I totally agree. However I would go a little further and suggest that if someone wants a network card they should install it themself, that way if anything breaks nobody else is at fault (and if they can't screw a network card into their box themself then they're probably the kind of user we wouldn't want to be doing that with anyway, right?). Another suggestion, if you *do* have to open someone's computer wear a static wrist band. I never wear one when I'm working on my own stuff, just rest my wrist on the case... but if you're wearing one when you work on someone else's box and it mysteriously starts doing strange stuff and / or stops working, then you can't be accused of ESD...
But yeah, if we've got plenty of cd burners there then it shouldn't be much of a problem. Cheers, Gareth Zane Gilmore wrote: > I don't think that you're the sort of user that we're worried about. > > What I'm really worried about is a newbie coming in with a brand new > machine still under warranty and us trying to plug in a NIC and > squashing some pins on the PCI connector or zapping the motherboard with > ESD and the machine mysteriously never works again. > > No unless I *know* that the user is a fully informed and unwarrantied > user then I reckon we don't open up any machine. > > > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 09:25, Carl Cerecke wrote: > >>Chris Hellyar wrote: >> >>>I imagine there will be, I can throw one in my box of bits if you need >>>one... >>> >>>Although we're not intending to do too many installs via LAN, as the >>>complications that can cause are probably better avoided... >> >>I'll just be installing some software that I don't have the patience to >>wait for it to dowload through a 28.8k modem (like OpenOffice), and/or >>won't be available on a CD (like some games for 3-5yr olds). >> >>Cheers, >>-- >>Carl Cerecke, Assistant Lecturer|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Department of Computer Science, |Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 7859 >>University of Canterbury, |Fax: +64 3 364 2569 >>Private Bag 4800, |http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~cdc >>Christchurch, New Zealand. | >
