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Re: Installing Dropbox on Debian Sid

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Re: Conservapedia: The Biggest Joke on the Internet

MegaSolipsist — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:28:29 -0000

Summary of conservapedia:
Atheism is evil.
Evolution is evil.
Christians are good, honest, hardworking people.
Anytime an evolutionist mentions a creator, they are not IDers' but deceitful atheists trying to weaken christianity.
Islam etc does not count.
Atheism is a conspiracy of devil-worshippers trying to suppress all of the evidence for creation.
For factual accuracy, I would place conservapedia about on par with uncyclopedia.

Re: Installing Dropbox on Debian Sid

RaphaĂŤl Hertzog — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:26:05 -0000

FWIW, I have prepared Debian packages that are going to be included in Debian. You can get them here. There are packages for Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) and for Wheezy/Unstable.

Hope this helps.

Re: Conservapedia: The Biggest Joke on the Internet

Lachlan — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:39:13 -0000

I think it's serious, but that a few sneaky's have gone and changed it up, for comic relief.
Thankfully, it is the view of a minority in America (and a very small one at that), and though it may look scary, it's not really a threat to anything.
Pretty funny though , :P.

Re: TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac

skyblast — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:06:02 -0000

What made Magnummac what it was, was it's attitude to dealing with people. The attitude was something like this "If you have purchased anything to run on your mac, we'll offer free phone support for it" It didn't stop there, you could even walk in with your PC and your iPod you just bought from noel's and get free help setting it up, right then and there. Why did we do this? simple, word of mouth. It's amazing how many customers became MM customers because of that policy. Yes, I worked there. 7 years under Magnummac and 2 years under RTSG.

I don't begrudge renaissance for making a profit from the company and charging for all services offered. It doesn't stop me from hating the fact I have to take my machine there to get it repaired, especially when they forget to plug fans in and I have take the machine apart myself to complete a "warranty" repair.

Unfortunately the old Magnummac way of doing business is well and truly gone, the staff that made the company what is was have also gone.

Re: TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac

Maggie Bruce — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:03:48 -0000

Further to my email of Dec 29th regarding MagnumMac / Renaissaance- it appears that not only are they unwilling to accept their responsibilites under the Consumer Guarantee Act, they are also dishonest. My final invoice was faxed to me after them having had the machine for a week. It was for the insignificant, but irritating, sum of $138. I missed the chance to get the machine back before Christmas so called them prior to New Year to pay and have the laptop couriered back to me (I live an hour and a half out of town). They A) charged me for the courier costs B) ran $276 through on my visa. $276??? I thought the total was $138! Well no, not it seems if you can keep adding to the bill and amending the figures after the fact. A little creative accounting has pushed my invoice out by $120 dollars. I am sure there will be some wonderful justification for why the extra costs were added, but right now I'm looking a two different invoices for the same repair. And a warranty repair at that.

I took a breath and placed a ' I am VERY unhappy with this,' phone call. The staff member who took it assured me that the difference would be refunded immediately. That was New Years eve. Today is the 6th, and still no refund- although after placing ANOTHER phonecall to them I am assured that, yes, the money was refunded on that day, and that I just need to wait as the holidays have delayed the payment being processed. 'It'll turn up eventually'.

Great! cheers guys! Lucky that wasn't my last hundred bucks huh? Jerks.

Re: TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac

Mike Dalton — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:15:44 -0000

I also had an issue of my hard disk failing. The hard disk was replaced, and I was told the data recovery, if I wanted, would be extra.
I didn't want to wear that, so sought advice. Unfortunately, in the terms of use that one agrees with Apple, Apple are not liable for lost data, or loss arising from data loss.
It was an expensive lesson to read the fine print closely, but solved for $99 as I bought a back up hard drive.

