Thanks for the........soap box? What exactly does this contribute? I said that the advice I got from M-Audio worked. How is that stupid?
On 2/3/08, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31 Jan 2008 at 14:11, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > > On 1/31/08, A-NO-NE Music <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are you sure companies recommending repair permission isn't pre-Tiger? > > > > Nope. Not pre-Tiger at all. > > Lots of vendors give stupid advice. On the Windows side of thing, the > usual (stupid) advice is "reinstall Windows", often after reformating > your hard drive. This is almost never necessary, and takes an > inordinate amount of time even without the reformat. There are only a > certain subset of problems that a new installation will actually > solve, so it really is dumb advice, and usually offered with no > sympathy whatsoever for the user's time and effort in rebuilding the > system. > > On the other hand: > > I've been doing PC support professionally since c. 1990, and the more > I see, the more I think that sometimes the systems have become so > complex that they behave in ways that appear chaotic. So, I do > practice a bit of "voodoo troubleshooting," sometimes recommending > trying things that I don't really think have anything to do with the > problem. > > I have also considered when going to a client whether or not I should > carry with me a live chicken, so that I could cut off its head and > sprinkle the blood on the problematic computer. Sometimes the advice > I'm giving seems equally connected to the problem at hand. > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
