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geoff wrote:
> Sailor Sam wrote:
>>> Worst customer ever. You bought the damn thing. Answer me this - did
>>> you NOT know it had windows on it?
>> No actually.
>
> Have you got a braile reader for Kuntubu ?
>
> geoff
>
>

Kuntubu?

Perhaps you missed where I said I was using UBUNTU netbook remix.

impossible wrote:
>
> "Sailor Sam" <> wrote in message
> news:h6t16r$flv$...
>> impossible wrote:
>>>
>>> "Sailor Sam" <> wrote in message
>>> news:h6ssvg$8k1$...
>>>> Bobs wrote:
>>>>> On Aug 24, 11:12 am, Sailor Sam <hiho...@merry.oh> wrote:
>>>>>> I recently purchased a shiny new Aspire One (which I adore).
>>>>>> Unfortunately it came with the Windows Operating System, loaded
>>>>>> but not
>>>>>> installed. I have never completed the installation, nor will I, I
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> Ubuntu NBR which /more/ than satisfies my needs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone know how I go about getting compensation for the Windows,
>>>>>> that I will never use?
>>>>>
>>>>> What a dick. Seriously.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you not know windows was on it? did the salesman trick you? Did
>>>>> you not see the Windows sticker on it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Stop being a dick. Difficult customers like you are a nightmare.
>>>>
>>>> What's difficult Bob, buying a computer without Windows?
>>>
>>> Did you ask to buy a computer without Windows? No. Now off you go,
>>> troll.
>>
>> Was I told about the contents of the EULA? No. Now what?
>
> The Windows EULA is irrelvant to you unless and until you install
> Windows. If you don't want the license you foolishly paid for, then just
> return the machine, get your money back, and buy something else. How
> much plainer can I make this for you? Your troll failed -- now off you go!

Return the whole machine because of dodgy software?

Gosh, I thought there were knowledgeable people here.

geoff wrote:
> Sailor Sam wrote:
>
>> It would be more like buying a car without a stereo, which I can do
>> (and have so done).
>> I can, and probably will, upgrade parts of this machine. But I will
>> never use the Windows Operating system.
>
> Not quite - a car will run happily with no stereo.
>

And my netbook runs happily without Windows.
But all analogies fall down eventually.

> Is the Windows thing some sort of religous conviction ?
>
> geoff
>
>
Not for me, but seems to be for the people who have answered.

I mean, all I've asked is how to go about getting the refund, and look
at the way I've been treated.

"Sailor Sam" <> wrote in message
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> geoff wrote:
>> Sailor Sam wrote:
>>> I recently purchased a shiny new Aspire One (which I adore).
>>> Unfortunately it came with the Windows Operating System, loaded
>>> but
>>> not installed. I have never completed the installation, nor will
>>> I,
>>> I have Ubuntu NBR which /more/ than satisfies my needs.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how I go about getting compensation for the
>>> Windows,
>>> that I will never use?
>>
>> You purchased it. Maybe you should have purchased something else.
>>
>> geoff
>
> Indeed, had an equal machine, without Windows, been available at a
> lower, price, I would have.
>

Sounds like you got Windows for free if you couldn't get it any
cheaper without Windows on.

Given it was free, you can't complain now can you?

Alan.

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On Aug 24, 12:54*pm, Sailor Sam <hiho...@merry.oh> wrote:
<snip>
> I will never use. Ubuntu NBR is a wonderous set of software, genuinely
> impressive the amount of thought that has gone into making the User
> Interaction such a joyful experience, something I cannot say about
> Windows at all.
>
> (For example I was asked to help install some software on my brothers
> Vista powered laptop, and keep in mind I am far from a computing expert,
> * all I wanted to do was move one file from the USB stick, to a place on
> his harddrive, and change the extension of the filename. I have to admit
> I made a mistake during the first attempt, but when I tried to undo the
> error, or start from scratch, Windows refused to let me (again and
> again, for several minutes).
> What a nightmare, when all I wanted to do was the equivalent of:
> mv /media/NANO/openvpn.txt /etc/openVPN/openVPN.conf
>
> I gave up in the end, and banned his laptop from my wireless

similar command will work on Windows:

