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Wed, 11 Jan 2006

My kingdom for a motherboard

I bought a Dell 700m in late March. It is basically a pretty good machine with everything except the SD card reader slot working.

Now, that is. With 2.6.15 everything does work out of the box. With earlier kernels things didn't. So I happened to recall that people wanted Dell to recall the 700m because of the poor audio.

I have a worldwide international 3 year warranty on this thing, so I decided to call it in. Sure enough I got someone who indicated said that they would replace the motherboard. We had some back and forth and it appears Dell have solved the problem.

So I get my motherboard replaced and now

Audio input works on the hardware tests but under Linux
I've had three thermal shutdowns since the replacement

Let's see how things pan out. At least they've been kind and corteous so far.

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Mon, 21 Nov 2005

Pointless EULA

I just bought a dual-CPU Dell and it actually bothered to display an EULA to me. I carefully inserted a CD, rebooted and formatted the disk.

When I buy a frigging machine with No OS installed then I'm not going to sign an EULA for no software.

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