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   Lukas Mariman to DONT.EVEN.TRY.IT@DEADSPAM.COM   
   Re: [OT] New toys, new problems?   
   21 Apr 08 18:13:17   
   
   From: lukas.mariman@REMOVEdommel.be   
      
   "POD {Ò¿Ó}"  schreef in bericht   
   news:Xns9A87CA9DC4E7WeLovePOD@195.188.240.200...   
   > "Lukas Mariman"  once tried to test me. I   
   > ate their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti   
   >   
   >> "POD {Ò¿Ó}"  schreef in bericht   
   >> news:Xns9A86AA924DE37WeLovePOD@195.188.240.200...   
   >>> "Lukas Mariman"  once tried to test   
   >>> me. I ate their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti   
   >>>   
   >>>> I bought an Acer Aspire M3610,   
   >>>   
   >>> You poor bastard...   
   >>>   
   >>> Don't they see real computers over there?   
   >>   
   >> You think it's no good?   
   >>   
   >   
   > Let me tell you a story....   
   >   
   > A scoll I was working in bought a dozen or so, andat the tome I was   
   > using a network boot disc and symantec Ghost to image them.   
   >   
   > Low and behold, my boot disc doesn't find the network card, so I go   
   > through all the usual stuff to make the disc work with the NIC, only to   
   > find out, it's not a real network card, but like these cheap nasty   
   > modems that are not modems, but modem "emulators" this is a cheap   
   > network "emulator" that is all software driven.   
   >   
   > So I get onto Acer support.  Tell them what I want to do, to which they   
   > say, they don't know... So I up the anti and demand, "Are you telling me   
   > that you've built this machine without the ability for large scale   
   > organisations to re-image them across a network?"  To which they say "It   
   > is possible, there is a generic driver out there, but I am unable to   
   > tell you were to get it from or how to modify it."  And they hung up!!!   
   >   
   > So apart from having cheap shitty components, you have the worst   
   > customer support, I have EVER encountered in my life!   
      
   Ouch. Well I must say, that sounds very promising!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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