Comments on: For Sam’s Valet

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:25:14 +0000

You are expected to pay to be a guinea pig and pay more after you have debugged their products. You are expected to pay more for them to tell you how their product is broken and then pay to get the fixes for it. They act as if you are leasing your equipment from them. You have all of the liabilities and they have all of the benefits.

Screw them. I don’t mind paying for what I get, but I object to paying for what I don’t get.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 17 May 2007 05:55:20 +0000

“… switch everything to Linux and build my own box.” – Bryan

Hear, hear. I booted my old, failing computer with the Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTE CD today, not to install it but to preview the look and feel. It was a challenge to boot, because the old HD on that computer had so many errors (it’s getting worse), but the good news is that Linux does work, recognizes my devices, and presumably will work still better when there is a reliable HD on which to do a full install.

I’m tired not so much of Windows, but of Microsoft’s corporate behavior, of its regarding its customers as adversaries much the same as RIAA does. Microsoft, Dell, RIAA and the Bush administration are beginning to look a lot alike to me. That last one especially regards its “customers” as adversaries…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 17 May 2007 04:15:51 +0000

I bought a Gateway after I canceled a Dell order because after three tries they didn’t get the order correct. The last machine was an HP because my brother was working for them and got a rate.

I’m about ready to say to hell with Microsoft, and switch everything to Linux and build my own box.

By: Scorpio

Scorpio — Thu, 17 May 2007 03:28:56 +0000

Dell also outsourced all its help lines to Bangalore years ago — for private citizens. Their corporate help remained with native speakers of English.

Some service, eh? The kind where they make you bend over. So I bought a Gateway because they had a store in a mall nearby.