25 Mar 2002 barryp   » (Journeyer)

VisionTek

So I got a VisionTek nVidia graphics card (one of those day-after-Thanksgiving deals at BestBuy), where the cooling fan started going bad. Kind of sucks being crippled by a chunk of bad plastic probably worth less than a buck. The box claims a lifetime warranty, so I give them a call a couple weeks ago - the person I talk to is pretty cool and says they'll ship out a new fan, no hassle at all. I'm pretty impressed, but the thing never shows so I call again today (get through very quick) to find that the fans were in stock, but they were out of envelopes. They'll be sure to ship one out right away though. Phbbt ... how lame is that? Oh well, I can give their phone guys a thumbs-up for being easy to deal with, but a big thumbs-down for their shipping dept.

Advogato XMLRPC

Yeah, this XMLRPC thing is pretty cool. The net definitely needs more of this kind of thing - where you bypass browser interfaces designed for people, and let software talk directly to software. Would be nice if there was a more obvious link to the advogato-xmlrpc docs, rather than having to look back through old diary entries for the details.

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