<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Eventually, yes, usually due to outside influences rather than old age but… hard drives fail more due to old age than outside influences.<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 9, 2014, at 19:48, Joel Dick <<a href="mailto:joel_cd@yahoo.com">joel_cd@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><span>Hah, I had to laugh when I bit my tongue and paid extra for a coax cable at Radio Shack as it was convenient at the time and I was trying to make a purchase there once in a while to show some support.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I felt like I was slapped in the face when the guy at the register tried to offer me a "1 year extended warranty, for only 2 bucks". On a cable... a freaking
cable... I just laughed and shook my head, I really should have just told him to cancel the sale on an already overpriced cable, but I guess I'm learning I might just have to let some things go, like radio shack in general.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Sorry to hijack the conversation, but yeah, I'm sure like everything, electronics will eventually fail. I just try to get the most lifetime out of mine before they're obsoleted (which seems to happen faster than the device fails).</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>-Joel<br><br></span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, May 9, 2014 6:18 PM, "<a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com">tclug@freakzilla.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com">tclug@freakzilla.com</a>> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:29 PM, paul g <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pj.world@hotmail.com" href="mailto:pj.world@hotmail.com">pj.world@hotmail.com</a>><br clear="none">wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Some years ago when I bought my wireless router the salesperson told me <br clear="none">> they wear out after some time. Could I get your knowledge and opinions <br clear="none">> on this?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I'm betting the phrase "Extended Warranty" was uttered shortly after.<div class="yqt6649892877" id="yqtfd67447"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org" href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list" target="_blank">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div>
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