Re: TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac

Maggie Bruce — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:00:06 -0000

When my hardrive failed (3 weeks ago) after slightly more than a year of use I was advised by the Renaissance (Wellington) service department that althought the drive would be replaced at their cost, the cost of data recovery would be charged for. Although the manager had several compelling reasons for why I should accept this, and a lovely lecture on the benefit of backing up one's data weekly, I was dubious (and annoyed). A call to the Consumer organization confrmed that they should NOT be charging for data recovery (the product failed- the loss of data was a foreseeable result of this and should be recovered and replaced as part of the repair). Being advised to call Apple in the hopes they might be more sympathetic and offer to wear the cost is also a breach of the Consumer Guarantees Act. Apparently they (the Consumer people) have a file on Renaissance/MagnumMac thick enough to knock a person out. I will be paying the service charge in order to have the machine returned, but am going to seek reimbursement of the cost through the disputes tribunal. Disappointing attitude guys- I wish I could have foreseen it when I walked into your store and spent $4000.

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Re: TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac

Jon — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:53:18 -0000

Wow.. why would you buy a mac at all? Stuff that!

Glad I read this all - glad I ain't getting in to cult of mac, wasting time and money...

Mac hardware does look pretty though... pity it blows.

Re: Conservapedia: The Biggest Joke on the Internet

Aaron — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:44:02 -0000

i can't believe there are so many people out there that are so stupid they believe the stuff on conservapedia in this day and age. it's 2010, douche bags. start doing research and learn something, instead of what you hear in church and on fox news. both of those resources are useless, pointless, and therefore a complete waste of time

Re: TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac

John Kim — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:05:39 -0000

Bought an iPhone3GS from MagnumMac in Albany Auckland Mall and it was just showing some problems (phone vibrates when pressed on upper left corner of the phone while in silent mode). So I requested a replacement under warranty since it's only been 3 months.

First thing I did when I walked in the store was to ask one of the staff how long the warranty was on new iPhones and he said 12 months. Then I asked if that warranty will repair or replace faulty product and he clearly said they will just replace with a new one.

The people who work there seems to be not so polite but at least they agreed to send it off. I was told it will take 2 weeks and they weren't going to provide me any temporary phone or anything. So I was just happy that they will get it replaced. I will see what they send me in couple of weeks.

Will post more of my warranty experience from MagnumMac Albany Auckland Mall in couple of weeks.

Re: TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac

Eric — Tue, 18 May 2010 02:43:52 -0000

The sales department from Magnum Mac in Wellington is still lousy.
Went in there on Saturday to buy a 27-inch iMac.
Staff were busy gossiping amongst each other, walking straight past me without enquiring if I needed any assistance.
Waited for around 15 minutes before anyone approached me. Absolutely useless!
Did manage to get it in the end as they happened to have stock.
If only a decent competitor would open up to go against them!

The service department (for all the negatives comments I've heard about them) were quite good.
They fixed my under warranty MBP in a fast, efficient manner and were quite helpful.
This repair was a few years ago so whether it's still the same now or I just got lucky that day, I don't know.

Re: Oprah, The New Religion?

Nicky — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:52:27 -0000

was reading all the blogs about magnum mac earlier was shocked to hear all the stories, simple question is why don`t they just improve their service dah you can`t all be wrong.... anyhow I have a graphic design company and I am looking for a mac expert to help service and troubleshoot with some issues I have on my macs, does anyone out there know where I can find someone ????????

Re: iPhone and Vodafone Data Plans…

perplexed — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:30:33 -0000

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Re: TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac

Rufus — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:33:32 -0000

Agreed, MM *still* are total schlong-bags (well in Wellington anyway). They were a good set-up 20 years ago when starting out in Christchurch but seemed to drift into mediocrity when the chain stores were opened. I just rang them at 1pm on a Thursday and the call rang off without an answer. Probably three muppets were engaged in a conversation about the iPad with a chin-stroking backpacker 2 feet from the phone. This is Customer Service 101 doesn't matter who's product you're selling.

Re: Google OS… Lives!

Brad Heap — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:10:28 -0000

Have you tried to compile and run the OS from source code? It is a good challenge but very rewarding when it works.

