From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 17 20:39:10 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0868037B400; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:38:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0I4cCK08712; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:38:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200101180438.f0I4cCK08712@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Bill Fumerola , Sheldon Hearn , Nik Clayton , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq book.sgml In-Reply-To: <14949.51944.801112.886467@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:38:12 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams wrote: > > > > Owch! Has anyone reported this to IBM? > > > > > > There is a 2 million message thread about this somewhere in which > > > you can find just what luck people have had with IBM. > > > > Somebody just told me off the list that IBM are rolling a bios fix through > > the QA mill and it should be fixed in 6-8 weeks. At least, for the A21p, > > he didn't know about the other models. > > Cool! So, IBM did indeed listen to those who complained about this. > Glad to hear it, because I *really* like IBM laptops, and I was unhappy > about having to blacklist them. Personally, I will believe it when it is released, not before. I wouldn't put it past anybody IBM's size to have their support people lie to people to get the users to wait for a few months (using some other OS) and hope they forget about it. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message