Need help understanding service, repair, operating system reinstall
I bought a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 3443 laptop on the black friday sale in November 2013. Due to demand, the unit didn't ship until after Christmas. I didn't complain, but Lenovo offered a 5% rebate for my troubles. Still waiting on that to be processed.I've had all the documented problems with the Intel 6205 wireless card that are all over the forums. I finally upgraded my router just to resolve the issue.In March of 2015, after the warranty expired, one of the hinges broke. I took it to an authorized repair facility and was told (after 4 weeks) the part was no longer available. I called the service center listed on the website. They offered to ship me a box so I could send them the laptop for evaluation. Since it was out of warranty I would have to pay for any repairs.After two weeks, they sent the laptop back. They never contacted me during the process. I didn't get any quotes on the cost, nor did I authorize any work. They say they fixed the laptop. I can see the hinge is physically fixed. However, I cannot start the laptop. They wiped all my data, including the operating system. I have all my files backed up, but since this laptop does not have a CD or DVD drive, I don't have a way to reinstall the OS, which is Windows 8.1.Also, today, I received an invoice, saying they charged my credit card for what is almost the cost of a new machine. Lesson learned, never give the Chinese your credit card. So, my question, is there any way I can reinstall Windows 8.1? I don't have it on a disk or any hardware. It was shipped with the laptop at purchase. Service deleted it, so I don't have a copy at all. Also, don't be like me. Buy something else.
After looking at the Telus specific software download page (in North American menu) I noticed that there is a link for the 4.5 version and the 4.3 that I have. I guess 4.5 is available there then. I might give Telus a quick call and see if they know anything about it. More then likely not. The tech support people tend to be ill informed on anything detailed such as this.
thanks again
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2 In Aperture, I'm confused by the onscreen proofing does not present the same image as what I see in the print preview. I'm selecting the same .icc profile in both locations.
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Any help is greatly appreciated.Calibrated the printer several times and created .icc profiles
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The ICC Specification was published at DRUPA Druck und Papier in Düsseldorf in May 1995 and ColorSync 2 Golden Master is on the WWDC CD for May 1995. Between 1995 and 2000 die reine Lehre said to render your colour patch chart in the raw condition of the colour device.
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If the operating system is colour managed through and through, how do you render a colour test chart without automatically assigning a source ICC profile for the colourant model (Generic RGB Profile for three component, Generic CMYK Profile for four component)?
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You then leave the rendered colourant test chart to dry for one hour. If you measure a colourant test chart every ten minutes through the first hour, you may find that the soluble inkjet inks in drying change colour. If you wait, you avoid this cause of error in your characterisation.
As you will mainly want to work with loose photographs, and not with photographs placed in pages, when you produce a contract proof using Absolute Colorimetric rendering from the ICC profile for the printing condition to the ICC profile for your studio printer, here's a tip.
Your eyes, the eyes of your client, and the eyes of the prepress production manager will see the white white of the surrounding unprinted margins of the paper, and will judge the printed area of the paper relative to that.
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As for Adobe applications, which you say you will be comparing with, you should probably be aware that Adobe InDesign CS3 has problems. When targetting an RGB printing device, the prints are not correctly colour managed, but basically bypass colour management.
There's been a discussion on the Apple ColorSync Users List and on Adobe's fora, see the two threads below.
Hope this helps,
Henrik Holmegaard
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http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.59b52c9b/0
http://lists.apple.com/archives/colorsync-users/2007/Nov/msg00143.html -
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Need help in creating webas abap system
hi
new to create jco and techinical system need help
experts i have few faqs on creating techinical system plz help me
i have 4.7ee r/3 and portal 2004s sp9
wer can i find these values plz give me navigation
SID == ?
MESG SEVER PORT ===?
to add application server
application host name ==?
application instance number ==?
client number ==?
logical client name ==?
it is asking to select a software component wat we have to select to finish
wen i gave some dummy values
i get an error
CIM_ERR_ALREADY_EXISTS: Instance already exists: SAP_BCApplicationServer.CreationClassName="SAP_BCApplicationServer",Name="C11.Number.00.HostName.rama"
is it necessary to have WAS in r/3 to connect to portal plz explaini want to use jco
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2nd step
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3rd step
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central application sever
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5 th step
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4 th
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