From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 05:53:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865DC16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 05:53:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub02.unibe.ch (mailhub02.unibe.ch [130.92.9.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7883143FDF for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 05:53:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roth@lara.unibe.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhub02.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 976197646E; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:53:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailhub02.unibe.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailhub02 [127.0.0.1:10024]) (amavisd-new) with LMTP id 27268-01-96; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:53:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from asterix.unibe.ch (asterix.unibe.ch [130.92.64.4]) by mailhub02.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id E40CE76407; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:53:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from lara.unibe.ch (lara [130.92.64.90]) by asterix.unibe.ch (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id hAIDr0526454; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:53:00 +0100 (MET) Received: (from roth@localhost) by lara.unibe.ch (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id hAIDqxMU020608; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:52:59 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:52:59 +0100 From: Tobias Roth To: Chris Howells Message-ID: <20031118135259.GA20592@lara.unibe.ch> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Howells , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20031118115649.58e3574f.timopie@dodo.com.au> <200311180923.06256.howells@kde.org> <20031118111338.GA20387@lara.unibe.ch> <2764.138.253.231.145.1069161158.squirrel@secure.devrandom.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2764.138.253.231.145.1069161158.squirrel@secure.devrandom.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: SunOS lara 5.9 Generic_112233-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 X-Virus-checked: by University of Berne cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:53:05 -0000 On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:12:38PM -0000, Chris Howells wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:23:01AM +0000, Chris Howells wrote: > > > well, your fault. > > Hardly. I was 18, buying my first laptop of my own (rather than using > parents hardware), and I didn't particularly want to lie to them, because > I believed that they were a good reputable company. How wrong I was. Quite > clearly now I have learnt my lesson and would certainly have lied (and I > will never buy from them again). hehe. i didn't mean this as an offense. but one thing i learned that most support people do not believe you when you tell them that you are positive that the problem is a hardware fault (and i guess they are right not to believe everyone, as i imagine there are many people calling tech support who do not have a clue). they usually tell you to reinstall windows, and i guess that is a good idea, provided you actually runs windows. so i tend to tell them that i tried two different machines, two different operating systems and two spare parts of every peripheral. that usually makes them surrender :-)