RE: New Linux Computer

["Albertson, Chris" <CAlbertson@primeadvantage.com>]

OK, for those who may be curious.

I put the computer inside the box that the computer case came in.
It was a "made in China" case and the box had custom foam that I
reused.  I put this box inside a larger box that read "Direct TV"
on the outside.  Foam peanuts were placed inside the larger box.
So Tom's computer was double boxed.  Along with the peanuts I put in
a keyboard, a mouse and the box the mother board came in.  In the
M/B box was assorted CDs, floppies manuals and a collection of
invoices.  When I closed up the Direct TV box I put six chris crossed
bands of glass filament tape around the box in two orthogonal 
directions such that the box was divided into about 8 inch squares
by lines of glass strapping tape.

When tom got the package the Direct TV outer box had been replaced
with a generic box and the small M/B box with its contents was
missing.

I dropped off the box, all closed up to Mail Boxes Etc and had
them send it standard UPS ground insured for $1500  It was about 45 pounds.

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Don't worry to much about the lost stuff.  The documentation and
(useless) MS Windows drivers are all on the web.  The disks that
I made really did not require that much work.  Recovering crashed
computers is a common task and I used scripts developed by someone
else to build the recovery disk.   If Tom gets his computer on the
'net I can log on to it and do just about anything, burn CDs or 
whatever.  Not a big deal.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herb Johnson [mailto:hjohnson@pluto.njcc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 1:46 PM> 
> 
> Tom, I ship equipment of this sort weekly. If Chris packed 
> this computer
> and shipped it via UPS or Fed Express, there is a tracking number 
> on the lable on the box. Some but not all forms of Postal Service
> shipping include tracking or insurance numbers. Contact
> the shipper with that number and