All bankruptcy means is you can't pay all yoru debts, a bankruptcy declaration is basically a court order that eliminates some of yoru debts and reduces others to an amount you can afford to pay.
While generally bad(though a properly timed bankruptcy filing can be the best decision under the circumstances), and sometimes the first sign of a dead company, it doesn't free them from their other legal obligations. The case will likely go forward unless SCO outright liquidates, and even then the bankruptcy courts might not let them go that far until the lawsuits are resolved.
Anyone dig up the number of Darl's dealer yet btw? I want some of that shit he's on. Gotta be some good stuff there.
When I interviewed for my current job as an ISP Technical Support Representative, I completely forgot what DHCP stood for. But I did remember what it did. "What does DHCP stand for and what does it do?" would be a good question, and give far more weight to the "what does it do" part. Only worry about the "what does DHCP stand for" part if you have to decide between two closely matched candidates - the one that remembers that may be a little better when under real world pressure.
I agree with the comments about being social. You could train a monkey to do most entry level tech jobs. The social part of interacting with the customers is a lot harder to train for.
That idea flopped, especially with the push in more recent years to use as much Commercial Off The Shelf(COTS) technology as they could. Basically, if the concept isn't specific to military applications(like a fighter aircraft), they use the nearest commercial equivalent rather than create their own. Saves money, dodges the risk of failed R&D, saves time. And often can save on training since recruits will often have used it(or a very similar item the military based theirs on) in their previous civilian life.
It was supposed to reduce costs. That hasn't happened on an overall level, but an argument could be made that it freed up money needed by programs building things that COTS just isn't suitable for, such as aircraft carriers and artillery pieces.
I haven't read the article yet, I will when I get to work.
For short fill in the blank questions, I see no problem with this. If if only takes a sentence or two to fully answer the question, grammar and spelling really aren't that important.
For essay questions, where you have to fully justify and explain your answer, hell no. These generally don't simply test "do you know this" but also "can you explain this", and the latter can't really be satisfied with textspeak.
The key is whether you are simply answering a question, or writing a paper(even an abbreviated one on a test).
Windows makes it very hard to run as a non-administrator.
The problem is limited accounts are too limited. Great for an office system where you aren't installing or configuring things anyways, but being a primary user of a home PC it's too much trouble. Procedures to let individual apps run as admin, or to temporarily assume admin powers for a task, are crap. Windows might be easier than *nix in many areas, but running as a limited user and only assuming admin powers when actually needed- that isn't one of them.
In my opinion, this is the biggest security issue for Windows NT series OS's. Fix this, and add to the setup program(even for preinstalls) a step that sets up a limited user account, and Windows XP security will improve significantly.
Noone with a brain would stand toe to toe against the US military with typical civilian and improvised weapons. It would be suicide.
The answer? Don't let them define the battlespace. Ambushes, small raids against a few key points rather than slugging it out to conquer and take terrain, and a modern army can be decisively defeated even if they outnumber and outgun their opponents. Sieze the initiative, do damage, and get the hell away before they have a chance to grab the initiative back.
Go out and get a copy of "How We Won The War" by Vo Nguyen Giap.
A citizen rebellion would not be a traditional war, it woudl be an insurgency. The real battlefield will be in the hearts and minds of the citizens... all taking on the military is for is basically to keep them distracted while you take the fight there. The winner will be whoever understands this best.
But how much do they gain in increased morale from people getting to take quick breaks?
A high morale employee who maintains said morale by taking an hour out of the day in visits to various websites is likely more productive than a low or even moderate morale employee who simply works straight through for 8 hours. Granted, the type of work being done and the workload will have an influence on how big a factor this is, but I haven't seen this discussed at all in any reports. It might be buried somewhere in the original report, but it can be a significant enough factor that the press summaries should include it.
I'm very happy with my EMU 1820, though for what you plan to do it may be overkill- I doubt you have much of a need for 8 channels of analog input + 10 digital channels, not to mention the other 14 host sources you can mix in(total of 32 channels hardware mixing). But the EMU cards also offer hardware accelerated effects... some of which, especially compression, can be quite important for broadcasting. Taking the load off your CPU can make a big difference sometimes.
