My folks existing computer is no longer up to the task. When a friend helped set up a new computer for someone they donated their old XP computer. I've put a 320G HDD I had sitting around in it.
That computer is triple booting. IT defaultly boots to Windows XP as that is what my folks are used to. There is a separate data partition for photos etc. It has got the choice to boot into Lubuntu as a light weight linux install. There is also a third choice; that is to boot to a Debian stable which just goes to a menu to run scripts. The main script is to restore either the MBR or restore the Windows XP partition. I've taken an image using ntfsclone. Hopefully this gives my folks a fighting chance of staying on the net and being able to do their emails.
Just a random thought off the top of my head, but would using css potentially help with technologies such as screen readers for the blind? Also, as you could have named areas, does it open up areas which can be set as preferences, for instance deciding that you prefer to have menus always at the top of the screen.
Several of the Asus motherboards come with it. I'm sure it must be possible to modify it, but I haven't tried it let... I'd like them to release one with integrated onboard Intel graphics.
Indeed, although I think it's a case of 'it's the applications'. Perhaps he just needs to boot to a prompt to run a script that will create boot images or parse reports.
Sorry about being off topic, but I'm looking for a motherboard with splashtop, Express Gateway as Asus calls it, along with integrated graphics using Intel GMA950. Do you happen to know is any are made? I've checked the Asus website and the only ones I happened to see where the P5Q series and none of them had integrated graphics.
We get a fair number in the UK. Seen plenty of times in ASDA, part of Walmart, where the self service area tills are running WinXP and have apparently crashed so you can't use them...
I understand the need to try and keep backward compatible webpages however I think it could be done without introducing any new tags. Why not make it the doctype of HTML5?
I completely agreed. I read the article to be sure, but no, apparently it is the attitude that the editor wanted to give.
Ok, I admit the question I asked was basically rhetorical, but I didn't think it warranted troll. If who ever modded me as a troll had checked out my profile, they'd see that I do only occasionally post, but what I do post is hardly troll material!
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As someone who is involved in technical support in the UK on home machines I would respond to your points in the following ways:-
1. For a home PC the techs are so incompetent that it's easier to just lie about the nature of the problem. I.e. If your hard drive is on the fritz, making rattly sounds and loosing data just say "The drive is completely dead. When I connect it the BIOS doesn't even admit that it's there".
Don't lie. If the first level are making requests or their job bookings are going through a QA department, they may well catch inconsistence diagnostics which may result in jobs being delayed as the first level is required to make call backs.
2. Gold support is better than economy or even silver, but not for the reasons on dell.com. It's better because they connect you to the most competent support guys almost immediately when you call the gold support line. Competent engineers know when they are speaking to an equal and will dispatch the required parts immediately. They also send out "just-in-case parts".
Don't know, not relevant to may situation, but sounds likely.
3. Call late at night if your warranty allows it. The brightest tech support guys in Texas know that the graveyard shift is the best time to work. Less traffic on the commute, more pay and more time available for none work related tasks. Your shortest and most fruitful calls will be at 2:00 AM.
I think that there may well be a level of truth in this. You'll also find that late at night managers don't mess around with the night shifts any were near as much.
4. Don't be afraid to hang up. I once had an external tape drive (PV 110T) that was bursting tapes whenever I initiated a backup. The tech support guy insisted that I must reboot the server so I could see if the drive shows up in the BIOS before he could go any further. I hung up, called back latter and got a brighter support guy who dispatched a replacement drive in around 5 minutes.
To some extent I agree. There are poor tech support out there, and if you call more than once you might not get the same person. For the particular problem you had, I, when I was doing first level support, would normally ask the person why they thought they had a particular component failure, why they thought so. If it checked out, excellent, I could check out there reasoning but if it was fine send an engineer or part out. If not, go through normal diagnostics.
Hope that first hand experience helps what to expect in normal retail support.
At the moment in a support role, a fairly common resolution to an unstable or none existant internet connection is disabling IPv6. This seems to on a wide variety of hardware, both of the PC and the modems/routers they are connected to.
I've said before and I'll say it again, I don't think it's important to sell a system with gnu/linux preinstalled just include a live cd that works out of the box.
