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"Crack-team" 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 13:21 GMT

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I like that phrase. Presumably it means "a team that has been smoking a lot of crack".

Learning from the best 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 13:51 GMT

Alert

I'm thinking Dell staff have spent too much time reading the BOfH stories on The Register. Did Michael Dell happen to give any tips on how to dispose of management staff who might oppose new purchases during this presentation? Maybe there were some Dell staff waiting outside by a white van with a roll of carpet and a shovel...

@Learning from the best 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 15:21 GMT

Dont forget the lime

So it's got to be said... 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 15:42 GMT

Coat

...if I were Michael Dell, I'd shut Dell down and give the money back to the shareholders,

Okay, okay, my coat's over there, under the carcass of the Power Macintosh 8100.

This just in..... 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 16:06 GMT

Dead Vulture

The Pope is Catholic, bears shit in the woods.......

Salesman's laptop nicked 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 17:06 GMT

Its a good thing Dell will delete the data - otherwise the thieves might publish the minesweeper high score table.

Hold on... 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 17:06 GMT

Pirate

This article talks about salesmen getting pistol-whipped like it's a bad thing.

Ted, is that really you? 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 18:25 GMT

What happened to the swearing? Come on, Ted, just one instance of "sh*t"? Slacker!

-dZ.

Someone needs to get JAFSMSS to market 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 18:26 GMT

Just Another Fucking Systems Management Software Suite. It'll sell by the shitload.

@evil graham 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 19:24 GMT

Happy

I think the "crack-team" is related to the "butt happy" in some way that I'm not sure I want to try explaining.

@breakfast - thanks...my monitor needed a good cleaning!

Q4 Loss 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 20:52 GMT

Flame

They laid off Joe's bud in India, the one that codes the checkout, which is why when I tried to buy Dell products MikeyD wouldn't take my money. His demon checkout SAID I bought stacks of kit complete with delivery date, but lied and canceled the order and Dell could care less about it.

Everyone was very polite but totally unrepentant, somehow the assault by the demon checkout was my fault and please pay a higher price now if you want our wonderful products. I will say that the chat people were very nice, but MikeyD would never give them any power to correct the situation. The phone people just (politely) passed the buck. Whiny emails lobbed at customer service were ignored.

Some of the Dell products are pretty good, but I can live with 3 year old components plus some PCs from a competitor with a working checkout system. It astounds me that Dell would not re-instate an order placed in good faith that was bollixed by poor nearly untested code in their checkout [well, I presume it was untested. If it was working as designed maybe the title should be "Q4 Bankruptcy"]

Now you know where Dell wielded the axe to lay off people.

Q? 4? Profit? What? Q? 4? Profit?

@DZ-Jay 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 21:42 GMT

Coat

Perhaps Ted has realised that before passing comment on other people's sales flannel, he himself might need a better model than selling el reg articles based on their swear-box-value.

Mines' the one shipped to me by Walsh Western.

(International Readers. If you haven't bought from Dell in the UK, apologies that this joke didn't work)

This laptop will selfdestruct in three seconds 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 22:47 GMT

How about just lacing laptop containing sensitive data with thermite and detonating it if the ID10T at the keyboard gets the boot password wrong three times?

Disservice to other people named Klaus 

Posted Monday 10th November 2008 22:59 GMT

Must be something to do with my upbringing, but I always held the romantic notion that people named Klaus spend their days making dodgy porno films. As in, "Oh Klaus, geben me den grossen sticken, ja!"

What profit ? 

Posted Tuesday 11th November 2008 02:28 GMT

Pirate

Unles Dell cuts out their techsupport altogether, starts stealing components and Vista copies, and then sells the resulting hunks of junk to unsuspecting consumers and idiots in the business who couldn't possibly care less about their staff, i'd say there's no way in hell they'll have any profit.

(Pirate, because the only way i'd be caught dead with a Dell was by stealing one, Arrr !)

Dell is faster and better than the rest 

Posted Tuesday 11th November 2008 05:24 GMT

Pirate

Most companies have Windoze skills inhouse already, so the admin skills are already there for a Windows Dell box, and many will have Linux skills already too. Dell runs Windoze best and they're only second to HP on Linux. You're all obviously not in the IT industry or you would realize this. You're all just a bunch of Dell Haters, or you would understand.

This article 

Posted Tuesday 11th November 2008 09:18 GMT

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Was about as rubbish and boring as the presentation apparently was.

@ JMI TEH BOOS 

Posted Tuesday 11th November 2008 13:12 GMT

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Poor attempt at FOTW sir. Now, you know what you've done wrong. Please compose yourself and try again.

Not what I was expecting 

Posted Tuesday 11th November 2008 14:32 GMT

Stop

I thought this was going to be an article on all the bundled software that comes with a Dell that harrasses you over the first 30 days of use and makes your life a misery and confuses the hell out of the average numbty.

I do wish they wouldnt subsidise the cost of their PC's by filling them with crap.

wisssy aprywww cwapf 

Posted Tuesday 11th November 2008 17:11 GMT

I say you foul mouthed, yankee diddly dandy, I would rather hope that the author is American. His surname has two consonants - dz at the beginning, (just not cricket) and he refers to Dell execs as dudes.. That also doesn't happen here, unless you are young and have angular hair.

My guess is that Ted doesn't have angular hair

Stolen laptop 

Posted Tuesday 11th November 2008 18:22 GMT

Linux

Hang on,

To begin with, anyone who stole a laptop can't log into it without a password, so any laptop thief with a brain would wipe the drive, install a fresh hacked copy of Windows, and therefore no Dell phone home software would be on the HDD to phone home or alert the authorities. Didn't think of that didja, Mikey Dell? BLAH. Dell sux!!!

@AC 

Posted Tuesday 11th November 2008 19:04 GMT

Joke

"The Pope is Catholic, bears shit in the woods......." I am sure that the Pope has never borne s**t in the woods, as you imply. In fact, I doubt if he's ever been near to any woods since his election.

@ Eric Dennis 

Posted Wednesday 12th November 2008 00:39 GMT

Linux

The "I'm stolen" code is supposed to be in the laptop's BIOS, can't be easily erased and may still work if the HDD has been erased. If, however, Dell took shortcuts then all bets are off.

@Tris Orendorff 

Posted Wednesday 12th November 2008 14:45 GMT

Yeah, but knowing Dell it's probably only bundled as a 30-day trial...

@Eric Dennis 

Posted Friday 21st November 2008 14:05 GMT

Thieves will just have to make sure they ghost the hard drive before allowing it online to dial home and begin it's automated self-deletion - which will fail due to "File is in use and can't be deleted" errors anyway.

Good to see old Mikey D is thinkin outside the box on this one.

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