From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 17 9:30:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF00114F3C for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 09:29:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA15420; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:25:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:25:22 -0500 (EST) From: John To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-chat Subject: Re: funny repair remark In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Here's a funny one for you... > > I've had a laptop with a bad sound channel for several months now. I > noticed the failure with windows, and it has been there ever since. I > finally got around to returning it for service. It's running win95 and > FreeBSD dual boot. Here's what the repair report said: > > problem found: Unit has a third party operating system causing defective > speakers > > repair action: replaced the system board > > Pretty funny, eh? I never new an OS could ruin speakers, and that you > could fix them by changing the system board. Of course, i had the sound > problem long before i ever installed linux OR freeBSD :-) Maybe they were calling Windoze the 3rd party OS? I know *IT* can destroy things... It toasted my monitor just a few weeks back (it thought it knew my refresh rates better than I). Those guys in Redmond think of EVERYTHING...... ;) ==John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message