On Friday 31 Jan 2003 4:44 pm, John Rye wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:19:54 +0000 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 31 Jan 2003 1:50 am, John Rye wrote: > > > I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/7 Socket A board, > > > Via KT133 series, running an Athlon-XP 1800 with no problems. > > > > Thanks for that. > > > > > For your interest a good test of a mother board is to locate, > > > aquire,steal, borrow or of coarse d/l Knoppix. > > > > Now that's an interesting thought. No good in this situation, because > > I'll have to buy it before I can test it, but a good idea for checking > > out existing older computers. Thanks. > > I mildly disagree Anne, if the vender needs or wants the sale they will > want to find a way to prove their product does what they advertise. > > I guess it is a little more difficult if you purchasing from a remote > source (as I was), but I was able to use a 'return on failure to perform' > promise made by the vendor.
Good for you. It seems only fair, though, that you should in return give him some publicity. I won't be shipping from nz, but someone else here might be interested in knowing him :) > > (Do you have any consumer protection legistation you could invoke?) In theory, yes. In practice, no. To invoke the 'fit for purpose' you have to clearly state at the time of purchase what is was that you wanted it to do. Say the dreaded word 'linux' and 99 out of 100 vendors will say, 'Don't know - can't say. We don't support linux' Under those circumstances they haven't told you it would, so you take the whole responsibility. They won't take it back unless you can prove it to be physically faulty in a way that you could not have caused. Our day will come - but not today. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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