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We got spammed!

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I did not think we’d be important enough to be spammed, but it happened:

Some fucktard from Israel, with IP 84.109.80.111 decided to post ads about Viagra, etc.

If you are having a bad day and feel like harassing someone, you can call his provider on my behalf.


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Bank Of America Compromised

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On Friday, I got a letter from Bank Of America saying that my check card might have been compromised.
I am going to skip the obvious about how much they usually suck and just post a copy of the letter.

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Time Warner is sorry

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time warner is sorry

they have been a few times

Corporations are always sorry about the inconvenience as they take your problem seriously; I take my problem seriously, so I decided to share it with the world!
Our home internet connection is provided by Time Warner’s Road Runner service. We have subscribed to the Extreme feature, yielding 10 mbps… at least on paper. In reality, we have had an extremely unreliable connection paired with Time Warner’s abysmal support. Dealing with them is such a mind numbing experience words can’t describe the incompetence of their staff. To make matters even worse, we are not talking about a company in business to rip its customers off, like Verizon, but rather a genuine failure at almost every level of support.


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How I got kicked out by Nancy!

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Hospital Bed

A frog in the chest

On February 14th, I woke up with a weird feeling. Something wasn’t right and it took only a few seconds to realize that I had a bizarre heart beat. As someone else put it, it felt like having a frog jumping in your chest.


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The Mac Is Perfect - Almost

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Born Again

Having a discussion with a Mac advocate is similar to being cornered by a born-again Christian: All your faults will be exposed and only conversion can save you.
Similarly to religion, only blind faith can keep the Mac’s cool fabric together as the magic collapses at the slightest glimpse of logic.


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Santa Monica's filthy drinking water

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Rusty Leak

Get all your vitamins

Minerals and especially metals by drinking Santa Monica tap water. We recently made the shocking discovery that our drinking water has rust in it. Have we heard about it before? Yes. Did we believe it happened somewhere else and to someone else? Yes. Well, NO! it happens to us right here, in Santa Monica!


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Solaris back in the race

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Listen

They listen!

Last week, I wrote about us discarding Solaris for a new project. Most large companies will not care and not listen to their customers.
Many of us have dealt with Verizon, Time Warner, Creative Labs, etc and know what I mean. After all, when you have so many customers, it is cheaper to lose a bunch of them and provide overall bad service than it is to fix real problems. After my short experience with Sun, I assumed it was the same:I WAS WRONG. They do listen!

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We won't use solaris

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Broken Computer

Looking for options

We are thinking about getting another server for new projects in the works. Currently we are using CentOS and it works great, so in all logic the next server will also use the same OS.
Being curious and a bit geeky, I am still looking at options. I used Solaris a long time ago and I came across posts about how Solaris is now open source, etc and I thought I’d have a look at it.

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Creative Labs' lack of support

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Creative Labs ignores me

And they ignore a lot of other people too. In my case their software update made my player useless and they refuse to take any responsibility although they acknowledge that their software has issues. Let’s spend our money on the competition.

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The day freedom died

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The Day Freedom Died

Yesterday was one of the saddest birthdays in American history. On 9/11/2001, 3000 people lost their lives in the destruction of the world trade center. At the same time America was victim of a malicious rampant disease that would eventually damage its heart: our freedom.

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