Anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area buy a Linux box from Fry's today?

I did, but I was not provided with the root login password.

Would anyone know what it is? Thanks...it would save me a trip down
to the store, since they don't seem to want to answer the phone.

Anthony wrote:
I supposed you tried hitting Enter ( no password ).

What do you get for $99 ?

There's a Fry's in Renton, WA, USA and I'd buy a $99 Linux
box. Which Linux?

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On 28 Nov 2003 13:59:17 -0800,
Anthony <anthony_cheng@hotmail.com> wrote:
dunno, but if you boot from a knoppix disk, you can edit /etc/passwd on
the installed system, to have no passwd, and then boot, login and change
the passwd (which you should do anyway) Or you can boot knoppix, and run
john on the installed /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow to crack the installed
passwd. Odds are it's something simple like frys or such.


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"Anthony" <anthony_cheng@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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No Linux computers on Fry's website but Walmart site has them
for $199.98-$598.00 without monitor/modem/floppy drive.

Anthony wrote:

It's Shit-For-Brains. Case-sensative, of course.

wjbell wrote:

Thanks. I always wondered what your
middle name was. Send you a Christmas card.

wjbell wrote:

I've just seen you make a post accusing Linux users of foul mouthed
obscenities and you post this response???

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wjbell blubbered effusively on Sat, 29 Nov 2003 at 05:00 GMT:

I hope you shortend yours to something easy to remember, easier to
type, and still descriptive of yourself. Like, say, "shit".

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anthony_cheng@hotmail.com (Anthony) wrote in message news:<9953b56a.0311281359.3ea3f9ee@posting.google. com>...


Thanks for all the responses...

I found the root password. You guys would never believe where it
was...in this place called the user's manual...whoops!?!

This flavor of Linux is called "ThizLinuz". Seems like a good deal
for $100 bucks...

I get a Celeron 1.8GHz, 20GB HD, 128MB Ram, CD-Rom Drive, Floppy.



Sincerely,

Anthony " ****-fer-brains" Cheng.

Anthony wrote:

Serious?

That slamdunks wal*mart. Their best is a microtel at $198.

I'm heading to Fry's in Renton this week!

Thanks for the tale -- keep us posted on you experiences...

John Bailo wrote:



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:: Anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area buy a Linux box from Fry's today?
:: Would anyone know what it is?

: anthony_cheng@hotmail.com (Anthony)
: I get a Celeron 1.8GHz, 20GB HD, 128MB Ram, CD-Rom Drive, Floppy.

Hmmmm. In the ad I have, it's listed as an 800mhz via c3 cpu.
The whole blurb being

INTERNET READY MULTIMEDIA PC $99 no rebate required

Via C3 Samuel 2 GigaPro 800Mhz processor
128 MB SDRAM
30GB Hard Drive
52x CD-ROM Drive
56k Modem
ThizLinux Linux Operating System

Limited to quantities on hand
No substitutions
No rainchecks
Limit 1 per customer
One Day Only

One might suppose they are clearing out inventory because the $200 offer
wasn't going well, which accounts for variations in the hardware... but
then why "limit 1 per customer" and "one day only"? I concude it's just
a day-after-thanksgiving loss leader, using units on hand, which may
vary store-to-store.

Which of course renders my post somewhat moot, since the "one day only"
was yesterday. And anyways, I'm not in the market for a standard tower
configuration, having gone over to cube and pizza-box format boxes
for my computers. But FWIW anyways.