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Comment on Conservapedia: The Biggest Joke on the Internet by MegaSolipsist

MegaSolipsist — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:28:29 +0000

Summary of conservapedia:
Atheism is evil.
Evolution is evil.
Christians are good, honest, hardworking people.
Anytime an evolutionist mentions a creator, they are not IDers’ but deceitful atheists trying to weaken christianity.
Islam etc does not count.
Atheism is a conspiracy of devil-worshippers trying to suppress all of the evidence for creation.
For factual accuracy, I would place conservapedia about on par with uncyclopedia.

Comment on Installing Dropbox on Debian Sid by Chris

Chris — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:51:14 +0000

Hi Raphaël,

Thanks for your comment – good to hear that we’re going to see this in Debian. Thanks for all your work on this and everything else

Comment on Installing Dropbox on Debian Sid by Raphaël Hertzog

Raphaël Hertzog — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:26:05 +0000

FWIW, I have prepared Debian packages that are going to be included in Debian. You can get them here. There are packages for Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) and for Wheezy/Unstable. Hope this helps.

Comment on Conservapedia: The Biggest Joke on the Internet by Lachlan

Lachlan — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:39:13 +0000

I think it’s serious, but that a few sneaky’s have gone and changed it up, for comic relief.
Thankfully, it is the view of a minority in America (and a very small one at that), and though it may look scary, it’s not really a threat to anything.
Pretty funny though , .

Comment on TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac by skyblast

skyblast — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:06:02 +0000

What made Magnummac what it was, was it’s attitude to dealing with people. The attitude was something like this “If you have purchased anything to run on your mac, we’ll offer free phone support for it” It didn’t stop there, you could even walk in with your PC and your iPod you just bought from noel’s and get free help setting it up, right then and there. Why did we do this? simple, word of mouth. It’s amazing how many customers became MM customers because of that policy. Yes, I worked there. 7 years under Magnummac and 2 years under RTSG.

I don’t begrudge renaissance for making a profit from the company and charging for all services offered. It doesn’t stop me from hating the fact I have to take my machine there to get it repaired, especially when they forget to plug fans in and I have take the machine apart myself to complete a “warranty” repair.

Unfortunately the old Magnummac way of doing business is well and truly gone, the staff that made the company what is was have also gone.

Comment on TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac by Maggie Bruce

Maggie Bruce — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:03:48 +0000

Further to my email of Dec 29th regarding MagnumMac / Renaissaance- it appears that not only are they unwilling to accept their responsibilites under the Consumer Guarantee Act, they are also dishonest. My final invoice was faxed to me after them having had the machine for a week. It was for the insignificant, but irritating, sum of $138. I missed the chance to get the machine back before Christmas so called them prior to New Year to pay and have the laptop couriered back to me (I live an hour and a half out of town). They A) charged me for the courier costs B) ran $276 through on my visa. $276??? I thought the total was $138! Well no, not it seems if you can keep adding to the bill and amending the figures after the fact. A little creative accounting has pushed my invoice out by $120 dollars. I am sure there will be some wonderful justification for why the extra costs were added, but right now I’m looking a two different invoices for the same repair. And a warranty repair at that.

I took a breath and placed a ‘ I am VERY unhappy with this,’ phone call. The staff member who took it assured me that the difference would be refunded immediately. That was New Years eve. Today is the 6th, and still no refund- although after placing ANOTHER phonecall to them I am assured that, yes, the money was refunded on that day, and that I just need to wait as the holidays have delayed the payment being processed. ‘It’ll turn up eventually’.

Great! cheers guys! Lucky that wasn’t my last hundred bucks huh? Jerks.

Comment on TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac by Mike Dalton

Mike Dalton — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:15:44 +0000

I also had an issue of my hard disk failing. The hard disk was replaced, and I was told the data recovery, if I wanted, would be extra.
I didn’t want to wear that, so sought advice. Unfortunately, in the terms of use that one agrees with Apple, Apple are not liable for lost data, or loss arising from data loss.
It was an expensive lesson to read the fine print closely, but solved for $99 as I bought a back up hard drive.

Comment on TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac by Maggie Bruce

Maggie Bruce — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:00:06 +0000

When my hardrive failed (3 weeks ago) after slightly more than a year of use I was advised by the Renaissance (Wellington) service department that althought the drive would be replaced at their cost, the cost of data recovery would be charged for. Although the manager had several compelling reasons for why I should accept this, and a lovely lecture on the benefit of backing up one’s data weekly, I was dubious (and annoyed). A call to the Consumer organization confrmed that they should NOT be charging for data recovery (the product failed- the loss of data was a foreseeable result of this and should be recovered and replaced as part of the repair). Being advised to call Apple in the hopes they might be more sympathetic and offer to wear the cost is also a breach of the Consumer Guarantees Act. Apparently they (the Consumer people) have a file on Renaissance/MagnumMac thick enough to knock a person out. I will be paying the service charge in order to have the machine returned, but am going to seek reimbursement of the cost through the disputes tribunal. Disappointing attitude guys- I wish I could have foreseen it when I walked into your store and spent $4000.

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Comment on TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac by Jon

Jon — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:53:18 +0000

Wow.. why would you buy a mac at all? Stuff that!

Glad I read this all – glad I ain’t getting in to cult of mac, wasting time and money…

Mac hardware does look pretty though… pity it blows.