Re: Bad joke, Borland!

From: Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] (velthuis_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:52:00 +0100

John Kaster (Borland) wrote:

> Robert wrote:
>
> > i also had this problem with the German Prof-Version. My Disks are
> > very bad.
>
> How many other readers here had problems with bad disks? I need to get
> some idea so I can raise the issue with the company who mass produces
> our CDs.

My CDs made my drives make terrible noises, and it took ages before the
drives could read anything. Today, I installed SP1, and it took very
long to finish, with the drive spinning up and down, and again, the
terrible scraping noises I'd never heard before with other CDs.

I think you should take it up with them. 

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 reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered
 other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are."
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