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- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...Continuing Saga to show how great D* is now adayFrom a 7+ year customer and I am a paper thin from calling it for D*.http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=133090RE: DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...I've been with DTV since December 1994. I am also a FCC certified card carrying...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, DirectTV, Ma'am, Well HERE, DirecTV, closet
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
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- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...
- Shortly after I posted my diatribe on my problems with my DIRECTV HD receivers and the company's horrible customer service, I was contacted by Stuart Sweet, a moderator on a popular Satellite TV forums site, DBSTalk. Apparently, my post had created quite a stir and I was asked to register...
- Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DirecTV, Satellite, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- (Photos: Partying it up for Pi Day)
- (Photos: Partying it up for Pi Day)Value of PiIf you take the first three odd numbers 1,3 & 5. Then arrange them 355/113 this gives a value of Pi more accurate than 22/7. The error is 8.48 millionths of 1%.RE: (Photos: Partying it up for Pi Day)I am a retired...
- Tags: photograph, Pi Day
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Congress limps toward concluding that bloggers can be journalists
- Congress limps toward concluding that bloggers can be journalistsLet's just lose "journalist" as a categoryThe definition covers virtually anything - regardless of the $ factor you mention. Read that definition again. Oliver Stone's JFK; Micheal Moore's Sicko and others; Nancy Grace' Nightly indepth review of starlet life &...
- Tags: Blogging, Oliver Stone, Op-Ed, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- The genetic programming future
- The genetic programming futureBorders, schmordersWrong straw man, John. Ask the victims of the Unabomber or Timothy McVeigh -- or for that matter the residents of Baghdad today.The fundamental problem lies in the amount of power available to imperfect beings.Are you nuts........ the concept of treating DNA as a program...
- Tags: Biotechnology, genetic programming
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- A ridiculous way to test your speaker volume levels ...
- A ridiculous way to test your speaker volume levels ...Strange example?> It's a strange example of an arrogant "Microsoft > knows best" attitude displayed towards both home > users and enterprise customersStrange example? Nay, Adrian, it's a perfectly common example.like an artist's signatureYou're really being much more generous than the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), ridiculous way
- Discussion threads 2006-08-25
- Rethinking backup
- Rethinking backupOr, you could use...http://www.net-itech.com/technologies/technologies_idb.phpNot sure this is meant for enterprisesBacking up RAID to another server running a RAID Array seems kind of useless. Servers already come with raid drives. So what's gained here other than wasting more cash? As for backing up DVDs well that's all good if you...
- Tags: Backups, RAID, storage, backup, Murph, DVD, disk, Dan, tape
- Discussion threads 2005-08-15
- Rethinking backup
- You know how to do data center back-up right? Everybody does: you use backup software to dump anything that changes to tape, store the tapes off-site, and Bob's your uncle, duh. Well, maybe not so fast - first this offsite storage thing has risks of its own; second, it's time...
- Tags: backup, DVD, storage
- Blog posts 2005-08-15
- Making the call as silly as the ring tone
- Making the call as silly as the ring toneGreat! More crap todeal with! It's bad enough people are rude with their phones, now I have to listen to stupid sound bites too!?Couldn't agree moreThat's why I don't have a cell, and never had a beeper. People don't know how...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, cell, Now IT
- Discussion threads 2004-10-29
- Intel shelves plans for Wi-Fi access point
- Intel shelves plans for Wi-Fi access pointno one wants the wireless built INTO the chipsure intel did, then they could have a serial number they always wanted, but the technolgy is moving too fast to bolt it into a chipFamous Last WordsDidn't someone once say that 5 computers in the...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Network technology, WIRELESS, Semiconductors, chip, Wi-Fi, Intel Corp., processor, access point, Wi-Fi access point
- Discussion threads 2004-09-24
- MasterCard: Risk is in the cards
- MasterCard: Risk is in the cardsconsumers don't careit cost us nothing if someone steals are number, we report it, get credit and move on, for the outragous 19% some pay, it just means we got our monies worthand don't tell me it is 19% because of theft, it is greedjust...
- Tags: MasterCard International, card, credit card
- Discussion threads 2004-06-13
- Computing giants to debut new gear at CES
- Computing giants to debut new gear at CESYikes! Microsoft in my carGates is also expected to provide details on Microsoft's latest effort to popularize an automotive version of its Windows operating system. The software giant has developed a specialized version of Windows CE to power automotive devices such as navigation...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, software giant, navigation system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2004-01-05
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