On May 16, 2012, at 3:10 AM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
All were made in China, which is not known for its rigorous quality control.
You shouldn't blame the Chinese for doing what the cheapskate American
companies are telling them to do. If shit is specified, shit will be received.
Dave
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My apologies. I didn't realize that Dell was telling them to make shit.
On May 16, 2012, at 1:43 AM, David Mann wrote:
On May 16, 2012, at 3:10 AM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
All were made in China, which is not known for its rigorous quality control.
You shouldn't blame the Chinese for doing
They probably didn't. That would have been the motherboard vendor.
Dell just specified the cheapest, piece of crap motherboard they could
find to buy in bulk.
From: Jeffery Smith
My apologies. I didn't realize that Dell was telling them to make
shit.
On May 16, 2012, at 1:43 AM, David Mann
On 14/05/2012 8:21 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
I guess it was the fact that Vista even made it out of beta that sickened me. If they had
rebadged Windows XT as Windows Vista, it would have won PC Magazine's OS of the year. I
had 4 gb of memory, more than all of my previous computers combined. And
From: Jeffery Smith
At the risk of sounding elitist, Windows Vista was the straw that
broke it for me and sent me to Mac. I know that Mac has the
reputation of being the computer for people who are too stupid to use
Windows, but I've been using computers since 1969. Windows 2000 was
the last
The new Dell was really what exacerbated the problem. The motherboards were
failing on a weekly basis. They would work for a few days, and then when trying
to boot the computer, I would get a starting-up screen that would just never
proceed to anything. Dell did replace 3 motherboards free of
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:10:24PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote:
Good lord, you used Vista? You poor bastard.
I used XP for almost 10 trouble-free years and went to WIndows 7. No
complaints at all.
It's too early yet to tell if I'll have no (meaningful) complaints, but
that's the path I went.
This computer I use for email goofing off on the web is stuck in the
Microsoft Update KB2686509 trap. Not really a big problem, more of a
stupid annoyance.
Basically, I get a message from the system tray (lower right corner on
the screen) telling me there's an important Windoze Security
This computer I use for email goofing off on the web is stuck in the
Microsoft Update KB2686509 trap. Not really a big problem, more of a
stupid annoyance.
In case anyone actually gives a shit, I finally managed to fix it.
It was a problem with a bunch of invalid registry entries for keyboard
At the risk of sounding elitist, Windows Vista was the straw that broke it for
me and sent me to Mac. I know that Mac has the reputation of being the computer
for people who are too stupid to use Windows, but I've been using computers
since 1969. Windows 2000 was the last stable version of
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Subject: Re: OT: Stupid Microsoft!
At the risk of sounding elitist, Windows Vista was the straw that broke it
for me and sent me to Mac. I know that Mac has the reputation
Jeffery Smith wrote:
At the risk of sounding elitist, Windows Vista was the straw that broke it for
me and sent me to Mac. I know that Mac has the reputation of being the
computer for people who are too stupid to use Windows, but I've been using
computers since 1969. Windows 2000 was the last
I guess it was the fact that Vista even made it out of beta that sickened me.
If they had rebadged Windows XT as Windows Vista, it would have won PC
Magazine's OS of the year. I had 4 gb of memory, more than all of my previous
computers combined. And resize to 600 pixels wide locked it up long
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