[nylug-talk] More about Linux on Dell Machines

[Gregg Levine]

On 2/21/07, Tim Gales <tgales at tgaconnect.com> wrote:
> A while back there was some talk on this list about
> Dell not offering Linux -- or at least still
> charging for Windows...
>
> Dell has put up a website ( http://www.dellideastorm.com/ )
> which seems to be an effort on the part of Dell to
> (finally) try listening to its customers --
> perhaps Dell is getting desperate.
>
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Hello!
I agree. I've had good experiences with Dell. I have had a few bad
ones. Namely with ordering parts from those bozos.

Now I do all my work with them via their chat page and naturally call
only when necessary. This box happens to be a Dell Optiplex courtesy
of a fellow on this list. (And the computer is even happier now then
when I got him home Monday.)

But my favorite happens to be the one on deleting the f<deleted!>
India based call centers. (And I am not making up that term. Someone
actually did post one in that form.) I agree. It happens I have been
to events, including one sponsored by, and hosted by IBM at our old
stomping grounds. Two there were indeed from that region. You can
guess what went wrong, and also right.

Oh and somebody on this list owes me an order of Starbucks and their
excellent pastries, because of the level of strangeness on that site.

-- 
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
 messages in English in the Moscow subway."