Tech Tips and Reviews
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Just a poll to see what is the more popular operating system.
You vote so we get real results and you see what the real results are so you know what you might want to try next.
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When you look at the next operating system for Microsoft Windows 8, what is the first thought to come to mind?
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Got an email today. Clearly another Nigerian phishing scam. and clearly written by yet another moron who thinks the whole world works the way it does in their country. To bad so many people in the world just scan a page and panic and shovel out their money
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (info@lee.com)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc
Customers Service Hours / Monday To Saturday
Office Hours Monday to Saturday:Dear Beneficiary,
Series of meetings have been held over the past 7 months with the secretary general of the United Nations Organization. This ended 3 days ago. It is obvious that you have not received your fund which is to the tune of $3.5Million due to past corrupt Governmental Officials who almost held the fund to themselves for their selfish reason and some individuals who have taken advantage of your fund all in an attempt to swindle your fund which has led to so many losses from your end and unnecessary delay in the receipt of your fund.
The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the current president of Nigeria his Excellency President Good luck
Jonathan to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to you and other individuals and organizations who have been found not to have receive their Contract Sum, Lottery/Gambling, Inheritance and the likes. Now how would you like to receive your payment? Because we have two method of payment which is by Check or by ATM card?ATM Card: We will be issuing you a custom pin based ATM card which you will use to withdraw up to $5,000 per day from any ATM machine that has the Master Card Logo on it and the card have to be renewed in 4 years time which is 2015. Also with the ATM card you will be able to transfer your funds to your local bank account. The ATM card comes with a handbook or manual to enlighten you about how to use it. Even if you do not have a bank account.
Check: To be deposited in your bank for it to be cleared within three working days. Your payment would be sent to you via any of your preferred option and would be mailed to you via UPS. Because we have signed a contract with UPS which should expire in next three weeks you will only need to pay $180 instead of $420 saving you $135 So if you pay before the three weeks 2011 you save $135 Take note that anyone asking you for some kind of money above the usual fee is definitely a fraudsters and you will have to stop communication with every other person if you have been in contact with any.
Also remember that all you will ever have to spend is $135.00 nothing more! Nothing less! And we guarantee the receipt of your fund to be successfully delivered to you within the next 24hrs after the receipt of payment has been confirmed.
Note: Everything has been taken care of by the Federal Government of Nigeria, The United Nation and also the FBI and including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $135.
DO NOT SEND MONEY TO ANYONE UNTIL YOU READ THIS: The actual fees for shipping your ATM card is $420 but because UPS have temporarily discontinued the C.O.D which gives you the chance to pay when package is delivered for international shipping We had to sign contract with them for bulk shipping which makes the fees reduce from the actual fee of $420 to $135 nothing more and no hidden fees of any sort!
To effect the release of your fund valued at $3.5Million us dollars you are advised to contact our correspondent in Africa the delivery officer Dr. with the information below,
Email: cdepartment97@yahoo.fr
Telephone: +234-7067014470You are advised to contact him with the information’s as stated below:
Your full Name..
Your Address:…..
Home/Cell Phone:……..
Preferred Payment Method (ATM / Cashier Check)Upon receipt of payment the delivery officer will ensure that your package is sent within 24 working hours. Because we are so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive payment/package within the next 24hrs after you have made the payment for shipping.
PAYMENT INFORMATION (WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER).
RECIEVERS NAME : ЎKЎKOWOLABI SALAMI
COUNTRY : 9th Floor, Federal Scretariat, Phase 1, Ikoyi, Lagos. Nigeria
QUESTION : How are you
ANSWER : Fine
AMOUNT EXPECTED: $135 USD
SENDER’S NAME: …………….
MTCN:………………………….PAYMENT DETAILS TO SEND TO US
Money transfer control number (MTCN)
Senders NameЎKЎKЎKЎK.
Senders addressЎKЎKЎKAs soon as you have made the payment, kindly send to us via email the payment details for confirmation. Upon the receipt of payment details, we shall e-mail you the tracking number of your parcel which will arrive within the next 48 working hours.
Yours sincerely,
Miss Donna Story
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Mr.Lanre Smith of the ATM CARD CENTRE
who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.
