-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 14 July 2002 2:08 am, magnet wrote:
> If you are ever in West Thurrock, Essex somewhere near the PCWorld > store [M$World] please take the time to pop in to chat with their > upgrade assistant and confirm that "no... you cant play Linux on an > X-Box or PS2, altho you can get a high-score on "uptime". Trust me, > she will ask if the game "Uptime" can run on an X-box or PS2! *sigh* > > All I went in for was to ask if a particular gfx card had linux > support (I had nothing better to do), and yes, you guessed, no-one in > the whole store could answer. ;-) One for the non-British list members :P Out of interest (as some slashdot and kuro5hin items are difficult to understand otherwise) ... which US computer stores are equivalent to PC World? At PCW employees only know, at maximum, about what's physically there on the shelves, extended warranties are pushed, you pay the full manufacturer's price unless someone's feeling generous, attempts at haggling are met with the Stare of Death and (as noted) PCW is a Microsoft fiefdom. The only good thing is that they usually have an excellent stock of Belkin cables, including obscure ones. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9MumbCv59vFiSU4YRAi+XAJ9hJpicqe34SsgvS511WzS30yX59QCcDPE9 +E0M6Agf5TXdljA7DKqZ+Mc= =qmVD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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