** Reply to message from Tim Hanson <tjhanson98@comcast.net> on Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:01:26 -0700
I have to go along with the other person who replied to your message. Stay away from ASUS. Their support for Linux doesn't exist. In fact, when one tells a support person he is using Linux, from that moment on the rep is trying to get off the phone. Downright rude.
Kid stuff. For real insight into rudeness and provinciality, try telling them that you are running OS/2. The point is that Bill Gates's terrorism (like most terrorist campaigns) has paid off big-time, and the whole industry, being interested in maximizing efficiency and the bottom line, has become one immense Windows shop. Examples: 1) When I call my ISP's support line, the first question is: "Which Windows do you have". 2) When I had the telephone company install ADSL, and the question defined in (1) above was asked, I answered that I don't have Windows, which caused the rep to give me the kind of look usually reserved for 6-year-old idiots, and to say "every computer has Windows". It isn't an anti-Linux attitude. It is simply recognition of a statistical fact. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel "When your enemy falls, do not rejoice." -- Proverbs 24:17 The Terrorist Credo: You can make friends by exploding bombs in public places, and the more people you kill, the better they will like you.