{"id":97,"date":"2004-04-11T22:03:10","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T03:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=97"},"modified":"2004-04-11T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2004-04-12T03:03:10","slug":"a-disturbance-in-the-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/11\/a-disturbance-in-the-force","title":{"rendered":"A disturbance in the force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are doomed. Well, the Linux in Malaysia push, or even the PC Gemilang support network, which should work together in tandem with others, is doomed. Granted, the sales haven&#8217;t nearly impressed anyone in the know, but we&#8217;re faced with a predicament.<\/p>\n<p>Building a support network. And having a Ministry butt in, causes more grief. Why? Because this week I&#8217;m sitting in Kuala Lumpur to do just that &#8211; build a network of support. It&#8217;s been postponed you see &#8211; and mind you, people are already receiving PC Gemilangs&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Build the support network, its ready to take on anything once the sales are built. Today, folks can be buying the PC Gemilangs just for the cheap hardware, once they call the support centre, to hear a line like, <i>&#8220;Uh, whats Linux?&#8221;<\/i> Especially when Microsoft have already trained their lot since about a month ago.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Edited for clarity, thanks to NSH\/Simos :)<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20A%20disturbance%20in%20the%20force&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F04%2F11%2Fa-disturbance-in-the-force&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Reading the recent Computimes article by Sharifah Kasim (google's cache) I think it's time\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":55,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/01\/sub-rm1000-open-source-pcs","url_meta":{"origin":97,"position":4},"title":"Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs","date":"1\/3\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, the one home, one PC campaign (PC Gemilang) has been launched. 100,000 PCs are available, for RM998. Celeron 1.7GHz, 128MB RAM, 40GB disk, and Gigabyte motherboards. Including monitor, and full multimedia set; Microsoft XP Home and Microsoft Works Suite costs an additional RM149 (also known as Package B). 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