PC World, was Re: [Gllug] SCO Stuff

Alistair Mann alistair at lgeezer.net
Mon Feb 9 10:45:04 UTC 2004


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Thus spaketh Christopher Hunter on Sunday 08 February 2004 7:22 pm:

> In common with many retail outlets, they pay their staff a pittance,
> provide little or no training, and demand long hours.  This results in a
> rapid turnover of poorly motivated, ignorant staff.  

True.

> The equipment they
> sell is largely overpriced rubbish - ever tried a "Packard Bell" computer?

I'm regularly asked to fix PBs and they're so bad I considered charging more 
for the brand! For instance, some of them hard disk drives that are much 
longer than normal drives, and flatter with it, so one could simply swap in a 
new drive of the standard (ie, cheap) format. 
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Alistair
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