Yes there is, simply contact them and get an additional month of prime for free, I do it every time I have a late package, which is admittedly almost never.
"Note: If you received free shipping with a guaranteed delivery date through Amazon Prime, you may be eligible for a free one-month extension if the delivery date isn't met. Prime extensions are limited to one per free trial, one per month for monthly members, and 12 for an annual membership."
2001, huh? What's really sad is that this is the honest truth. Macs just don't get spyware. Yes, it is "technically" possible to infect a mac, but it is a very rare occurrence, indeed. I've been in computer repair for the last 20 years, and the total number of macs I have ever seen with some sort of virus or spyware/malware is less than 5. I can actually remember each one individually.
On the other hand, I couldn't begin to count the number of Windows PCs I've cleaned up with malware over the last two decades. It's staggering, on the order of 10,000:1 ratio.
Of the 4 I have personally witnessed, as well as the handful or so I've heard about through colleagues, not a single one was a "drive-by" infection. They were ALL from a user who downloaded a questionable file and opened it, then put in their admin password to complete the infection.
Contrast that with the 100's seen every month from Windows users who swear that they did nothing but check their email and are now knee deep in an infection.
My kids use an iMac to play games and do homework. Not because I'm an elitist (the iMac is 9 years old), but because I don't want to spend any more time fixing their computers. In the last 4 years, I have never once had to fix a virus issue on their PC. Trust me, they've tried. I can see the infectious EXE's in the download folder, but I've stopped even clearing those out because they can't do any harm.
Regardless of the scary stories you read here on slashdot, the simple fact is Mac malware just isn't an issue. Windows malware is a daily occurrence.
When viewing the actual image on eBay, simply change the final number (after the $ sign) to 57 and reload the link. Full sized, glorious image, works every time. Yes it's stupid but the real image IS there.
That's a complete lie. You can still get a Celeron G440 or G460 single core with up to 32gb DDR3 memory from Newegg right now, not to mention the thousands of options on used dells out there. If they truly need a single core machine, they are out there. Someone is being lazy or deceitful if they say otherwise.
That's a cop out I hear a lot. If you have a house payment, a car payment, insurance, cable, etc, then you can get a credit card. I got one when I lived in a dorm in college and had very little income, I was 18 at the time. If you have screwed up your credit so bad you can't get a credit card, perhaps you should work on that before you worry about buying all of this stuff online with your debit card?
Ok, I know this is tough, but you just haven't figure out how to use credit cards yet. You obviously need to read up, a lot. And try to keep an open mind. I was where you are now once myself. I'd like to think I wasn't quite as cocky about my lack of knowledge as you are, but who knows.
Again, all of these issues you mention are debit card issues. stop using your personal bank account that you use for paying bills the same account as the one you give out online and all those problems will magically disappear.
30 isn't bullshit at all, I have about 15 at last count and I pared them down significantly in the last couple of years, mostly to make it easier to keep track of. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean you should talk badly about their choices.
I usually don't bother to respond to posts like this, but this one is so blatantly off-base I feel compelled. What you experienced was not Credit Card theft. It was Debit Card theft. You can't be late on your mortgage payment because your credit card was stolen and/or used for unauthorized purchases because you are using THEIR money, not yours. While I agree that everything that happened to you was unfortunate, it all could have been easily avoided by using the cardinal rule of plastic, don't use it online if it's tied to YOUR money.
Every single item the parent mentioned is valid and true. If anyone does anything unwanted with your account, simply login and click dispute, or phone customer service and spend less than 5 minutes explaining. The bill doesn't even come out for ~30 days, and you have several months after that to get it reversed. Let them deal with it, it's their job not yours. You wasted 110 hours of your life, but have you changed the way you do things now? Or do you still use your debit card for all your purchases? If it happened once, it can and WILL happen again.
PS - Your anger is showing, you used the word "fuck" 4 times in your post. Calm down and be rational.
Wow, where to start? You work for Dell for one, so of course you're going to shout their praises. Since you're a salesman, I'll let you in on a secret. You no longer provide OS CD's (or in Vista's case, DVD's) on all of your PC's. Over half of the last 50 PC's I've bought from Dell have had nothing but a restore partition.
