[luau] HOSEF Logo suggestions

2003-03-17 Thread Warren Togami
During the last HOSEF board meeting we discussed possible HOSEF logo suggestions because the current logo at the website is somewhat confusing. A logo would have to be something fairly simple, nothing like photo-realistic. I think it should have some kind Tux Penguin, a big "H" for Hawaii, or oth

Re: [luau] hard drive recovery practices

2003-03-17 Thread Warren Togami
Vince Hoang wrote: Does anyone have any [good] experiences of data recovery from a hard drive after a dd or fsck fails? I have never been in a situation where it was economically feasible to employ the services of hard drive surgeons in clean rooms. -Vince I heard somewhere that when hard driv

Re: [luau] Personal Touch (was anyone know of a good computer repair place?)

2003-03-17 Thread Alvin Murphy
Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've only purchased parts from Personal Touch computers. They are usually kind of rude and nasty, not always, but enough that I wouldn't want to trust them to fix my equipment. As far as parts, I just buy what I need and what I know, I don't ask q

Re: [luau] Personal Touch (was anyone know of a good computer repair place?)

2003-03-17 Thread Mike Sonstegard
Stan...you may very well have a bad CPU Fancausing the CPU to overheat, and the system to crash. If you are not in the mood to open up the unit, I would suggest that you attempt the fsck progs and if they don't yield an answer, you would be well advised to take it to a reputable service pro

Re: [luau] Personal Touch (was anyone know of a good computer repair place?)

2003-03-17 Thread Stan Baptista
re: Clarify your situation and perhaps more knowledge will arise. I've got a Compaq Presario 2701T laptop purchased @1.5 years ago from CompUSA. I'm running Windows XP Pro Edition and the OS installed with the system was XP Home Edtion. Symptoms: 1) Whirring sound (like a fan) when running whic

Re: [luau] Personal Touch (was anyone know of a good computer repair place?)

2003-03-17 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Monday 17 March 2003 04:36 pm, Mike Sonstegard wrote: > As a former manager at "Personal Touch Computers", I can tell you that > who you deal with and their mood will have a great deal to do with the > quality of work, price, and knowledgeable information that you receive. Period. I have defin

Re: [luau] Personal Touch (was anyone know of a good computer repair place?)

2003-03-17 Thread Mike Sonstegard
As a former manager at "Personal Touch Computers", I can tell you that who you deal with and their mood will have a great deal to do with the quality of work, price, and knowledgeable information that you receive. Caveat Emptor ! Hip at H-Power is good! was really suprised to hear pe

Re: [luau] hard drive recovery practices

2003-03-17 Thread Vince Hoang
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:15:18PM -1000, Deven Phillips wrote: > Have you tried the Linux bootable business card? there are some > nice utils on there. I have booted from single CD/floppy systems, like the BBC and Knoppix, for other uses, but never tried to perform any actual data recovery from t

Re: [luau] hard drive recovery practices

2003-03-17 Thread Deven Phillips
Have you tried the Linux bootable business card? there are some nice utils on there. Deven On Monday 17 March 2003 11:41 am, Vince Hoang wrote: > Does anyone have any [good] experiences of data recovery from > a hard drive after a dd or fsck fails? I have never been in > a situation where it wa

Re: [luau] hard drive recovery practices

2003-03-17 Thread yuser
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Vince Hoang wrote: > Does anyone have any [good] experiences of data recovery from > a hard drive after a dd or fsck fails? I have never been in > a situation where it was economically feasible to employ the > services of hard drive surgeons in clean rooms. > The place I wor

[luau] hard drive recovery practices

2003-03-17 Thread Vince Hoang
Does anyone have any [good] experiences of data recovery from a hard drive after a dd or fsck fails? I have never been in a situation where it was economically feasible to employ the services of hard drive surgeons in clean rooms. -Vince

Re: [luau] Personal Touch (was anyone know of a good computer repair place?)

2003-03-17 Thread Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/HIDOE
I've only purchased parts from Personal Touch computers. They are usually kind of rude and nasty, not always, but enough that I wouldn't want to trust them to fix my equipment. As far as parts, I just buy what I need and what I know, I don't ask questions and the price is usually better then CompUS

RE: [luau] Personal Touch (was anyone know of a good computer repair place?)

2003-03-17 Thread Randall Oshita
Good for you. I just felt it would be nice for everyone to know all kinds of info and experiences where they can make decisions on their own. Thanks. Randall Well, I don't know what's been going on with you guys or how long it's been since you have gone to Personal Touch, but I have bo

Re: [luau] Personal Touch (was anyone know of a good computer repair place?)

2003-03-17 Thread Robert Green
I've also been there more than a few times for hard drives and other components, and they have been helpful gave me good prices and service, including giving me a little bit of a price break when I bought $600 worth of components a month ago to build a new system. I was really suprised to hear peop

[luau] Personal Touch (was anyone know of a good computer repair place?)

2003-03-17 Thread Deven Phillips
Well, I don't know what's been going on with you guys or how long it's been since you have gone to Personal Touch, but I have bought literally over $100K in equipment from them for myself and others and NEVER had a problem with anything. They have repaired four laptops for me over the

RE: [luau] OT: anyone know of a good computer repair place?

2003-03-17 Thread Randall Oshita
DO NOT go to Personal Touch. I've caught them so many times BS'in about products just to make a sale. On one instance I wanted a hotswap eide bay for my XP box. They were so adamant about what they told me at the time of sale that all the employees were like "oh I run XP and it works for me". So I

Re: [luau] OT: anyone know of a good computer repair place?

2003-03-17 Thread Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/HIDOE
SuperGeeks is a good company, been around for many years. I've sent people to them and never had a complaint. The flat rate pricing is nice and from what I understand they do Linux. Check em out: http://www.supergeeks.net Michael Stan Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@videl.ics.hawaii.edu on 03

Re: [luau] OT: anyone know of a good computer repair place?

2003-03-17 Thread Jan Daniel Semrau
I dont think that Personal Touch is trustworthy. I bought a used Apple Cinema Display there last year for $199. The thing never worked properly (except in the store). It always took over two hours to get a picture, and the picture wasn't even clear but yellowish. Anyways, I bought the thing as-is

Re: [luau] OT: anyone know of a good computer repair place?

2003-03-17 Thread Deven Phillips
Stan, Yeah, SuperGeeks is WAY!! overpriced. Go to Personal Touch over on Keawe St across from CompUSA. They do laptop repairs. Deven On Monday 17 March 2003 07:39 am, Stan Baptista wrote: > I suspect that the drive on my Compaq Presario laptop > is fried and I'm going to need to get it

[luau] OT: anyone know of a good computer repair place?

2003-03-17 Thread Stan Baptista
I suspect that the drive on my Compaq Presario laptop is fried and I'm going to need to get it repaired. I was thinking maybe SuperGeeks. Anyone know about them? Thanks, Stan = __ Stan Baptista - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webawocky Website Designs www.webawocky.com great websi