To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:33:00 -0800
Subject:	Re: Public Buying (was: Re: DRDOS FDISK)
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From:	Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com

Pat,
You forgot about the $400US rebate for people who sign up for 
AOL or MSN or $100US for signing up with compuserve.  
None of these people seem to have had 3rd grade math.  
When you pay $21.95US per month for 36 months that comes 
out to $390.50 over cost of computer after rebate, and they are 
told they are getting the computer for free, or $199US after the 
rebate.

Also the WIN Modems sell at as low as $9.95 in some of the 
superstores special purchase sales. 
(Hurry, Hurry, get your best deal here, only one to a customer)
And you know Bill Gates gets a cut on every one of them.  

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:37:22 -0700 "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
writes:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul O. Bartlett" <bartlett AT smart DOT net>
> To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 5:29 PM
> Subject: Public Buying (was: Re: DRDOS FDISK)
> 
> 
<SNIP>
> >     A lot of people simply don't know any better.  Most of your 
> average
> > computer megastore shoppers wouldn't know a Compaq from an 
> interstate
> > compact.
> 
> Yes I know. People will even buy a Sears computer just because they 
> have a
> Sears credit card and pay 30% APR for a piece of junk that will be 
> obsolete
> before they even pay it off! 
<SNIP> 

There are now many motherboards sold with Modems, Sound Cards, 
Video Cards and USB built into the chipsets.  These all require Windows 
98/ME to run and you cannot install Linux on them unless you can get 
Linux drivers beforehand.  

I just tried to install WINLINUX 2000 on one of mine and KDE came out 
with a black cover over all menu items.  Even after making a WAG at the 
login and password blocks the screen still remained blacked out. 
I am assuming it is the Video driver, requiring windows.  Couldn't check 
out the sound or the modem.

This Linux distribution installs from windoze and goes in a folder called

Linux and there is an Icon on the screen for WINLINUX.  When you click 
on the Icon Linux starts, shuts down windows and reboots in Linux. 
It also sets up almost automatically, as long as you have a plug and play
M/B.
I got it from the last issue of Maximum Linux on the CD.

<SNIP>
> If you have a good understanding of DOS, you might want to give 
> Linux a
> shot. I recommend starting out with DOSLinux. It is a very small 
> version
> based on Slackware and is intended mainly for internet use. I comes 
> with
> everything you need to get on the internet and after reading the
> documentation, you can install it and be on the internet in less 
> than 10
> minutes.
<SNIP>

I have used Partition Magic on several of my Windoze computers and have 
not had any problems yet.  I think some of the people who have had
problems 
neglected to consider the size of the data on the drives they were
resizing. 
Since Magic does each step in the order you set it up you have to make
sure 
you know how small you can make each drive before you start.  Of course 
you can go one step at a time, but I have taken a drive with five odd
sized 
partitions and resized them all with data on them and come out with
everything 
intact.  Each adjustment becomes one task and if you change your mind and

go back to change anything Magic still does each step one at a time.  
Partition Magic is not a Windoze program, but my version is installed in
windoze 
and shuts down windows before starting up in DOS.  I also have it on a
1.44Meg 
boot disk, which boots up in Windos 7/Win98.

<SNIP>
> Partition Magic will rewrite both of those areas. I have 
> never
> used it, but have heard great thing about it. I prefer to back up 
> everything
> and start from scratch. musch less possiblility of something going 
> wrong
> (like losing power in the middle of the process and not having a 
> UPS.)
<SNIP>

I think they already wrote that book but not the way you mean.

<SNIP>
> Maybe I should sit down and write a book titled "Buying a Computer 
> For
> Dummies"!!!
<SNIP>

BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS "Chocolate is a vitamin"


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