From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 12/04/02-01:31:14 PM Z
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Mateo wrote:
> It's sort of funny how these things work. I was just thinking that I could
> probably copy your whole message, replace all the computer terms with the
> words Gum Print, post it and you could tell me how I raised some sort of
> evil gum print spirit and that it's really not that difficult. Maybe you can
> start a Gum Pint support number and I can call you for a $25 "incident".
Actually, I've been doing that for free -- have even gotten calls from
OTHER people's students in a local establishment (which shall be nameless)
and yes, figured it out, tho to say that is both bragging I suppose and
tempting fate.
Meanwhile, don't keep us in suspense -- describe your gum method and
problem -- about time we got away from Pyrocat HDT stain, I mean really --
Did you just begin? Are you using water soluble paint? I mean acrylic
won't develop, it's non-soluble when dry. Do you size the paper? You
don't heat dry, do you? Hope you're not insulted by such suggestions
-- every one of them is REAL and present and happening around the country
even as I write, also suggested by some expert or other.
Or maybe you have a kit? If so, maybe put my Norton Utlilies and your gum
kit in a missile and send to Iraq...??
curious...
Judy
>
>
> mateo
>
>
> >
> > Eric, if I knew to do all that, would I be sitting here tearing my hair
> > out and beating my head against the wall? Except i think that there's a
> > curse on this G4 that makes everybody in the line drop 50 points of IQ,
> > and all connections turn to stone...and it's not just Netscape... Yes,
> > I'm running 9.2.2, or put an "i" in that, and make it ruining, or vice
> > versa.
> >
> > For one example, I spent 3 hours on tech support with Adaptec today, doing
> > everything their "expert" could think of to get Netscape, Explorer,
> > whatever, whoever, to download the upgrade of their SCSI card, well it was
> > a tense session (starting with the fact that they INSISTED I get the
> > serial number off the scsi card INSIDE the computer, but all those green
> > cards looked alike to me except some were big & some were tiny and NONE of
> > them had legible serial numbers, or names, or personalities, or mothers
> > and fathers or the milk, even the skim milk, of human kindness), so
> > finally they "made an exception" and gave me an incident number, but to
> > make a 3 hour saga short (I never did make it to the gym, which didn't
> > break my heart as it was 27 degrees F out & I decided I could forgo the
> > mile walk), finally on 5th try the thing downloaded, got into my system
> > file, etc., and test showed it worked, that is, it would go on sleep &
> > wake up without crashing... Trouble is that was only a SHORT sleep. After
> > an hour sleep I got a CRASH message, though no real crash (yes, they do
> > tease), BUT, something about it destroyed the autosleep -- The phone rang
> > & I couldn't get off for an hour, the thing stayed on.
> >
> > Nearly every day since June has had similar episode. I've spent a great
> > deal of time & truly excellent amounts of money on experts, hauled
> > the thing to Tekserv (using a lifetime of marital brownie points for the
> > several trips by car), of course ripping out the connections for all
> > peripherals to get there, and spent 3 days sitting on the bench with their
> > bakery take-a-number -- that solved one little problem tho not the one i
> > went up there for, which was an error of Apple Tech support which-- FLASH!
> > Stop the Press!! -- has got its head up its ass. Hope you will excuse the
> > vulgarity, it's been a hard day, month, trimester.
> >
> > I do not mention the sessions with Adobe about the disappearing Pagemaker
> > program, another saga entirely... That was indeed finally diagnosed by a
> > local expert, and in case you're wondering, ADOBE DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE, I
> > mean not even a shred... I should demand my $25 back but lack the
> > strength. Pagemaker still crashes at about 10 minute intervals, but no
> > longer disappears. Don't tell me to get Indesign, it causes brain damage
> > with red boxes, & my brain is damaged enough.
> >
> > Maybe the expert at Adaptec picked the wrong driver -- the one Tekserv
> > installed was fine (lost in a clean install that didn't solve a different
> > problem) -- if I could get through to Tekserv on the phone I'd ask them,
> > but 6 hours on hold is my limit... So happy days, I get to speak to my
> > friend Carl at Adaptec again tomorrow... He deserves it.
> >
> > Judy
> >
> >>
> >>> My G4 crashes AT LEAST 10 times a day. However, I
> >>> believe that's system
> >>> 9, and I believe it's deliberate. I think the
> >>> friendly folks at Apple
> >>> have deliberately left 9 in lethal state to convince
> >>> the miserable and
> >>> afflicted that if they throw out all their software
> >>> and hardware which
> >>> won't work on 10 and get new and take 10, they'll be
> >>> fine. (I haven't
> >>> heard of anyone with only 10 getting crashes, it's
> >>> the two together or 9
> >>> alone, IME.)
> >>>
> >>> I'll add that my late lamented 8.6 only crashed
> >>> twice in three years, and
> >>> both times it was the Evil Netscape.
> >>
> >>
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