Jack:
Your message is exceedingly germane to the Unfinished Revolution. Imagine what with the OHS reaching in every
nook and cranny, via wire, via radio, &c.
Henry
Jack Park wrote:
> At 09:16 PM 9/8/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> > >From personal experience of getting caught out by buying a machine that
> >turned out to have an unadvertised WinModem things are even uglier than
> >that.
> >
> >Peter
>
> But wait! There's more...
> I bought a Sony PCG-XG38 VIAO laptop. I should have been suspicious when I
> noticed the "Designed for Microsoft(r) Windows(TM) Me. I didn't.
>
> I later installed Windows 2000 on it. Guess what. Much of what used to be
> in firmware -- function keys and so forth -- are now locked up in DLLs such
> that Windows 2000 would not allow me to, for example, switch to an external
> monitor, and so forth, including battery management. In short, I could not
> use the laptop for what it was intended to be: a mobile platform. And,
> Sony doesn't (or at least didn't have at the time) have a "fix" for this
> oversight. In short, Sony is actually selling a product that violates one
> of the unwritten "advantages" of Wintel products: upward mobility. As it
> is, I'm stuck with a laptop that crashes often. Eventually, I'll hose MS
> and install Linux on it.
>
> Part of me is inclined not to send this because it's only marginally
> related to the Unfinished Revolution. But, I can cast these reflections of
> "the uglies" into Unrev by way of this thought: What will a Wintel OHS
> look like?
>
> Jack
>
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