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I got a better response from firedog in Boston when I went in to advocate. The Best Buy guys were more dismissive although I recon you've got to go in there a few times a day over a weekend to get more than one shift of staff. 2008/7/8 Kristian Erik Hermansen <[hidden email]>: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Boland, John <[hidden email]> wrote: >> the worst part is that bestbuy is selling the disc for $20 and for an >> additional $130 their geek squad folks will install it! > > I'm going to venture a guess that they don't really know how to > install it. On a related note, I went into Circuit City this weekend > and told them I was looking for a laptop for my little brother that > could run "this" on, and handed him an official Ubuntu Hardy Heron > (8.04) disc in colorful cardboard sleeve. The FIREDOG dude said, "oh > yeah, let me take a look" and then flipped the case over to the back > in search of the computer system requirements, although there was no > mention of Windows at all :-) He them proceeded to hem and haw, but > was "quite sure" the models he showed me could run the software! > That's when I politely volunteered that this was an Operating System, > and not an application. So perhaps Geek Squad is more up to speed > than Firedog...hehe > -- > Kristian Erik Hermansen > -- > CISSP, CEPT, CREA, CEH, Linux+, A+, QGCS, ACSA, this is getting ridiculous... > http://kristian-hermansen.com > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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