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Crazy Lady Calls Leo Laporte

Posted: May 4, 2008 at 1:28 pm by Mike in Flash Movies, Humor, Technology, Who Are These People?
Tags: Leo Laporte, nutty
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Computer Repair Fraud

Posted: March 28, 2008 at 8:10 pm by Mike in Flash Movies, Technology
Tags: computer tech, fix it, fraud
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Computer repair fraud, yeah its out there. Although I think a lot of it is just incompetence.

A loose ide cable should be an easy fix that is for a honest tech that knows what he is doing. At 1:33 in the video there is a shot of the screen with a voice saying keyboard failure. The keyboard failure had nothing to do with the ide cable, but if does show the primary hard disk not found which would point to the problem. For the ‘broken’ computers they are using Dell OptiPlex 110’s, computers we have at work although we use towers and theirs were desktop models.

In the news report there seemed to be this tone that $59.99 was too much to pay for such a simple fix. I don’t agree with that. How much does a plumber or electrician cost for 5 minutes of work. It can easily be $75 if not more since it is usually an hourly charge. (more…)

Will It Blend? - iPod

Posted: June 27, 2007 at 2:28 pm by Mike in Flash Movies, Humor, Technology
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Smith made me do it.

yumm..

Windows 386 Promo Video

Posted: June 27, 2007 at 8:43 am by Mike in Flash Movies, Humor, Technology
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Microsoft sent this tape to retailers to explain the benefits of Windows 386. Boring until the 7 minute mark when the production is taken over by crack-smoking monkeys.

No crack-smoking monkeys, but she was in the groove.