[COLUG] Sony support sucks for anything other then windows users...

[Steve Roggenkamp]

I quit buying Sony products when it was revealed that they put rootkits 
on the CDs published by their music label. I figured that as a consumer 
I could vote with my wallet.  The only time I consider the brand is when 
there does not seem to be a decent alternative.

Steve

Pat Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:19:25 -0400, Duane <duane at cacert.org> wrote :
>
>   
>> Ok I'd never ever ever recomend anyone get a sony product if you plan to
>> use anything (and I really really really mean anything) other then
>> what's shipped on it, which from a retail user is fine, however if you
>> run linux and have dma errors spewing into the syslog by the boat load
>> "I'm sorry sir but I can't take your word for it, and we don't accept
>> hardware problem errors from 3rd party software"...
>>
>> So when I hung up we both agreed to disagree apart from the fact if I
>> can get hdd error messages to occur with the installation CD, which is
>> little consolation when I know a hdd is damaged and going to fail and
>> can't use it until I have proof it's failing from their own software...
>>
>>     
>
>
> Simple solution.  After backing up your data, pull the drive and apply > 12
> volts to it (like +24v).  Call them back and say that the drive is dead and
> won't work at all now.
>
> Pat
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