Dell have (or at least used to have) Total Care, which would cover your laptop if you smash the shit out of it. I've literally had a whole laptop sent in parts (plastics, motherboards, drives, batteries and so on) to fix a system that fell from a moving car:)
They practically made it new again. They changed the battery because the front of it had a slight dent. Yes yes, Total Care is good.
Even with the latest Mozilla, I still occasionally see the left-most column on/. appear to blend with the center column, but a refresh fixes it and its never bad enough to make things unreadable.
I get the same fault, but sometimes a refresh does nothing. The center column appears off screen to the right, down till the comments, which appear blended with the left column. Fun fun! I've noticed in only during times when stories are posted recently, IE high load type times..
I had a call like this once, the customer told me that they had tens of thousands of dollars worth of data on the drive.. the customer had taken the system to 3 computer stores, only to have them say nothing could be done.. so they brought it to us (we don't specialise in data recovery, but it can be done..) I pulled it up, recovered the lot in less than an hour (rebuild the partition table, and the MFT), called the customer and let them know it would cost them about 100 bucks, they said that was way to expensive and they "knew someone" who would do it for 20 bucks. I said fine, and promptly disintegrated all remnants of data from the drive.:) You get what you pay for
We used to get the sep pad kits and pick rollers from HP for zip, in fact, they used to have a page on the hp site where you submit your info, and they send you out a new roller and sep pad kit for zip.
Hmm.. I used to run my old C64 recklessly pulled out onto the shag carpet in the one of the dryest parts of Australia with never a problem. (except the 1541 disk drive, which had some kind of blown bridge a couple of times, but it was always in the cabinet anywho)
As a side note if you find that you are getting smudgy type print down the left of right of the page only on wide prints, you'll need a new fuser (couple of hundred bucks) These things have a crappy fixing roller (in the same style as the 1100 and 6L etc) rather than a decent fuser (like a 5Si or such) In any case they are a nice printer and they work.
Agreed. We had some customer want a bunch of custom programming done for his field sales reps, so they could keep in touch and run bulletin boards and other such nonsense. No problems, but it all had to be done precisely his way, and in the end would have taken around 2 or 3 man months, we quoted him $15000 or so, and he yelled and screamed how can we do this and that and blah blah blah.
But on the other foot, he would have no questions about charging us $15000 for one of his products/services. It pisses me off that GOOD IT people are undervalued so much, and I blame that on the fact that "everyone knows computers"
That is what the original article I read has suggested.. They'd had requests to publish plans for a kit LCD tacho, but instead used a line of ugly yellow, green and red leds.. Now though, we could have a dizzying array of bright blue, green, white etc. Just enough to blind the driver!:)
You may want to check the refresh rate on the LCD you choose to use, as I remember reading that LCD tachometers were not common as the numbers changed way to fast for the refresh on the screen. Of course that was 5-10 years ago, so they may be of a much? faster refresh rate now.
The movie "The Corporation" shows that corporations can be clinically defined as psychopaths. Basically it implies that any given corporation will always do what is best for profits now, with no empathy, remorse or regret. It's my thought that there will come a time when Google will shoot itself in the foot, much like most companies will do/have done.
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Thats a terrific trick! I'm going to use that one from now on!
Does your firefox say "Microsoft Internet Explorer" in the titlebar? :)
Serious question, what does it do??
(Yes i'm too lazy to look it up..)
The best arguments always occur with the maximum number of participants on each side.
:)
I love these republican/democrat debates
The train was here! You must have missed it! Our trains are never late! The trains always run on time!
Dell have (or at least used to have) Total Care, which would cover your laptop if you smash the shit out of it. I've literally had a whole laptop sent in parts (plastics, motherboards, drives, batteries and so on) to fix a system that fell from a moving car :)
They practically made it new again. They changed the battery because the front of it had a slight dent. Yes yes, Total Care is good.
Maybe for powerbooks, but the laptops I fix usually cost from $1000 to $2500 for a logic board.
For example, Fujitsu, IBM, Toshiba and so forth
Even with the latest Mozilla, I still occasionally see the left-most column on /. appear to blend with the center column, but a refresh fixes it and its never bad enough to make things unreadable.
I get the same fault, but sometimes a refresh does nothing. The center column appears off screen to the right, down till the comments, which appear blended with the left column.
Fun fun! I've noticed in only during times when stories are posted recently, IE high load type times..
What if you flush your cookies but post from the same subnet?
I had a call like this once, the customer told me that they had tens of thousands of dollars worth of data on the drive.. the customer had taken the system to 3 computer stores, only to have them say nothing could be done.. so they brought it to us (we don't specialise in data recovery, but it can be done..) :) You get what you pay for
I pulled it up, recovered the lot in less than an hour (rebuild the partition table, and the MFT), called the customer and let them know it would cost them about 100 bucks, they said that was way to expensive and they "knew someone" who would do it for 20 bucks. I said fine, and promptly disintegrated all remnants of data from the drive.
We used to get the sep pad kits and pick rollers from HP for zip, in fact, they used to have a page on the hp site where you submit your info, and they send you out a new roller and sep pad kit for zip.
I second that.
Hmm..
I used to run my old C64 recklessly pulled out onto the shag carpet in the one of the dryest parts of Australia with never a problem. (except the 1541 disk drive, which had some kind of blown bridge a couple of times, but it was always in the cabinet anywho)
Yep,
and for some reason they think that their 40 bucks entitles them to free lifetime support for anything that goes wrong..
As a side note if you find that you are getting smudgy type print down the left of right of the page only on wide prints, you'll need a new fuser (couple of hundred bucks)
These things have a crappy fixing roller (in the same style as the 1100 and 6L etc) rather than a decent fuser (like a 5Si or such)
In any case they are a nice printer and they work.
Agreed. We had some customer want a bunch of custom programming done for his field sales reps, so they could keep in touch and run bulletin boards and other such nonsense. No problems, but it all had to be done precisely his way, and in the end would have taken around 2 or 3 man months, we quoted him $15000 or so, and he yelled and screamed how can we do this and that and blah blah blah.
But on the other foot, he would have no questions about charging us $15000 for one of his products/services.
It pisses me off that GOOD IT people are undervalued so much, and I blame that on the fact that "everyone knows computers"
Maybe they already have!
That is what the original article I read has suggested.. :)
They'd had requests to publish plans for a kit LCD tacho, but instead used a line of ugly yellow, green and red leds..
Now though, we could have a dizzying array of bright blue, green, white etc. Just enough to blind the driver!
You may want to check the refresh rate on the LCD you choose to use, as I remember reading that LCD tachometers were not common as the numbers changed way to fast for the refresh on the screen. Of course that was 5-10 years ago, so they may be of a much? faster refresh rate now.
They use the one midget to do the daily run to Gambia, and he carries a large wallet stuffed with 50's :)
Do you think its cheap to have a midget in a yellow uniform hitching a ride on the 6pm plane from JFK to Gambia just to deliver $50? :)
Ports/Other: 1 x IEEE 1394 port, 1 x PCMCIA Slot (TypeII) , 1 x LAN Jack (RJ-45) , 1 x Headphone
IEEE 1394 is firewire.
The movie "The Corporation" shows that corporations can be clinically defined as psychopaths. Basically it implies that any given corporation will always do what is best for profits now, with no empathy, remorse or regret. It's my thought that there will come a time when Google will shoot itself in the foot, much like most companies will do/have done.
They may do no evil, but for how long? Shareholders usually prefer profits over ethics.
Indeed. It does work, I'll give it that (at least most of the time ;)