*Words of Wisdom From The Elder

I normally don’t post work related stuff on here but I couldn’t resist this one.

A gentleman came into our store a few days ago and ordered a peice of memory for a Gateway Notebook. One of the sales guys ordered the memory and it came in today and we called him to come and pick it up. About 5:30, I answered the phone and a person asked to speak with one of our associates (who sold him the memory). He wasn’t available so he asked if I could help, I said sure. The man went on to tell me that he ordered a peice of memory for his notebook and he said it wasn’t working. I asked him to explain what he meant by “It wasn’t working” and he stated that when he bought the memory he had 64MB of memory in the notebook and that his upgrade was suppose to upgrade him to 192MB of memory. However, when he was using Word and went to save a document there wasn’t another hard drive listed in the menu! Of course at this point I was about to loose it, but maintained my composure and explained that he purchased RAM (Random Access Memory) and not a hard drive. We checked the system properties and sure enough he had 192MB of memory installed in the machine.

This raises the age old question. Should the US Government require a license to operate a Computer like they do a Car?

I was cleaning out my closet and thought I would get rid of some things. I put the following items up on auction over at Yahoo (yeah I know about Ebay, but I use Yahoo all the time).

(2.5GB Western Digital HDD)
(1.6GB Fuji HDD)
(1.6 Maxtor HDD)
(6.4GB Western Digital HDD)

If you are in the market for some hard drives maybe I can help.

An article over at Linux Today has the story on the first advertisement Microsoft has released where they acknowledge the Linux Operating System. Although it was released in Germany, it is still a big break through for the Linux Community. World domination is right on schedule!

I’ve been compiling my kernel for a week and a half now and still have yet to get my Voodoo working since installing a new motherboard. I know I know, I’m suppose to be a hardware genius. However, I don’t know if it is a matter of the kernel or something else that I am over looking. When I start Quake, I get the following error: **************************************** ...no hardware acceleration found... If this is in error, add "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1" to the command line. **************************************** At this point I am totally open to suggestions.

November 4th starting at 4:00 there is going to be a lan party at ACI to play Quake III. There is limited space so please just do not show up. Email me if you would like to attend and are in the area. See you there!