At 06:13 PM 30/11/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is why I make a clone copy on a small partition on a hard drive I
keep for this purpose (I have over 30 hard drives for this and have not
went to DVD images yet). I want to be able to be the good guy and restore
my work within a reasonable
My 40GB 4th Gen iPod had the click of death just 10 days inside warranty.
Called them up - quickly got a rep who didn't jerk me around - two days
later I had a prepaid box that even came with little strips of tape to
box it back up. Then a week or so later I had a new ipod sitting on my
At 06:19 PM 30/11/2005, joeuser wrote:
Parts and labor. There's no way one can warranty software or OS and stay
above water. There are just too many variables out there. I suppose if it
was not connected to the Internet and they never installed *anything* I
would assume it's my fault. Since I
At 06:19 PM 30/11/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote:
30 days unless they fool with something they weren't suppose to then
nothing. I've had clients mess with network settings then tell me the
network never worked but I ask them how did the drives get mapped if the
network never worked? Then I usually
At 08:53 PM 30/11/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote:
Generally you're correct tho as when installing new print drivers the
like as nothing usual goes wrong with the drivers. If I were to screw up
the installation of drivers or other software then my warranty does cover
that I would fix it at no
At 09:07 PM 01/12/2005, Kevin wrote:
For viruses, I would say if you removed it for them and hopefully made sure
they are updated and protected from that virus a couple weeks guarantee from
THAT virus would be fair.
Ok, that's an interesting idea. I like that - perhaps I switch to that
sort
I use Karen's Power Tools Replicator also at home and here at work. Nice
utility.
At home, I use Ghost to create nightly incremental backups of my C: drive
with a full backup once a week and I let it keep 2 full backups. This is
to another drive in the system. I create a manual full backup
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
:: At 09:07 PM 01/12/2005, Kevin wrote:
::: For viruses, I would say if you removed it for them and hopefully
::: made sure they are updated and protected from that virus a couple
::: weeks guarantee from THAT virus would be fair.
::
:: Ok, that's an interesting idea.
At 06:37 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:
How do you know if they fooled with it?
Generally it's usually rather obvious when a kid installs a P2P
shares a folder and they don't change any of the defaults
I've seen Windows screw up it's networking without (as far as I
could
At 09:42 AM 01/12/2005, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
If you did that, you'd probably make some good profit since only a few
would likely need it. So, to be the nice guy, do it for $100 instead of
$194. Gotta stay up with the times :)
LOL! Good point. Heck, I could do it for $99, or to go with
still using ghost 8 here would be interested in your opinion on these
thanks
fp
At 05:53 AM 12/1/2005, Bobby Heid Poked the stick with:
I am using Ghost 9 at the moment, but I just got Acronis True Image 9 and
Ghost 10 and I'm gonna play with them to see which one I like best.
Bobby
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At 06:35 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:
This is more an issue with systems I repair than systems I
sell. For example, I had a guy in two months ago with 175 virus and
683 spyware. He couldn't get on the net. I removed all the crap,
fixed his TCP/IP stack, and away he goes,
you are absolutely right, tell em this is not Costco :-D
fp
Software problems are always billable, no exceptions.
At 04:35 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) Poked the stick with:
Yesterday he calls - the same problem is back, and why won't we fix it for
free, since it's the same problem? I
on occasion it is the only guaranty, especially on systems that ran a year with
NO protection and idiot users.
fp
The customer is NOT always right, but sometimes one must bite the end of the
tongue :-D
At 04:56 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) Poked the stick with:
I wouldn't guarantee
So, those of you who install OEM copies of Windows, and follow the MS
Licensing procedure --
what are the TC's of the warranty that you have to provide for Windows?
As an OEM, installing an OEM edition of Windows, you end up being the
support for the OS rather than Microsoft (smart move on
I don't have a shop. But my feelings are that if you send me home without
any viruses and my drivers are good and the system is running ok, then it is
not your responsibility if I get those things hosed in the next couple of
days.
Now, that being said, if you have installed an antivirus system,
Ok, but you warranty the peripheral as well, correct? That would include
the driver.
Or are you talking about stuff you didn't install (like their home
printer or something...?)
