Actually it's quite a serious problem. My employer has been fighting with HP for over a year about it. Machines affected would bluescreen at least daily, if not more frequently.
We went back and forth with HP for some time on it. They would swap components to no avail, and flip-flop between blaming software we had installed, and then discovering they were able to reproduce the problem on a factory software image.
I wonder how long they knew about the issue internally before letting customers know. They didn't let us know until the very end.
The best is this Register article, the quote: "The company says that it hasn't received a complaint yet, but is "pre-emptively" introducing a repair program."
Since August 2002, Drew has been using Mozilla as its supported IMAP mail client. It is distributed with all student laptops, lab computers, and fac/staff desktops. Previous to that, we used Netscape 4.7.
Transparent proxy cache was actually implemented in my area (NJ) after the initial transition. They decided to dump it a week later, presumbably because of the number of customers that complained (myself included) that a number of web sites could not be viewed via the proxy. However they had it configured, it seemed to choke on just about everything from GIF images to plain old static HTML content.
In any event, if you are in an affected area, flooding customer service with complaints couldn't hurt...
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Actually it's quite a serious problem. My employer has been fighting with HP for over a year about it. Machines affected would bluescreen at least daily, if not more frequently.
We went back and forth with HP for some time on it. They would swap components to no avail, and flip-flop between blaming software we had installed, and then discovering they were able to reproduce the problem on a factory software image.
I wonder how long they knew about the issue internally before letting customers know. They didn't let us know until the very end.
The best is this Register article, the quote:
"The company says that it hasn't received a complaint yet, but is "pre-emptively" introducing a repair program."
Not a single complaint? That's total BS.
Since August 2002, Drew has been using Mozilla as its supported IMAP mail client. It is distributed with all student laptops, lab computers, and fac/staff desktops. Previous to that, we used Netscape 4.7.
Transparent proxy cache was actually implemented in my area (NJ) after the initial transition. They decided to dump it a week later, presumbably because of the number of customers that complained (myself included) that a number of web sites could not be viewed via the proxy. However they had it configured, it seemed to choke on just about everything from GIF images to plain old static HTML content.
In any event, if you are in an affected area, flooding customer service with complaints couldn't hurt...