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June 30, 2005
The heavy way
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Phishing? Not really, it's a genuine e-mail from Amazon that I've received, twice, during the past three days.
Having placed a pre-order for Dan Simmons' new book "Olympos", which has just been released on 28th, Amazon attempted to withdraw the amount from my card, which surprise, surprise, has just been rendered invalid by the country-wide transition to the heavy "leu" (aka "RON"). So no Dan Simmons for any of us, my friends.
Sure thing, the cards are expected to start working again on Monday, but by then, my order will be cancelled, meaning yet another unwanted delay in getting one of the most wanted books of the year.
PS: This post is written in Firefox, running on top of Windows - I'm starting to get annoyed by Linspire. More on that later.
Posted by Costin Raiu at June 30, 2005 4:47 PM
Comments
We are anxiously waiting to hear what when wrong with Linspire.
A quick Q: have you tried Ubuntu?
And an offtopic remark: since March '05 I start running MacOS X on my rather old (900Mhz G3) iBook. I'm still fighting to keep it... :P
Posted by: Razvan Musaloiu-E. at June 30, 2005 5:41 PM
Linspire is a wonderful desktop operating system. It is actually very close to Windows from all points of view, especially when it comes to usability and ease of use, which is the good part. The bad part is that it is also very similar to Windows from other points of view, such as speed (it's painfully sloooow) or in thinking that it is much more intelligent than you. ;)
I'll post a full message on this one of the next days, given my HDD doesn't start to push up daisies in the meantime.
Posted by: Costin Raiu at June 30, 2005 6:25 PM
"Linspire start annoying me" -> "Linux is very user friendly, but just very selective when choosing friends" :-D
Posted by: hackersmile at June 30, 2005 10:32 PM
Seems to be some problem with the payment of my book order. please let me know what the problem is
Posted by: Don Mekeel at August 28, 2005 2:47 AM
Don, yeah, I know the feeling...
Posted by: Costin at August 28, 2005 9:37 AM