Smart plan, kid.

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

That $2000+ VAIO sure looked pretty on the shelf, didnt it?  But you got it from Fry's with a Fry's extended warranty. In California. And now you've come here to Boston for school. Where there are no Fry's to take it when it breaks. Now, finals are upon you, and your machine is broken.

No, I can't fix it for you and bill Fry's for it, that's not the way it works. If you'd gotten the warranty from Sony, then we could take care of it for you since we're authorized to do service for them. You'll have to call up Fry's service and see where you can take/send it.   I guess you'll be using the computer labs on campus until you get home. Hopefully somebody from Fry's can fix it while you're on winter break.

I don't know if it was you or your parents who had this stunning idea, but hopefully you'll learn next time to think about where you can get your equipment serviced when you purchase it.

I had an unintentional BOFH moment the other day...

[demented-pants.livejournal.com]

Some old computer-phobic guy calls, wanting to know about free options for virus-scanning that are worth having.

I suggested Avast.

(no subject)

[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

Anyone ever riddled through HP's trash?

I simply love their concept cases and mobos, ram, and test chips.

Scored quite a few dual-core 3.73ghz processors, 200+ chips of ram, and concept computers. Not to mention the most awesome raid array controller board ever. (Can support 16 drives.)

(I don't take the hard drives for respecting their legal reasons to privacy.)

(My friend's a trashman/driver, and picks up for HP.)

(no subject)

[brotherflounder]

An small in-progress update to this...

Whoever programmed this Yoog Search crap should be thrown into the Sun. Or a black hole. Or the Gorge of Eternal Peril.

Avast! is also officially useless. Thank you, Avira, for detecting things without gorging yourself on system resources.

And my brother is to be beaten with heavy sticks. I have no clue where he picked any of this crap up from (MalwareBytes picked up 66 legitimate problems and Avira is flipping out), but I shall be sure to cripple his account so that he NEVER DOES IT AGAIN. *cue evil laughter*