I actually ran a customization on one of those, managed to get it up to $56,000! Those RAM slots eat up money like crazy.
Happy Birthday! Too bad my brother-in-law doesn't work in the pass-out-free-computers-to-your-friends department, otherwise I'd hook you (and myself) up.
Heh, cheers
Dell makes PCs without Windows that you can put Linux on, although the only thing they will factory install is FreeDOS.
You can get Red Hat Enterprise 4 with that computer and the rest of the Precisions! Can't get it with the Dimensions though..
You get a better deal buying a Windows box and erasing Windows from it.
I heard that before - it's fecking stupid.
Dell aren't Microsoft, but sometimes they might as well be.
Even more interesting, he is required to use IE and Outlook for all his internet activities, including ftp. And they block the hell out of most websites. I used his laptop the other night - he was surprised that Microsuck wasn't blocked. What a bunch of fascist whores!
'Tis shitty. I have to use the same shit in school. Network admin promted one of the teachers to put me up for "blacklisting" (so I wouldn't be able to use the computers, officially :p) for using FF. Fortunately there's a sane system for this - the admin has not authority. He tells the teacher, teacher tells the depudy principal (who seems pretty cool), who makes the decission to blacklist.
This was the day before we were due to leave school that the admin barfed, and I'd been using FF for nearly the whole year.
Anyhow, when he was talking to the teacher, I was right beside him - I could briefly hear what he was saying, so I put my hand up, he walked over and I kinda told him I use Firefox and asked what the problem was. He stood for a few seconds and just fucking walked out!
He probably burst into tears when he left the room lol.