Second, Compaq isn't one of the "big boys"? WTF? Regardless of how much your employer tries to spin things, Compaq and HP are the same company now, and actually sell more computers than Dell does. Toshiba and Sony also do not provide an actual Windows install media, regardless of whether you buy the Business Class or Home Class machines. Dell and HP(Compaq) are really the only 2 major players left who do provide them, and they are getting harder and harder to find. Usually only the business class machines have the full install media. Home users get a restore partition or an actual restore disk if they are lucky.
For those wondering, yes, you can use the i386 folder on any model to make a full install disk. (At least on XP, haven't tried it with Vista yet)
For the record, I own http://restorecd4u.com/, so I too am biased. However, I try to provide what the manufacturers refuse to at a reasonable cost, so I make it my business to know what is and isn't included, and there is a definite trend to NOT include an actual disk if at all possible.
Indeed, the number of versions is absolutely staggering.
XP Home OEM Full
XP Home Retail Upgrade
XP Home Retail Full
XP Pro OEM Full
XP Pro Retail Upgrade
XP Pro Retail Full
XP Pro Corp (VLK) Full
Also within each OEM group you have specific OEM vendors:
XP Home OEM (Vanilla - not tied to any OEM in particular)
XP Home OEM (Dell)
XP Home OEM (HP)
XP Home OEM (Compaq)
XP Home OEM (Sony)
XP Home OEM (IBM/Lenovo)
XP Home OEM (Any of the other 100 or so OEM vendors big enough to have their own OEM version)
Then there's a matching XP Pro version of each of these as well. Add in all the Service Pack slipstreamed versions and that's a lot of CD's to keep up with (or one heck of a multiboot CD).
Congratulations, you have managed to use the word "irrelevant" in 90% of your posts thus far. Must be nice to dismiss anyone else point of view as irrelevant huh? Convienient too! You've already identified yourself as a Bush supporter, which puts you squarely in dumbass territory, so run off now with your tail between your legs like a good bushslut.
That's a fairly misleading statement. The Dodge Ram gets gas mileage anywhere from 16/21 to 9/12. It depends entirely upon the engine choice. he most popular 1500's are the regular cab 3.7L auto and the quad cab 4.7l auto, which get 16/21 and 14/19 respectively.
No, your problem is that you bought your laptop at Best Buy. Best Buy does not do ANY warranty or extended warranty services onsite, they send ALL of their laptops in for repair. This is a problem for a lot of folks, you included, which means next time spend 10 minutes researching your options BEFORE you buy and you won't have nearly as many problems as you have now.
The company I work for now does in shop repairs for Toshiba, Apple, Gateway, and Compaq/HP. A few select notebooks still have to go back to the manufacturer for repair (usually the low end models, this is how manufacturers save money, by having the laptops shipped in for service), but the majority of repairs we do here in shop.
It's all about knowing your options. Would you buy a car if you knew you had to take it 3 states away for service? How about 3 counties away?
Intel Xeon64bit Dual up to 32GB of DDR 266
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeo n800/E7520/X6DH8-XB.cfm
Intel Xeon64bit Dual up to 32GB of DDR2-400
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderi7525_spe c.html
Almost every post I have seen here has one thing in common: "The Oracle said" or "The Architect said". Wake up people, the Oracle and The Architect and for that matter the Keymaker and Agent Smith are all part of the Matrix. How can you just take what they say at face value. How do you know that everything they do is a concerted effort to get Neo to choose Door #2 and kill himself? How do you really know that this has happened six times before? Because the architect says so? Bah. I think he might possibly have a alterior motive. Like ridding the matrix of Neo, because they really dont know what the hell he is, but they have a program written specifically for if and when an anomalous being shows up and threatens their existence. "Neo you must choose Door #2, just like you have 6 times before, in order to save humanity." Come on, don't believe this guy, he got no reason to tell the truth, just another politician.:) Or maybe they wanted him to choose Trinity so that Zion would fall, then they only have Neo and Trinity to deal with instead of the thousands in Zion. Look outside the box, just because a sentient machine says it is impossible to bend a spoon, doesnt mean it is. After all, whats real? Is there real? Or is it a beta Windows 7004 Advanced Human Evolution Experiment Copyright Microsoft 1988?
Why doesnt some smart guy out there just invent something with a easily circumventable process built in, distribute it to the masses, and await the slew of lawsuits to get working capitol.:) Oh yeah and I copyrighted this thought so dont even think about taking it.
