lol mention linux everyone runs away ... ( job security ) <br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Robinson</b> <<a href="mailto:fatpuppystew@gmail.com">fatpuppystew@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Its the deer in the headlights look when you mention linux...most will
<br>back off pretty quick.<br><br>On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 22:02 -0500, John Brun wrote:<br>> As of late I have had real good relations with Best Buy. Mostly in the<br>> warranty dept. I have a 21 inch LCD screen that the first two I bought
<br>> had bad pixels. They were replaced without question. Couple other<br>> incidents that have been handled fine. As for Windows et al, I just<br>> don't even ask questions, I politely thank them for any info, and tell
<br>> them I'm going to wipe the drive clean. Usually been a short conversation.<br>><br>> John<br>><br>> Steve Langasek wrote:<br>> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:41:53PM -0500, Mike Burns wrote:<br>
> ><br>> >> Or better yet, when XP first came out and I had this guy from M$ try to<br>> >> convince me that XP did not sit on top of DOS. He went so far as to tell me<br>> >> that the cmd window that you can get on XP was an emulator that sits on top
<br>> >> of XP. Well, I convinced him that if it was indeed an "emulator" that that<br>> >> XP didn't sit on top of DOS, then we could just rename a couple of obvious<br>> >> DOS files and XP would still boot. I didn't stick around long enough to see
<br>> >> if he had to reinstall or just rescue mode from the CD-ROM, but the look on<br>> >> his face was priceless when the computer gave him a black screen with the<br>> >> white letters saying "Operating system not found." Naturally I had to throw
<br>> >> in there the old, "well, I guess I was right and XP does sit on top of DOS."<br>> >><br>> ><br>> > Cute story, but no, XP does not sit on top of DOS...<br>> ><br>> >
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