BrokenBlog

Check out this circa 1995 Newsweek article where someone writes about how the Internet is not all that great in the tone of “crotchety old man”. He comments on how newspapers can’t be replaced so easily, and since the Internet lacks the single most important aspect of sales, the salesperson, it can’t replace that either. Pretty funny stuff really.

His mistake was not seeing what advances in technology could take care of. He complains about how the Internet is just a huge mess of unfiltered data, he just couldn’t percieve of a time where this data could be better organized. He’s right about some stuff though, anybody who sees computers as replacing teachers is being silly. Oh no 10 years from now when robots rule the Earth I will be the fodder of future websurfers who will knowingly laugh at my foolish predictions.

I never really delete anything, and I was wandering around an archive within another archive file when I found George vs Martha. It’s a reenactment of sorts that two computer programs have in the The Terminal Man. I always found it pretty funny, in a weird sort of way.

Click here to see who wins.

I honestly can’t even remember when I made this.

I updated www.brokenfunction.com today. I had a good long hard look at orisinal and decided I should simplify things. It’s much lighter now and I removed all those incomplete projects which I figured belonged on here anyway.

Let me sum up this post for anybody who doesn’t want to hear another online rant. Don’t buy anything from Asus. Their products are garbage and their support is worse. Save yourself the trouble.

No matter how I try, it’s hard for me to think of Asus as anything but the worst company ever. Earlier this year my motherboard, an Asus P5N32-SLI Deluxe, caused my computer to freeze up for no apparent reason. After a difficult RMA process, partially due to mistakes I made, I eventually RMA’d the damn thing and got a refurbished (I hate that word) motherboard back. You can probably guess where this going, I even predicted it would happen.

The second motherboard broke down on me over a month ago, but instead of a reasonable RMA process I’m getting lied too and I still don’t have another one. Since the motherboard had the same exact problem I wasted no time and emailed them (because their online RMA department is down and has been for a while) where they promptly ignored me. I sent another email begging for an RMA number so I could send it in, only to find out the serial number I sent was wrong. I had to repeat the again, literally. After waiting 5 days, I sent in another pleading email, and suddenly got a response.

So I finally sent the damn thing in on Nov 19th and it’s STILL out there somewhere. Frustrated, I called them up and someone at the RMA department said they “just” got it, even though I paid for 3-5 day shipping weeks ago. This was a lie, as I have a delivery confirmation slip, and it arrived on Nov 26th.

So here I am again, my RMA and serial number still don’t show up on Asus’s website, and all my plans for winter break are going nowhere. It’s completely unacceptable, I’m being treated like trash and I truly need a working computer. I’m a poor college student majoring in Computer Science! I can’t do this anymore. Asus is actually hurting my grades and the quality of my life, but I have no choice, all I can do is take it.