On 10/2/05, J. Milgram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, it's back. I sent them an email and left a voicemail at corporate HQ
and it was sent via overnight within a day or two after that.
I was all set to announce them as "rehabilitated" ... but on looking at
the system logs, it seems that they had been booting it up every couple
of days, with quite a number of root logins during the course of the
month they had it (during which time they were unable to tell me
anything about it). This was just for a new battery, so what's going on
here? Obviously it wasn't sitting around for a month waiting its
turn. Why do they need to boot it up at all to test the battery? So I
think I'll leave them in "goat" status. That's Averatec, a-v-e-r- ...
(I had removed the root password so they could have free access to it in
case they needed to do any diagnostics ... and did have the foresight to
run md5sums on everything. They checked out OK on return.)
BTW, it's a good machine, other than this one issue. Someone suggested I
probably could have just sent in the battery w/out the machine.
Judah
J. Milgram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's a good one.
>
> I'm ramping it up, bit by bit, rather than go nuclear all at once :)
>
> BTW I did index it at google and yahoo, that was a good idea.
>
> David Zakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Seems like Slashdot will print practically anything these days - article
> > submission time?
> >
> > "Ask Slashdot: I've recently noticed that computer vendors are taking
> > longer and longer to fulfill their warranty obligations. As
> > <yourlink>my</yourlink> experience shows, this can be a major drain on
> > productivity, and feedback on where the computer is in the process. What
> > can I do to speed things up?"
> >
> > Or you could put an anti-American screed in it, and K5 will print it for
> > sure!
> >
> > -DMZ
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:51 -0400, as wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > will it not help if it shows up on google/ yahoo search - it will
> > > probably help to have a high page rank or link from a page that does.
> > >
> > > my 2 cents.
> > >
> > > aravind.
> > --
> > David Zakar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
>
