to either change it or upgrade it... right? WRONG!!!
They came preloaded with something called Linpus Linux without X or any recognisable management software or even a note with root password (it happened to be '111111' but it was a long guess process).... so... I decided I would just install any other distro... HA! Tried Debian, OpenSuSE, Fedora and many more but the install system would fail in all of them. After long (and when I say long I mean days...) tweaking we managed to install OpenSuSE on one of them unplugging the floppy disk drive. That gave us a clue on changing some startup parameters to be able to load a full install (I recall noirqpoll and some other obscure settings...).
Conclusion: Acer didn't intend that no one would ever be able to use those systems with Linux... I mean.... how much did Microsoft pay them to preload those systems with Linpus Linux in such a way?????
Regards,
From their 10K filling they claim that for the last year (Part II, item 7) this helped with 1.1 billion dollars comparing 2004 to 2003.
Also very interesting from their fillings where do they make the money (million USD): Client (OSs): +8015 Server: +96 Inf.Worker (alias Office): +7151 Buss.Solutions: -255 MSN: +121 Mobile: -224 Home ent.: -1215
Then there are some extra expenses somewhere to make a total net income of around +8100 million USD.
Fet (if she can adapt it) or something similar is what she would need to use. The schedule problem is not solved and you can only get a close solution using heuristic methods like the genetic algorithm implemented in FET.
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The only difference is that anybody can do it with PostgreSQL but with MySQL only Sun....
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This story didn't happen in the UK... a little bit south of that, in Spain. We bought a dozen Acer Aspire "something" preloaded with Linux. It was a pretty good deal and I thought that if they came preloaded with any flavour of Linux it should be pretty simple to either change it or upgrade it... right? WRONG!!! They came preloaded with something called Linpus Linux without X or any recognisable management software or even a note with root password (it happened to be '111111' but it was a long guess process).... so... I decided I would just install any other distro... HA! Tried Debian, OpenSuSE, Fedora and many more but the install system would fail in all of them. After long (and when I say long I mean days...) tweaking we managed to install OpenSuSE on one of them unplugging the floppy disk drive. That gave us a clue on changing some startup parameters to be able to load a full install (I recall noirqpoll and some other obscure settings...). Conclusion: Acer didn't intend that no one would ever be able to use those systems with Linux... I mean.... how much did Microsoft pay them to preload those systems with Linpus Linux in such a way????? Regards,
You can read on page 3 of the report the BOM Analysys:
CPU: 230
GPU: 70
Optical media: 350
Memory: 50
USB:5
Ethernet: 5
WiFi: 5
Bluetooth:5
Other components: 80
TOTAL 900
Now... this adds up to $800 not $900.
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This gives a better comparison. Unless you mean Ballmer is responsible for the Nasdaq indes too...
From their 10K filling they claim that for the last year (Part II, item 7) this helped with 1.1 billion dollars comparing 2004 to 2003.
Also very interesting from their fillings where do they make the money (million USD):
Client (OSs): +8015
Server: +96
Inf.Worker (alias Office): +7151
Buss.Solutions: -255
MSN: +121
Mobile: -224
Home ent.: -1215
Then there are some extra expenses somewhere to make a total net income of around +8100 million USD.
Nice read for tonight...
Fet (if she can adapt it) or something similar is what she would need to use. The schedule problem is not solved and you can only get a close solution using heuristic methods like the genetic algorithm implemented in FET.
The task is not trivial, believe me.