Right Now XIII
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Originally Posted by bahula03,Jul 29 2006, 04:33 PM
right now, what 
happened last night?
happened last night?
escalated story short: My 17" PB G4 has had a nagging little problem for a while, the PC card slot would work once, then would kernal panic the machine upon reinsertion
..intermittently of course 
THAT was the little problem, 2 hours and 3 support people into Apple Care, and an archive and install later (and a power failure in the middle of the install) my Sys folder was toast!
I was up till 3:30 fixing it myself after an Apple Care rep told me "my machine was hanging on by a thread and I need to RUSH to an Apple store"
....no I just needed a little direction on NOT HOW TO up the computer MUCH worse than it was! 
Of course its the end of the month and all my work/reports are due Monday...
Cliff notes for
s APPLE SUCKS but much less than the alternative.
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Originally Posted by bahula03,Jul 29 2006, 04:46 PM
right now, tech support seems to be faltering a bit is your system at least back to useable?
is your system at least back to useable? I had to reinstall the OS, and create a new user account...what a freakin mess!
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Originally Posted by clawhammer,Jul 29 2006, 04:49 PM
right now, Were you at least able to back up all your documents?
It was just a big PITA to get it al back w/ proper permissions etc. Right now I always have a backup no more than 3 days old for a reason!
BACK UP!!!! 
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Originally Posted by mikes2k,Jul 29 2006, 04:58 PM
Right now all my files were/are intact. It was just a big PITA to get it al back w/ proper permissions etc.
Right now I always have a backup no more than 3 days old for a reason! BACK UP!!!!
It was just a big PITA to get it al back w/ proper permissions etc. Right now I always have a backup no more than 3 days old for a reason!
BACK UP!!!! to thinking ahead, 
to apple support.
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Originally Posted by clawhammer,Jul 29 2006, 05:02 PM
right now, to thinking ahead, to apple support.
to thinking ahead, to apple support. people have to deal with when they have a Dell problem! 
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Originally Posted by mikes2k,Jul 29 2006, 05:14 PM
Right now and to think they are consistently rated in the top 2 or 3 for tech support. I cant imagine the :bs; people have to deal with when they have a Dell problem!
people have to deal with when they have a Dell problem! 
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Right now I'm thinking about the geophysical survey I did at 5:30 this morning in Pasadena, before the gym, with magnetics and ground-penetrating radar looking for an underground storage tank (UST). I detected a positive-negative dipole anomaly, the magnetic signature of a UST, mostly situated under a building: 10,000 gallons. Last week I did a soil vapor survey at that site and detected no concentration of aromatic hydrocarbon volatile organic compounds, including oxygenates, from gasoline releases to the subsurface soil in the soil vapor, the void space between the particulates.
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