http://www.gnorb.net/768/dell-no-accidental-damage-coverage-in-florida Fiction has to be plausible. Reality is under no such constraint. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:13:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.gnorb.net/768/dell-no-accidental-damage-coverage-in-florida#comment-21231 Gnorb.NET » Blog Archive » Life Updates Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:51:37 +0000 http://www.gnorb.net/technology/20070116/dell-no-accidental-damage-coverage-in-florida/#comment-21231 [...] The first step in all of this was to buy a better laptop for business use. As I’ve mentioned before, our 600MHz PIII Inspiron 8000 running Windows ME just wasn’t cutting it anymore. Mind you, it makes a great laptop for just taking somewhere and writing, so it’s not all bad (especially when I load VidaLinux (VLOS) on it), but it isn’t up to the task of doing things like running Money 2006, Word 2000, Excel 2000, WinAmp video, accessing a wireless connection, and running Firefox all at once. If those seem like stringent standards to you then sorry to inform you, but you’re obviously not a computer geek. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. [...] [...] The first step in all of this was to buy a better laptop for business use. As I’ve mentioned before, our 600MHz PIII Inspiron 8000 running Windows ME just wasn’t cutting it anymore. Mind you, it makes a great laptop for just taking somewhere and writing, so it’s not all bad (especially when I load VidaLinux (VLOS) on it), but it isn’t up to the task of doing things like running Money 2006, Word 2000, Excel 2000, WinAmp video, accessing a wireless connection, and running Firefox all at once. If those seem like stringent standards to you then sorry to inform you, but you’re obviously not a computer geek. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. [...]

]]> http://www.gnorb.net/768/dell-no-accidental-damage-coverage-in-florida#comment-19544 Florida Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:15:34 +0000 http://www.gnorb.net/technology/20070116/dell-no-accidental-damage-coverage-in-florida/#comment-19544 Dear Gnorb: That's alright, just don't let it happen again. Dear Gnorb: That’s alright, just don’t let it happen again.

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