From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 11 13:19:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (pan.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5A114D30 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:19:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.11 1999/11/10 17:27:15 spurcell Exp $) with ESMTP id OAA11688; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:19:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.8 1999/04/16 15:25:49 steved Exp steved $) with ESMTP id OAA26729; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:19:12 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id QAA17818; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:19:35 -0500 (EST) From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14379.13030.781773.165594@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:19:34 -0700 (MST) To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: Quick question on IBM ThinkPad In-Reply-To: References: <14379.9777.612177.194709@hip186.ch.intel.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 19.34.1 Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ On Thursday, November 11, Alfred Perlstein wrote: ] > > Well, urm, how are we supposed to know if you don't even know? > Yeah I know, I know ... ;) But you see, around here, you get issued what you get issued. 99.9999999% of the people here are too ignorant to know the difference between hardware and don't *care* what's compatible with what or why because they're gonna run Ebola98 or WinNoT which are the only two "supported" platforms. IT doesn't issue hardware not supported by either, so no end-user has to care what they receive as a desktop PC/laptop. Therefore, it's tough for me to find out what I'd get before I get it because knowbody knows or cares assuming blindly that I'm a Windoze drone. :) > --------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > geez, I wish someone would force me to take a laptop... :) :) point taken, but A) I do not like the thinkpad series, and B) it makes my life more of a security nightmare than it already is (more freaking procedures to deal with laptops for corporate security reasons, etc. etc. etc. > good luck, cheers, -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message