Re: We Want PlayTV – Freeview For Your PS3

Tim Pearson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:48:39 -0000

Play TV avaiable now for preorder from $193.99 from Fishpond. Also advertises that the EPG works. Doesn't sound right to me but you never know.

Re: We Want PlayTV – Freeview For Your PS3

Jim — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:06:49 -0000

Just another update... following a software update that was made available over the weekend, the UK unit that I bought to NZ is now working perfectly.

The unit decodes and upscales all freeview channels, including the 5.1 audio of TV3.

Live TV buffering (PVR) functionality is all working perfectly. If you schedule a recording, the PS3 will wake up, display a message that it is recording and will automatically switch off when finished.

The only gripe is that the programme guide is only populated for the next few hours, though placeholders for program information are shown for the next couple of days.

You can't schedule two channels to record at the same time in the future (but you can view one while another is recording).

Interestingly, the initial setup menu has an option for Australia now (it didn't used to) - which includes options for each territory.

Anyway, its working! If they start selling these in NZ, Sony will sell these by the bucketload.

I upgraded my PS3 to 320GB, so should have enough storage for the next while!

Re: Media in New Zealand

Chris — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:30:25 -0000

Thanks for the comments guys.

Unfortunately I had no luck getting a usable setup for my Media PC which is now sitting gathering dust. Most of the DVR apps are rubbish for some reason or other, and there's serious problems with my ATI drivers decoding interlaced HD x264.

I'm sure I'll pick it up again sooner or later once ATI pulls finger. Keep your eyes peeled for my next post regarding Big Media and their fear of technology.

Re: Conservapedia: The Biggest Joke on the Internet

Chris — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:26:56 -0000

Thanks guys for resurrecting this post! :)

I still check out Conservapedia every now and again, unfortunately not much has changed and, yes, it's still a joke.

Re: Conservapedia: The Biggest Joke on the Internet

Hooligan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:47:07 -0000

"It’s NOT a religious response to wikipedia!"

I agree, Grisha. It's the response of the religious right to wikipedia. You might find that the articles "reflect the opinion of Republicans and traditionalists" (that alone is a giveaway; it shouldn't reflect opinions but represent FACTS), but just a cursory glance at some of their articles reveal a HUGE pro-Christian slant. Take a look at the main page for starters; you'd be hardpressed to find an article that DOESN'T deal with Christianity or the bible. Compare the entries of George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama, their refusal to use BCE and CE, their "conservative bible project", and countless others.

Here's a sample of the popular articles at conservapedia:
Evolution
Atheism
Jesus Christ
Bible
Intelligent design
Creationism
Creation Science
Hollywood values
Creation Ministries International
Theology
Christianity
Christian apologetics
God
Etc., etc., etc. You get the picture.

However, I fully agree that conservapedia is a joke!

Re: TechTidBit: Avoid MagnumMac

Jamie — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:07:52 -0000

MM Are complete total idiots. I have not been to the bay yet but it sounds great. F*** MM

Re: Media in New Zealand

Jin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:47:37 -0000

I was going to attempt the same thing, TVNZondemand Boxee app. I mean shouldn't b to hard most of the American apps are esentially "browser casts". Then again the tvnzondemand interface is rather archaic and incoherent.

Another upside to tvnzondemand is it's in orcon's "o-zone" so data usage doesn't count to ur cap.

Re: Conservapedia: The Biggest Joke on the Internet

Grisha — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:39:55 -0000

It's NOT a religious response to wikipedia! The Conservapedia articles reflect the opinion of the Republicans and the traditionalists who support the Republican Party.
Not all the faithful people (Christians, Muslims, Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses etc) like the Republicans, and not all the atheists are liberals. These are steroyotypes. I'm confident that you can find an atheist who may heartedly oppose abortion or object to homosexual behavior on either moral, psychological or medical grounds.

But I agree that Conservapedia is a joke. Funny that they accused Wikipedia of being biased...