After Disconnecting my Comcast Internet and and Cable Television and moving my television service to Dish Network, I found myself in need of internet service. I obtained a temporary use of a Verizon MIFI device. Very nice looking wireless internet device. One single button. You just connect the USB cable from the MiFi 2200 to your computer and instantly upon identifying the card, it opens as a storage device, allowing you to get the drivers right off of the MiFi 2200. Installation of the drivers is less than 3 minutes. Press the lighted button on top of the MiFi 2200 until the light on the side comes on, then open the VZ access software you just installed, and then click connect in the VZ Access manager, and you are on the internet ready to go.
Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200
Though the device allows you to connect multiple devices at one time, the 3G service, I doubt would handle much more than 1 computer. I have been seeing some very low signal reception and very slow speeds.
mifi on Verizon
mifi bandwidth
Though the speed test results say 1mbs, sometimes I find myself waiting like I was on dial up, for pages to load. The wait for youtube videos to load is sometimes up to 5 minutes. The monthly bandwidth cap is reached in the first week, and then this slow speed gets even worse.
For someone like me, the MIFI card is a pass. Meaning I will have to pass on getting this service.
Not much different from the results I see with my cricket phone.
Test Date: May 1, 2012 3:53:34 pm Connection Type: EvdoA Server: Temple, TX Download: 2127 kbps Upload: 794 kbps Ping: 101 ms External IP: xx.xxx.xxx.xx Internal IP: xx.1xx.xx.xx Latitude: xx.xxxxx Longitude: -xx.xxxxx
Full scores:
looks: 10/10
Ease of use: 10/10
Reception: 3/10
Speeds: 2/10
Final score: 6/10
If you haven’t been following the site, I left Comcast a week ago and moved my Television to Direct Tv.
Seeing that I now get 720p resolution on Direct Tv for two televisions at $33 a month, as apposed to 480i resolution I was getting with Comcast for some very basic 70 channels or so for $88 a month one cable box and a modem. I am very happy with my Direct Tv Satellite receiver. Rain has not been an issue. And there has been a bad storm. BAD storm.
I am so far, very happy with Direct Tv’s picture on one tv, but not very happy on the other. The smaller Tv in my bedroom has the crummiest picture ever. Of course the smaller television has a higher resolution and an all together better built flat screen that the television in the living room. So there is something wrong with that box. I assumed it was because that Tv Tuner doesn’t have an HDMI connection on the back, and the rca wires supplied are very thin and cheap. Probably should give a shot with some of the rca jacks I have in the electronics closet.
The tv tuner in the living room, just got a software patch and slowed it way down. In fact, the box gets super hot now. So switching to and from the guide or menu. Takes a few seconds to load. Same with changing channels. So if you just got your tuner box and get a notification about a software update, and your Tv tuner is already kind of warm, you might want to reconsider accepting that software update. It just turns the blue section into black gloss. I haven’t noticed any new features. I may search for a way to role back to the old software.
Direct tv bill
Loving the remote options. Favorites custom and favorites custom 2 menus. Lets me split content type channels, and lets me filter out channels that I am not paying for with a “Channels I Get” option in the menu when you hit the “info” button and look in favorites area. These are options that Comcast never gave. Here’s what I got with Comcast cable box. Not a whole lot going on there.
No WGN Chicago, but I do get two BBC America channels.
I have never really used anything but cable and local broadcast. This is my first Satellite receiver. Loving it. Except the big bolts they put through my roof to fasten the dish to my roof.
I score the Direct Tv service:
Ease of use: 9/10
Resolution : 8/10
Look : 10/10
Cost : 10/10
Channels : 9/10
Signal : 9/10
Total score: 9/10
**Warning: Angry Typos Ahead**
Today, I will be taking my Cable box back to Comcast. They have taken it too far
I have been dealing with my neighbor’s dog (she’s a puppy) digging up my comcast connection, for several months now.
I have received insane bills from Comcast And a few other issues that I don’t feel like looking up so here it is in Bing.
Yesterday I decided to try the chat thing, because phoning in my issue of the neighbor’s dog resolved nothing.
TruXter: My Issue: Neighbor’s dog digs up my cable, I have had you guys out a few times re-bury the line. I requested conduit, was told over the phone it would be used. Technicians all say it can’t be done.. I just now came in the house after covering chewed
analyst Dani Mae has entered room
Dani Mae: Hello TruXter, Thank you for contacting Comcast Live Chat Support. My name is Dani Mae. Please give me one moment to review your information.