Look for high quality DACs. Don't worry too much about 24 bit bit depth, or 96/192khz sample rates... 44.1/16 implemented well will be overkill as it is for any sort of radio broadcast or webcast. If you do want to go further, bit depth will generally mean more than sample rates, at least in my experience recording stuff- but there is little need unless you want to master for an analog medium and get aural advantages over compact discs.
The one problem with EMU cards is the tendency for the driver to go mental and corrupt itself. On the upside, this has only happened to me on boot- you really don't need to worry aobut it dying in the middle of a session. On the other hand it sometimes requires registry surgery and manual deletion of files in c:\windows\system32\ to let you reinstall the drivers. This doesn't happen often, but it's certainly a pain in the ass when it does.
For the capabilities they offer, the EMU cards are priced quite low. But as explained above, driver stability can sometimes be a significant issue. If you need 24/7 immediate availability, don't get them. But given that the worst case is probably that you lose an hour a day every 4-6 months(probably less), they can be quite good for many contexts.
Surveys have been done that show more people get more pissed off about being transferred than they do for having to sit through a menu before they speak to someone. Automated information available on many can save the customers time, which is another reason they are so popular.
They aren't specifically for driving people away. They exist to reduce teh need for them to speak to someone in the first place, and if that fails, to help ensure they speak to the right person right away.
Could it be run for financial analysis of a company that leads to said company laying off half their workforce? Thats certainly a harm to those workers. Even if it prevents the entire company from closing and harming everyone, laying off someone is certainly harmful to that person, if only temporarily.
Take his sarcastic commentary with a grain of salt, but the actual information is pretty well researched. Major innovations came well after the rise of metal, which actually started forming back in the 70s. Metal is certainly a great genre, a lot of creativity and innovation in it, but it is far from the last renassaince.
This will teach you A LOT. Not so much on the theory, but you'll gain a lot of real world practical understanding and be able to put the theory you get from various conferences, books, and classes into a proper context.
The thing is.. He'd call up his actual ISP, complaining that his computers wired to the router don't work, and that the wireless computers are getting online with strange results.
Seriously... I've had calls where the wired computers aren't online, their wireless are, and their modem turns out to be physically dead. The only way that will happen is if they are connecting to a neighbors wireless.
So yes, he will call for the tech support he is asking and paying for.
No, they'd deny that there is any possibility that their equipment could be the problem, they'd claim your 169 IP is valid and that you don't need a default gateway(at all... not just that you don't need to manually set one).
Dell's level one consumer tech support has no fucking clue.
Google Checkout may have worked well so far, but opening it up to everyone is likely to turn up security holes. More eyeballs on it and all that...
You can manage quite good security for your cash without locks if only a couple trusted people know where it is. You can't do the same when everyone knows where it is, which is why meatspace banks have heavy duty vaults, security guards, and alarm systems. Google Checkouts current security practices may be sufficient now, but scaling it up to a Paypal style public service, I'd be surprised if they don't find at least a few minor security issues with it.
Oddly, I ran into some issues where the whole reason I got banned from paypal was because I missed some "item sold" messages in a torrent of spam and never realized someone payed for an auction.
When I finally noticed(I had been facing some financial difficulties so I stopped using paypal and ebay shortly after I dropped to about 4 dollars in the account), and contacted them, it was cleared up in all of two days after I got through the verification process, most of which was waiting for the verification deposits to hit my bank account.
This happened after my account went into "there is no appeal against this restriction".
Of course, this did happen well after the class action lawsuit, avoiding another lawsuit probably played a role in how they handled my case.
Set the MAC address back and power cycle the modem. Chances are it will work. The modem is probably configured to only recognize one MAC address at a time, which would be the first device attached since last boot.
You may also get luck by explicitly releasing your DHCP lease, then attaching the new device.
Most of that was in fact the tech being stupid- I personally don't care what your router is doing until your modem is online, and don't care about the computer until the router is. Bypassing the router wouldn't happen until I have your modem online, and we've tried resetting the router and PC in sequence and you still can't get on through the router. There's no point wasting time with bypassing the router if the modem isn't getting an adequate signal or isn't connecting to the UBR, or is getting 50%+ packet loss. Sticking to a rational process of going from modem, to router, to PC, to software on the PC helps dramatically. Get the problem fixed(or figure out who the sub needs to be referred to) faster, which helps everyone involved- you with a shorter call, the sub with being back online faster, and the next caller in the queue with not having to wait so long.
