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kulula — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:25:13 GMT

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re: Lutz Roeder Saved my Mind

Ernst Kuschke — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:44:57 GMT

This reminds me of a crazy day in 2004:

dotnet.org.za/.../1967.aspx

+1 for SVN!

re: Lutz Roeder Saved my Mind

colin — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:18:12 GMT

Sourcesafe swallowed some of my code a few years ago and I swore never to use it again. I was trying to add some new code to the repository and it didn't like the folder names (I think one of them started with a '.'), it threw out an error message and happily deleted my code from the local folder. Luckily I was also able to use reflector to recover my code.

Sourcesafe is not.

re: Lutz Roeder Saved my Mind

LordHits — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:25:38 GMT

Your solution to never get into this predicament again: Subversion. 'nuff said.

re: Acer Extortion

Prieur — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:41:16 GMT

A few months ago I contacted Acer, to get prices for a new battery and keyboard. Just like you they told me that they cannot sell me the parts over the counter. They could not really give me a reason why...

So I sent the blasted thing in. Hoping that it would all be resolved quickly. How wrong I was. Firstly it takes them about 2 weeks to simply give me a quote, even though they knew what I needed. Finally got the quote, paid them and all is well. A week later I contact them to inquire about how my notebook is doing. They had no record of it being there. After another few days they finally got the repair order, and started work.

After another week or so, turns out the tech working on my machine, went on leave and never transferred it to another tech. Once again they had no record of it.

A few days later they said that they had started work. Finally a week or so later, I got the call that I was waiting for. Only it was not ready. It now needed a new CPU, HDD and Motherboard. Some guy made a stuff up with it. It went in needing a new battery and keyboard (one button was broken), the next moment they are quoting me R6000+ for repairs. I refused to pay, demanding to know what the hell they did with the thing.

Finally spoke to a manager. They agreed that I will not have to pay for any repairs, other than the original quote. They ordered the parts (well you can imagine what happened then)

A week or so later, I call to follow up. Turns out they lost the notebook. It is physically gone. By now I was just laughing whenever I spoke to Acer..... ;)

Finally they found it, delivered it. Only they wanted to have one last dash at hopelessness and forgot to bring my AC adapter. Strangely they actually delivered it the next morning.

Well yes, what should have taken me one drive to Acer to get the parts, and about 30 minutes to install, turned into a few month fiasco.

I will never ever ever buy any Acer product again. Luckily I decide what our company uses, so neither will our company.

(sorry for the long comment, I just had to share the story)

re: Acer Extortion

Willie Roberts — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:17:48 GMT

I paid a massive amount for my top of the range Acer, except it didn't have 2GB of RAM for Vista. 3 Months later I find out that only they can upgrade the RAM ? WTF ?

I've upgraded the RAM and the HDD in my HP notebook myself, approved my HP as they understand users would upgrade these items in particular.

re: Acer Extortion

trumpi — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:50:38 GMT

My Acer laptop is currently in their workshop. Luckily I have a machine supplied by my employer, but the same laptop broke while I was a contractor and it really hit me. The first time I also had to send the laptop back because they didn't fix it the first time around.

re: TashiTagg.com, The Sun on the Web.

bkelly — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:08:26 GMT

Now there's one for Cocaine Drug Test, Haha.

re: TashiTagg.com, The Sun on the Web.

Armand du Plessis — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:53:01 GMT

Very apt Google Ad showed on your post just now - http://www.methcoffee.com/ ;-)

re: TashiTagg.com, The Sun on the Web.

bkelly — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:35:19 GMT

No Ernst, it wouldn't have been a joke if I said caffeine.

re: TashiTagg.com, The Sun on the Web.

Ernst Kuschke — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:07:19 GMT

Cocaine?! Are you sure you're not thinking of caffeine? ;-)

re: A Nice Restaurant Spoiled

Heidi — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:44:36 GMT

I have been a loyal patron of Salvatore since we moved to Jhb in 2001. TONY and GRACINDA are the best hosts you will ever find & the food has ALWAYS been fantastic! I have not found a pizza any place in SA that is close to Salvatore's. They make THE best pizza in SA! The rest of the menu is great as well. Their cocktails have won them prizes.

re: Kulula.com: Overbooked and Tardy

Lance — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:35:55 GMT

I fly twice monthly on Kulula.Staff are friendly and so far so good. SAA sucks.The Airports Co is the real issue in my book.

re: 1Time: Only One Time!

CMM — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:03:01 GMT

I've taken 1TIME twice and both times my flight was delayed... the last one up to 3,30 hours!! I lost another connecting flight I had booked with another company so I tried to talk to them and ask them what I could do, but the only answer I got was: "it's not my problem, bye bye"

1TIME NEVER ON TIME, and NEVER AGAIN...

re: Kulula.com: Overbooked and Tardy

Piet — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:08:00 GMT

Brady, stop being a bargain chaser and pay your way!