From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sun Apr 15 2001 - 02:39:45 EDT
easy serve has not been part of IBM for severay years..
IBM DOES offer Linux on some thinkpads and desktops too..
so easy serve should be familiar with linux and other unix based oOS's..
not the Mac OS might be another story.. :-)
Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "STeve Andre'" <andres_at_msu.edu>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 1:25 AM
Subject: Re: warrenty questions...
> I had screen jitter problems with my 1480i, which is an OpenBSD machine.
> After talking with the people on the 800 number I sent it in, with a
little
> note
> explaining that this wasn't a Windows machine, with instructions on how to
> login (I made a IBM account for them) and shutdown the system.
>
> I got the unit back with the fixes I wanted, and in fact the IBM account
> had been logged into, and the shutdown procedures had been used correctly.
>
> In my experience they were in fact able to deal with a non-Windows
> machine. One other time I called the 800 number on a question about the
> 1480i, I mentioned that I ran OpenBSD on it, and the person asked me
> what differences there were from NetBSD, an intelligent question which
> meant that he already knew about the BSD opsystems.
>
> So, I think IBM has a slight understanding of non-Windows stuff, at least
> in the EZ-Serve side of things. But wait--they aren't really a part of
IBM,
> are they? Hmmm. Well, at any rate, my experience was a positive one.
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
> At 07:54 PM 4/14/01 -0700, Forrest English wrote:
> >my thinkpad 600 that i just got is still freaking out when i try and run
> >Xfree86 most of the time. it worked fine all of last night. i thought
> >it was a font problem. but, today it's totally crapped out on me and i
> >can't figure out why so i'm begining to suspect hardware... (another
> >reason i suspect hardware is it froze on booting syslog awhile ago, and
> >the hard drive is making unhappy noises somtimes...).
> >
> >so. the only good part to this so far is that i just found out that
> >this ebay find of mine... is still under warenty.
> >
> >http://www.pc.ibm.com/esupservice/eSupportPEW?lang=en_US&page=root&pewsta
> >tus=yes&brand=IBM+ThinkPad&doctype=&subtype=Cat&country=892&mtmdl=2645&mo
> >del=51U&serial=78-FC504&Continue.x=70&Continue.y=4
> >
> >so... here is the reason of my mail to the list. i don't have windows
> >on this machine. it's running debian gnu/linux. will there be a
> >reluctance to belive hardware failure when they could blame it on a "toy
> >os" like linux? because there are a large number of people with
> >perfectly working thinkpad 600's running in linux, i've even used some of
> >their x configuration files to the same results.
> >
> >what has been anyone's expirence with alternative operating systems and
> >asking for repairs from ibm?
> >
> >--
> >Forrest English
> >http://truffula.net
> >
> >"When we have nothing left to give
> >There will be no reason for us to live
> >But when we have nothing left to lose
> >You will have nothing left to use"
> > -Fugazi
>
>
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