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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5029)	1/14/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: funk	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14778

Two things : Mushkin rules! hehe And buy.com has got one strike against them. I just got through their circuitous system of returns for my LS-120. Sort of a hassle, but I won't cry about it too much. However, what I will cry about is this. I ordered three or four items with them for this new pooter, I was careful to order IN STOCK items. Two days later i get an email that my sound card was in fact NOT in stock. ok. I get my order together from tech store. I have it one click away from execution. I am on the phone with a buy.com guy, as it said in the email i could cancel that way. I cancel. I ask him a second time JUST to be XTRA sure. "you canceled the Diamond monster 300mx blah blah blah?" yup he sez cancelled. Click I fire off the tech store order. now saturday i get an email from buy.com Subject: BUY.COM Order No. 522117 Notification Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 03:42:13 "GMT" From: "Sales_Service@BUY.com" <Sales_Service@BUY.com> To: Dear Valued Customer: Thank you for ordering from BUY.COM. The following product/s which you ordered have been shipped on Thursday, January 07, 1999 from Fremont, CA: Shipped 1 MONSTER MX300 PCI (SKU# 021709) well crap! then look at this: ubject: RE: HEY ! Re: BUY.COM Order No. Notification Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:46:46 -0500 From: BuyComp Customer Service <BuyCompCustomerService@sbservices.com> To: Sorry for the inconvenience. This item was shipped on 1-7-99. If you still do not want this product, please send an email to returns@buycomp.com to request a RMA so we can identify your product and credit you accordingly. Please include in your email the order ID # and the product SKU# that is being returned. Also specify whether it is defective/nondefective, hardware/software, bought within 30 days/after 30 days, and whether a replacement or credit should be issued. You also have the option of refusing the package and being subject to a $25 dollar refusal fee. If you have any further questions, please contact our sales department at 1-888-880-1030. In your email you may also request to receive credit for shipping and handling back to our warehouse. Regards, Steve Buy.Com Online Customer Service so i am keeping the damn thing. i plan on whipping together another box, but if life wasn't going so great anyway, I would have been good and pissed about this. GOOD and PISSED! lol whatever funk

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5029)	1/14/1999 10:30:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

ZP, I think the partition is too big for FAT16. You can always copy font files to a floppy drive, which is accessible either way. D is inaccessible because NT can't see FAT32 and Win98 can't see NTFS. No matter which is "C". Clarence is definitely to blame for all of my trouble trying to get an overclocked C300A out of Jon. Or at least I can't think of anyone else to blame at the moment. (Me? Naw, no way ...). BTW, Jon is as agreeable as everyone has reported. A great guy to work with. Fortunately I'm local to him, so I'm ducking shipping and going down to do a pickup. That is, if he can locate me a processor (processors). Fonts aren't free, though there are a few good free ones on the Microsoft web site. There are many more fonts than good fonts, so be selective (there are many more horses asses around than horses, too, a striking parallel...).

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5029)	1/15/1999 7:35:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

ZP Why do you think the D drive is inaccessible? Does the drive letter show up in NT explorer? Duh.. I forgot...I haven't reformatted D to FAT 16. The D drive shows up in Explorer but when I click on it I get the inaccessible/ unrecognizable file system message. There is definitely a lagtime between some of the theoretical understandings I had before this machine became a reality and their applications now on a live system. Real life will catch up to school life though, in no time, as it always has in the past. PM is still in Spots No Fly Zone<g> I think its time I petition him to lift his sanctions on this weapon of mass deconstruction<g>. standard Win font I was surprised Geneva wasn't included with the OS. Thats really the font I am most accustomed to........if I could dwnld it somewhere I'd just put it in the Fonts folder and I bet it would work. Although I am confused about the included NT fonts not being available to Netscape. While we're on the subject, I don't care for this IBM 104-key keyboard much. I am sorry I didn't try harder to find the Cherry Keyboard I was also considering. At the time there were seemingly more important hardware issues to research. Now it is apparent that everything is important on a custom computer at some point in time. But I got the major stuff pretty right with a whole lotta help form you guys:-) Jon seems to be more busy now than he was before Christmas. I hope he doesn't experience the PCNut syndrome. Clarence