FORC5 wrote:
OS support is different then support for driver error IMO
fp
At 07:03 AM 12/1/2005, Ben Ruset Poked
OMG, that was hillarious!
_
Julian Zottl
CTO, Radiant Network Technology, LLC
Getting ahead in the tech sector isn't about kissing butt ... you gotta sniff
the right packets
-- Original Message --
From: Chris Reeves
At 10:03 AM 01/12/2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
what are the TC's of the warranty that you have to provide for Windows?
As an OEM, installing an OEM edition of Windows, you end up being the
support for the OS rather than Microsoft (smart move on MS's part.) I
don't know the terms very well (since
I bought a Shuffle about a year ago and no problems here, I love it.
--
Brian
At 06:42 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:
Ok, it sounds like you take the same approach as I do - but I've had
cases where the printer works for a month perfectly, then stops
printing. This is either: Malware, user changing/deleting
something, bug in the driver, installation of
At 09:49 AM 01/12/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote:
outside assistance. FWIW I almost never accept the default auto network
settings in any of these OSes assign ip addresses manually. When I come
back see that things are now set to automatic it doesn't work then I
know some one has been messing
For those that might be interested, here's the latest newsletter from
Karen's Power Tools. I am forwarding this to the list because her tools
have been mentioned several times over the past couple of months.
There's a link at the bottom to easily subscribe to the letter if you'd
like.
Bobby
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
Ok, it sounds like you take the same approach as I do - but I've had cases
where the printer works for a month perfectly, then stops printing. This is
either: Malware, user changing/deleting something, bug in the driver,
installation of
At 06:56 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:
Ok, that's an interesting idea. I like that - perhaps I switch to
that sort of warranty when people agree to buy a real AV.
I wouldn't do that because you're not guaranteed they'll update their
definitions you have no idea of where they'll
At 08:54 AM 12/1/2005, FORC5 typed:
still using ghost 8 here would be interested in your opinion on these
With Ghost 9 one must install MSFT's .Net framework therefore I'll be
sticking with Ghost 8 Corp for as long as I can.
--+--
Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
At 09:42 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:
Since he didn't get an AV from me, I don't feel it's my problem if
he has viruses, but of course, I can't be sure he has viruses since
he won't bring the machine in unless I agree not to charge him,
which I'm not going to do. I guess I'm
At 11:53 PM 11/30/2005, Chris Reeves typed:
For Humor of the day..
Go to Amazon.Com
And search for Laserdisc in the opening search box :)
How in the world did you stumble on this? I about fell out of my
chair. Help I've fallen I can't get up.
--+--
Wayne D. Johnson
Liking it very much so far. My only gripe with Firefox was not being able
to move the toolbars around like I could with IE, but now I figgered out
how to do it, and my forward and back arrows are centered right where I
like 'em. :)
Seems fast and stable so far... No popups at all yet..
Seeing as how I'm a developer with MS software, I have no choice - lol.
Bobby
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:56 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: RE: [H] Backing up 300GB of data
At
Alrighty, what's so bad about the .net framework?
Wayne Johnson wrote:
At 08:54 AM 12/1/2005, FORC5 typed:
still using ghost 8 here would be interested in your opinion on these
With Ghost 9 one must install MSFT's .Net framework therefore I'll be
sticking with Ghost 8 Corp for as long as I
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
Alrighty, what's so bad about the .net framework?
When it first came out there were major security issues, but since then
it's been updated pretty good. Of course people still remember the bad
security issues and refuse to install it.
Think of it like
Bobby Heid wrote:
:: For those that might be interested, here's the latest newsletter from
:: Karen's Power Tools. I am forwarding this to the list because her
:: tools have been mentioned several times over the past couple of
:: months.
::
:: There's a link at the bottom to easily subscribe
At 11:00 AM 12/1/2005, Ben Ruset typed:
Alrighty, what's so bad about the .net framework?
Nothing other than it takes up quite a bit of space. I can use Ghost
8 on my XpPe builds but not Ghost 9 above.
I assume that most people know that .net framework has just come out
in version 2.0
You're welcome.
