> Rick Welykochy wrote:
>
> (*) it is not unusual to re-install your O/S/ from scratch every few
> months or whenever there is a system glitch
I'll have to add to this one, as in my experience, it doesn't even count!
(*) it is not usual to purchase a new computer every six months to a year
whenever there is a system glitch, or the computer is so dreadfully
overloaded and running so slow that an unknowing user thinks that it
must be their 'old hardware'.
Case in point: I just removed Windows 98 from a Pentium 60 with 8 meg of RAM
and threw DOS and the MS TCP/IP drivers on for a terminal that *ONLY* ran
DOS-based software over the network and I was chastised for upgrading the
hardware 'before the new computer had arrived'!
I promptly cut the order for the new computer when PHB 1 decided that my
solution was better than spending an over-inflated $2K for a machine.
Which reminds me, I must call the vendor and continue to educate them about
Linux. They still won't support it, and I've offered them free testing, te
works. Mind you, this is coming from a company that says it doesn't have a
data dictionary for their main product... Yeesh.
- Jeff
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