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Or you could invest a couple hundred bucks and become an HP certified professional. It's 2014 for christ's sake, there is no excuse to be selling your services without something as basic as that.
I'd be willing to bet that this will really only effect small shops with a few machines. I'd also be willing to bet that those clients cost HP a lot more in support (per dollar of sales) than your giant enterprise customers. Perhaps this is a conscious effort to unload that sector of the market.
That's what I loved about the HP/Compaq lines of machines. Everything was available, free and easy. Going all the way back to when you could dial into their BBS and download service packs for BIOS setup disks.
That happens when there is some kind of hack in the middle of the connection. Like digital to POTS converters or shit switching and routing configurations. The same thing happened at my company, and then they finished the deployment and everything was much better.
I understand the reluctance, but it doesn't have to be dangerous. We can just switch to some kind of wireless beacon device like they use on the water. Three buttons, fire, police and ems. Hit the button, people show up at your house.
Maybe the unions could guarantee job security by giving the school districts the best possible teachers? If a teacher doesn't meet standards, pull them out of the classroom and send them back to school. They keep their jobs, and children aren't victimized by the unions' desire to keep their people employed.