Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:52:45 -0600 From: Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: James Diefenderfer <james@worldly.org>, Jerry Dunham <jerry@dunham.org>, cal@rushe.aero.org, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still No FreeBSD Message-ID: <394593ED.7278E04C@uswest.net> References: <200006100634.XAA15122@calamari.aero.org> <20000610202611.H22659@rider.dunham.org> <3942F563.9613BCE7@worldly.org> <20000610212117.N22659@rider.dunham.org> <3942FA1C.68246759@worldly.org> <20000610213641.P22659@rider.dunham.org> <3943EB0B.CB3B <05c401bfd4cd$52956590$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
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--------------90A5F931E5122B97A3557198 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Doug Young wrote: > Weird isn't ?? ...... I think its probably best that newbies avoid > proprietory hardware generally- I agree but sometimes, when you're first > starting out, it's hard to know you've got proprietory hardware until you've > already pounded your head against a wall and pulled your hair out for a week. > > The ones I've struck recently > came with really evil > componentry like unbranded internal winmodems & network cards, SiS > videocards etc, so-I'm glad someone else shares my views on these cards. 8^) > they are top of my "avoid at any price" list. I've used a lot of HP gear and > found the company > support (at least in OZ) extremely good, but they are slipping badly with > current range of > computers.- You might want to add NEC to this list. I had such a hard time > with my NEC PowerMate v133 at work, that I had to abandon my Linux partition I > had on it. I could barely get NT 4.0 to work with the on board SiS 6205 video > card. The sound card was a fight too but less of one than the video. Oh > well, I'm finally cured of the "dual-boot" disease. Heh Heh.. > --------------90A5F931E5122B97A3557198 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <p>Doug Young wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Weird isn't ?? ...... I think its probably best that newbies avoid <br>proprietory hardware generally<i><font color="#3333FF">- I agree but sometimes, when you're first starting out, it's hard to know you've got proprietory hardware until you've already pounded your head against a wall and pulled your hair out for a week.</font></i> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> The ones I've struck recently <br>came with really evil <br>componentry like unbranded internal winmodems & network cards, SiS <br>videocards etc, so<font color="#3333FF">-<i>I'm glad someone else shares my views on these cards. 8^)</i></font> <br>they are top of my "avoid at any price" list. I've used a lot of HP gear and <br>found the company <br>support (at least in OZ) extremely good, but they are slipping badly with <br>current range of <br>computers.<font color="#3333FF">-<i> You might want to add NEC to this list. I had such a hard time with my NEC PowerMate v133 at work, that I had to abandon my Linux partition I had on it. I could barely get NT 4.0 to work with the on board SiS 6205 video card. The sound card was a fight too but less of one than the video. Oh well, I'm finally cured of the "dual-boot" disease. Heh Heh..</i></font> <br> </blockquote> </html> --------------90A5F931E5122B97A3557198-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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