Re: [OT] Stupid consumers and inferior hardware (was: Monitor question)
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:03:24 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Manufacturers are not doing this because the consumer wants it. They are doing it to cut costs. And they think they can get away with it. And sadly, in most cases, they are right. Most consumers can't even tell that they are being ripped off. If consumers stopped buying these inferior items, manufacturers would stop producing them. But they don't. They keep buying them. We're getting what we deserve, I'm afraid. they get away with it because most people run windows, the mfr provides the driver, and when it breaks, people expect it because it's windows. Remember the tulip ethernet chip ? Friend of mine loaned me a card for ethernet and it worked great. I bought one and it didn't work worth a darn. Got his board back - worked great. Examined the board carefully, they were exactly the same. oh, except for one minor thing. the tulip chip had rev B on it. My friends was rev A. You will always be in trouble with hardware under Linux because of the lack of mfr's drivers, and when they do provide drivers they are generally binary objects, e.g. NVIDIA. It's very frustrating, so I for one appreciate your rant :-) Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101231095025.056bc...@bamboo.deldotd.com
Re: [OT] Stupid consumers and inferior hardware (was: Monitor question)
- Original message - You might enjoy my anti-winmodem rant in the following web page: http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm Link broken, most certainly u meant: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm It's in the Crucial Background Information section. .''`. Stephen Powell
Re: [OT] Stupid consumers and inferior hardware (was: Monitor question)
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:23:30 +0100 Simon Hollenbach ionpowe...@googlemail.com shared this with us all: - Original message - You might enjoy my anti-winmodem rant in the following web page: http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm Link broken, most certainly u meant: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm It's in the Crucial Background Information section. .''`. Stephen Powell Your email program [Modest 3.2] must have broken it, because it wasn't broken here? Charlie -- http://www.skymesh.net.au/~taogypsy/ Registered Linux User:- 329524 *** An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. Bill Bernbach *** Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101231083549.7530e...@tao
Re: [OT] Stupid consumers and inferior hardware (was: Monitor question)
- Original message - On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:23:30 +0100 Simon Hollenbach ionpowe...@googlemail.com shared this with us all: - Original message - You might enjoy my anti-winmodem rant in the following web page: http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm Link broken, most certainly u meant: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm It's in the Crucial Background Information section. .''`. Stephen Powell Your email program [Modest 3.2] must have broken it, because it wasn't broken here? Charlie its propably due to bad resolving of microb, the maemo browser. Thanks for the info, I'm gonna file a bug. Simon P.s sorry for private mail, Charlie, im gonna learn posting eventually :P
Re: [OT] Stupid consumers and inferior hardware (was: Monitor question)
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:35:49 -0500 (EST), Charlie wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:23:30 +0100 Simon Hollenbach wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: ... You might enjoy my anti-winmodem rant in the following web page: http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm It's in the Crucial Background Information section. Link broken, most certainly u meant: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm Your email program [Modest 3.2] must have broken it, because it wasn't broken here? Apparently, WOW has re-organized their web site. If I type http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm in the address bar of my browser and press Enter, the page is displayed, but the address bar subsequently shows http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm Something, somewhere, is providing a re-direction to another URL. Anyway, the actual URL is now apparently the one above, but the original one still works for me. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1507755871.1372783.1293746707724.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
