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36 minutes and 36 seconds

I think I now know what it's like to have a half an hour call on a GSM handset, after having to call IBM's 0800 support number to log a problem report with a video driver.

The guy was quite good for a natter, and seemed to track down a variety of possibilities, from the Rescue and Recovery backup software, to blaming everyone's 'favourite' service pack (ho, ho, ho), while in the process of reminding me that reading the event log and running Google over errors is the thing to do.

I never knew learning that one's video driver appeared to start having infinite loop problems, a core dump, an apparently spontaneous restart, and being told to wait for a fix to pop up on IBM's website could be such fun.

Perhaps. Or maybe it was the radiation from the phone. :)

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