"The rumors are flying... but as usual, media reports have gotten ahead of the truth. Following the interview in the recent Dreamwatch Magazine with David Fury ("Buffy, The Vampire Slayer"), as we reported a few days ago, several online news sources (such as the usually wildly inaccurate Ananova, plus Peoplenews and other sources) are now reporting that Anthony Stewart Head (Giles in "Buffy" and recently a guest star in the Big Finish Doctor Who "Excelis" trilogy) will be a new Doctor in a new series produced next year. Even the Daily Express paper has picked it up (as an 'exclusive')... But it's not true. Producer Dan Freedman ("Death Comes to Time") did visit the Buffy producers, and there was a bit of talk about procedure... but nothing came of it and Freedman has moved to other projects. A quote by Tony Head in the Dreamwatch interview was taken out of context by these news 'sources'. Meanwhile, we continue to get tons of email this morning about it (it's not true, folks) and the official BBC website BBCi even issued a statement about it this morning: "Whilst the Cult team quite like the idea of Tony Head as the Doctor in a show guided by members of America's finest fantasy production team, the BBC aren't currently making any such plans."
As noted, the BBC web site confirms this is a rumor. Anthony Stewart Head has done some fine work in the Excelis series of Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas though.
I worked at Dell in tech support for over a year. Putting your own OS on the box does not void the hardware warranty. But it makes things pretty tough for the techs who are trained on troubleshooting in windows 9x/NT to figure out what the heck is wrong with your hardware if you put Linux on it. And if they don't know what's wrong, they won't replace hardware. So they'll either tell you to boot the Dell-supplied Diagnostics disk and try and troubleshoot off that (not likely if it's a weird hardware glitch), try and support you in Linux if they're familiar with it, or if you're being annoying, they'll tell you to call back when you've got Windows reloaded on the thing. But your hardware warranty is all good. Kind of, but not quite, a catch 22.
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Actually Homer Simpson didn't make up the word embiggen. Jebediah Springfield did.
Spelling my fucking arse, you don't even know your Simpsons references.
"The rumors are flying... but as usual, media reports have gotten ahead of the truth. Following the interview in the recent Dreamwatch Magazine with David Fury ("Buffy, The Vampire Slayer"), as we reported a few days ago, several online news sources (such as the usually wildly inaccurate Ananova, plus Peoplenews and other sources) are now reporting that Anthony Stewart Head (Giles in "Buffy" and recently a guest star in the Big Finish Doctor Who "Excelis" trilogy) will be a new Doctor in a new series produced next year. Even the Daily Express paper has picked it up (as an 'exclusive')... But it's not true. Producer Dan Freedman ("Death Comes to Time") did visit the Buffy producers, and there was a bit of talk about procedure... but nothing came of it and Freedman has moved to other projects. A quote by Tony Head in the Dreamwatch interview was taken out of context by these news 'sources'. Meanwhile, we continue to get tons of email this morning about it (it's not true, folks) and the official BBC website BBCi even issued a statement about it this morning: "Whilst the Cult team quite like the idea of Tony Head as the Doctor in a show guided by members of America's finest fantasy production team, the BBC aren't currently making any such plans."
As noted, the BBC web site confirms this is a rumor. Anthony Stewart Head has done some fine work in the Excelis series of Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas though.
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I worked at Dell in tech support for over a year. Putting your own OS on the box does not void the hardware warranty. But it makes things pretty tough for the techs who are trained on troubleshooting in windows 9x/NT to figure out what the heck is wrong with your hardware if you put Linux on it. And if they don't know what's wrong, they won't replace hardware. So they'll either tell you to boot the Dell-supplied Diagnostics disk and try and troubleshoot off that (not likely if it's a weird hardware glitch), try and support you in Linux if they're familiar with it, or if you're being annoying, they'll tell you to call back when you've got Windows reloaded on the thing. But your hardware warranty is all good. Kind of, but not quite, a catch 22.