From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 00:04:37 EST
jim..
he pulled the HDD's..
and the CDRW/DVD..
could not be any lewdly arranged bits and bytes..
unless.. those "byte"'s laying all over, naked, with nothing to cover them
up..!
it WILL be interesting to hear what the explanation is..
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Biggerstaff" <duh2000_at_verizon.net>
To: <thinkpad_at_stderr.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] EZ Serv insanity
> Did you happen to have a 'pinup' or 'bikini-clad' or some such mildly
> inspirational wallpaper?
>
> That seems to me to be the only possible thing a tech would see unless
> he/she went on a snoop, which shouldn't happen.
>
> jim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "STeve Andre'" <andres_at_msu.edu>
> To: <thinkpad_at_stderr.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:13 PM
> Subject: [Thinkpad] EZ Serv insanity
>
>
> > OK, we've talked about EZ Serv problems before, but this is
> > I think different from anything I've heard before on this list.
> >
> > My wonderful A30p developed a video memory problem last
> > week. I delayed sending it it 'till early this week so as not to
> > be without it on the weekend, at least in theory.
> >
> > I shipped it off, verified that IBM had it yesterday and found out
> > that it came back to my work place in the morning. It was a
> > busy day so I didn't get to it 'till evening.
> >
> > I happily opened the box and there was my thinkpad, along
> > with a note which I will give the first few paragraphs of:
> >
> > "Your IBM ThinkPad is being returned to you unrepaired, due
> > to the presense of an offensive of biological hazard.
> >
> > Upon initial inspection of your ThinkPad at IBM's EZ Serv
> > repair depot, out technicians found that your ThinkPad was
> > delivered to IBM containing an offensie or biological hazard.
> > The presence of this hazard prevents IBM technicians from
> > performing repairs on your system."
> >
> > I AM STUNNED. There is no odor on my ThinkPad, nor does
> > there seem to be any evidence of chemicals on it. I immediately
> > called IBM, and got a useless person who could only say that
> > there was a "problem" with it and could say no more.
> >
> > I was refered to another 800 number which was equally
> > useless, though the woman there did follow up with an email
> > since I had to leave for the commute home.
> >
> > Tomorrow I will be calling the 800 number that I got in email
> > and I will attempt to figure out what;s going on here.
> >
> > Has anyone *ever* heard of this? Does anyone know what
> > IBM's EZ Serve does to "inspect" ThnkPads for chemicals?
> > How do you prove that your ThinkPad does not contain
> > offensive or biological contaigon? It occurs to me that if Franz
> > Kafka had been born in our time I could see this being the subject
> > of one of his stories...
> >
> > Right now I am so disgusted that I can hardly type straight.
> >
> > --STeve Andre'
> >
> > ps: more tomorrow as it develops
> >
> >
>
>
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