[rescue] I tried one last time ...

[Erie Patsellis]

Wes, I still have the twin to yours, compaq branded. If I can find a 
handful of hours to get the new trans in the van, I'll be able to make 
it down in a few weeks.
works been insane, bordering on impossible for one person. If anybody is 
in the St. Louis/Indy area and planning a trip towards Carbondale in the 
next few weeks, email me as it sounds like wes is getting crazy.....

erie


Wes Will wrote:

>At 09:30 AM 10/26/2005 -0500, you wrote:
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>>On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:20:07AM -0500, Wes Will wrote:
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>>>And this time, I actually got a reply.  Notice I didn't say a helpful
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>reply.
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>>>"No docs.  Too old.  How's about you talk to a sales weasel?  We can sell
>>>you a new one."
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>>Wow.  When I called up nStor to find out pinouts for the serial port on an
>>old cr8e RAID array, after a couple of days I was exchanging emails with the
>>guy who designed the unit, and he FAXed me the engineering drawings for the
>>serial port cable!
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>One of the companies in the chain of acquisitions is in the UK, and I even
>called them.  Singularly unhelpful, bordering on extremely rude, with one
>of the most impenetrable Bow Bells accents you can imagine.
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>The Eaton/PowerWare people admit to owning the entire old Deltec line, but
>to nothing else.  No docs of any sort, nothing except a referral to their
>sales weasels, who insist on pushing one of the twin generalization
>fallacies:  "This is new and therefore better." (Which is just as wrong as
>insisting that "This is old and therefore good." but in this case, old =
>paid-for, which is the main criterion for me at this stage.)
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>The gonif in sales actually tried to get me to buy a new 10KVA stand-alone
>unit to replace this rackable 2.5KVA UPS.  Without knowing or asking
>ANYTHING about the loading, even, but he was sure that the 10KVA box was
>the smallest I could need.  It's a dual Xeon box and a raid array in my
>basement ....  
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>I could run my whole -house- on a 10KVA unit.
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>Dimwits.  "Push the veal."
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>wes will
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