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From: a6ey@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (O)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: The final accounting on LaCie's SilverLining. Post now!
Message-ID: <3843.2621a673@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 90 13:25:07 GMT
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    OK, I'm getting tired of this.  WHAT is the deal with
    SilverLining?  I see a lot of people who are happy with it on the
    net, and then I see a posting here and there which says that it
    really stinks.  The people who don't like seem to mainly have
    problems with rebooting from a massive system crash when there was
    no way to gracefully restart.  This sort of system error is not
    all that uncommon, so why don't all the other people with
    SilverLining have this problem?

       Here's a challenge to all the people who say SilverLining is
    the best thing since sliced bread.  As soon as you have time to
    spare, find your SilverLining disks (just in case), and while in
    some junk document in a program, press the programmers reset
    switch to reboot the system.  Watch what happens.  Does your
    machine just reboot happily, or do you have to re-install
    SilverLining twice, like the doom-sayers claim you have to? 
    Please post the result to the nets.  Thanks.

       Here's a question to those people who think SilverLining has
    the moral constitution of Wonder Bread.  What sort of system
    software, hardware, etc, are you running?  Do you have the
    absolute latest version?  Should you have an earlier version
    because you aren't running the latest system software?  Have you
    talked to the REAL tech support at LaCie, or merely someone who
    answers the phones?  Try calling and screaming until you can talk
    to a programmer?

       Just maybe the answers to these questions will settle this
    unsettling conflict between the majority of people who love
    SilverLining and the few people who are using it for cat litter.

       Whatever you do, and whoever you are, justify yourself! 
       (too bad LaCie isn't on the net)



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Adam C. Engst     temporarily borrowing>>>>>>a6ey@vax5.cit.cornell.edu   
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"I ain't worried and I ain't scurried and I'm having a good time"               
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