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get their heads together and resolve the Mac issue, since Earthlink obviously had accomplishedit. At that, Sprint’s director of customer relations said, “Ohhhhh, that’s definitelysome information I’d not heard before. I gotta check into that.” She didn’t sound sarcastic,but I could be wrong. Either that lady is a very good actress, or she doesn’t belong in herposition.This rant doesn’t have a closing because the saga isn’t over. I probably made a mistake, but alittle over a month ago, Flashcom informed me that they not only serviced Orlando, but alsosupported Macs. Because they had a very tempting offer that included no setup fee, freehardware, and the first month of service free for a two-year contract, I ordered it. The salesrepresentative said it would take four to five weeks for me to receive a call to schedule aninstallation date. They also said I’d be charged $100 in advance, but this covered the secondand third months of service, and I wouldn’t be charged again until it was time to pay for thefourth month. All this troubled me a little, but I said “okay.”Five weeks have come and gone without a call from them. Instead, I called to find out whatwas going on, and was told by a Flashcom representative that he wasn’t sure why I was signedup for the particular package I was signed up for, because that particular bandwidth packagewas not yet available in my area. Even worse, they’ve already charged me the $100. Evenas I write this, I’m planning to pick up the phone and cancel my order.All I have to say is, come on people! Don’t wave this neat-o technology in our faces and thenmake us pull teeth trying to buy it from you.Send your Segments submissions to editor@atpm.com.ATPM 6.04 ← 36 →Columns: DSL and the Mac
Columns: Into the LightSlices From The Macintosh LifeSegmentsBY BROOKE SMITH, BSMITH@ATPM.COMInto the Light: From PC to MacI love my Mac. In fact, I couldn’t survive without it. Take the heat from my apartment, takethe clothes off my back, but please don’t take my Mac.I didn’t always feel this way, of course. I was a die-hard PCer back in 1990, when I bought myfirst computer—an 8086 IBM clone. It was slow, but it processed those university essayswithout a quibble.I continued to process more words with the clone, eventually upgrading to a 386. I livedthrough MS DOS, Windows 3.1, and even started up Windows 95. But my PC days shutdown when I bypassed Windows 98, and, in November of that same year, saw the light andinvested in a beige G3 Macintosh. Apple 1 had tempted me.How I saw the light, I can’t truly recall—it remains shrouded in mystery. I was definitely inthe market for a new computer; my PC had come crashing down with the monkey virus,and like all computer junkies I wanted a faster machine. I didn’t really want to think different(I wasn’t even aware of Apple’s slogan), but I guess I thought it wouldn’t hurt to try a differentbrand. Hey, why not?It’s not that I loathe the PC—I learned HTML on a PC, and my Mum has my old 386 (sansvirus), which I still use when I visit—but I certainly have not been amused that PCs getmany more viruses than Macs, and have many more buggy programs, such as Windows. (Ilaughed out loud in the SouthPark movie when Bill Gates was shot because Windows wasn’trunning up to scratch.)1. http://www.apple.comATPM 6.04 ← 37 →Columns: Into the Light
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get their heads together and resolve the Mac issue, since Earthlink obviously had accomplishedit. At that, Sprint’s director of customer relations said, “Ohhhhh, that’s definitelysome information I’d not heard before. I gotta check into that.” She didn’t sound sarcastic,but I could be wrong. Either that lady is a very good actress, or she doesn’t belong in herposition.<strong>This</strong> rant doesn’t have a closing because the saga isn’t over. I probably made a mistake, but alittle over a month ago, Flashcom informed me that they not only serviced Orlando, but alsosupported Macs. Because they had a very tempting offer that included no setup fee, freehardware, and the first month of service free for a two-year contract, I ordered it. The salesrepresentative said it would take four to five weeks for me to receive a call to schedule aninstallation date. They also said I’d be charged $100 in advance, but this covered the secondand third months of service, and I wouldn’t be charged again until it was time to pay for thefourth month. All this troubled me a little, but I said “okay.”Five weeks have come and gone without a call from them. Instead, I called to find out whatwas going on, and was told by a Flashcom representative that he wasn’t sure why I was signedup for the particular package I was signed up for, because that particular bandwidth packagewas not yet available in my area. Even worse, they’ve already charged me the $100. Evenas I write this, I’m planning to pick up the phone and cancel my order.All I have to say is, come on people! Don’t wave this neat-o technology in our faces and thenmake us pull teeth trying to buy it from you.Send your Segments submissions to editor@atpm.com.ATPM <strong>6.04</strong> ← 36 →Columns: DSL and the Mac
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