On Friday, January 20, 2012, Daniel Fussell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/20/2012 02:18 PM, Nicholas Leippe wrote: >> >> I have had decent luck with penguin computers in the past. >> I have never successfully ordered an HP server--all the resellers I've >> attempted to use simply wasted my time--I'd spend 1/2 hour on the >> phone detailing the specs I needed, only to have them email me a quote >> ten minutes later that contained nothing remotely like what we had >> just discussed... >> > I don't have any problem getting HP servers, but I'm usually buying > blades in quantity and I'm sure that helps keep their attention. > > I share an office with a coworker with the same first name as me, and > that did confuse one HP reseller when we were both asking for quotes on > different things at the same time. We ended up with each other's > quotes. Other than that, we I haven't had a problem. > > Come to think of it, my department has a lot of problems related to > similar names. I had an hard drive replacement coming for one of my > arrays. It was shipped to my boss, but there are 3 people here with the > exact same name; we'll call him John Doe. Our Shipping/Receiving people > got confused and sent the disk to a John Doe in the carpenter shop, and > it took a couple days to finally track the disk down. > > Grazie, > ;-Daniel Fussel
And this is the reason i go by Dale in proffesional settings but ask friends to call me Steve :) > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
