Highway 100 and 36th Street, actually. Thus far, all the floor people I've encountered have actually been competent. One of them even hooked up the pair of speakers I was looking at and ran the copy of Half-Life he'd installed on one of the machines to let me test them out. Michael Vieths Foeclan at Winternet.Com On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Austad, Jay wrote: > > who the hell is micro center and what makes you think that > > there is anyone > > there able to operate linux? > > YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO MICRO CENTER???!??!??!??! It's on hwy 100 and excelsior > I think. It's almost like Fry's electronics, but more focus on computer > hardware. Prices are OK, not as good as buying on the net though. They > sell just about every flavor of linux imaginable, of course, that doesn't > mean they know how to use it. > > Speaking of Micro center, they have a Compaq Ipaq desktop web appliance for > $200. You can pay cash for it and promise that you'll buy service and > they'll let you walk out of the store with it. Anyone heard anything about > linux on these? (kinda like the i-opener)