Re: Is your video card Built/Powered by ATI, and why should youcare...

2002-11-30 Thread Peter Boy
Am Sam, 2002-11-30 um 14.47 schrieb Mike A. Harris: > . My money would be going to ATI, and I'll bet many > others who have followed this thread will be also. I appreciate /*my be this vocabulary is not exactly appropriate*/ your engagement for ATI and I share your reasons to do so. But nev

Re: Is your video card Built/Powered by ATI, and why should youcare...

2002-11-30 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 19:46, Mike A. Harris wrote: > This flightgear guy article is nothing more than an upset > consumer looking for someone else to blame for his own > shortsightedness. > > My $0.02 > > > -- > Mike A. Harrisftp://people.redhat.com/mharris > OS Systems Engin

Re: Is your video card Built/Powered by ATI, and why should youcare...

2002-11-30 Thread Mike A. Harris
On 30 Nov 2002, Peter Boy wrote: >> First of all, that entire post is totally and completely >> clueless, and has no technical content worthy of any more than a >> dismissive laugh. > >That might be true for someone who is familiar with the problem domain >of video drivers. The main argument of th

Re: Is your video card Built/Powered by ATI, and why should youcare...

2002-11-30 Thread Peter Boy
Am Sam, 2002-11-30 um 03.46 schrieb Mike A. Harris: > .. > Since you've forced me into this discussion now (thanks), I've > had to briefly resubscribe to the list to straighten out a few > things before the conspiracy theorists go wild. Welcome back :-) A very informative post for those of

Re: Is your video card Built/Powered by ATI, and why should youcare...

2002-11-30 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Paul R. Ganci wrote: >Your "If I am not mistaken" is on the line about the ATI web page explaining >the LE boards and not the sentence about "Powered by ATI". Therefore >I did not associate that with your statement about LE cards only about the >web site. Fair enough, I could

Re: Is your video card Built/Powered by ATI, and why should youcare...

2002-11-30 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Justin Clacherty wrote: >Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:55:42 +1000 >From: Justin Clacherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) >Subject: Re: Is your video card Built/

Re: Is your video card Built/Powered by ATI, and why should youcare...

2002-11-29 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Paul R. Ganci wrote: > >>Guess which one I bought? Not that I could tell -- I ordered a > >>"ATI Radeon 8500LE 64MB" card from a mail order vendor. There > >>is no information in the distribution channel to indicate what > >>you are getting. > > > > > >And that is not ATIs f

Re: Is your video card Built/Powered by ATI, and why should youcare...

2002-11-29 Thread Dan Clowater
Well said Mike! =) On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 21:46, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On 28 Nov 2002, Chris Kloiber wrote: > > >We all know Mike Harris knows his stuff, but here is independent > >confirmation about the "Built by ATI"/"Powered by ATI" controversy we > >had on psyche-list a few days ago (prior

Re: Is your video card Built/Powered by ATI, and why should youcare...

2002-11-29 Thread Mike A. Harris
On 28 Nov 2002, Chris Kloiber wrote: >We all know Mike Harris knows his stuff, but here is independent >confirmation about the "Built by ATI"/"Powered by ATI" controversy we >had on psyche-list a few days ago (prior to Mike's retreat from the >unneeded abuse he was subjected to). This is specific