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kd7sovFractal Fedex. Fractal HP. Fractal computer. About a year ago I bought this computer. It has worked fine, for the most part. Unfortunately, that "most part" does not include a particular problem. Specifically, from time to time my computer decides to "faint". I don't know what else to call it; it's somewhere between sleep mode and shutting down. Twice now - last September and two weeks ago - this has gotten frequent enough that I've contacted HP Support. (This time I was smart enough to do it by e-mail, which completely removed the problem of deciphering Indian accents.) Both times they've had me send the thing in to their repair center.
This time, hopefully, it's solved. (It arrived only a couple of hours ago, so it's too soon to say for certain.) Unfortunately, they decided to send it back via FedEx Ground. So they received it Monday, sent it Tuesday - and then it took a week to get back here. For some reason it went on the delivery truck at quarter to three this morning, and then didn't get to my house until a quarter to two this afternoon.
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Fractal UDOT. For those who don't know, UDOT is the Utah Department of Transportation. They deal with both roads and - I'm pretty sure - UTA, the trains and buses. I've complained about the latter before, if not necessarily here. But the former...
Road-construction season, in Salt Lake County, is about early February to late November, with bits squeezed into December and January wherever the snow's melted. During this time, any given street with a speed limit over about thirty has something like a fifty percent chance of having some obstruction on the stretch you want, and a five percent chance of being completely closed. (These statistics based solely on my subjective experience thereof. No factuality is necessarily involved.) Even when they're not working on a road, unless they've actually finished what they were doing they leave it obstructed. The lengths of the projects they usually undertake mean that any given road may be at least partly out of commission for eighteen months at a time, and there's no telling how soon before they start in on it again.
This time, hopefully, it's solved. (It arrived only a couple of hours ago, so it's too soon to say for certain.) Unfortunately, they decided to send it back via FedEx Ground. So they received it Monday, sent it Tuesday - and then it took a week to get back here. For some reason it went on the delivery truck at quarter to three this morning, and then didn't get to my house until a quarter to two this afternoon.
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Fractal UDOT. For those who don't know, UDOT is the Utah Department of Transportation. They deal with both roads and - I'm pretty sure - UTA, the trains and buses. I've complained about the latter before, if not necessarily here. But the former...
Road-construction season, in Salt Lake County, is about early February to late November, with bits squeezed into December and January wherever the snow's melted. During this time, any given street with a speed limit over about thirty has something like a fifty percent chance of having some obstruction on the stretch you want, and a five percent chance of being completely closed. (These statistics based solely on my subjective experience thereof. No factuality is necessarily involved.) Even when they're not working on a road, unless they've actually finished what they were doing they leave it obstructed. The lengths of the projects they usually undertake mean that any given road may be at least partly out of commission for eighteen months at a time, and there's no telling how soon before they start in on it again.
