Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:52:59 +0100 From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> To: Chris Howells <howells@kde.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD support? Message-ID: <20031118135259.GA20592@lara.unibe.ch> In-Reply-To: <2764.138.253.231.145.1069161158.squirrel@secure.devrandom.org.uk> References: <20031118115649.58e3574f.timopie@dodo.com.au> <200311180923.06256.howells@kde.org> <20031118111338.GA20387@lara.unibe.ch> <2764.138.253.231.145.1069161158.squirrel@secure.devrandom.org.uk>
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:12:38PM -0000, Chris Howells wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:23:01AM +0000, Chris Howells wrote: > > > well, your fault. > > Hardly. I was 18, buying my first laptop of my own (rather than using > parents hardware), and I didn't particularly want to lie to them, because > I believed that they were a good reputable company. How wrong I was. Quite > clearly now I have learnt my lesson and would certainly have lied (and I > will never buy from them again). hehe. i didn't mean this as an offense. but one thing i learned that most support people do not believe you when you tell them that you are positive that the problem is a hardware fault (and i guess they are right not to believe everyone, as i imagine there are many people calling tech support who do not have a clue). they usually tell you to reinstall windows, and i guess that is a good idea, provided you actually runs windows. so i tend to tell them that i tried two different machines, two different operating systems and two spare parts of every peripheral. that usually makes them surrender :-)
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