From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 07:32:56 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 2AADC16A55F for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:32:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A553443FAF for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:32:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from adsl-64-171-188-243.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO pacbell.net) (fscked@pacbell.net@64.171.188.243 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 2003 15:32:36 -0000 Message-ID: <3FBA3B47.4040301@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:31:19 -0800 From: richard childers / kg6hac User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Howells References: <20031118115649.58e3574f.timopie@dodo.com.au> <200311180923.06256.howells@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <200311180923.06256.howells@kde.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: re: Dell Computers 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 15:32:56 -0000 Speaking of crooked companies ... I've had some problems with Dell, also. I'm kind of surprised that no one has pointed out that Dell uses the same 'Crooked E' logo in their name that Enron used. Surely there is a connection there. And, yet, the media do not seem to find it of interest. Maybe you have to kick them in the 'shin'. (-: That's probably because the connection between the two companies is so obvious that, were it ever to become a subject for public attention, it might result in a major realignment of political priorities. It's worth contemplating how much Dell equipment has been incorporated into the US government's infrastructure ... and where. Regards, Richard Childers / Senior Engineer Daemonized Networking Services https://www.daemonized.com (415) 759-5571 Chris Howells wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hi, > >On Tuesday 18 November 2003 01:56, Timothy Opie wrote: > > >>I did a BSD-Google search for laptop and notebook, and noticed that Dell >>came up more than any other company. I have been contemplating getting the >>Dell Inspiron 5150. >> >> > >Personally I can _strongly_ recommend that you do _not_ buy Dell. I ended up >taking them to court over a laptop which didn't work from the start, which >they refused to to anything about when they heard it was running Linux... >even though it was quite clearly a hardware problem. > > > >