[KLUG Members] GEEK JEOPARDY: 15 DAYS!

[Andrew Thompson]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 06:31, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > This is an IMPROVEMENT? Bad enough Red Hat's configuration tools demand
> > both a running X Server and Gnome. SuSE does it right by automatically
> > dropping back to ncurses for text-only terminals (okay, maybe it doesn't
> > work well on print-only consoles). 
> 
> Wow!  You've still got one of those?  And I thought I was legacy with a
> 3270 terminal.

Actually, no, I'm just covering my bases. *grin*

> > An 'improvement' that demands the
> > latest, greatest, and most superfluous hardware ain't THAT much of an
> > improvement, I say.
> 
> Me neither.  BUT think.  Every M$ shop has to replace ALL of its xSeries
> & eSeries boxes due to some stupid requirement about video or what not
> (and M$ shops will obey, I've seen them).  ALL those sweet boxes get
> dumped onto E-Bay!  Yessssssssssss!!!!

Hrm, now, that IS a good point. I'll have to keep an eye out for those.

-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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