Support Yourself!: MAKING YOUR CALLS FOR HELP COUNT
Last month, I decried the problems of dealing with tech support lines at companies whose hardware and software we expect-often unrealistically-to work
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Last month, I decried the problems of dealing with tech support lines at companies whose hardware and software we expect-often unrealistically-to work
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Tech support. Two words that strike terror in the hearts of studio personnel and manufacturing executives alike. The former because they know that once
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