I second the clinic idea. I have a linux box in the basement that I've been trying (well, once every three weeks for an hour or so) to troubleshoot a power problem on. A clinic would be a great place to do that...
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:19 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2009 10:38:09 -0700 > Tony Rick <[email protected]> dijo: > > I haven't bought an off-the-shelf desktop in ages. I always build them > myself. My last one (two years ago) came partly from ENU, partly from > online stores, and mostly from Fry's. I've had problems with things > like a buggy BIOS on the motherboard, but I've never had a problem with > any of the retailers mentioned here. In fact, Fry's took the evil > motherboard back at 92 days from purchase date. > > It occurs to me that if Denis is not completely comfortable with > assembling a desktop himself, it might be an interesting thing to do at > a Clinic. Just show up with shopping bags of parts and leave with a > working Linux computer. I can't think of a better location to put > together a computer than Free Geek. And the researching and shopping > for parts is highly educational. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Daniel B. Herrington Director of Field Services Robert Mark Technologies [email protected] o: 651-769-2574 m: 503-358-8575 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