Signal strength lies... not quite "usually", but I have seen bizzare discrepencies occur between what the modems diagnostic page says, and what my two signal measuring tools, and all those completely disagree with the actual behavior of the connection. Sometimes all three disagree, some signals will be in spec on one measurer, others in spec on a different measurer. They are actually mostly accurate, but you really don't want to rely too heavily on them- if the behavior of the system suggests the signal levels are incorrectly reported, believe the behavior of the system. Even if the signal strength is perfectly in spec, and your tools are reporting accurate values, there is more to a reliable connection than signal strength and noise levels.
As for power cycling the modem when changing the ethernet attached device, the idea that you need to powercycle when changing an ethernet attached device is most likely correct. Cable modems and the networks supporting them can be configured to allow hot swapping the ethernet device, but many ISPs(including my employer) do not have it set up that way, thus you do need to powercycle the modem(or have your ISPs tech support do a remote reset). The explanation, however, is incorrect- it has nothing to do with the computer being able to discover the modem, more like the other way around. The real explanation is that the system is set up so that the modem will only recognize one MAC address on the ethernet port. After it powers up, the first MAC address to connect to it is the one it recognizes. To get it to recognize another one, you have to clear its memory by power cycling the modem. Then, it can recognize the new device. Perhaps inconvenient to have it set up that way, but I'm sure the network engineers have a reason that sounds good, at least at first glance. Haven't bothered to ask though why my employer has it set up like that, though I am somewhat curious about it.
"You have windows right?" "Yes" "Good, go to the lower right hand corner of your screen and read off the icons that are there" "bla bla bla finder bla bla"... "Ummm.. Sir, are you on a Mac?" "Yes"
(This is after some time troubleshooting Ethernet conenctivity to the modem, we were checking Device Manager for the driver)"Ok, click on the plus sign next to 'network adapters' and tell me what is listed "bla bla bla token ring bla bla"(no ethernet listed). Yup. Trying to connect to the ethernet port on the modem via a Token Ring card.
"My computer wont turn on!"
"What OS do you have?" "Word"
I didn't believe most of the tech support stories that are out there, until I took this job. Now, I believe all of them. There are people I wish I could refer to kindergarten.
"Any thing that is misdagnosed, speak to the coders of GS's software"
How often do you actually need to run diagnostic software?
The vast majority of problems can be effectively diagnosed by simply observing the behavior of the system. There should be very few problems that actually require specialized software to nail down, and for home PCs even fewer where it's worth the effort anyways. At my job, our diagnostic tools go down on occasion. Not just degraded, but completely nonfunctional. We still have to get people back online, relying only on their answers to our questions to determine what is going on with their connection and how to get it working again. These are idiots who can't even tell the difference between a PC and a Mac, people who think they have DSL, people who don't even know who their ISP is, people who don't know the difference between a router, a modem, and a computer, people who think that a modem that literally exploded can be brought online. With their eyes and our brains as the only diagnostic tools available, we still have to get them online, and we manage to do so.
"3. We deal with REALLY, REALLY, REALLY stupid people all day long. Many of them barely know how to turn a computer on. "
I work tech support for a cable internet provider. This is no excuse for not getting the job done. I dealt with one person last night that confirmed they had Windows XP. He had a Mac running OS X. I got him online, without breaking professionalism or (noticeably to the customer) losing patience. All tech support positions involve dealing with utter morons, deal with it.
"6. We are so bogged down by corporate BS that half of the time were not allowed to fix certain problems, even if we know how. "
Almost every tech support shop has this. Companies need to ensure that their various locations can all provide the promised services, so they limit the scope of support. And trust me, if one tech does something out of scope for a customer, that customer will tell five friends that the whole company provides that support, and that screws everyone those five people talk to, and when that out of scope support isn't provided- those five friends tell five of their friends how much your company sucks. You want to fix any problem you are capable of fixing? Start your own repair shop.
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The way it was written in Groklaw it sounded like just royalties... My bad.
Either way, SCO owes Novell a lot of money...
All bankruptcy means is you can't pay all yoru debts, a bankruptcy declaration is basically a court order that eliminates some of yoru debts and reduces others to an amount you can afford to pay.
While generally bad(though a properly timed bankruptcy filing can be the best decision under the circumstances), and sometimes the first sign of a dead company, it doesn't free them from their other legal obligations. The case will likely go forward unless SCO outright liquidates, and even then the bankruptcy courts might not let them go that far until the lawsuits are resolved.
