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pkd_lives:
Well bad news from Gateway (I don't really want one of them). But it's cool you can chat with them on-line. Go and try it out at gateway.com. No waiting for e-mails - which HP and Sony still have not replied to.
Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
quote:Originally posted by pkd:
Well bad news from Gateway (I don't really want one of them). But it's cool you can chat with them on-line. Go and try it out at gateway.com.
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"chatting"!
Bah, i cannot because i live outside the US. How shit! Anyway i could still fill in the service report so i told them what:
Er like i couldn't chat with them just because i live outside the US. Thas means i cannot get a Gateway on import!"
Not that i would mind you.
[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter ]
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by pkd:
My G/F me, told me I'm just doing this for the Drama, and a principle, and I said damn right I am.
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and for the several hundred bucks you stand to lose.
quote:And I don't have a CC, I hate them, cash/cheque and out the door is my prefered method, that's why I'm very careful,
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a man after my own heart!
quote:I want to know more about the freedos thing. Is it a M$ operating system,
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NO! Not on yer nellie! it is a GPLd project that you can find available on sourceforge.net
quote:and is it free?
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yes.
quote:I don't care if it will just bring up a shell, and does not support any of the hardware, when I get it it's getting RH, or somesuch.
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i spent a few days trying to install freedos, which was fun, but when it repeatedly failed to install after i had downloaded a few different distros/versions of it, i gave up. not even a command prompt, although it supposedly boasts its own GUI, and unofficially runs m$windows.
quote:Arrgghhh. FreeDOS is not M$ so I don't think I can ask for this. Anyone know different?
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I heard that wal-mart were selling PCs with freedos when M$ said they could not sell PCs with NO OS if they also sold PCs with windows. Apparently M$ can no longer demand that resellers only put windows on their machines, so now they demand that resellers HAVE to include an 'operating system' with every PC.
Hey, did you check out wal-mart? they supposedly sell lindows, windows xp and freedos desktops, maybe they will do you a laptop?
rtgwbmsr:
Sony has a chat thing too, you know.
http://sonystyle.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/sonystyle.cfg/php/enduser/live.php
Tell us the results..I'd like to know.
rtgwbmsr:
Dell Precision workstations with Linux:
http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/products/minicat_precn_340l.htm
Notice the lack of a "Pick a Windows" and "Pick some shitty M$ software"?
No minimum purchase required that they noted. Enjoy!
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