Dani Mae: Hi
Dani Mae: Welcome to comcast
TruXter: hi.
Dani Mae: Thank you for that information TruXter
Dani Mae: May I know what would you like to do?
TruXter: Is there any way I can get a manager or a foreman to come out with the technician next time to bury my cable? and can you ask them not to request to come in my house anymore? the issue is in the neighbor’s yard.
TruXter: They have replaced the splice in my attic 3 times now as if that solved the issue. I need the cable in conduit or something that a dog can not bite through.
TruXter: The cable box is in my neighbor’s yard. 6 feet of cable gets dug up with in just house of the tech’s burying it.
TruXter: hours*
Dani Mae: To answer you suggestion about a manager, I believe that is not possible since only technician process that
TruXter: Someone needs to come out and over see this. This is the very last time I will let this happen. I will change services. I am sick of this.
Dani Mae: And about your request about conduit
Dani Mae: We do not have that, but we only can drop bury your cable line
Dani Mae: For conduit, you can buy that at your local store
TruXter: I can’t watch tv while the dog chews on the line. I can barely surf the internet that I am paying crazy fees for. this is nuts.
TruXter: You mean. with all of the customers that this company has, I am the only person?
Dani Mae: I understand that, where is your cable lines now placed?
TruXter: why did it cost me $200 to get my house connected? they used wire that I already paid for to begin with.
TruXter: the cable box is in the neighbor’s yard. 6 feet from my fence.
Dani Mae: I see, please inform the owner and let them contact Comcast, so we can schedule them.
TruXter: The neighbor and I buried the cable last time while the tech watched.
TruXter: This needs to be fixed, and someone who can make these guys give me the service I am paying so much for.
TruXter: needs to make sure it’s done.
Dani Mae: Sure
Dani Mae: Have you tried calling 1-800-XFINITY (934-6489)
TruXter: can you check my records and see I have done this several times?
Dani Mae: Sure
Dani Mae: It shows here that Drop bury has been completed as requested already
TruXter: ….
TruXter: and dog dig has already happened.
Dani Mae: Would you like to request another drop bury?
Dani Mae: And have you called already for a schedule?
TruXter: yeah sure. and when he is done, can you send him back three hours later to replace the line again because the dog is just going to dig it back up. and tell to take a lunch and come right back… Or send someone with authority to look at this and see it is a slop job and someone is milking your clock at my expense.\
TruXter: Thank god I run a website and have a good camera. This is my final month. you people are leeches.
Type Here:
After this. I called Comcast to solve the issue of the lightly buried cable in the yard with a big puppy who digs a lot, and to understand why just last month I was told that on this bill, my bill would be reduced, yet it’s still at regular $88. When she told me this month my bill would show the changes I asked why she said “because you already paid this month”. Ok. Makes sense.
So I call and start asking why my bill isn’t reduced. The lady that answered, forwarded me to another person who I assume is their “quick excuses guy”. because this dude was just out to win an argument.
I asked why my bill was regular price, and the guy said that it was because I owe $160 for not paying last month’s bill. I told him he was nuts and explained that I paid $160 last month also, and 160 the month before, and keep getting told I am late on my bill. The guy said and I quote “we bill for service before you receive service”. My eyes rattled in my head. I explained to him that every month I have been going through this, and I have not have had service. Since the dog eats my cable. The man said “then you need to speak to the neighbor” and I flipped out on him. “No, you need to get your stuff straight because I am a customer and you are providing a service, you are asking me to make this an issue between the neighbor and I. You can’t tell me that will all of the customers you guys have, I am the only person with this issue. ” Considering how many houses have dogs, there is a really good chance this has been issue on many occasions.
Now understand, the last time I talked to a technician, he was watching me and the neighbor bury the cable ourselves while he just stood there telling me I should kick the neighbor’s dog and cover the spot with rat traps. The neighbor didn’t like that, and I didn’t like that. I asked the Comcast technician why they don’t just bring 8 feet of conduit and get this over with he said and I quote “Job security, we always make sure each other has work”. At my expense no doubt.
