Hola a todos,
vamos a ver,
Antonio M. Sánchez Pérez wrote:
Susana Sotelo Docio escribió:
si no aceptas
la licencia, tienes que devolver TODO el aparato,
Bueno... Pero al menos podré borrar el XP sin que la BIOS o algo
inutilice el cacharro? Perdón por la ingenuidad de la pregunta, pero
es que ya me espero cualquier cosa.
Sin problemas, vamos yo no me imagino que problemas vas a tener, la
BIOS no creo que te la toque, por mucho miedo que intenten meter,
además no tiene mucho sentido, si actualizas la BIOS perderias los
cambios que te haya podido hacer el XP o sea, que por ahi no van los
tiros. Yo leí en su dia, que lo que hacia si no actualizabas o no te
registrabas, o no se que, era que no dejaria seguir usando XPoom, pero
vamos que no debe funcionar muy bien cuando ya anda pirata por ahí.
Al menos no me obligarán a actualizarme dentro de 1 año, cuando M$
saque la siguiente versión de su «distribución»
¡Cuidado, que van a ir a tu casa con metralletas y fusiles de asalto
para que te actualices! ;-P
Lo del iBook no creas que no lo pensé, pero me dio miedo de que
fuera más difícil encontrar una distribución de linux que no fuera
para intel... En fin, que de todas maneras ya la gracia está hecha.
Es una preciosidad, pero ahora a mi me ha dado por el hermano mayor,
es un sueño... dicen que se le ilumina el teclado.. ¡azul!, y que
tiene pantalla panoramica, y grabadora de dvd slot-in y....
Por cierto, dijiste antes que habias encontrado una tienda que
instalaban debian, ¿no sera id+agora? ¿Sigue esa gente en la brecha?
Hacian una versión de debian, la citius, je, fue mi primera debian,
citius lite debian 2.1 slink, todavía la tengo instalada en un IBM
Thinkpad 360C, 486SX 33 MHz, 4 MB de RAM, y con X y todo, me acuerdo
como le metia los paquetes a base de discos, hasta que active PLIP...
¡uf, que tiempos! Recuerdo que cuando cambie a Potato en otra máquina
fue un trauma porque cambio todo el tema de dselect y para indicarle
la ruta de los paquetes deb locales... de hecho me hicé un cede
«ampliacion»... Perdón, que me pongo a desvariar, y os doy el leñazo a
base de bien.
Emilio J. Padrón wrote:
Hola, solo un comentario,
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:16:20PM +0200, Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote:
Pues lo que se discutia cuando yo lo mire, precisamente era que
podia ser ilegal vender hardware y software de una manera
indisoluble, ya que son cosas separadas. Lo que argumentaba m$ y las
empresas de venta de equipos era que los ordenadores sin los s.o. no
se pueden utilizar. ¿Alguien que sepa de leyes? Quizas nos aclare algo.
desde luego ese razonamiento no tiene sentido, pues el sistema operativo
podrías ya tenerlo (por ejemplo si has comprado más ordenadores en el
pasado), es como si no te quisieran vender piezas sueltas de un
ordenador y hubiera que comprarlos siempre enteros.
Pues asi lo pintan. He estado revisando por ahi lo que tengo y os voy
a adjuntar, espero que no le moleste a nadie, un archivo que bajé en
su dia de internet, no me pregunteis de donde lo he sacado, porque ni
yo mismo lo se... en aquellos tiempos no gozaba de tarifa plana, asi
que buscaba como un loco, bajaba y despues relajadamente, y
desconectado, leia.
También he encontrado una noticia en barrapunto, de esta si os paso el
enlace:
http://barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=01/11/02/0934236&mode=thread&threshold=
es muy posible que la página que os he adjuntado sea consecuencia de
algún enlace de la noticia esta.
De todas formas, si quereis, puedo bucear algo mas entre mis
«recuerdos» a ver si hay algo mas.
Por otro lado, alguien dijo que los portátiles clónicos eran de dudosa
calidad, y estaba interesado en saber hasta que punto eso es cierto, ya
que estaba mirando uno. Yo siempre oí cosas buenas de marcas como Ahead
o Airis. ¿Por qué iba a ser peor un portatil clónico que uno de marca,
comparativamente hablando respecto a los sobremesa? ¿Es peor en el caso
de los portátiles? ¿Compensa atarse a una marca?
Pues mira no se, pero de Airis te podria hablar yo, que de hecho tuve
uno y lo devolví. Es curiosa la mente, me he acordado hace un rato,
pero ese Airis lo compre sin s.o., el caso es que no pude hacer andar
las X, estaba empeñado en que era problema del monitor y no del
procesador gráfico (SIS), y como no me lo resolvieron ni el servicio
técnico de Airis, un 906 por cierto que no quisé despues ni mirar la
factura de la llamada, ni el servicio técnico de donde lo compre, una
conocida compañia, y bastante importante, de aqui de Almería, pues lo
devolví. Creo que he tenido mala suerte con los portatiles, ya os he
contado lo de Dell.
Pero el portatil en si parecia bastante solido, y con muy buena pinta.
Personalmente opino que los clonicos estan ganando bastante, sobre
todo son mas asequibles. El año pasado, si mal no recuerdo, hubo una
discusión en esta lista también al respecto, puedes buscarla si
quieres, se vertieron opiniones para todos los gustos.
Saludos.
Bueno, pues ya esta, que menudo peñazo que os he liado.
Me voy a dormir que ya toca, hoy es mas pronto que otras veces, je ;-D
Salud y Revolución.
Lobo.
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