Re: [NF] Toshiba hard-coded failure dates

2007-06-29 Thread Pete Theisen
On Friday 29 June 2007 06:58, Stephen the Cook wrote: > Pete Theisen <> wrote: > > I explained it a long time ago, but you may have forgotten. The M$ > > crooks have a deal with the To$hiba crooks to keep Linux of of > > To$hiba notebooks. It is a very difficult set-up. > > Bwahahahahahaha. > > You

RE: [NF] Toshiba hard-coded failure dates

2007-06-29 Thread Stephen the Cook
Pete Theisen <> wrote: > I explained it a long time ago, but you may have forgotten. The M$ > crooks have a deal with the To$hiba crooks to keep Linux of of > To$hiba notebooks. It is a very difficult set-up. Bwahahahahahaha. You crack me up sometimes. Stephen Russell DBA / .Net Developer

Re: [NF] Toshiba hard-coded failure dates

2007-06-28 Thread Pete Theisen
On Thursday 28 June 2007 18:56, Stephen the Cook wrote: > > That's what I think, it *should* work, in the moral sense of > > "should". They have it proprietorized in the firmware, however, to > > make sure that it doesn't. Deliberate stealing. Crooks like M$. > > Why is M$ the problem if you loade

RE: [NF] Toshiba hard-coded failure dates

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen the Cook
Pete Theisen <> wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:10, Nicholas Geti wrote: >> DVD drivers are supplied by Windows so any DVD drive should work. > > Hi Nicholas! > > That's what I think, it *should* work, in the moral sense of > "should". They have it proprietorized in the firmware, however, to

Re: [NF] Toshiba hard-coded failure dates

2007-06-28 Thread Pete Theisen
On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:10, Nicholas Geti wrote: > DVD drivers are supplied by Windows so any DVD drive should work. Hi Nicholas! That's what I think, it *should* work, in the moral sense of "should". They have it proprietorized in the firmware, however, to make sure that it doesn't. Delib

Re: [NF] Toshiba hard-coded failure dates

2007-06-28 Thread Nicholas Geti
DVD drivers are supplied by Windows so any DVD drive should work. CMOS shouldn't die. Try a new battery or at least momentarily short the CMOS you have to reset it to default and see if it boots. > > I declined the extended warranty on my Toshiba. A month or so after the > warranty expired the t

[NF] Toshiba hard-coded failure dates

2007-06-28 Thread Pete Theisen
Hi Everybody! I declined the extended warranty on my Toshiba. A month or so after the warranty expired the thing started to bomb. One system after another failed. The network connector first, so I used a pcmcia work-around. The proprietary Windows XP OS was from hell as well but I used Linux.