Thanksgiving - How far we've come

[Michael Scottaline]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 17:30 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> This post from the Ubuntu forum is worth a read. Remember when you had
> to wave chicken feet or Skippy's wand at a laptop to get it to work
> under Linux?
> 
> ---
> 
> Walmart Laptop Success -  5 Hours Ago
> 
> Walmart had HP laptops advertised for $398 for there Black Friday
> Sale.... So I got up at 3 am this morning to go get one. Well, there
> were already about 80 people in line when I got there. Still thought I
> would try my luck and stuck it out. They ended up only having about 20
> of the HP's. But, they had about 100 replacement laptops by IC Power.
> After being in line for almost 2 hours when I found that out, I didn't
> drop out of line and decided to wait to look at the specs. They were
> actually identicle to the HP's except for a 2600 Sempron instead of a
> 2800, and they sold them for $378! I got a laptop with a 15" screen,
> firewire, AMD 2600 Sempron, wifi, multi memory card slot, firewire,
> usb 2.0, CD burner - DVD reader, 5.1 sound, built in mic, 256M of ram,
> and a 40 gig hard drive for $378!!!! I can't beleave it. Well worth a
> couple of hours in line in my opinion.
> 
> [ note by Collins: Breezy is Ubuntu 5.10 ]
> 
> Anyway the first thing I did when I got home was install Breezy on it,
> purposely wiping the entire drive. I actually did boot it up once with
> XP partially, but could bring myself to type in the Serial Number.
> 
> Every bit of the hardware was found! Not a hickup. Once installed I
> simply enabled the wifi, went to the Ubuntu forums, and downloaded and
> ran Automatix. I now have a fully functional Ubuntu laptop and it took
> less than an hour. I didn't even have to use my brain to do it.
> 
> Now, if I could only get it back from my daughter
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Your laptop, or your brain...???  ;-)
Mike
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because of those who look on and do nothing..."
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