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SERVICE: FACEBOOK says “You’re a top inviter”
Monday, March 2, 2009
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SERVICE: One example of why you SHOULD NOT use your ISP’s email address
Monday, March 2, 2009http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21951743
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[E-mail] Someone else closed my email accounts
from Comcast HSI forum – dslreports.com community
I opened an account with Comcast for the first time in 2004. I signed up for HSI and Cable TV. I was asked to use a comcast email address for the account. I chose my email address and password and was given the green light. I have successfully used that account for 4 1/2 years. My wife had an email address, I used a second address for my new business and my daughter used an address. In Nov 2007 I had problems with my cable and contacted support. They asked if had lived in Texas and transfereed the account to Colorado. I have never lived in Texas. They found out that my account had somehow been linked to an account in Texas with a gentleman with the same name. After 19 minutes on the phone they told me the problem had been taken care of. Today I was unable to log into any one of my 4 email accounts. I contacted support and they again asked if I had moved to Colorado from Texas. They stated a gentleman in Texas with the same name closed his Comcast account and my first email address was actually owned by him. Since he was the legal owner of the email address, they said there was nothing they could do. I have used that email address for my account with no problems. Was not getting anyone elses emails and things were not mysteriously missing from mine. I have no issues with any type of identity theft and my credit has no unauthorized activity. Today they said a different address was assigned to my billing account that was very similar but not the one I have been using. For the past 4 years when I logged into my account from the Comcast website, I would use my email address and password and it would show my account information. After the gentleman in Texas cancelled his account, I continued to receive HSI access and cable TV. I have received and paid bills for all services. I am in the middle of a civil lawsuit where several of my saved emails were evidence. Also saved in email folders were privleged information from my clients, attorneys and the courts. My questions are; Does anyone know how this could happen? Do I have any hope of retreiving my saved emails? If they said my first email was owned by someone else then why can’t my wife and daughter get into their accounts? Is there any recourse? Any advice? I requested a supervisor who stated they will researching the issue and get back to me in 24 hours.
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I’m sure that the other ISPs all have their own horor stories. Without getting into what I know about the Comcast email infrastructure, why put yourself in that position in the first place?
My WSP http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 — for example, I could really care less if you use them, if you do I think I get fifty cents — offers for 48 $/year to provide you with a domain name, 10 Gig of web space, 300 Gig / month of transfer, 600 email addresses with POP, IMAP, and WEB access, and bunch of other stuff.
So why would you EVER put your email and web site at risk?
You can guess why the ISP “gives” you anything for “free”.
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TECHNOLOGY: The Digital TV shift screwed up big time!
Sunday, March 1, 2009http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/how-the-governm.html
How We Bungled the Digital Television Transition By Eliot Van Buskirk EmailFebruary 20, 2009 | 2:39:09 PM
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This additional factor added to the need for this expensive delay. “Why the hell – excuse me – why in 2005 did they decide February 17th was a good time for this transition?”
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It’s just another example of “gooferment”!
Never mind the Fifth Amendment violate against “takings”. Which this was pure and simple.
More money down the DC rathole!
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SERVICE: FACEBOOK mistake documented!
Sunday, March 1, 2009One of my fellow alums posted a status referring to a link.
So I queried, an she sent back:
So, clearly, we have nailed a FACEBOOK error!
The same page shows her one thing and me another.
Love it!
Talk to me about “cloud computing” some more.
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SERVICE: WIKIPEDIA the sum of flawed human efforts
Saturday, February 28, 2009There’s no doubt that I like this. I recently spent some time editing pages about my fellow alums. (Hey, you can’t always be seeking that elusive CTO08824!)
It’s a great resource. At best, I’d call it uneven. When you consider it’s the sum of many people each moving a pebble to create the great pyramid, it’s astonishing.
So go move a pebble! I am.
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SERVICE: TinyChat is free allows creation of a simple disposable chat room
Friday, February 27, 2009http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/18/tinychat-makes-creating-disposable-chat-rooms-a-breeze/
About & FAQ
TinyChat is a free service that allows you to create a free chat room that is accessible by anyone with a browser. Simply create a chatroom from the homepage then send the link it gives to you to anyone you want to chat with. After you leave the chat room, all the chat data is gone, so its perfect for secure chats.
Why would you use this? Its the easiest way to have a group chat with multiple people. No more worrying about who has what messenger, or what everyones screen name is. Just send them a link! Its also a great way to talk with people who are not the most computer literate- Now you dont need them to install any programs to talk with someone!
Privacy Statement
Any chats you take part in are viewable by any other users in the chat room. Dont say anything you wouldnt want to say to a complete stranger. These chat rooms are disposable, meaning that once you leave the chat room you will be unable to re-view the content you saw previously, unless you save the log. To be blunt- Once you leave the chat room, you cant view the data again- Its gone.
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Interesting and useful. Here’s a neat little app that the terrorists can use. Chat room. Created ad hoc and disposed of. Hmmm? To bad no one ever wants to chat with me. :-(
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TECHNOLOGY: Cloud computing road blocks
Thursday, February 26, 2009http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=17067.msg151351#msg151351
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-28.pdf
* 1. Availability of service
* 2. Data lock-in
* 3. Data confidentiality and auditability
* 4. Data transfer bottlenecks
* 5. Performance unpredictability
* 6. Scalable storage
* 7. Bugs in large distributed systems
* 8. Scaling quickly
* 9. Reputation fate sharing
* 10. Software licensing
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An excellent summary. Now how do you navigate around them?
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SOFTWARE: NVU has a frustrating “feature”
Sunday, February 22, 2009Defective index?
I use NVU an open source (i.e., free) package to compose Jasper Jottings. This week, as well as in some past weeks, the index (i.e., the table of contents) does not have links just a plain text listing of the contents. I couldn’t make NVU generate the required index.
Now, I’m annoyed.
So, I’m going to either figure out why or get a better solution.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but I figured it was better to push the issue out the door than hold it for a fix.
If, or when, I do get a fix, I’ll replace it where possible. That usually would mean everywhere but the Yahoo Group and it’s associated email.
Argh! Somethings sometimes this is more frustrating than a real job. At least at a real job, I’d get paid and it wouldn’t be my problem,
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TECHNOLOGY: QR codes
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Anyone reading them?
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SERVICE: FREETEXTHOST, a inet scratch pad?
Monday, February 16, 2009http://freetexthost.com/d46tdyaqri
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The site allows visitors to host text without having to sign up or give any personal information. One possible usage for this is to host code snippets, but it can be used for just about anything really. Options include the ability to enter a password to allow you to edit or delete your text, and the choice to use preformatted text and make links clickable.
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Now what can one use this for?
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