On 8/20/07, David L. Gehrt <dlg@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 Call back, and say nothing about Linux - pretend you have Vista. And by the way, you can get a refund on Vista if you never intend on using it. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
