Re: [OT] Attn: HP Pavilion 9680C (US) owners
I had the same problem with getting drivers for an HP printer once. I find
it totally absurd that you pay to buy a printer (or a computer) from a
company and when you lose the driver disk you have to literally BUY
another one from them. How is this even legal? By owning the printer you
automatically should own a driver set and if you lose that, the company
should make one easily available to you. Boy, I remember the day when you
could just download pretty much any driver you need from the internet. Not
on HPs site.....
What's funny is now microsoft is going to try to charge people to *rent*
their software. Does this mean that one day you will *rent* the drivers
from HP for a few months or so and then have to rent them again if you
need to reinstall? Can't we do something about this? I mean really, can't
you all see that most of the computer idustry is a big scam? I'm sure you
can.
-z-
-waking up and wishing I had a cigarette and/or coffee and not liking
their absence and then ranting...figures. :)
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Lamer wrote:
> Hang on, i'll try to fetch one for you.
> stay in touch(1) :P
>
> --
> k h a o s * lamer
> new name, new look, new ftp:
> linuxxxxx.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter)
> upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin F. Krafft" <madduck@madduck.net>
> To: "debian users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:13 PM
> Subject: [OT] Attn: HP Pavilion 9680C (US) owners
>
>
> > hi all,
> > please forgive this post, i am at the end of my wisdom, and HP prove
> > to be dorks on all counts again. This has nothing to do with this
> > list, but i spent a solid week now on the net and in touch with other
> > people, trying to get help at no success. i figure that there's got to
> > be some people even on this list that can help me...
> >
> > I am in desperate need for some drivers off the HP Pavilion 9680C (US)
> > recovery CD, which, of course, you can't download at hp.com. They
> > shipped their systems with that Conexant SoftK56 piece of junk modem.
> > I had to reinstall Win98 (please feel free to express your sympathy
> > via email!), and all the drivers and all the help i could get (mainly
> > driverguide.com) are useless - according to HP I need the original
> > drivers off the recovery CD if I want my modem to work.
> >
> > Moreover, they are throughly rude on the phone, you can clearly see
> > how the most important thing at HP too is the money... (they wanted to
> > charge me $25 per 15 minutes because i called from germany, even
> > though the US system i had purchased was still within warranty). ack!
> >
> > Does anyone have that CD?
> >
> > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
> > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck
> > --
> > due to lack of interest tomorrow has been cancelled.
> >
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