I placed an order for two books (Caine Black Knife and Toll of Hounds) from Amazon.com way back in July. The estimated delivery date was November 20 (these were pre-order items). The first surprise was that I got a discount of $2.80 after my order was placed: Amazon guarantees the lowest price on pre-ordered books, [...]
Or, the part where I can’t get my mobile phone working
I have an Airtel phone post-paid mobile phone connection, registered in the Delhi/NCR region. I had planned to use the same number (on roaming) in Mumbai, and hang on to it till next June, when number portability hopefully kicks in.
There was only one problem with [...]
I just renewed my Dell laptop’s warranty for a year… It cost me Rs. 7.5k, which is too much; but I couldn’t risk leaving it unsupported considering the hardware problems I’ve faced so far…
After my last post, there were a few more complications. Unfortunately, no one seems to have an idea about what to do regarding them.
The problem I face is very weird—when starting up the machine, it will always automatically power down within a couple of minutes. This happens even on the BIOS screens, but if by [...]
(I’m a bit rusty right now, haven’t been very active on this blog-front. What follows will probably be sub-par quality…)
OK, so my laptop (a Dell Vostro 1400, running Ubuntu 7.10 right now) started mis-behaving on Tuesday (25th March), and was unusable on Wednesday. I called Dell support on Thursday, and their phone-service was all-right I [...]