"*Recommends windoze for your mobile computing exp
Posted by: David Syes
on August 17, 2004 08:01 AM
erience"
========== I inadvertently submitted as anonymouse reader...
Also, I want to make a correction, changing pounce to "cajole"
Also, I want them to get the leading laptops makers to impart the knowledge that Linux-based laptops a excellent desktop replacements for the companies whose employees change desks every few months, but roving/roaming profiles or NFS is not in place or not working or if guests need a box. Just lock the laptop to the docking station or desk, and only move when the employee moves or the guest departs, upon which time the laptop is locked down...
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We need to pounce on IBM, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu, and the others, too. At least those who are using Linux dangles to push hardware sales.
It is obscene and heretical for them to, on their laptop products, display such logos without accompanying it with another sticker stating,
"Visit www.linuxhardware.com when you are ready to extend the life of this machine after windoze sucks up your CPU, RAM, and video processing power..."
Of course, that's over the top, and could harm their hardware sales from an upgrade POV, but OTOH, it could endear the purchasers/consumers by showing them they can pass on those older, capable, venerable machines to other employees when the time comes to burn down budget cash on upgrades.
A nice alternative would be if the community could hurry up and centralized, compelling Linux distributed admin going. Then we should have stickers that can be affixed to the machines. The manufacturers or OEMs and other O**s could take images and put them on the disk, dual-boot ready.
I just last week and the week before had hell trying to install w2k and 2XP on Dell Precision 360 and 350 boxes. The install of XP and 2K gave me the typical spiel about how microsfot (lower-casing/deprecation intentional) products would enhance productivity, show speed gains, and so forth. After the reboot, the LAN, video and USB/PCI bus info was yellowed out. Even sound wasn't working. One machine had an unmarked (no labels, no etches of identifying kind) video card, but it was a relatively new ATI card with a fan. I visited ATI's site, only to face over a dozen choices, with the prospect that installing one-too-many of them would crash the machine or corrupt it eventually.
So, what did I do? I popped in my Mandrake 10.0 CDs, selected about 2.9 GB worth of stuff, and in under 35 minutes, including formatting in previous tests), the Precision had thousands of dollars (if you value that) of usable software and a box of working hardware. I was surfing on first book, changing resolution at first boot.
On that first boot, Mandrake detected the card properly and identified it properly. I used that information to download the right driver for w2k, shut down, rebooted, loaded the correct ATI drivers, and and Twoo-kay was shifted from the default green to the 1024x768-indicating blue desktop.
What does this tell me? It tells me that Linux and Open Source are about getting users to work (at least with what is added beyond the OS). It also tells me that microshaft and hardware manufacturers are still in cahoots, maintaining the hidden recovery partition that works if you know how to access and use it, or if you have the right recovery routine in place. But, if the partitions are blown out, forget it. You'll need to call tech support, or have the right drivers ON HAND. They were NOT on the recovery disk, and the named vid card was shipped to us by Dell sometime last year.
Now, if Unisys has any hidden shennanigans, or "let's forget the past" stuff, they'll have similar contempt roiling about them from users who know their past and measure it against their present...
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"*Recommends windoze for your mobile computing exp
Posted by: David Syes on August 17, 2004 08:01 AM==========
I inadvertently submitted as anonymouse reader...
Also, I want to make a correction, changing pounce to "cajole"
Also, I want them to get the leading laptops makers to impart the knowledge that Linux-based laptops a excellent desktop replacements for the companies whose employees change desks every few months, but roving/roaming profiles or NFS is not in place or not working or if guests need a box. Just lock the laptop to the docking station or desk, and only move when the employee moves or the guest departs, upon which time the laptop is locked down...
==========
We need to pounce on IBM, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu, and the others, too. At least those who are using Linux dangles to push hardware sales.
It is obscene and heretical for them to, on their laptop products, display such logos without accompanying it with another sticker stating,
"Visit www.linuxhardware.com when you are ready to extend the life of this machine after windoze sucks up your CPU, RAM, and video processing power..."
Of course, that's over the top, and could harm their hardware sales from an upgrade POV, but OTOH, it could endear the purchasers/consumers by showing them they can pass on those older, capable, venerable machines to other employees when the time comes to burn down budget cash on upgrades.
A nice alternative would be if the community could hurry up and centralized, compelling Linux distributed admin going. Then we should have stickers that can be affixed to the machines. The manufacturers or OEMs and other O**s could take images and put them on the disk, dual-boot ready.
I just last week and the week before had hell trying to install w2k and 2XP on Dell Precision 360 and 350 boxes. The install of XP and 2K gave me the typical spiel about how microsfot (lower-casing/deprecation intentional) products would enhance productivity, show speed gains, and so forth. After the reboot, the LAN, video and USB/PCI bus info was yellowed out. Even sound wasn't working. One machine had an unmarked (no labels, no etches of identifying kind) video card, but it was a relatively new ATI card with a fan. I visited ATI's site, only to face over a dozen choices, with the prospect that installing one-too-many of them would crash the machine or corrupt it eventually.
So, what did I do? I popped in my Mandrake 10.0 CDs, selected about 2.9 GB worth of stuff, and in under 35 minutes, including formatting in previous tests), the Precision had thousands of dollars (if you value that) of usable software and a box of working hardware. I was surfing on first book, changing resolution at first boot.
On that first boot, Mandrake detected the card properly and identified it properly. I used that information to download the right driver for w2k, shut down, rebooted, loaded the correct ATI drivers, and and Twoo-kay was shifted from the default green to the 1024x768-indicating blue desktop.
What does this tell me? It tells me that Linux and Open Source are about getting users to work (at least with what is added beyond the OS). It also tells me that microshaft and hardware manufacturers are still in cahoots, maintaining the hidden recovery partition that works if you know how to access and use it, or if you have the right recovery routine in place. But, if the partitions are blown out, forget it. You'll need to call tech support, or have the right drivers ON HAND. They were NOT on the recovery disk, and the named vid card was shipped to us by Dell sometime last year.
Now, if Unisys has any hidden shennanigans, or "let's forget the past" stuff, they'll have similar contempt roiling about them from users who know their past and measure it against their present...
David Syes
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"Make Linux a valued part of your everyday's start. It has high protein, a balance of carbs, fiber and security for you organization's processes, and it exceeds the RDA for security protection..."
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