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Type 8: The technophobe This is the sort of customer who really begrudges the existence of both computers and you, because you sell them. In fact, the only reason they are there is “cos me kids want it and that”. These people are in fact a subspecies of Type 2(ii) people in their temperament...

Screw it! Should have put this in the B&G. Feel free to move it anyone??!!?

PC Customers 101…..Know thine enemy! Type 1: The monied customer. You can charge them what you like. They have bought several machines from you before and would never dream of going anywhere else. You could sell them a plate of custard as a PC and they would buy it. Whenever they have a...

I had a great customer in today. This is the woman who kicked up a stink because I was not available to see her two days after my niece drowned. She came in today because "this damn PC has been rubbish from the moment I had it!!!" Although I really wanted to smack her in the mouth I smiled...

My cat is called Suzi. See my avatar for a piccie. She is a rescue cat and is 13 years old. She sleeps all day and begs for food the rest of the time. She rules our house with a paw of steel.....

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlView.jsp?soid=232751&BV

I like this one the best. "I do believe however it is unfair to ask for more than 1 laptop/monitor as i seriously doubt they will provide that many and it reduces peoples chances of gettin one. I think if we each just ask for one (which is very reasonable) and our money back on the others then...

You guys should read this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/26476.html This situation is a bit like the one with Kodak cameras not so long ago. The difference is that this company is a small internet e-tailer. Now have a look at this: http://www.trueventure.com/forum/index.php?s=...

I like it here as well. The SR forums are as dead as a dead thing at the moment, and look to stay that way.

I decided to shrink myself into my avatar.

Sunday, June 30th 2002 was a really poor day. I think that you should make a break, for your own sanity. She is using your good-nature. I am sure it is not a malicious thing, but nonetheless she is still using you. It is not appropriate to do what she is doing and then come back to see you...

Merc, Get a job in a bar part time. It is the best place to work because it will force you to meet people. It really does work, and you get paid for doing it.

Bartender, You did not address me by my real name, because I have never used it either here or at SR. My real name is Ian. Thankyou all for you knid words. I am slowly coming to terms. We had the funeral yesterday. We all blew bubbles and each took a flower.

Cliptin: She was just like me and my brother when we where her age. She had curly locks of hair, and a big smile. She frowned when she was thinking, and she loved toy windmills that blew in the breeze. She liked fairy stories and Winnie The Pooh. She loved to blow bubbles with soapy water...

Mercutio: You have touched me in a way that is deeper than you can ever imagine. Thankyou for showing me that not everything is mean and nasty. For you: They say that 'time assuages,'-- Time never did assuage; An actual suffering strengthens, As sinews do, with age. Time is a test of...

Thankyou for your kind words. It is funny how one day you can get up in thr morning and everything is OK. By bedtime your whole world has been destroyed, and you cannot even know why. My grief has tramusted into a deep and profound sadness. Although I am around people I feel barren and...

Thanks, Prof.

She was an innocent and happy little girl. We called her Kitty.

I don't understand. Why???

I am so glad I found this thread. On Sunday I watched my 2 year old niece being pulled from a pond. We missed her in 20 seconds. For some god-knows-what reason, we could not bring her back. I am now downloading a song from The Grinch to play at her funeral. The agony is more than I can...

Giver, Stereodude has been around SR much much longer than you. Just a little observation.

I just don't like it at SR anymore. Flaming, criticism of private pricing for heavens sake. It is like looking at a bunch of nasty under-fives at playschool along with a few 'witty' (used in the loosest possible sense of the word) rabble rousers and trolls. This is the Bar and Grille I am...

What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolent.

Sorry, I meant 20% failure rate. Doh!

30 GB GXPs are bad as well. We sold over 100 of the blighters, and we have had a 20% thus far. Always the same, they sound like a cement mixer! Bearing in mind that the odd basic server has one or two of these in, this is a right pain. I do not think that it is board related though. On a...

I have posted whilst a bit drunk. I have had half a bottle of wine right now. Hic!! :wink:

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing; if it is really true....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24065.html

You may not expect it to, but that does not mean that it will not! In my experience, no matter how good the drive is you get at least a 5% failure rate in the first two years. Cheap drives are worse. With regards to the rest of what you said, I quite agree. MS is sure to want to update the...

Yes, that is what I mean! Bearing in mind how unreliable cheap HDDs can be, I don't think that Microsoft are being very good about it. They are storing up a lot of crap for the future.

Have a look at: http://www6.tomshardware.com/consumer/02q1/020204/index.html Am I the only person who worries about buying a console with an HDD in it? Especially a cheap Seagate or WD IDE! What happens if(when?) it fails outside warranty? Is this not going to have a major effect on the...

Replace the drive. The customer will not appreciate that you are trying to save them money by keeping a drive that you are not sure about. They sure as hell will be upset if it does fail, though. It is not worth the risk.

When humans talk to God they are called religious. When God talks to humans they are called schizophrenic.

Oops, sorry about buggering up the width in this thread, guys.

Assuming this is your laptop, the FSB is 100Mhz. http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/product/pdf_files/detailed_specs/satpro4600_062501.pdf

Yes, now I think we need to reboot your Cat. Maybe refurmatting and installing Cat O/S V2.0!! Oh, and don't forget the Begging For Food update V6, and the patch for eating grass and being sick on the floor. :lol:

You can teach monkeys to program websites better than that!

Oh my god!!! It makes dropping monitors on feet or being buried by a teetering mound of cardboard boxes look a bit sad really. Has anyone else noticed that the cuts you get from the insides of any computer always get infected and leave scars?

I love it here as well. I find SR much less personal than it used to be, and SF is much more cozy. Also, I don't get drawn into pointless discussions about politics with people I can never agree with. In short SF is much nicer place to be and is my first stop.

I saw a Bigfoot in an IBM PC only today. Shame on you IBM!! I remember seeing several JTS drives. None of them worked, and as soon as JTS went down none of the UK distributers would honour their warranties. Nice!

I am going to try Drive Copy 5.1. I well let you know.

Do any of you guys (and girls) have a good method for copying a Windows XP installation wholesale from one hard drive to another? I have tried Drive Image 5.0 which seems to be in the realms of chocolate firguards in terms of usefulness. Any simple commands like goos old xcopy in a Dos window?

Tannin: What you said may well be true, but a lot of customers wanted to play 3D games on their new PCs. AGP performance is a major issue in any circumstance when you sell a PC as a 'do it all' home computer.

I agree completely. Once upon a time we had to replace a batch of K6-2 450s with Celerons. They all went to different customers, but they all had random crashing problems. Mixtures of video cards O/Ss and apps. Even mobos and chipsets were different; we tried them all. That was the start of...

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Is that in cat years?

I thought BT were bad! I pay £40 a monthe for 512K ADSL. It works 5x faster than dial up, and 1 outage in 6 months. All I complained about was the price. i realise now how lucky I am.

Oh, the 810E2 is the actual chipset that supports 0.13 Micron CPUs. It is limited to PC100 memory speeds, however. If you want PC133, you need an 815G chipset. Exactly the same except PC133 support. Try: http://appzone.intel.com/boards/ for all of your motherboard selection needs!

The 810E does 133 FSB and coppermine. It also has crappy integrated video and runs its RAM at 100Mhz. The 815 has an AGP option as well as integrated video. It runs its RAM at 133Mhz with a 133FSB CPU. The 815EP as above without the integrated video bit......OK, enough of this boring stuff...

Cooking just get in the way of eating. I don't like cooking because I always want to eat what I am cooking before it is ready. Talk about torture!!