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

[Russ]

I had a similar problem!
russ


On 1/9/07, Jason Mock <Jason at mock.ws> wrote:
>
> 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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