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Old 11th August, 2007, 10:08 AM
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So is Thursday a better day for you?
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Old 13th August, 2007, 11:31 AM
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Hoping you see your %*&%^@!, er, sainted laptop soon. It'd better be all that, if not, I shudder to think of the possible explosion.
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Old 13th August, 2007, 11:58 AM
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...I shudder to think of the possible explosion.
Yeah, I'm thinking Krakatoa would look like a pop-bottle by comparison.....
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Old 13th August, 2007, 12:32 PM
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Hoping you see your %*&%^@!, er, sainted laptop soon. It'd better be all that, if not, I shudder to think of the possible explosion.
After all this, it better be something very special.
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Old 13th August, 2007, 12:35 PM
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Judging by the adjectives used in his posts, it sounds like Dsio is being brought to orgasim through a laptop.

touche hardware boy.... never thought I'd see this day
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Old 13th August, 2007, 02:49 PM
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04-Jul-2007 Order Received
04-Jul-2007 Order released to manufacturing
10-Aug-2007 Ship from Factory
11-Aug-2007 Loading for Export


Estimate Delivery Date: 16-Aug-2007

Still waiting...
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Old 13th August, 2007, 07:02 PM
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Waiting is...
"A stranger in a strange land".
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Old 14th August, 2007, 02:26 AM
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Its possible that it could arrive tomorrow... its in the hands of DHL couriers right now, its a matter of whether or not they operate tomorrow.
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Old 14th August, 2007, 03:25 AM
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I am only mildly amused to note that "arrive in Australia" has it's own check box

I hope your laptop turns up asap dsio!
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Hope it turns up soon dude
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Old 14th August, 2007, 10:03 AM
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Damn! I'm begining to pace the floor for you! ":O}
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Old 14th August, 2007, 09:18 PM
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Its here
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Old 14th August, 2007, 10:11 PM
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Its here
I don't believe you!!! You should post a pic!!!
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Old 14th August, 2007, 10:22 PM
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I don't believe you!!! You should post a pic!!!
Gratz man!
Since you insist

Currently its defragging, at which point Vista is getting shrunk down to a 15GB partition, and Fedora is saving me from that joke of an operating system.
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Old 14th August, 2007, 10:34 PM
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Vista is worse than I ever could have imagined.

The security rubbish is completely in-your-face. It makes Linux look like an honor-system by comparison. The constant "do you wish to allow" "This has been blocked" rubbish is just crazy. Its just like the mac ad makes it out to be.
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Its just like the mac ad makes it out to be.
Ouch!

Also hooray that you finally got your laptop! Is it as good as you had hoped?
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Old 15th August, 2007, 04:54 AM
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The laptop is brilliant, but Linux support is terrible.
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It is lovely. And it is about time.....Abuse it well.
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