Windows user get a method to backup when Windows gets borked, technical support get another tool with which to test for hardware failures and gnu/linux users get to know that the kernel on the live cd works with the hardware.
And yeah, if they could remaster the computer with a choose of Windows or gnu/linux, I think that would be very interesting:-)
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I do like the look of self stirring pans :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBKF6cl3Z9o
My folks existing computer is no longer up to the task. When a friend helped set up a new computer for someone they donated their old XP computer. I've put a 320G HDD I had sitting around in it.
That computer is triple booting. IT defaultly boots to Windows XP as that is what my folks are used to. There is a separate data partition for photos etc. It has got the choice to boot into Lubuntu as a light weight linux install. There is also a third choice; that is to boot to a Debian stable which just goes to a menu to run scripts. The main script is to restore either the MBR or restore the Windows XP partition. I've taken an image using ntfsclone. Hopefully this gives my folks a fighting chance of staying on the net and being able to do their emails.
Very curious. Why all the white space in the page source?
:-)
Well I like Monkey Island :-)
I've not used it myself, but if you were going for a VM solution, then D3D should enable 3D acceleration anyway.
http://www.nongnu.org/wined3d/
No, no. It's a frog exaggerator ...
Interesting. does that also apply to the Sky HD box and do you have any references to show this?
Just a random thought off the top of my head, but would using css potentially help with technologies such as screen readers for the blind? Also, as you could have named areas, does it open up areas which can be set as preferences, for instance deciding that you prefer to have menus always at the top of the screen.
Just my 1p
I've found the following web site useful when deciding on monitor specs:
http://www.tvcalculator.com/
Only when entering L space ...
Personally I'm always using !
Often that's !ss which get me sshing into the last machine I sshed into.
It's !ss:p to just print the command.
Well, I like it anyway.
For such fast boots to a workable enviroment, Splashtop would seem ideal
http://www.splashtop.com/
Several of the Asus motherboards come with it. I'm sure it must be possible to modify it, but I haven't tried it let ... I'd like them to release one with integrated onboard Intel graphics.
Look! A monkey! ;-)
A very little research gives us details on the Directors of Hasbro.
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The mean ages, which missing out one of them, Bennett Schneir, is 53 years old.
So yeah, perhaps they just would have never considered it.
But just to make another point, consoles and PC games are a different beast than board\card games. It's quite possible to enjoy both.
For your interest here are a few of my current favourites, Zombie Flux, Cthulhu 500, Bang! and Give me the Brain. Check them out, you might enjoy them :-)
Indeed, although I think it's a case of 'it's the applications'. Perhaps he just needs to boot to a prompt to run a script that will create boot images or parse reports.
More detail needed to give a more exact answer.
Sorry about being off topic, but I'm looking for a motherboard with splashtop, Express Gateway as Asus calls it, along with integrated graphics using Intel GMA950. Do you happen to know is any are made? I've checked the Asus website and the only ones I happened to see where the P5Q series and none of them had integrated graphics.
This MS KB may help.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932134
There is also an MS KB related to the broadcast flag which may be what is being referred to.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233
We get a fair number in the UK. Seen plenty of times in ASDA, part of Walmart, where the self service area tills are running WinXP and have apparently crashed so you can't use them ...
I understand the need to try and keep backward compatible webpages however I think it could be done without introducing any new tags. Why not make it the doctype of HTML5?
Just my 2p
I completely agreed. I read the article to be sure, but no, apparently it is the attitude that the editor wanted to give.
Ok, I admit the question I asked was basically rhetorical, but I didn't think it warranted troll. If who ever modded me as a troll had checked out my profile, they'd see that I do only occasionally post, but what I do post is hardly troll material!
At the moment in a support role, a fairly common resolution to an unstable or none existant internet connection is disabling IPv6. This seems to on a wide variety of hardware, both of the PC and the modems/routers they are connected to.
I've said before and I'll say it again, I don't think it's important to sell a system with gnu/linux preinstalled just include a live cd that works out of the box.
:-)
Windows user get a method to backup when Windows gets borked, technical support get another tool with which to test for hardware failures and gnu/linux users get to know that the kernel on the live cd works with the hardware.
And yeah, if they could remaster the computer with a choose of Windows or gnu/linux, I think that would be very interesting