Our office in San Francisco asked me to install a linux server for them via phone from Sydney.
They would do the typing and I would direct them through it until it was installed and connected to the net where I could take over.
Of course they ignored my suggestions of a standard cheap machine and instead purchased a compaq 7599 (pIII 700). It comes with an 810 motherboard.
We wasted heaps of time but they were happy because it had a usb quickcam,
DVD, CD rewriter and looks cool.
An old pentium 100 would have done for what they needed.
I had to talk them through removing the winmodem and installing a new cheap video card.
All is ok now with the exception of the on-board sound card.
sndconfig finds:
A PCI sound card was found in your
system. The details are:
Model: ESS Technology|unknown
device 125d:1988
But that is as far as it gets.
If anyone knows how to configure this card manually please let me know.
All of this could have been averted if only they had listened.
Dunc
Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:11 -0300, Marcos Dione wrote:> yes, that's the best way, and I always advise this when someone
> asks me... but in major companies and goverment they always like to have a
> "we're the better" company (IBM, HP, Compaq) to blame when things doesn't
> work... of course one can solve the problem, but as the machines have
> warrantiy seals and one can open them... yes, they like to wait a couple
> of weeks till service comes.That's because management and beancounters think in other ways
than people who just want to get the work done.For management and beancounters the priority no.1 question is:
Is the contractor (or manufacturer or store) large enough to pay
if we have to sue him in case of malperformance?So the fact whether the product is superiour or not counts only
as priority no.2. That's why they tend to buy from large
companies rather than to give a chance to an upstart.BTW, that's been a big barrier for Linux to get into large
corporations. My boss kept saying "who do we sue if Linux
crashes our databases? Linus T.?" and so he ordered WinNT.wobo
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