Anyone dig up the number of Darl's dealer yet btw? I want some of that shit he's on. Gotta be some good stuff there.
Basically, SCO has to pay Novell royalties whenever they license the Unix System V code, it's part of the original contract.
Novell is basically saying that SCO hasn't given them all the royalties SCO owes them.
You have a reference to Fords comment about changing the report?
One, I don't know you from a hill of beans, so your credibility is unknown.
Two, assuming he did change the words, it is at least as important to know *why* he did it as it is to know he did it in the first place.
People often forget details in interviews.
When I interviewed for my current job as an ISP Technical Support Representative, I completely forgot what DHCP stood for. But I did remember what it did. "What does DHCP stand for and what does it do?" would be a good question, and give far more weight to the "what does it do" part. Only worry about the "what does DHCP stand for" part if you have to decide between two closely matched candidates - the one that remembers that may be a little better when under real world pressure.
I agree with the comments about being social. You could train a monkey to do most entry level tech jobs. The social part of interacting with the customers is a lot harder to train for.
They tried to mandate it for everything.
That idea flopped, especially with the push in more recent years to use as much Commercial Off The Shelf(COTS) technology as they could. Basically, if the concept isn't specific to military applications(like a fighter aircraft), they use the nearest commercial equivalent rather than create their own. Saves money, dodges the risk of failed R&D, saves time. And often can save on training since recruits will often have used it(or a very similar item the military based theirs on) in their previous civilian life.
It was supposed to reduce costs. That hasn't happened on an overall level, but an argument could be made that it freed up money needed by programs building things that COTS just isn't suitable for, such as aircraft carriers and artillery pieces.
I haven't read the article yet, I will when I get to work.
For short fill in the blank questions, I see no problem with this. If if only takes a sentence or two to fully answer the question, grammar and spelling really aren't that important.
For essay questions, where you have to fully justify and explain your answer, hell no. These generally don't simply test "do you know this" but also "can you explain this", and the latter can't really be satisfied with textspeak.
The key is whether you are simply answering a question, or writing a paper(even an abbreviated one on a test).
Windows makes it very hard to run as a non-administrator.
The problem is limited accounts are too limited. Great for an office system where you aren't installing or configuring things anyways, but being a primary user of a home PC it's too much trouble. Procedures to let individual apps run as admin, or to temporarily assume admin powers for a task, are crap. Windows might be easier than *nix in many areas, but running as a limited user and only assuming admin powers when actually needed- that isn't one of them.
In my opinion, this is the biggest security issue for Windows NT series OS's. Fix this, and add to the setup program(even for preinstalls) a step that sets up a limited user account, and Windows XP security will improve significantly.
Noone with a brain would stand toe to toe against the US military with typical civilian and improvised weapons. It would be suicide.
The answer? Don't let them define the battlespace. Ambushes, small raids against a few key points rather than slugging it out to conquer and take terrain, and a modern army can be decisively defeated even if they outnumber and outgun their opponents. Sieze the initiative, do damage, and get the hell away before they have a chance to grab the initiative back.
Go out and get a copy of "How We Won The War" by Vo Nguyen Giap.
A citizen rebellion would not be a traditional war, it woudl be an insurgency. The real battlefield will be in the hearts and minds of the citizens... all taking on the military is for is basically to keep them distracted while you take the fight there. The winner will be whoever understands this best.
They lose productivity to these web site visits.
But how much do they gain in increased morale from people getting to take quick breaks?
A high morale employee who maintains said morale by taking an hour out of the day in visits to various websites is likely more productive than a low or even moderate morale employee who simply works straight through for 8 hours. Granted, the type of work being done and the workload will have an influence on how big a factor this is, but I haven't seen this discussed at all in any reports. It might be buried somewhere in the original report, but it can be a significant enough factor that the press summaries should include it.
I'm very happy with my EMU 1820, though for what you plan to do it may be overkill- I doubt you have much of a need for 8 channels of analog input + 10 digital channels, not to mention the other 14 host sources you can mix in(total of 32 channels hardware mixing). But the EMU cards also offer hardware accelerated effects... some of which, especially compression, can be quite important for broadcasting. Taking the load off your CPU can make a big difference sometimes.