move d:\nano\openvpn.txt c:\openVPN\openVPN.conf

Cheers
Nathan

Nathan Mercer wrote:
> On Aug 24, 12:54 pm, Sailor Sam <hiho...@merry.oh> wrote:
> <snip>
>> I will never use. Ubuntu NBR is a wonderous set of software, genuinely
>> impressive the amount of thought that has gone into making the User
>> Interaction such a joyful experience, something I cannot say about
>> Windows at all.
>>
>> (For example I was asked to help install some software on my brothers
>> Vista powered laptop, and keep in mind I am far from a computing expert,
>> all I wanted to do was move one file from the USB stick, to a place on
>> his harddrive, and change the extension of the filename. I have to admit
>> I made a mistake during the first attempt, but when I tried to undo the
>> error, or start from scratch, Windows refused to let me (again and
>> again, for several minutes).
>> What a nightmare, when all I wanted to do was the equivalent of:
>> mv /media/NANO/openvpn.txt /etc/openVPN/openVPN.conf
>>
>> I gave up in the end, and banned his laptop from my wireless
>
> similar command will work on Windows:
>
> move d:\nano\openvpn.txt c:\openVPN\openVPN.conf
>
> Cheers
> Nathan

It's a bit late, but thanks.
Could you tell me why, once I had cocked it up, I couldn't undo my
mistake, or overwrite that file with any others?

Also, I do wish you had been on #windows, irc.freenode.org, because when
I asked for help with the problem, I was accused of being a troll, not
unlike this threads devolution.

"Sailor Sam" <> wrote in message
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> impossible wrote:
>>
>> "Sailor Sam" <> wrote in message
>> news:h6t16r$flv$...
>>> impossible wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "Sailor Sam" <> wrote in message
>>>> news:h6ssvg$8k1$...
>>>>> Bobs wrote:
>>>>>> On Aug 24, 11:12 am, Sailor Sam <hiho...@merry.oh> wrote:
>>>>>>> I recently purchased a shiny new Aspire One (which I adore).
>>>>>>> Unfortunately it came with the Windows Operating System, loaded but
>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>> installed. I have never completed the installation, nor will I, I
>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>> Ubuntu NBR which /more/ than satisfies my needs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone know how I go about getting compensation for the
>>>>>>> Windows,
>>>>>>> that I will never use?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What a dick. Seriously.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did you not know windows was on it? did the salesman trick you? Did
>>>>>> you not see the Windows sticker on it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stop being a dick. Difficult customers like you are a nightmare.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's difficult Bob, buying a computer without Windows?
>>>>
>>>> Did you ask to buy a computer without Windows? No. Now off you go,
>>>> troll.
>>>
>>> Was I told about the contents of the EULA? No. Now what?
>>
>> The Windows EULA is irrelvant to you unless and until you install
>> Windows. If you don't want the license you foolishly paid for, then just
>> return the machine, get your money back, and buy something else. How much
>> plainer can I make this for you? Your troll failed -- now off you go!
>
> Return the whole machine because of dodgy software?
>
> Gosh, I thought there were knowledgeable people here.

It was a package and like any other package the option to return the parts
you don't like is likely to be non existent.
If you didn't want Windows or some other part of the package don't buy a
package buy the computer only.
If this can't be done then unfortunately a market for such a option is
obviously not large enough for anyone to support so you'll need to
compromise.

Sailor Sam wrote:
> Bobs wrote:
>> On Aug 24, 11:12 am, Sailor Sam <hiho...@merry.oh> wrote:
>>> I recently purchased a shiny new Aspire One (which I adore).
>>> Unfortunately it came with the Windows Operating System, loaded but not
>>> installed. I have never completed the installation, nor will I, I have
>>> Ubuntu NBR which /more/ than satisfies my needs.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how I go about getting compensation for the Windows,
>>> that I will never use?
>>
>> What a dick. Seriously.
>>
>> Did you not know windows was on it? did the salesman trick you? Did
>> you not see the Windows sticker on it?
>>
>> Stop being a dick. Difficult customers like you are a nightmare.
>
> What's difficult Bob, buying a computer without Windows?

Thats the trouble with linux, you have to break a perfectly functional
Windows computer to use it !

Sailor Sam wrote:

> I can, and probably will, upgrade parts of this machine. But I will
> never use the Windows Operating system.

Yet you still bought it with Windows despite Acer Aspire One netbooks
being available with Linux. Once again you prove yourself to be a
****wit and a troll. Welcome to the CB in nz.comp too.

Alan wrote:

> Sounds like you got Windows for free if you couldn't get it any cheaper
> without Windows on.

Free indeed - the cheapest Acer Aspire One on pricespy with Linux is the
same price as the cheapest with Windows.