[NTLUG:Discuss] Cheap Linux boxes at Fry's

[Jason Mock]

FYI... I know everyone really likes FRY's prices, but just be weary...
I've had a really really bad experience with them.  Very simple and
small purchase:  Dual 3200 512MB DDR, and a 300GB HDD.  Their system
was down so they had to do a manual receipt, and send us one in the
sale.  Two day later, there were two charges to our bank card:  1) for
the sale amount without taxes, and 2) for the sale amount with taxes.
After 1 week of being tossed from person to person and being told that
they couldn't find the charge, that the charge had already been
credited, and they need to see a fax of our bank statement (I don't
think so) to _prove_ that the charge actually occurred (no matter what
they tell me, what other reason would they need it for?).  It finally
took the bank taking over as a fraudulent charge and a BBB complaint
for a credit to finally go through, almost 5 weeks later.  Fortunately
my bank covered the amount during the investigation, otherwise I would
have been out around $320 dollars for 5 weeks, when I had already
saved up for a little while to just to make that purchase ( man kids
are expensive :) .  I realize their prices are cheap, but I would
rather pay a little more and deal with any other company that has a
slightly higher level of salesmen/cashier competence...

Ok... I'll get off my podium now... just my two cents...

Jason M

On 1/9/07, Kenneth Loafman <kenneth at loafman.com> wrote:
>
>
> Robert Pearson wrote:
> > On 1/9/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:57:23PM -0600, Robert Pearson wrote:
> >>> On 1/8/07, agoats <agoats at compuserve.com> wrote:
> >>>> That's a good start, but it could be a little more, maybe $450 or so.
> >>>>
> >>>> Alvin
> >>> Anybody running Windows as the host OS on a laptop and VMware over it
> >>> with Linux as a VMware client? Seems like when I researched this last,
> >>> it would work?
> >> I did this for a couple of years and it worked very well, at least
> >> with the various versions of Red Hat/Fedora .  Since then I've
> >> switched to running Linux as the host OS and VMware over it with
> >> Windows as the VMware client.  :-)
> >>
> >> Pm
> >
> > Thanks.
> > I guess I should have been more specific.
> > Can this be done when Linux and the laptop hardware are incompatible?
> > With VMware Server being free this is one way to make a cheap laptop run Linux.
> > VMware would translate Linux system calls into Windows equivalents and
> > everything would work in Linux.
> > This does leave you with the flawed, high Security risk Windows as
> > your first line of defense.
> > Maybe there is a better way?
>
> Yes, this would work, especially until we get hardware vendors to help
> support Linux.  The earlier VMware versions did not support USB well
> under Linux and I had to use Windows for the USB support.  Linux as
> guest worked as expected.
>
> ...Ken
>
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