Look for high quality DACs. Don't worry too much about 24 bit bit depth, or 96/192khz sample rates... 44.1/16 implemented well will be overkill as it is for any sort of radio broadcast or webcast. If you do want to go further, bit depth will generally mean more than sample rates, at least in my experience recording stuff- but there is little need unless you want to master for an analog medium and get aural advantages over compact discs.
The one problem with EMU cards is the tendency for the driver to go mental and corrupt itself. On the upside, this has only happened to me on boot- you really don't need to worry aobut it dying in the middle of a session. On the other hand it sometimes requires registry surgery and manual deletion of files in c:\windows\system32\ to let you reinstall the drivers. This doesn't happen often, but it's certainly a pain in the ass when it does.
For the capabilities they offer, the EMU cards are priced quite low. But as explained above, driver stability can sometimes be a significant issue. If you need 24/7 immediate availability, don't get them. But given that the worst case is probably that you lose an hour a day every 4-6 months(probably less), they can be quite good for many contexts.
Surveys have been done that show more people get more pissed off about being transferred than they do for having to sit through a menu before they speak to someone. Automated information available on many can save the customers time, which is another reason they are so popular.
They aren't specifically for driving people away. They exist to reduce teh need for them to speak to someone in the first place, and if that fails, to help ensure they speak to the right person right away.
Could it be run for financial analysis of a company that leads to said company laying off half their workforce? Thats certainly a harm to those workers. Even if it prevents the entire company from closing and harming everyone, laying off someone is certainly harmful to that person, if only temporarily.
Metal the last musical rennasaince?
http://www.di.fm/edmguide/
Take his sarcastic commentary with a grain of salt, but the actual information is pretty well researched. Major innovations came well after the rise of metal, which actually started forming back in the 70s. Metal is certainly a great genre, a lot of creativity and innovation in it, but it is far from the last renassaince.
Get your hands on as many systems as possible.
Break these systems in as many ways as possible.
Fix these systems.
This will teach you A LOT. Not so much on the theory, but you'll gain a lot of real world practical understanding and be able to put the theory you get from various conferences, books, and classes into a proper context.
Whether it should be legal or not does not change the fact that it currently isn't.
The thing is.. He'd call up his actual ISP, complaining that his computers wired to the router don't work, and that the wireless computers are getting online with strange results.
Seriously... I've had calls where the wired computers aren't online, their wireless are, and their modem turns out to be physically dead. The only way that will happen is if they are connecting to a neighbors wireless.
So yes, he will call for the tech support he is asking and paying for.
No. This is just wrong.
Redirect them to "Last Measure"
No, they'd deny that there is any possibility that their equipment could be the problem, they'd claim your 169 IP is valid and that you don't need a default gateway(at all... not just that you don't need to manually set one).
Dell's level one consumer tech support has no fucking clue.
Google Checkout may have worked well so far, but opening it up to everyone is likely to turn up security holes. More eyeballs on it and all that...
You can manage quite good security for your cash without locks if only a couple trusted people know where it is. You can't do the same when everyone knows where it is, which is why meatspace banks have heavy duty vaults, security guards, and alarm systems. Google Checkouts current security practices may be sufficient now, but scaling it up to a Paypal style public service, I'd be surprised if they don't find at least a few minor security issues with it.
Oddly, I ran into some issues where the whole reason I got banned from paypal was because I missed some "item sold" messages in a torrent of spam and never realized someone payed for an auction.
When I finally noticed(I had been facing some financial difficulties so I stopped using paypal and ebay shortly after I dropped to about 4 dollars in the account), and contacted them, it was cleared up in all of two days after I got through the verification process, most of which was waiting for the verification deposits to hit my bank account.
This happened after my account went into "there is no appeal against this restriction".
Of course, this did happen well after the class action lawsuit, avoiding another lawsuit probably played a role in how they handled my case.
Set the MAC address back and power cycle the modem. Chances are it will work. The modem is probably configured to only recognize one MAC address at a time, which would be the first device attached since last boot.
You may also get luck by explicitly releasing your DHCP lease, then attaching the new device.
