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Alienware has thte worst reputation for customer service and quality of any company selling PCs today. There 200 point inspection process constantly produces DOA machines. They have a 15% restocking fee on all returned merchandies and will refuse to cross ship replacement parts with out a credit card for a deposit on the new part.

Alienware is a scam.

Here is a snipit from a article on alienware up on my homepage. You can read the rest of it and MANY MANY more here.

So my wife decided to buy me a laptop for my birthday. She knew that I have been drooling over the Alienware Area 51-m. She went to check out the site and noticed that they were offering financing, so she applied.

One week later, she had not heard a peep from Alienware, so she called. The person she spoke with told her she was accepted and gave her the number to use to place an order.

My wife ordered me a very nice $3200 laptop in Saucer Silver. At this point, I had no idea any of this was going on. That is until I got home the night she ordered it and listened to the message on our answering machine from Alienware confirming the order, which completely ruined the entire experience for my wife.

Anyway, after a week of sitting on edge watching the Alienware order status page not move an inch, I asked my wife to call.

The person she talked to said that they had to send some paperwork to her to sign before the order would be processed. Basically they needed to send us the credit application and get her to sign it and return it. None of this is documented on their site. She asked if they could fax the document, the response was they were not set up to do that.

So our only choice was to wait for this form to be snail mailed to us. Now I would like to point out, this is three weeks after my wife filled out their form online. You know the fastest way to obtain financing!

Alienware's dirty little secret is they are all marketing. My wife bought me one of their laptops last year based on their awesome marketing. After getting the run around on out of stock parts and waiting for damn near 2 months, the laptop came without SP1 installed, a virus in the windows system restore files and a faulty backlight switch.

It took over a month to get the laptop back when I sent it in to get the backlight switch fixed.

Their customer service is severly lacking. I would highly suggest you build it yourself instead of paying for Alienware's marketing department.

You can read my whole sordid tale on this topic at my website along with several other peoples comments.

Here is a quick and dirty mirror.

A variation of this idea already exists. Except it's Sergeant Pepper's, not the White album, and not strictly speaking the Black Album either. But hilarious. Enjoy.

You can read the entire sordid tale here.

Usenet provides a much smaller selection than the large filesharing networks. FTP's don't allow easy searching. The trend is towards invitation only decentralised filesharing systems like waste.

You can get connected to the main mesh by posting your key
in the str8dog forum and connecting to somone from their once they have your key.
If that dosn't work you can try emailing throwaway18

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Much in the way that AOL forced Nullsoft to pull their nascent "Gnutella" technology when it first came out, it appears AOL has once again forced Nullsoft to yank distribution of their "Waste" secure P2P-based file sharing and messaging software.

Slashdot.org announced [slashdot.org] the product this morning, and by afternoon it is officially gone from the Nullsoft site.

Fortunately, the Internet routes around censorship and the software is still available here [str8dog.com] (along with an interesting chat forum on the subject) and, undoubtedly, in other places around the net.

It's likely that the source and binaries for this much-needed freedom-inducing GPLed [gnu.org] software will be making an appearance on a freesite [sourceforge.net] at some point in the not-so-distant-future.

Yes folks, history, once again, repeats itself.

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It's official...

Much in the way that AOL forced Nullsoft to pull their nascent "Gnutella" technology when it first came out, it appears AOL has once again forced Nullsoft to yank distribution of their "Waste" secure P2P-based file sharing and messaging software.

Slashdot.org announced the product this morning, and by afternoon it is officially gone from the Nullsoft site.

Fortunately, the Internet routes around censorship and the software is still available here (along with an interesting chat forum on the subject) and, undoubtedly, in other places around the net.

It's likely that the source and binaries for this much-needed freedom-inducing GPLed software will be making an appearance on a freesite at some point in the not-so-distant-future.

Yes folks, history, once again, repeats itself.
I guess it just shows to go you, that when it comes to kick-ass software Justin Frankel is still the man!

It's official...

Much in the way that AOL forced Nullsoft to pull their nascent "Gnutella" technology when it first came out, it appears AOL has once again forced Nullsoft to yank distribution of their "Waste" secure P2P-based file sharing and messaging software.

Slashdot.org announced the product this morning, and by afternoon it is officially gone from the Nullsoft site.

Fortunately, the Internet routes around censorship and the software is still available here (along with an interesting chat forum on the subject) and, undoubtedly, in other places around the net.

It's likely that the source and binaries for this much-needed freedom-inducing GPLed software will be making an appearance on a freesite at some point in the not-so-distant-future.

Yes folks, history, once again, repeats itself.
I guess it just shows to go you, that when it comes to kick-ass software Justin Frankel is still the man!

I threw up a forum for people who would like to list their public nodes here

Has to be the Innovatek Water Cooling kit my wife bought me. Put it in last night and now im sitting pretty with a 40C idle.. w00t!

That keyboard is now only list.. looks really sweet.

You can ready it here. Chat contains David Kemper, Ben Browder and the guy that played D'Argo (cant think of his name) talking to the fans in #farscape irc.scifi.com.

check here

Check here. Please be kind... 8(

Here are my thoughts, John. This is so sad, but it's gonna go down.