I've heard of that and worse from HP. What possessed you to go buy a computer without asking around first? If I were ever to actually purchase a system (I purpose build everything - I can't afford downtime and no one in their right mind sells 3.5 Tb servers cheap) I'd buy a Dell. HP and Sony are trash. Mike- On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:58:12 -0700, you wrote: >For the past couple of months I have been having intermittent, serious >problems with my firewall/gateway machine which have disrupted my >network (especially email) which caused me to get suspended from this >list. > >The end result was the replacement with an unused system which then >suffered a catastrophic disk failure, and resulted in my purchase of my >first complete system from a major vendor, HP. Before this acquisition >I spent the past 20 years getting parts from Fry's and other Bay Area >stores, and assembling systems on my own. When I tried to register the >hardware I had some problems relating to the failure of Internet access >to an HP computer system. I called the tech support line to do the >thing, but I aborted this call when I was told by a tech support person >AND his supervisor that I would be ineligible for tech support because >about the first thing I did with the system was blow away Vista and >installed Fedora Linux (FC6, not F7 or F8). > >I am interested in discovering whether others have heard of this crap >and how people were able to deal with this issue. > >dlg > >David L. Gehrt Land Line: 805.541.2390 >1865 Wilding Lane Cell phone: 805.704.5890 >San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3044 Email: dlg@xxxxxxxxxxx > > -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,
