Hey I just Noticed

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It depends on your location in relation to the West coast
of U.S.A. Posted time is Microsoft office time in
Washington state. Your time is probably East coast (EDT).
Remember Daylight Saving Time ends "next" Sunday morning.
 
WTF online support???????????/


LOL




D.Currie said:
Must be the way you're reading it. Time is right here.


It's not live online support, it's a peer-to-peer newsgroup.
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Mine is fairly current here. This is meant to be a technical community
Steve, not a substitution for support. Although you can submit your
technical questions and problems here, all of the advice is unwarranted,
albeit usually correct. If you have a true technical issue I would advise
you to call Microsoft or your vendor for assistance.
 
Steve said:
This newsgroup is about 3 hours behind.

So much for live online support.
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It not "live online support". Is is collaborative Usenet
discussion/assistance from anyone who choses to respond. Read about
Usenet (search on Google) to learn more how it works.
 
And I was just getting ready to start with the hacksaw partitioning tools
and mild abrasives for diskcleaning too. Ah well...
 
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TimeGuy said:
It depends on your location in relation to the West coast
of U.S.A. Posted time is Microsoft office time in
Washington state.
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No, this isn't correct. The time you see on newsgroup posts is
*your* local time, not the the time in Washington, and not the
poster's local time.
 
This is all BS. I posted my message and never saw it
appear until hours later. I still can't find my first
message. You can't call Microsoft on the weekend. You
can't get online support without the product ID and you
can't get the product ID unless XP is working.

I am going back to the store today and returning XP. I
struggled on my own to try to fix the problem and now I
have now operating system.

Microsoft has the worst tech support of any company I have
ever experienced.

If I had a choice I would never use MS products ever
again.

But then, I don't have a choice, do I.

This should be illegal.

Steve
 
*Where* did you post it? You do realize that there are
hundreds/thousands of newsgroup servers around the world and it takes
time to propagate messages.

You realize that this NG really has nothing to do with Microsoft (which
I find refreshing).

And you also realise just by posting you aren't guaranteed anyone will
reply--especially if they don't understand the problem, nor have a
solution to offer.

My solution to offer you:
- read up on what newsgroups are all about and how they work.
- discuss with the operator of the web site you use to access this
newgroup information to clarify their service offerings.
- read up on XP and figure out from books or other resources--not this
newsgroup--on how to make it work for you.
- consider alternative products, e.g. OS/x by Apple, Linux, Solaris from
Sun, etc. for your computing needs ... or go back to whatever previous
version of Windows you prfer.
 
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TimeGuy said:
OK...
In Outlook Express my post appears as 11:26 PM 10/18
On the website group my same post appears as 9:26 AM 10/19

http://communities.microsoft.com/Newsgroups/default.asp?
ICP=windowsxp&sLCID=US&newsgroup=microsoft.public.windowsx
p.general

Please explain this.
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Sorry, I was referring to the time stamp as displayed by
newsreaders. What displays on the web site, I don't know, since
I've hardly looked at it. But certainly it can't be customized
for each user's local time zone.

Your earlier post displays here as 9:26 PM on 10/18, putting you
two hours east of me.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup


 
Ken said:
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Sorry, I was referring to the time stamp as displayed by
newsreaders. What displays on the web site, I don't know, since
I've hardly looked at it. But certainly it can't be customized
for each user's local time zone.

Your earlier post displays here as 9:26 PM on 10/18, putting you
two hours east of me.
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the Web access is in EDT
 
*Where* did you post it? You do realize that there are
hundreds/thousands of newsgroup servers around the world and it takes
time to propagate messages.

You realize that this NG really has nothing to do with Microsoft (which
I find refreshing).

And you also realise just by posting you aren't guaranteed anyone will
reply--especially if they don't understand the problem, nor have a
solution to offer.

My solution to offer you:
- read up on what newsgroups are all about and how they work.
- discuss with the operator of the web site you use to access this
newgroup information to clarify their service offerings.
- read up on XP and figure out from books or other resources--not this
newsgroup--on how to make it work for you.
- consider alternative products, e.g. OS/x by Apple, Linux, Solaris from
Sun, etc. for your computing needs ... or go back to whatever previous
version of Windows you prfer.
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You forgot.. Don't use the SCO interface. Get and use a newsreader.

:)

--

David

"Due to Viewer dicretion...
Graphic violence is advised"

http://www.HeroicStories.com/
http://www.thisistrue.com/
http://www.StellaAwards.com/
 
And I was just getting ready to start with the hacksaw partitioning tools
and mild abrasives for diskcleaning too. Ah well...
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I love the style of your repair methods. Direct and to the point. :)
 
On occasion they even work too. The last person we had partition their drive
(to prevent loss of data when re-installing or other various OS issues)
hasn't ever come back. This means, without a doubt, that a hacksaw (and a
good lubricating oil) is by default the best partitioning method known to
man kind.

New technology, leading edge, is being used by some advanced users who've
appropriate safety equipment and a bandsaw. Until further research has been
done by the folks at BSU (that's NOT Boston or Baltimore) I'd recommend that
harddrive partitioning be done only with a handsaw. For the users, the
do-it-yourselfers (e.g. Linux users) it also gives many more additional
points which can be used for drive mounting.

Next weeks lesson will be for Linux users only - or Windows in the WINE
environment - and is based on disk compression utilities. For those wishing
to get a heads up on the subject feel free to do some research on the
following command prompt.

*note: this is best run, like all good *nix users, at the root level*

root/bin/etc/tools/disk_comp/sledgehammer will be the command prompt on
which we specialize. GNOME users will not be welcome as the GUI is for wimps
best left to more efficient computers like the Commodore Vic 20 or advanced
Amiga users.
 
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