Comcast. Your service has done me no service and I will forever refuse you. I will warn everyone I know, just how you treat Customers and how your answering team and all of your help team, are the trashiest people you can have work for you. When you guys go out of business, you might want to worry about the scum you hire, and possibly the way you treat them and tell them to treat you customers. I love your bandwidth, I hate your bandwidth cap, and I hate that your basic cable is lower resolution than any other broadcast. Local resolution from antenna is 740p minimum where I live, your basic cable is less than 480i. That is pathetic and nothing justifies charging for that.
Can’t say I will miss you when you are gone.
**Update**
Just got off the phone with comcast. Called to cancel my service. Man asked me why I was cancelling service. I rattled on for 15 minutes . taking maybe three breaths while trying to think of everything that has gone on since I signed up.
He was like “yeah, I would leave also, Sorry this has happenned to you, you will be receiving a credit soon”.
and that was it. no telling me I am wrong, no selling me a bigger bundle.
Doin it right. for once.
**Update 2**
Logged in to see my Comcast bill information and to make sure that all of the statements were true, that I would recieve a credit to my account and got a notice to provide a valid email address. but in back I could see my bill. Lots of junk going on back there. Of course I tried three different ways of handling that page so I could see the bill. They all signed me out instantly.
My Comcast Bill
I have no idea what is going on below that point. Could be a pot of gold, could be a bag of chewed up rubberbands. The reason I am trying to log in is to see if I got the credit I was told I would get, since they ripped me off of last credit, and to see if I upset someone enough they decided to change my bill up and really stick it to me. You can’t doubt people anymore in either direction. Good or bad.
Needless to say. I have not been able to scroll all the way down. That stupid pop up asking me to show another email address blocks my view.
**update 3**
All devices were taken back the day I posted this. No arguments, no denying anything. In fact i think the little lady behind teh counter kind of wanted me.
here is their big technical wall of tv screens updated from earlier this year.
ghettovision
Now here is what comcast says I was supposed to pay last month.
Comcast bill
Now… If that was in fact what I was “supposed to pay”. Then why in the blue hell would I pay this ?
Comcast payment
It’s as if the kid I was trying to get help from but only wanted to argue with me, decided to make it look like I am a moron and don’t know how to internet. Now, understand, my bill is usually $79 before “additional charges”. So um. $200 minus 141, but this month’s bill is only $88.06 ? What? Which idiot in that establishment is going to show me how this works, and which idiot in that company is going to translate what that guy said, to non bull %^&* and make it make sense?
But I have to thank him for showing me I needed to open my mind. I love direct tv and uncapped 4G Internet.
This is what I have heard about the game (sorry but I can’t get my friend to write it here, but he posts it to his 3 friends [that don’t play games at all] on facebook)
I will be updating this with quotes I get straight from my friend on Facebook as they come.
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Beta was well over a 17 gigabyte download once i got logged it took me one entire day to complete one quest because there was so many people testing the new beta expansion for WoW
In a phone conversation trying to get him to write on here, he said that Pandaria is so full of people it’s hard to quest and there have been so many changes in World of Warcraft in this beta expansion, everything feels like a hand to hand combat and he is short range and gets leveled by long range.
Sorry all, I never get the Blizzard beta. For some reason they have always excluded me.
I have been noticing these low life attention deprived wastes of skin karma forging peices of uselessness posting images of people who are unfortunate enough to look like they are worse off than the scum who is requesting people click like.
Why do they do this?
Simple, the more the people who share this image, the more the chances that the guy posting the image can be seen by more people.
Whats sad is these people don’t even have to be intelligent enough to come up with a good story. Just a simple “click like if cancer is beautiful ” or “click like if you hope this baby lives”. Yep. Just saw it. That one just happened. I hate that some of my friends fall for that scam. Maybe it’s to meet girls or guys, or crowd source to get people who might listen to their rap album. I don’t know, but this type of crowd sourcing is disgusting and deserves no help. Do not hit the like button their page, instead leave a message warning others what this is. If they have messages turned off, then they know that they are a piece of trash.
People, these are not kind people. You clicking like does nothing but help that guy on Facebook get friends by exploiting a harmed child..
Dear Facebook friends.
Don’t click like, do not share those images.
“This girl has cancer, click Like if you think she is beautiful” Fact is, he found a pathetic looking picture in Google and is leeching off of this person’s misfortune by showing their picture off like that.