Bobby
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:28 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] FW: Karen's Power Tools Newsletter November 29, 2005
Bobby Heid wrote:
:: For
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From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [H] -SOT- Warranty on repairs
fp
Software problems are always billable, no exceptions.
Billable and C.O.D. are the best
At 10:21 AM 01/12/2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
Ok, but you warranty the peripheral as well, correct? That would include
the driver.
No; warranty (in every situation I've ever seen) covers the hardware. So
if the printer croaks, that's warranty. If the driver gets screwed up and
you bring it to
At 10:46 AM 01/12/2005, Christopher Fisk wrote:
If on the other hand, his software issue is caused by a hardware problem
(incompatiblity with BIOS version, bad stick of memory, etc) I would
consider it a part of the hardware warranty (if your warranty covers those
types of hardware issues.)
At 11:46 AM 12/1/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
you simply have it in writing and have them sign the statement that
no software or operating system work is under warranty.
I thought we were only talking about warranty on repairs
specifically the software work that I perform not the OS or
At 12:10 PM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:
If a piece of hardware fails and screws up the software (say the HD
dies and Windows is gone) then I include reinstallation of Windows
as part of the warranty. No other place around here (including the
big boys like Staples and Dell) do
It's very clear that intel has abandoned trying to get better performance
per mhz out of each core for both the desktop and server - and instead
trying to max out the supporting cast of interconnects, busses, and other
I/O. The new Xeon's that intel is touting are nothing more than shrunken
I have a system here that keeps downloading and installing the Genuine
[Dis]Advantage tool over and over and won't go any further. Any ideas how
to get it to realize it's already installed it and let me continue on?
T
You know, when I read Karen's Power Tools, I had something else in mind...
_
Julian Zottl
CTO, Radiant Network Technology, LLC
Getting ahead in the tech sector isn't about kissing butt ... you gotta sniff
the right packets
-- Original Message
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
I have a system here that keeps downloading and installing the Genuine
[Dis]Advantage tool over and over and won't go any further. Any ideas how to
get it to realize it's already installed it and let me continue on?
Add windows update to the
Install Be/Linux/xBSD/Solaris... ;) Sorry, I couldn't help it!
_
Julian Zottl
CTO, Radiant Network Technology, LLC
Getting ahead in the tech sector isn't about kissing butt ... you gotta sniff
the right packets
-- Original Message
Yeah, dirty minds think alike... :)
Julian Zottl wrote:
:: You know, when I read Karen's Power Tools, I had something else in
:: mind... _
lol, me too.
Julian Zottl wrote:
You know, when I read Karen's Power Tools, I had something else in mind...
_
Julian Zottl
CTO, Radiant Network Technology, LLC
Getting ahead in the tech sector isn't about kissing butt ... you gotta sniff
the right packets
At 02:41 PM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:
I have a system here that keeps downloading and installing the
Genuine [Dis]Advantage tool over and over and won't go any
further. Any ideas how to get it to realize it's already installed
it and let me continue on?
Are you sure it's a
don't know if similar prob..but I had updates getting hung halfway through,
so renamed the edb.log file problem fixed
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822798
- Original Message -
From: Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Friday, December 02,
Um Hayes, they are doing that.
reference: Merom, Conroe, Woodcrest
64bit 65nm chips due in the middle of '06, 14 stage pipelines, 2-3Ghz
clocks, 4-issue dispatch! (A64s are 3 issue, G5s are 3+branch, P4's
are 2-issue)
Pentium M is P3 derived, and lacks the 64bitness, rather that futz
OK, I don't get it???
Mark Dodge
MD Computers
360-772-2433
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:13 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: RE: [H] early xmas present
At 11:53 PM 11/30/2005,
Has anyone offered something special to drum up new work, such as free AV /or
spyware scan on first visit?? If you have, what was the offer how well did it
work??
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:59:15 GMT
Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 09:42 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:
They've fixed it.
It was turning up a book on Vaginal Fisting when you typed in Laserdisc ;)
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No, but when the Kaspersky comes up for renewal I really push hard for
clients to brings systems in to do ALL of the suite updates. I offer
them a significant discount on that.
