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TECHNOLOGY: Geek eye for the ordinary guy; DVD scratchers...
Fixing computers is not normally considered the most glamorous of jobs. But try telling that to employees of two top-tier tech-support firms--Geek Squad, a house-call service based in Minneapolis, Minn., and DriveSavers, a Novato, Calif., company that fixes fried hard drives around the country. Geek Squad boasts that its clients include U2, Ice Cube, Ozzy Osbourne and the Rolling Stones. DriveSavers touts its techno-healing work for Sean Connery, Sting, Adam Sandler and the Stones again (someone should tell Keith Richards to stop trashing his laptops...
GEEKSQUAD.COM Bought by Best Buy in 2002, Geek Squad patrols Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Ariz., Columbus, Ohio, and Washington, and is scheduled to hit 34 other cities by the end of the year. Its agents are the epitome of geek chic in clip-on ties and badly fitting pants. I made an anonymous call, claiming a PC emergency, and was told it would take half an hour to get someone to my door. He arrived in seven minutes. Such service costs: crisis support starts at a $298 flat rate. It's $149 for house calls within...
...have their own hierarchy. Currently, MPT also claims to have online bootlegs of Paycheck, Big Fish and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Beyond the desire to get something for nothing, serious downloaders relish the technology of pirating for technology's sake. "I'm a geek," says one Indian student living in France. "There's a thrill of it. The first movie I downloaded, it was quite a kick--it was My Big Fat Greek Wedding." The day Samurai appeared online, a dozen downloaders posted reviews--of the pirate copy. "Video is a little grainy, nothing...
...thing about Fitzpatrick is, well, he’s a football geek. There is no other way to say it. He loves football like a little kid, except that he is 6’3” and 210 lbs and one of the smartest players on probably the smartest football team in the world...