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eftychia at 10:54am on 2004-03-02The doorbell just rang. And a young woman in a green shirt explained what happened Saturday after she fetched a box out of her truck. The FedEx driver who usually has this route had his truck break down on Saturday. All his packages got re-distributed to other trucks. And "the computer didn't know what to make of it" (which could just as easily mean that there was a data-entry error, but it's more likely that little bar-code scanners were involved and the software simply wasn't designed with this particular motion of packages in mind).
Which means that the initial problem on Saturday (a truck broke down ... okay, this happens) and the glitch that made it all look panic-worthy (the web site said the computer had already been delivered, not delayed) were compounded by incorrect and/or incomplete information from the main FedEx customer support phone center (who told me that Baltimore drivers left packages without ringing the doorbell).
So I now have a faster computer. Once I figure out how to remove the truly impressive quantity of bubble wrap and cellophane tape (or give up and shred the bubble wrap). Now where are those Red Hat 7 CDs that I found Sunday when I was looking for somthing else? (Or can I start an install of a more recent version directly off the web and have it run while I'm off at rehearsal tonight? 56Kbps could take a while...)
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Damn, even if they do leave packages without ringing the doorbell, you'd think they wouldn't ADMIT to it! That's pretty damn irresponsible!
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wow
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I suspect youre right as to why it happened. The truck is supposed to be the last stage of the process.
And you were right to panic. "Delivered" means just that.
I found it kind of curious that you called them 15 min after that entry and they couldn't find out what the deal was. We've had UPS leave the "We were here, you werent" tag when "We were here thank you very much", and called within 10 minutes of the alleged attempt, and they recalled the (now very pissed off) driver.
Have fun!
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weird, but at least the outcome was good.
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install debian not redhat
Angie
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I figure I shouldn't notice a huge difference as a user, but will admin stuff take getting used to? The other Linux machines in the house are running Red Hat or Mandrake (so far, anyhow).
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politically redhat is a company that has a bottem line (which is why they are not going to be making any more releases). This influnces a lot of things in large part for the worse (they make releases every 6 month because they need to make money even if this does not make sence)
technically I find debian way easier to maintain it has less (or that I use) gui control panel stuff. But on the other hand updates are free and VERY easy to do apt-get update;apt-get upgrade every day will keep your system up to date. Even a new release comes out
replace upgrade with dist-upgrade and you are pretty much done. Also the debian release process fells a lot more q&a focused. Debian does full releases not very often they are at 3.0r2 and have been around for atleast 10 years. This mean packages are very well tested before they are released. The down side of this (if you run stable) is the newest version of stuff can be slow to be included.
From an admin side if you do stuff from the command line it should be pretty much the same.
Thanks,
Angie