Monthly Archives: February 2004

New phone

I returned the Audiovox 8900 phone today and got a LG 4400 from Verizon.

I decided that the ‘gee-whiz’ features fo the 8900 just didn’t outweigh the defects (as I perceved them).

The 4400 has everything I really need … and only one feature that would be nice to have that isn’t there (speakerphone).

Interestingly enough … the ad slick for the 4400 indicates that it has a speaker phone … but the PhoneScoop page does not indicate so … and neither does the documentation.

This weekend I’m going to take the ad slick and the phone into the Verizon store and talk to someone about it. Seems like false advertising to me.

Have a good voyage computer

Well, the laptop is boxed up and ready to start it’s journy to Dell’s repair depot in Tennesee.

It sounds stupid … but I really feel like a part of me is missing … I mean, hell, it’s just a stupid computer. A hunk of metal, plastic, & silicon. I’ve got more of ’em lying around here (using one of them now).

Oh well, maybe it will be good for me. 🙂 <yeah, right>

I don’t want to imagine what it would be like if Ginny’s computer malfunctioned for more than a day or so.
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Dell Service Rant or Can you be without your computer for 2 weeks?

The fans on my Dell Inspiron 8100 started acting wonky today … so I ran the diagnostics and was informed that the fans were failing.

I called Dell service. Held for 10 minutes and then found out it was the corporate support line, so I called back and waited another 10 minutes.

I described the problem to the tech (pleasant guy named John, who was definitely in America) and he said that the fans probably needed to be replaced. Unfortunately, my service contract is “Rapid Response Depot”… and the turnaround time is about 2 weeks.

Now I don’t know about you … but I certainly can’t be without my computer for 2 weeks.

The online service manual have instructions on how to replace the fans … but there’s no part number, and John couldn’t find one as a “Customer Replicable Part” … so the only option I currently have is to send it in.
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