*****SPAM***** RE: shops stocking Linux (was Re: [ILUG] q3test and games )

[kilmartin mark]

Well if you look carefully you can pick up some very!!!! cheap good
networkcards for about 2 pounds I picked up 10 cards a month or so ago for
20 pounds there were 7 3coms in the pile and a number of NE2000s.

I got them of a shop which was reconditioning PCs which they got cheap
from companys that were upgrading.

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Justin Mason wrote:

> 
> Enda Hanrahan said:
> 
> > OK, I have to answer this one. First off, Compustore do NOT hire
> > trained/qualified technicians or admins. They take newbie college graduates
> > or people with a little experience, and train them on the job. Most
> > enquiries we get are of the "Is that a good printer? Yes it is..." variety.
> > How on Earth do you expect someone who never has to deal with networking or
> > *NIX to answer questions like "What chipset does that network card use?". I
> > mean, give me a break.
> 
> Yeah, I know, asking what the chipset was was a little optimistic ;)
> 
> ... although I did ask if I could see the documentation for the cards (so
> I could work it out myself), and the answer was "no".  Basically, it's no
> fun buying stuff as a Linux user unless you can be reasonably sure that
> it's going to work, and it would be nice to be able to verify this end of
> things before leaving the shop, whether or not the guy talking to you
> knows it himself, or can just show you some documentation, or has some
> well-known "safe" hardware [1].  The impression I came away from
> Compustore with, was that they were strictly Windows only, with maybe a
> little bit of Mac on the side -- but Linux was not on the cards.
> 
> Also, just *selling* a Linux distro like Caldera, Corel or Red Hat is not
> that tricky -- Game are doing it, as was pointed out earlier.
> 
> My mail is also partly a rant against the Windoze bias of the hardware
> manufacturer BTW.  They *do* seem to want to hide all the techie details,
> as someone posted, so the outside of the box just says "yes! I'm a network
> card, and I work with Windows!", which doesn't help us lot any.
> 
> Anyway, thx to everyone who posted regarding those cards' NE2K status, my
> cheapo home network is getting closer to up-and-running status now,
> 
> [1] To tell the truth, there were a couple of 3c59x's there, but I'm
> looking for something cheap, it's for home use after all ;)
> 
> --j.
> 
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