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"Mike Gilmour" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in message
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I'm not an LG employee and won't necessarily buy another LG product in
my
life, but I'm alway very keen to try and balance up some the more
ridiculous
prejudices that exist in this group......

Hear hear Keith. I've been using an LG DVD player for years, its given
good
performance & perfectly reliable. Hell if it broke down tomorrow I'd still
think it was good value for money.


Exactly, you can only speak as you find.

In my case we had a (cheap) Sony VCR that was somewhat less than
impressive - didn't/doesn't make me think to condemn Sony as a
manufacturer......

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:12:53 +0000, Ian Molton wrote:

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:09:57 +0000 (UTC)
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

Haven't you figured out how to use it yet?

I use IBM AIX every day

fx: falls over laughing

fx: reads post again

Bwhahahahaha.

fx: wipes tears from eyes

God you're funny.

I like to keep the little people amused. I don't suppose you ride a
Triumph motorbike by any chance?

AIX seems to keep the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (slogan - tomorrow,
I *will* be master of this world) running quite happily, so it's
probably better than you'll ever need.............
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:34:26 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:

I'm not an LG employee and won't necessarily buy another LG product in my
life, but I'm alway very keen to try and balance up some the more ridiculous
prejudices that exist in this group......

I have LG drives in my PC, standard issue with Evesham PCs, and they
work perfectly. I also have a massive American style LG fridge/
freezer, which is every bit as good as an Amana, at half the price.
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:06:29 +0000, Glenn Booth
wrote:

Hi,

In message , Ian Molton
writes
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:09:57 +0000 (UTC)
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

Haven't you figured out how to use it yet?

I use IBM AIX every day

fx: falls over laughing

fx: reads post again

Bwhahahahaha.

fx: wipes tears from eyes

God you're funny.

If you think that's funny, next time you get on a plane remember that
National Air Traffic Services are still keeping air traffic on target
using PDP 11s at West Drayton.

****! Now, that *is* scary, especially as I'm off to India for a
couple of weeks, tomorrow............. :-(
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:03:23 +0000, Glenn Booth
wrote:

Hi,

In message , Stewart
Pinkerton writes
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:19:46 +0000, Kurt Hamster
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:46:34 +0000 (UTC), Stewart Pinkerton used
to say...

I take it you mean avoid Linux at all costs? Good advice..........

Now why would that be good advice?

Because it's used exclusively by sad lefty geeks.................

Oy! I resemble that remark! I've got a Linux box here, and I only
fit two of those criteria :-)

Admittedly, it only runs a firewall, NAT and DHCP services, it has no
monitor, no keyboard and no mouse, and I haven't actually touched it for
about two years, but I do have one running.

Admittedly, it's stable.......................
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:37:35 -0000
"Mike Gilmour" wrote:

That's extremely bad! Have a go and guess MTBF ;-)

That was my last year, but I'd say about 15% of them were gone by the time I left (no, I didnt count them).

That was in one year as they were installed in that year.

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:58:20 -0000
"Keith G" wrote:

you are missing my point - you are
allowing past experience to prejudice your view of today's offerings from a
substantial company like it is incapable of correcting mistakes or improving
its products.

No, you point isnt lost on me, honest.

My monitor is an Iiyama Vision master Pro 400 (the previous was a VMpro 17 - I wish the later numbers meant what the earlier ones did!)

When I got my 17, I sent it back (poor convergence).

I sent the replacement back because the red gun was loose

I sent *its* replacement back because it wasnt sharp enough.

The fourth one... the fourth one... stayed up! (and didnt burn down or fall into the swamp). I think its 7 years old now, and when I had it (2 years of its life) it was on 24/7/365. My dad uses it now, and it still looks as good as the day I bought it (he uses it far less, though).

My 400 is the third I owned. (I sent the first two back for similar reasons to the original 17's).

Its been running for 5 years now, almost entirely 24/7/365 (displaying a picture the whole time - I never power it down as it takes too long for the picture to 'lock' in place from cold (I adjust mine to use every last phosphor smudge on the screen). And its only now starting to go downhill (not reliability, but the picture tube is gradually fading - its contrast is worsening, and it actually has burn-in of the task bar! not a common thing to see in a modern unit - gives some idea of the punishment it gets!)

I'd buy another Iiyama unit in a flash, partly because (once I do the QC guys job for him) they seem to be solid units, but mostly because the customer service has be *ABSOLUTELY* stunning - they did not argue (nor should they have) even once - and THEY paid all the postage!

If I could afford one of their 1600x1200 TFTs I'd have one *in a flash*.

LG on the other hand, almost *never* acknowledge faults, and, even when its proven to be their fault, they wont do the honourable thing (and this isnt just the recent drive failures under linux due to their non-compliance to the atapi spec).

Anyway it's a shame because I've got this LG L3000H 30" (30" VIS) WXGA
Active Matrix TFT Color LCD Monitor I don't need any more and I was going to
offer it to you......

Hehehe ;-)

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:24:41 +0000 (UTC)
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

I also have a massive American style LG fridge/
freezer, which is every bit as good as an Amana, at half the price.

If it ever breaks, let me know how the customer service is ;-)

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:24:41 +0000 (UTC)
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

I like to keep the little people amused. I don't suppose you ride a
Triumph motorbike by any chance?

Nope. Werent they the ones that made aluminium castings so shoddy that
oil actually seeped THROUGH them ?

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:52:36 +0000, Kurt Hamster
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:24:41 +0000 (UTC), Stewart Pinkerton used
to say...

AIX seems to keep the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (slogan - tomorrow,
I *will* be master of this world) running quite happily, so it's
probably better than you'll ever need.............

They all appear to be NT around my part of the country. Including the
ATMs.

That's just the desktops.
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