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thomas's picture

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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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!

thomas's picture

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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would you boycott a brand because of their customer support?

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thomas's picture

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.