[huskerlug] Re: Dude, you're getting screwed. (Buying a new Dell computer)
- From: Jim Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:11:27 -0500
I just got a newsletter from CNET, perhaps I should put the url of the
article on, but a writer was complaining how M$ was trashing a small instant
mail software firm.
Anyway, I think a complaint to Dell might be of some help in this
instance, though the problem you mentioned in the url is probably getting a
good airing now.
You have to hope that the several state attorneys who didn't go along
with the Fed. deal will get along further with the monoply case. ---Jim
On Friday 29 August 2003 16:26, you wrote:
> http://www.cypherpunks.ca/dell.html
> Near the bottom of the article is this paragraph:
>
> "It's also interesting to note that everyone except Mr. Burley assumed
> tha= t I was talking about a Microsoft screen which included the Windows
> EULA, u= ntil I told them otherwise. This was a Dell screen, with no EULA,
> and I'm = surprised that none of these people were aware of its existence.
>
>
> After all this, we *did* try to boot off a Linux install CD. That just
> to= ok us to the same screen as before. So we had to go into the BIOS so
> that i= t would try to boot off the CD before the hard disk, but after we
> did that= , Windows started to boot, without having displayed the "press a
> key to ag= ree" screen. We quickly powered the machine down before Windows
> started. [T= hough now you no longer get the "press a key to agree" screen
> when you tur= n it on, even with the BIOS settings back the way they were.]
> "
>
> It is interesting to note that when the guy tried to boot a Linux install
> = CD the BIOS kept him from doing so. =20
> They've got dual booting locked out, and they got overwriting locked out
> by= virtue of BIOS software, which can't be bypassed.
>
> Tell me again how the DOJ negotiated settlement was going to make
> Micosoft= behave like a good citizen?
> =2D=20
> Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals
> GrayGeek
>
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