funny, i used to work for best buy in sales for the comupter dept. Geek squad, in its being, sucked. concept was great, the people who worked in our tech bench were great, our Double Agents were great. but the whole thing sucked. Add this on, add that on, you missed this, you suck, we dont like you now. That was coming from the managers the whole time. from the precienct (in store geek squad) it was ATTACH THIS ATTACH THAT DO THIS GET US MONEY WE CANT SELL ON OUR OWN when in fact, they can. the crew over there just didnt know how to add on. however, i have been in some other Best Buy's, and frankly, the Geek Squads there just plain suck. they sit around, and i hear music playing in the back, and i can see people SITTING ON THE COUNTER. thats something you dont do at work unless its after hours. sigh.
i am running a dualboot winxp home/ ubuntu64 on my laptop currently. i keep my windows partition for one reason only: games (i mean, i have a mobile amd64 4000+ and dedicated 256mb radeon x600, 1gb of ram too). Ubuntu is amazing. I at first had Gentoo on it, but i couldnt get X11 to work properly, but when i wiped it and installed ubuntu, it ran perfectly. Wireless will forever be an issue, but luckily not on my system anymore. I have the broadcom airforce wifi card, and once i got the drivers (from a pal who helped me install gentoo, over the course of 6 hours >) i was set. Ubuntu, unlike Gentoo, was a quick easy install, and i am thouroughly happy. Thats my 2 cents. Oh, my laptop is a gateway mx7515, for refrence.
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funny, i used to work for best buy in sales for the comupter dept. Geek squad, in its being, sucked. concept was great, the people who worked in our tech bench were great, our Double Agents were great. but the whole thing sucked. Add this on, add that on, you missed this, you suck, we dont like you now. That was coming from the managers the whole time. from the precienct (in store geek squad) it was ATTACH THIS ATTACH THAT DO THIS GET US MONEY WE CANT SELL ON OUR OWN when in fact, they can. the crew over there just didnt know how to add on. however, i have been in some other Best Buy's, and frankly, the Geek Squads there just plain suck. they sit around, and i hear music playing in the back, and i can see people SITTING ON THE COUNTER. thats something you dont do at work unless its after hours. sigh.
If they just pulled the broadband in S. Korea in the gaming lounges, and gave them all 28.8k, that sure as hell would solve the problem :D
i am running a dualboot winxp home/ ubuntu64 on my laptop currently. i keep my windows partition for one reason only: games (i mean, i have a mobile amd64 4000+ and dedicated 256mb radeon x600, 1gb of ram too). Ubuntu is amazing. I at first had Gentoo on it, but i couldnt get X11 to work properly, but when i wiped it and installed ubuntu, it ran perfectly. Wireless will forever be an issue, but luckily not on my system anymore. I have the broadcom airforce wifi card, and once i got the drivers (from a pal who helped me install gentoo, over the course of 6 hours >) i was set. Ubuntu, unlike Gentoo, was a quick easy install, and i am thouroughly happy. Thats my 2 cents. Oh, my laptop is a gateway mx7515, for refrence.
I even made one for everyone! http://www.petitiononline.com/vgvilpet/petition.ht ml
please, I know these things dont do much, but every bit helps.