Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:38:12 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq book.sgml Message-ID: <200101180438.f0I4cCK08712@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <14949.51944.801112.886467@nomad.yogotech.com>
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Nate Williams wrote: > > > > Owch! Has anyone reported this to IBM? > > > > > > There is a 2 million message thread about this somewhere in which > > > you can find just what luck people have had with IBM. > > > > Somebody just told me off the list that IBM are rolling a bios fix through > > the QA mill and it should be fixed in 6-8 weeks. At least, for the A21p, > > he didn't know about the other models. > > Cool! So, IBM did indeed listen to those who complained about this. > Glad to hear it, because I *really* like IBM laptops, and I was unhappy > about having to blacklist them. Personally, I will believe it when it is released, not before. I wouldn't put it past anybody IBM's size to have their support people lie to people to get the users to wait for a few months (using some other OS) and hope they forget about it. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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