RANT: If the FCC has any value, it should be here

Monday, January 29, 2007

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070127/NEWS/701270365

$31,000 cell phone bill stuns Sarasota retiree
By TODD RUGER

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SARASOTA — Oliver DeSofi’s normal cell phone bill is about $150 on a family plan, and he used about 183 minutes on his phone in October.

But when the 77-year-old retiree opened his Cingular Wireless bill in November, he saw $21,420 in roaming charges for more than 4,500 calls from Nicaragua — where he’s never been — to numbers he’s never called.

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What a croc. To put this fellow thru billing hell! This is by no means an isolated case.

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XPfails – luggable – mouse unresponsive

Sunday, January 28, 2007

woke up this morning, always a good thing, to find an unresponsive mouse. Reboot. Seems like the mttf is a day. Less if I exercise it. Argh!

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XPfails – luggable – Mouse begins to flake

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Sigh. Reboot.

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RANT: How stupid are the voters in New Jersey?

Friday, January 26, 2007

101.5 is reporting the gutting of all the proposed property tax savings bills in Trenton. Why is this surprising? It’s business as usual for the thugs in Trenton who steal our money. It’s slavery.

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TECHNOLOGY: CRASHPLAN a backup alternative

Monday, January 22, 2007

http://www.crashplan.com/

 

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Features like continuous backup, versioning, and advanced data compression make CrashPlan the smartest backup solution out there.

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Perhaps a viable alternative!

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TECHNOLOGY: WDSYNC backup always seems to have a new version

Monday, January 22, 2007

v6.2.038

It makes the old sync unusable.

It doesn’t pick up any of the old registration information.

Interested to see what happens next week.

And, you have to drop the browser and the email.

But, it does make a complete encrypted back up.

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XPfails – luggable – Box locks up after LookOut “forgets” a reminder

Monday, January 22, 2007

Eventually the box became unresponsive after LookOut “forgot” one it’s reminders. It was never able to recapture it.

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XPfails – luggable – WORD blanks a document that I created yesterday ARGH!

Monday, January 22, 2007

This is a first. WORD basically “lost” a document I created yesterday. Basically, now it has to be treated as untrustworthy. Perhaps it’s time to move to Open Office?

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TECHNOLOGY: MSFT PUBLISHER replacement?

Sunday, January 21, 2007

http://www.scribus.net

 

Scribus on Windows

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The Scribus Team is pleased to make available the only open source page layout application which runs natively on all 3 major desktop operating systems; Linux, MacOSX and Windows. Scribus also runs on Unix™ variants like Solaris. HP-UX and the BSDs. Both online and direct commercial support is available for Scribus. There is a very friendly and active user community which has developed around Scribus with the active participation of the developers.

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Hmmm, MSFT has dropped Publisher (that I liked and used). Maybe this is something I can use in its place.

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XPfails – luggable – TYPE1 Box eventually becomes unresponsive

Sunday, January 21, 2007

First CARDSCAN, then Outlook, become unresponsive. Eventually everything including TASKMANAGER does the same thing. Power Off. Argh!

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