Henniker report - Re: [GNHLUG] A ham radio flea market - tomorrow, in Henniker

Jason Stephenson jason at sigio.com
Sun Mar 18 17:24:43 EDT 2007


Bill Sconce wrote:

> P.S. Another anecdote tickled me.  It was about a friend of a friend
> who supposedly took someone's money to intall Vista on their PC.
> He played a trick: installed Ubuntu instead of The Genuine Advantage,
> told the client "you'll notice that it looks a little different from
> XP, but overall it's a lot better".  The client (supposedly) was
> quite pleased with the new "Vista", until he returned the money and
> 'fessed up...    :)     Dunno if it's true, but it's a nice story.

I heard the same thing online (believe it was /.), but it was a son who 
had been asked to install the Vista upgrade by his father, and no money 
was involved.

Dunno if it is true, but I suggested that we do this at work. No one 
would really notice the difference.


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