Arrrggh. Stupid hardware and stupid companies.

So, earlier this evening my Mvix media server went screwy. Probably a power supply issue, but who can say.

Wonder of wonders, they responded quickly to my email. Not so wonderful is that the response was an RMA. It'll be 15 *working* days to fix it.

I also decided to do a bit of digging on another hardware item.

A while back a friend gave m\e a nice cordless phone/answering machine. The headset jack one the handset was busted and since she always uses a headset...

Since it was one of the expandable units, I considered getting an "extension" and charger as that'd let me put the headset with the broken jack in the bathroom.

So I finally got around to looking it up on the web. I found the phone and quickly found the part number for the extension & charger. And almost swallowed my teeth. $200!!!!

And all the sites had it about that price, even an "AT&T factory outlet" site.

But I kept digging. And 2.3rds of the way down the page of google results, I hit another AT&T site. Which had it for $70.

You will pardon me while I consider strangling a few companies...

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