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Apr 18, 2001, 9:29pm

The Commonwealth will currently be closed this week and next week due to we
are moving our hard-drive to a new Pentium 3 with 1GMZ and 20 gig. The hard
drive there fore has to be moved. When we get back online again we will be
offering a heck of alot more in our systems.

The Commonwealth won`t be answering any e-mails or telegrams because of
this.

Sorry :(

Leaf
www.awcw.co.uk
Leaf at awcw.co.uk

Apr 18, 2001, 10:19pm

[View Quote] That's 1 GHz; I'm assuming you meant 20 gigabytes of hard disk space and not RAM (I would hope not :O )


-Agent1

Apr 18, 2001, 11:45pm

It takes a week to move a hard drive? :) I can do that physically in 2 minutes, data transfer in an hour or so.
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Apr 19, 2001, 12:08am

lol. the young'ins take more time to do it cause they are inexperinced.

Apr 19, 2001, 2:49am

he's probably getting a professional technician to do it. :) That takes
about a week. I should know, I work for one.

SW Chris

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Apr 19, 2001, 6:08am

Heh actually best way is to mirror to the new HD first...I do that stuff in a matter of a few minutes, if I don't
my customers get crazy. :)

[View Quote] > It takes a week to move a hard drive? :) I can do that physically in 2 minutes, data transfer in an hour or so.
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Apr 19, 2001, 7:51am

Ahh, the "professionals". I've caused my share of staged problems and have gotten back some of the most HILLARIOUS diagnoses. My
overheating CPU (wiped off thermal paste) was because of a damaged power suppply.
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Apr 19, 2001, 9:54am

I`m having the new computer delivered and yes I am getting it set up by
Dell.

Leaf
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Apr 19, 2001, 8:21pm

lol. I laugh at all tech support. 90% of the time I know more than the
person on the other side of the phone. Tech support is only good for
ordering replacement parts. And to hire a professional tech to do anything
to your comp is also a waste. They over charge and almost all of the times
they are late.

Apr 19, 2001, 8:56pm

Really. Just for grins when I went to swap my K6-2 550 with a K6-2 300 a few days ago (300 runs MAD cooler than 550, by about FIFTY
degrees) I called up Best Buy to see how much they'd charge to do it and how long it'd take. They said it'd take TWO WEEKS and at
that point I just hung up and went and did the job in five minutes (would've taken less had I been using a case that didn't require
complete disassembly just to pull the motherboard tray)
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Apr 19, 2001, 10:39pm

Actually I had one of those You Made My Day things recently, called ATI tech
support and the guy had me clickin and typin as FAST as I could, took him 2
minutes to find out that I couldnt get tv capture in W2K because I needed an
additional component for DX8. Now if I had JUST tried to upgrade to W2K
during the week instead of having to wait for Monday to CALL this guy I woulda
saved a lotta damned time. However, I did learn some stuff. Like, don't do
THAT again, or THAT, or THAT, or even THAT... :)

[View Quote] > lol. I laugh at all tech support. 90% of the time I know more than the
> person on the other side of the phone. Tech support is only good for
> ordering replacement parts. And to hire a professional tech to do anything
> to your comp is also a waste. They over charge and almost all of the times
> they are late.

Apr 21, 2001, 2:15am

er yeah.. that one's interesting. We should put together a top-10 list of
Computer Mis-diagonises.

:)
SW Chris
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Apr 21, 2001, 2:23am

Tech support is useful for the 99% of people who don't know the first thing
about how to operate a computer. I'm not talking about those phone service
support people, but rather the ones who take your computer and actually fix
it. ;) I've heard a lot of people say that tech support in the cities
overcharge, say charging up to $150 an hour? I'm not sure on the figures...
But where I work in a small town, it's $40 for an hour and $20 for a half
hour, and we're barely raking in any profit.

:)
SW Chris.
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Apr 21, 2001, 2:24am

You own your own tech support biz?

SW Chris

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Apr 21, 2001, 10:57am

#10. "Is that a jellybean in there? I don't think that's supposed to be
there." *yoink*

#9. "Well, no wonder you can't SEE the problem with your computer, you don't
have a monitor in here."

#8. "I have this problem too at home. You're not supposed to put old records
into CD drives, just cds."

#7. "Those donut sprinkles shouldn't be there. I cleaned up the insides of
your computer, it should be working fine..." *walks away wo/ fixing anything
and w/ a sprinkled donut in hand*

#6. "It seems you have a virus. I suggest you take some Tylenol."
"What about my computer?"
"what about it?"
"It has a virus too."
"Well, it must've caught it from you."
*sigh*

#5. "You say your internet doesn't work? Contact your ISP."
"BUT YOU ARE MY ISP!!"
"Really? I'm just tech support."
*sigh*

Ran out of funny jokes, it's too early in the morning. :))

Nornny

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Apr 21, 2001, 12:56pm

He's a webhost, I believe :)

-Agent1

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Apr 21, 2001, 1:56pm

$200 an hour for two weeks to install a new hard drive.
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Apr 21, 2001, 1:57pm

While peering through the Lexan window in the shape of the UN logo on the side of a highly customized case...
"This hole isn't supposed to be here"
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Apr 21, 2001, 2:18pm

I believe Datedman (also known as Dataman) owns Synergy Corporation
(http://www.synergycorp.com/), which provides Active Worlds hosting,
website design and hosting, domain hosting, CGI programming, and other
services.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 22, 2001, 5:50am

Yah plus I am an expert at dicking around :)

[View Quote] > I believe Datedman (also known as Dataman) owns Synergy Corporation
> (http://www.synergycorp.com/), which provides Active Worlds hosting,
> website design and hosting, domain hosting, CGI programming, and other
> services.
>
> Builderz
> Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
> http://www.stuffx.com/aw/
>
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