Re: Since the list is so quiet....

It's also the hard drive, the motherboard, the modem, the power board,
the hinges, etc. In short, anything that can go wrong goes, largely
because they run very hot.

Pam

Michael Koch-Schulte wrote:

> It's usually the battery. Most recons have one year of warantee too.
> At least here in these parts.
>
> ~m
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* graeme.lyall <mailto:graeme.lyall@ntlworld.com>
> *To:* pam@pinehill.com <mailto:pam@pinehill.com> ;
> alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca <mailto:alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 10, 2006 5:07 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Since the list is so quiet....
>
> No, please, not a laptop. I have wasted a lot of money on those
> things.
> Never again. Pam is quite right, they go wrong and cost a fortune
> to repair
> which is uneconomic.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pam Niedermayer" <pam@pinehill.com <mailto:pam@pinehill.com>>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> <mailto:alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>>
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 10:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Since the list is so quiet....
>
>
> >I strongly recommend buying laptops new since they all seem to
> die within
> >three years max. Now they can be resurrected, but at a huge
> relative cost.
> >
> > Pam
> >
> > Michael Koch-Schulte wrote:
> >
> >> Get a new (or two year old off lease) laptop with the wireless
> (wifi)
> >> connection. Chances are you can get free internet from a
> neighbour's
> >> unprotected wireless network....just my two cents ;^) (It'll
> also work at
> >> Starbuck's, probably.)
> >> ~m
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> *From:* Judy Seigel <mailto:jseigel@panix.com>
> >> *To:* alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> <mailto:alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
> >> <mailto:alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:38 PM
> >> *Subject:* Re: Since the list is so quiet....
> >>
> >>
> >> Since the list is so quiet, I figured I might be able to
> appeal to
> >> the
> >> leashed brain power & expertise for advice on a problem
> that arrives
> >> suddenly after more than 10 years of dial up... So I'm
> hopelessly
> >> backward, but that's well known -- who else would take up gum
> >> printing in
> >> old age?
> >>
> >> My problem is -- I'm still doing e-mail by dial up --which
> >> actually has
> >> many advantages, including that I get to spend the oodles
> of money
> >> saved
> >> on more intellectual pursuits (although the real reason I
> do it is
> >> (a)
> >> stubborness... and (b) simplicity, I have enough systems,
> services,
> >> contrivances, and "service providers" in this house for an
> army).
> >> Besides
> >> which I can really excuse myself from web hopping, which
> makes me old
> >> before my time.... So what's the problem?
> >>
> >> A couple of weeks ago I started getting an intermittent "no
> dial
> >> tone"
> >> message from my attempts via terminal emulator (Z-term) to
> log on...
> >> though I could lift up the phone and get a dial tone. Trying an
> >> hour or
> >> two later, I did get a tone, so I figured there was just
> too much
> >> traffic... somewhere.
> >>
> >> But today I couldn't get a dial tone all day, so tonight
> >> (12:30-ish AM) I
> >> plugged into an extension of my husband's office phone which is
> >> nearby (I
> >> mean sometimes I HAVE to use touch tone, since my dearly
> beloved
> >> white
> >> antique wall phone is rotary... And, I'll have you know, I
> could
> >> get $45
> >> for that on e-bay. I think folks use them as planters, or ash
> >> trays, or
> >> something.)
> >>
> >> So there is a dial tone out there & the problem is...
> something in
> >> the old
> >> phone? (Sob !)... That's intermittent? The demons got tired of
> >> Carmen and
> >> found me? Sliding down the telephone wire?
> >>
> >> But how could my rotary phone be working, give me a dial
> tone and
> >> calls in
> >> and out but say it has no dial tone for a connection? And
> some time
> >> later, with the same configuration, same connections, etc.,
> >> decides to
> >> work, then maybe the next week won't? A loose connection? A
> >> flaky thumb
> >> plug?
> >>
> >> Verizon has lately been taking an overdose of dumb pills
> and was
> >> absolutely no use at all... they for instance left me one
> of those
> >> robot
> >> messages to say a non-working outlet was due to my faulty
> phone,
> >> when it
> >> belonged to somebody else in the house who had already had it
> >> fixed -- by
> >> verizon.
> >>
> >> So verizon said this problem was caused by my service provider,
> >> but it
> >> seems rather to be lodged in my old phone, a split
> personality of
> >> some
> >> sort. Anyway, I suppose that old phone which doesn't hear
> as well
> >> as I do
> >> any more is due to be replaced (ash tray anyone?). Can you
> still
> >> buy a
> >> landline phone? Anyway, thanks for listening, if anyone has a
> >> suggestion,
> >> that would be even better...
> >>
> >> Judy
> >>
>
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