Chris Shaw wrote:
Has anyone offered something special to drum up new work, such as
free AV /or spyware scan on
Um Hayes, they are doing that.
reference: Merom, Conroe, Woodcrest
64bit 65nm chips due in the middle of '06, 14 stage pipelines, 2-3Ghz
clocks, 4-issue dispatch! (A64s are 3 issue, G5s are 3+branch, P4's are
2-issue)
Pentium M is P3 derived, and lacks the 64bitness, rather that futz
The man is a moron and is trying to get you to take responsibility for
his inactions. Dell won't do it, Abu down the block won't do it, why
should you? You gave good advice, hell you should of blanked the box
re-installed out of fear that you could not remove everything be sure
it's gone.
If you don't make don't sign a release with terms, you easily can be
sued loose. You should at least put down on paper what you do say
have them sign that they have been advised of your terms.
Wayne Johnson wrote:
At 11:46 AM 12/1/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
you simply have it in
*I* already have! =)
Wireless Logitechs are great and I've had a 3 in the past few years.
Only bad one has been DiNovo which is bluetooth and seems to have very
crappy membrane. I keep missing Aand Alt, etc really pissing me off.
MX Duo was their last great combo, dunno if what replaces
At 08:41 PM 12/1/2005, Chris Reeves typed:
They've fixed it.
It was turning up a book on Vaginal Fisting when you typed in Laserdisc ;)
Yes but can we still buy the books videos? rotflmao
--+--
Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
http://www.wavijo.com
What would Microsoft do?
A. Charge you $50
B. Tell you to call hardware vendor's tech support
C. Call it a Feature
D. All the above
E. None of the above
If it's OEM white box hardware or software then the shop is on the hook
some support. Pay/free, how long what for depends on shops warranty
At 09:49 PM 12/1/2005, warpmedia typed:
If you don't make don't sign a release with terms, you easily can be
sued loose.
Hey, even if I put things down on paper I still can be sued lose.
You should at least put down on paper what you do say have them
sign that they have been advised of
Hence the easily, you are in a better position with terms stated in
writing vs. verbal.
Your right, if your getting by without written terms not having
problems why worry about it although liability wise, not being
incorporated is MORE of a reason to write things down. =)
Wayne Johnson
1. the shop did not make the AV software.
2. it's your use of the machine that gets the malware
I like the car analogy: Buy car, learn to drive; Buy INSURANCE, use
seatbelts. If you can't drive, don't expect to get insurance cheep/free
even if you wear the seatbelts. If you don't use
I downloaded and installed Mandrake last night but the 4th CD doesn't
appear to be available anymore. This is the disk with KDE 3.3 on it and
I don't seem to have a graphical interface only the command line. Can
someone help me out? I'm just a noob and need my GUI. Thanks! @:)
Me neither, but I felt too foolish to say so. shrug
Mark Dodge wrote:
OK, I don't get it???
Mark Dodge
MD Computers
360-772-2433
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:13 AM
To: The
Damn and I missed it! You didn't happen to save the page did you? @:)
Chris Reeves wrote:
They've fixed it.
It was turning up a book on Vaginal Fisting when you typed in Laserdisc ;)
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Yep. A look at Yonah:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2627
The bad thing about Yonah is.. New Socket, at least 2 quarters of wait still
ahead and:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2627p=5
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2627p=6
Yeah,
This is where it sent you originally:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1890159026/qid=1133481206/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_x
s_ap_i1_xgl14/103-8720811-4663025?n=507846s=booksv=glance
The reviews are priceless.
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priceless
same page, check out
Customers who bought this book also bought
At 11:11 PM 12/1/2005, Chris Reeves Poked the stick with:
This is where it sent you originally:
Priceless! Hey, did you look down below where it says, Trust, the Hand
Book: A Guide to the Sensual and Spiritual Art of Handballing by Bert
Herrman. Handballing!? lol Never heard it called that before. @:)
Chris Reeves wrote:
This is where it sent you originally:
Comeon Man! You only live once! g @:)
FORC5 wrote:
glad I missed that one
:-P
At 10:25 PM 12/1/2005, Stan Zaske Poked the stick with:
Damn and I missed it! You didn't happen to save the page did you? @:)
Chris Reeves wrote:
They've fixed it.
It was turning up a book on Vaginal Fisting
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