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Yes there is, simply contact them and get an additional month of prime for free, I do it every time I have a late package, which is admittedly almost never. "Note: If you received free shipping with a guaranteed delivery date through Amazon Prime, you may be eligible for a free one-month extension if the delivery date isn't met. Prime extensions are limited to one per free trial, one per month for monthly members, and 12 for an annual membership."
2001, huh? What's really sad is that this is the honest truth. Macs just don't get spyware. Yes, it is "technically" possible to infect a mac, but it is a very rare occurrence, indeed. I've been in computer repair for the last 20 years, and the total number of macs I have ever seen with some sort of virus or spyware/malware is less than 5. I can actually remember each one individually. On the other hand, I couldn't begin to count the number of Windows PCs I've cleaned up with malware over the last two decades. It's staggering, on the order of 10,000:1 ratio. Of the 4 I have personally witnessed, as well as the handful or so I've heard about through colleagues, not a single one was a "drive-by" infection. They were ALL from a user who downloaded a questionable file and opened it, then put in their admin password to complete the infection. Contrast that with the 100's seen every month from Windows users who swear that they did nothing but check their email and are now knee deep in an infection. My kids use an iMac to play games and do homework. Not because I'm an elitist (the iMac is 9 years old), but because I don't want to spend any more time fixing their computers. In the last 4 years, I have never once had to fix a virus issue on their PC. Trust me, they've tried. I can see the infectious EXE's in the download folder, but I've stopped even clearing those out because they can't do any harm. Regardless of the scary stories you read here on slashdot, the simple fact is Mac malware just isn't an issue. Windows malware is a daily occurrence.
When viewing the actual image on eBay, simply change the final number (after the $ sign) to 57 and reload the link. Full sized, glorious image, works every time. Yes it's stupid but the real image IS there.
That's a complete lie. You can still get a Celeron G440 or G460 single core with up to 32gb DDR3 memory from Newegg right now, not to mention the thousands of options on used dells out there. If they truly need a single core machine, they are out there. Someone is being lazy or deceitful if they say otherwise.
That's a cop out I hear a lot. If you have a house payment, a car payment, insurance, cable, etc, then you can get a credit card. I got one when I lived in a dorm in college and had very little income, I was 18 at the time. If you have screwed up your credit so bad you can't get a credit card, perhaps you should work on that before you worry about buying all of this stuff online with your debit card?
And here we are again...
Ok, I know this is tough, but you just haven't figure out how to use credit cards yet. You obviously need to read up, a lot. And try to keep an open mind. I was where you are now once myself. I'd like to think I wasn't quite as cocky about my lack of knowledge as you are, but who knows.
Again, all of these issues you mention are debit card issues. stop using your personal bank account that you use for paying bills the same account as the one you give out online and all those problems will magically disappear.
30 isn't bullshit at all, I have about 15 at last count and I pared them down significantly in the last couple of years, mostly to make it easier to keep track of. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean you should talk badly about their choices.
I usually don't bother to respond to posts like this, but this one is so blatantly off-base I feel compelled. What you experienced was not Credit Card theft. It was Debit Card theft. You can't be late on your mortgage payment because your credit card was stolen and/or used for unauthorized purchases because you are using THEIR money, not yours. While I agree that everything that happened to you was unfortunate, it all could have been easily avoided by using the cardinal rule of plastic, don't use it online if it's tied to YOUR money.
Every single item the parent mentioned is valid and true. If anyone does anything unwanted with your account, simply login and click dispute, or phone customer service and spend less than 5 minutes explaining. The bill doesn't even come out for ~30 days, and you have several months after that to get it reversed. Let them deal with it, it's their job not yours. You wasted 110 hours of your life, but have you changed the way you do things now? Or do you still use your debit card for all your purchases? If it happened once, it can and WILL happen again.
PS - Your anger is showing, you used the word "fuck" 4 times in your post. Calm down and be rational.
You should try the Omega ATI Drivers, they work with almost any notebook ATI card out there.
Wow, where to start? You work for Dell for one, so of course you're going to shout their praises. Since you're a salesman, I'll let you in on a secret. You no longer provide OS CD's (or in Vista's case, DVD's) on all of your PC's. Over half of the last 50 PC's I've bought from Dell have had nothing but a restore partition.
Second, Compaq isn't one of the "big boys"? WTF? Regardless of how much your employer tries to spin things, Compaq and HP are the same company now, and actually sell more computers than Dell does. Toshiba and Sony also do not provide an actual Windows install media, regardless of whether you buy the Business Class or Home Class machines. Dell and HP(Compaq) are really the only 2 major players left who do provide them, and they are getting harder and harder to find. Usually only the business class machines have the full install media. Home users get a restore partition or an actual restore disk if they are lucky.
