Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.linux, in article
<slrnghmlj6.686.wookie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Harold Stevens wrote:

In <slrnghmdkj.g3h.ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

I don't know if you are still subscribed to Av Leak & Spy Technology

That's a real blast from the past! I haven't seen that since leaving
the aerospace/defense world 4+ years ago. I could afford them only
when they came free as a part of the workplace library. :)

The cover price (I wonder if _anyone_ pays that) is US$306 a year, but
the best subscription rate seems to be $239 for three years. I'm
probably getting my last renewal this year before retiring. The 'photo'
issue and databook is _almost_ worth it alone. The photos from the
Mars missions tips the balance for me. I _will_ miss it later.

about extra fees charged by some airlines, and wondered "What's
Next?" (and came up with the brilliant idea of pay toilets on the
planes).

The $30 roundtrip "fee" I'll pay American to check one very small bag
at Thanksgiving is quite likely the last "fee" like that I'll pay for
those nickel and dime scams while waiting for American to go Chapter
11.

I wonder if they refund the baggage fee if they loose your luggage?

Don't forget the US$2 a bottle for water or soft-drinks, and US$7 to
rent a pillow and blanket. Actually there have been a series of
articles about re-regulation - Robert Crandall (who's long gone from
AA) has been preaching it (example - speech at Wings Club in NYC on
June 10th). Freakin' idiots can't figure out how to price the product
to make money (even with substantially higher load factors and capacity
cutbacks) and they want protection from themselves. No. And they
wonder what happened to "customer loyalty" and employee morale. (If
you really think about it, the 'nickel and dime scams' is a well
established way of life - when was the last time you looked at your
phone and utility bills?)

You're close enough to Love Field - don't they go where you're going?

Bringing this back a bit more on topic: I had the "pleasure" of doing
an upgrade/maintenance cycle on an XP install I found in a dumpster,
now in a multiboot setup with SuSE 10.0 and Kubuntu 8.04.

Lessee, sda1 Suse /, sda2 Kubuntu /, sda3 swap, sda4 /home - yeah,
that's a maintenance cycle on XP.

I was reminded just how expensive M$ products are, and not only in
terms of the retail price alone. There's the added burden of doing
the regular malware updates.

Hmmm, I though the malware got updated within a minute or two of
connecting a windoze box to the net. Are you saying the skript kiddiez
are charging to put the latest malware on the system? My... what is
the world coming to? ;-)

Old guy
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