“This baby was born too soon from a crack momma, click like if you hope she will live”. This person needs to be kicked in the junk.
The person in the photos, will never know their photo is being distributed in such a way. and if they do find out, they have no say in the action taking place. And the rare occasion you see a person with a photo that resembles the victim, saying they are happy that it is being shared, most likely is the same con artist, with another photo of the victim.
Instead, if your Facebook friends click like or share, please send them this link,if you cant explain it to them.
Something I shared trying to explain this immoral scam to a Facebook friend
A lot of the people who do it, just Google the most pathetic picture “cancer,burn victim, burn victim with cancer” and post it on their page and write one paragraph and say “click like if you think she is beautiful”
and then it turns out he is a local unsigned rapper wanting to get 200000 followers so they can get a record deal.
Because you are just most likely help promote some jackwad’s next coming album, instead of showing love for the unfortunate.
Nerdism induced Consumerism.Consumerism induced Nerdism ?
Yet another reason why I am leaving the tech world. What I call “Nerdism Induced Consumerism”.
Why do we try and be more geeky or if anything show that we can appear geeky and that we can afford the latest trends.
Nerdy Trends? Why is geeky a trend? The more geeky people try and project themselves as, the more expensive the junk gets and well, less geeky. I want my operating system so complicated, you freaks can’t use it. I want my tech so techy, I am constantly learning more. Not complacent with bubbly puffy buttons that do everything, until the next puffier fluffy buttons version gets sold to me. Yet they still have not created a remote control locator that is built into the tv.. but sure enough they give you so few buttons on the tv, you have to have a remote.
Look how technical your tv has become. Most tvs these days run on Linux.. Is that not geeky? Question here is why in the heck is it so dang expensive now ? because it’s hot. Even though a tv these days does not seem half as durable as an old CRT. The image looks a ton better. But not that dang much.
To have a decent tv, you have to have a ton of gadgets. Blue-ray player , satellite or direct tv or cable that is broadcasting in High def. Roku box, Google Tv, Apple Tv. Along with your 27 inch wide screen monitor on your computer, Subscribed to netflix, hulu, and YouTube movies (isn’t that Google TV ????? WTF). Laptop that has a 17 inch monitor but thin as a blade with HD capability, along with your what ever PAD, and cell phone with a 5 inch or greater screen that plays in the latest highest resolution, of course subscribed to all of the same stuff your other gadgets are, and yes some subscriptions make you pay a little more for each device added. Then comes the XM and Hybrid Digital radio with mp3 player and mass storage device in your car, along with on star and GPS that you are subscribed to.
What does it all cost? and why do we pay for it? When did geeky become cool?
All of that stuff, all of the geeky stuff you are buying, the real geeks were building that for themselves. KnoppMyth boxes (DVR), cheap Mp3 players with 2 gig capacities connected to our car stereos by way of multi-disk player input connections. The fun was building that and making it work. Not just driving somewhere to have someone install it for you and then telling your friends that you are on top of tech. That’s not tech. That’s douchebagetry mixed with consumerism. It’s fine if you like things and want things, but to feed you guys, the industries are stealing our works, and making everything simple for the simple minded. Forcing us to become stale (bby way of not having anymore challenges). They are not evolving and trying to do the next major step to motivate more original thought. They are making fluffy buttons for the morons who have no sense of creativity and no understanding of anything great than push a button and say “look what I built”.. Example…. Look at Apple. Now look at the owner of Apple products. Now look back at Apple, Now look at the customers..Do you see it? Pastel 80’s Polo shirt, with white shorts and white tennis shoes, hair spray and a scarf.
I’m done with all of that.
Give me a 70’s muscle car. Take my computer, take my phone, take my tv. I am done. It’s time to sit back and save money and not care who has what and how cool it is that they can draw this in Photoshop, or if they have a mac or windows machine, because I just don’t care. I never really did. I always wanted to do things as cheap as possible and show it’s as good as the most expensive. Took more skill and know how. but now one cares about skill. They just care how much you spent, and well, That’s pointless and not for me. This is a game I can’t play.
Maybe I will make Bonsai Trees or something.
Trial on windows xp sp 3
Just a couple picture. Of windows 8 calling programs “Aps”. This was a windows xp computer with all latest patches and updates.
Just showing you what the Windows 8 preview installer looks like in the first couple of menus.