Never ceases to amaze
Jim Herrmann
kclug at ItDepends.com
Tue Apr 8 05:40:37 CDT 2003
It never ceases to amaze me when I put in a new piece of hardware and
boot linux. At least, when I replace a piece of hardware. No drivers
to install, no hassle, no reboot two times to unistall the old hardware
and twice more to install the new. It's times like these that I really
feel justified in tumbing my nose at the winblows die hards. This is
plug and play baby!
My CD-RW has been acting flakey for about a month now, and it was
getting worse. So, I went down to Best Buy and got one of those
$20-after-rebate burners. I came home, shutdown, took out my old one,
stuck in my new one, booted up, fired up CD-bake oven, and burned an
ISO. No muss, no fuss. Is this a great OS or what?!
BTW, if you go buy one of those $20 burners, be very careful on the
rebate forms. There are two of them, clearly designed to confuse, so
that if you muck it up, you don't get your $50 bucks back. Just a
warning. I was being very careful, and almost stuck the original UPC in
the wrong envelope. Doh! I caught it in time, but I was thinking how
easy it would be for an ever so slightly less attentive person, myself
included, to screw this one up. I think I have it right now. I should
probably check one more time before I seal the envelopes.
Anyway, thanks for listening to my glow. :-)
Peace,
Jim Herrmann
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