Dell Salesman lies to me
A friend of mine wanted to order a
Dell Dimension desktop, she was unsure what to say on the phone
so I phoned Dell for her. The salesman immediately tried to sell me
a more expensive model. I suppose that is fair enough, that's his
job after all. He took a rather condescending tone from the get go
though, and I can only assume that he assumed I wasn't too sure
what I was buying. I am kind of used to it a little bit, it is the
same treatment you get when going into Best Buy or a car
dealership, the salesmen think you don't know anything.
I shrugged that off and went through the options with the salesman
and was surprised when he told me that I am going to need speakers,
and they
must be Dell speakers, and if I were to add a
printer, it also
must be a Dell printer!
At this point I hung up. It did occur to me that they might indeed
have made proprietary connectors for their sound-cards and printer
ports but this would seem like an expensive move for Dell and might
cause a consumer backlash. It would be much easier to just lie to
your customers after ascertaining that they are stupid newbies who
don't know any better.
I was delighted to learn about C-h S in emacs, it looks up the
`symbol' under point and displays the corresponding entry in the
GNU
libc programming manual.
Another nifty nugget via the emacs mailing list:
M-x
highlight-changes-mode
I tend not do many 'meme's` but this one looked fun, your most
common shell commands:
[orchid@morcheeba:~]%print -l -- ${(o)history%% *} | uniq -c \
| sort -nr | head -n 10
260 cd
225 ls
210 rm
200 search
152 sudo
148 less
139 sinstall
137 xine
119 man
119 ll
No surprises there I suppose, `search' is an alias for
apt-cache search and `sinstall' an alias for
sudo apt-get install I added another alias last week
for scrolling (with color) a directory's contents.
alias
scroll='ls -lah --color=always | less -r' Just enter a
directory and type `scroll'.