For those wondering, yes, you can use the i386 folder on any model to make a full install disk. (At least on XP, haven't tried it with Vista yet)
For the record, I own http://restorecd4u.com/, so I too am biased. However, I try to provide what the manufacturers refuse to at a reasonable cost, so I make it my business to know what is and isn't included, and there is a definite trend to NOT include an actual disk if at all possible.
Indeed, the number of versions is absolutely staggering.
XP Home OEM Full
XP Home Retail Upgrade
XP Home Retail Full
XP Pro OEM Full
XP Pro Retail Upgrade
XP Pro Retail Full
XP Pro Corp (VLK) Full
Also within each OEM group you have specific OEM vendors:
XP Home OEM (Vanilla - not tied to any OEM in particular)
XP Home OEM (Dell)
XP Home OEM (HP)
XP Home OEM (Compaq)
XP Home OEM (Sony)
XP Home OEM (IBM/Lenovo)
XP Home OEM (Any of the other 100 or so OEM vendors big enough to have their own OEM version)
Then there's a matching XP Pro version of each of these as well. Add in all the Service Pack slipstreamed versions and that's a lot of CD's to keep up with (or one heck of a multiboot CD).
Congratulations, you have managed to use the word "irrelevant" in 90% of your posts thus far. Must be nice to dismiss anyone else point of view as irrelevant huh? Convienient too! You've already identified yourself as a Bush supporter, which puts you squarely in dumbass territory, so run off now with your tail between your legs like a good bushslut.
That's a fairly misleading statement. The Dodge Ram gets gas mileage anywhere from 16/21 to 9/12. It depends entirely upon the engine choice. he most popular 1500's are the regular cab 3.7L auto and the quad cab 4.7l auto, which get 16/21 and 14/19 respectively.
No, your problem is that you bought your laptop at Best Buy. Best Buy does not do ANY warranty or extended warranty services onsite, they send ALL of their laptops in for repair. This is a problem for a lot of folks, you included, which means next time spend 10 minutes researching your options BEFORE you buy and you won't have nearly as many problems as you have now. The company I work for now does in shop repairs for Toshiba, Apple, Gateway, and Compaq/HP. A few select notebooks still have to go back to the manufacturer for repair (usually the low end models, this is how manufacturers save money, by having the laptops shipped in for service), but the majority of repairs we do here in shop. It's all about knowing your options. Would you buy a car if you knew you had to take it 3 states away for service? How about 3 counties away?
Intel Xeon64bit Dual up to 32GB of DDR 266 http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeo n800/E7520/X6DH8-XB.cfm
Intel Xeon64bit Dual up to 32GB of DDR2-400
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderi7525_spe c.html
Actually you can get MS-Dos support for ME. Try here:
http://www.coease.com/dosfix.htm
I've used it numerous times to get Partition Magic 5 to work with ME.
Almost every post I have seen here has one thing in common: "The Oracle said" or "The Architect said". Wake up people, the Oracle and The Architect and for that matter the Keymaker and Agent Smith are all part of the Matrix. How can you just take what they say at face value. How do you know that everything they do is a concerted effort to get Neo to choose Door #2 and kill himself? How do you really know that this has happened six times before? Because the architect says so? Bah. I think he might possibly have a alterior motive. Like ridding the matrix of Neo, because they really dont know what the hell he is, but they have a program written specifically for if and when an anomalous being shows up and threatens their existence. "Neo you must choose Door #2, just like you have 6 times before, in order to save humanity." Come on, don't believe this guy, he got no reason to tell the truth, just another politician. :) Or maybe they wanted him to choose Trinity so that Zion would fall, then they only have Neo and Trinity to deal with instead of the thousands in Zion. Look outside the box, just because a sentient machine says it is impossible to bend a spoon, doesnt mean it is. After all, whats real? Is there real? Or is it a beta Windows 7004 Advanced Human Evolution Experiment Copyright Microsoft 1988?
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/electricCircuits/ Try here for more info on the free version
Why doesnt some smart guy out there just invent something with a easily circumventable process built in, distribute it to the masses, and await the slew of lawsuits to get working capitol. :) Oh yeah and I copyrighted this thought so dont even think about taking it.