Most of that was in fact the tech being stupid- I personally don't care what your router is doing until your modem is online, and don't care about the computer until the router is. Bypassing the router wouldn't happen until I have your modem online, and we've tried resetting the router and PC in sequence and you still can't get on through the router. There's no point wasting time with bypassing the router if the modem isn't getting an adequate signal or isn't connecting to the UBR, or is getting 50%+ packet loss. Sticking to a rational process of going from modem, to router, to PC, to software on the PC helps dramatically. Get the problem fixed(or figure out who the sub needs to be referred to) faster, which helps everyone involved- you with a shorter call, the sub with being back online faster, and the next caller in the queue with not having to wait so long.
Signal strength lies... not quite "usually", but I have seen bizzare discrepencies occur between what the modems diagnostic page says, and what my two signal measuring tools, and all those completely disagree with the actual behavior of the connection. Sometimes all three disagree, some signals will be in spec on one measurer, others in spec on a different measurer. They are actually mostly accurate, but you really don't want to rely too heavily on them- if the behavior of the system suggests the signal levels are incorrectly reported, believe the behavior of the system. Even if the signal strength is perfectly in spec, and your tools are reporting accurate values, there is more to a reliable connection than signal strength and noise levels.
As for power cycling the modem when changing the ethernet attached device, the idea that you need to powercycle when changing an ethernet attached device is most likely correct. Cable modems and the networks supporting them can be configured to allow hot swapping the ethernet device, but many ISPs(including my employer) do not have it set up that way, thus you do need to powercycle the modem(or have your ISPs tech support do a remote reset). The explanation, however, is incorrect- it has nothing to do with the computer being able to discover the modem, more like the other way around. The real explanation is that the system is set up so that the modem will only recognize one MAC address on the ethernet port. After it powers up, the first MAC address to connect to it is the one it recognizes. To get it to recognize another one, you have to clear its memory by power cycling the modem. Then, it can recognize the new device. Perhaps inconvenient to have it set up that way, but I'm sure the network engineers have a reason that sounds good, at least at first glance. Haven't bothered to ask though why my employer has it set up like that, though I am somewhat curious about it.
"You have windows right?" "Yes" "Good, go to the lower right hand corner of your screen and read off the icons that are there" "bla bla bla finder bla bla"... "Ummm.. Sir, are you on a Mac?" "Yes"
(This is after some time troubleshooting Ethernet conenctivity to the modem, we were checking Device Manager for the driver)"Ok, click on the plus sign next to 'network adapters' and tell me what is listed "bla bla bla token ring bla bla"(no ethernet listed). Yup. Trying to connect to the ethernet port on the modem via a Token Ring card.
"My computer wont turn on!"
"What OS do you have?" "Word"
I didn't believe most of the tech support stories that are out there, until I took this job. Now, I believe all of them. There are people I wish I could refer to kindergarten.
"Any thing that is misdagnosed, speak to the coders of GS's software"
How often do you actually need to run diagnostic software?
The vast majority of problems can be effectively diagnosed by simply observing the behavior of the system. There should be very few problems that actually require specialized software to nail down, and for home PCs even fewer where it's worth the effort anyways. At my job, our diagnostic tools go down on occasion. Not just degraded, but completely nonfunctional. We still have to get people back online, relying only on their answers to our questions to determine what is going on with their connection and how to get it working again. These are idiots who can't even tell the difference between a PC and a Mac, people who think they have DSL, people who don't even know who their ISP is, people who don't know the difference between a router, a modem, and a computer, people who think that a modem that literally exploded can be brought online. With their eyes and our brains as the only diagnostic tools available, we still have to get them online, and we manage to do so.
"3. We deal with REALLY, REALLY, REALLY stupid people all day long. Many of them barely know how to turn a computer on. "
I work tech support for a cable internet provider. This is no excuse for not getting the job done. I dealt with one person last night that confirmed they had Windows XP. He had a Mac running OS X. I got him online, without breaking professionalism or (noticeably to the customer) losing patience. All tech support positions involve dealing with utter morons, deal with it.
"6. We are so bogged down by corporate BS that half of the time were not allowed to fix certain problems, even if we know how. "
Almost every tech support shop has this. Companies need to ensure that their various locations can all provide the promised services, so they limit the scope of support. And trust me, if one tech does something out of scope for a customer, that customer will tell five friends that the whole company provides that support, and that screws everyone those five people talk to, and when that out of scope support isn't provided- those five friends tell five of their friends how much your company sucks. You want to fix any problem you are capable of fixing? Start your own repair shop.