TruXter Tech News

If you have ever  clicked in to see a website and noticed that by you launch/start button you notice your browser says that you are waiting for  some program to start up from google. If you have ever said ” Hmmm should I be scared?”

If you are looking for a simple answer,

It’s a program you link with code on your website. The code in your  website sends information to google. Th information gathered is really thorough.  Types of data gathered are about the people surfing your website, such as point of origin, screen resolution, operating system, Exact search query, time on site, exit location.

For me some of this information is pretty useful. It tells me what size pictures I can put on my site to please the common public, what browser and operating system is my target to please. What content people where looking for and if I have exactly what they want or should I cover that content also or should I give a link to someone who does.

Google’s Version of the story

Not to be super conspiracy filled, but.

Um, that’s to much info about me. I am not comfortable with that much data. I really wouldn’t want the guy’s on the adopt a pet, website seeing that I whent straight to their site from an athlete’s foot site, and when I left I whent to a site about people who liked to eat with their feet.

Why is it that the google urchin gathers personal info about  us, kinda adware info. I mean really isn’t it for advertisement purposes….. why doesn’t my spybot ,asquared and addaware find it?  it is a js file so it does have beef.

Other than the issue with my personal self not liking the monitoring, I love being able to  tweak my site with the info I gather.

I went with Nebula theme .

This is a very nice theme, the guys did a great job with this wordpress theme

Ok So I was sent to office depot 5 minutes before lunch started. I decided to swing by the burger place and get some lunch before I go in, and just waste an hour and 15 minutes for lunch instead of my regular hour lunch. I went in to Office depot and gathered all the things I needed into a buggy (office supply junk, paper pens toner ink) and walk in circles for a few minutes. While walking in circles and getting followed around by the depot snipers ( not sure they thought I was shop lifting, so i picked up stuff and would misplace it like crazy) I stumbled on the $9 software bin. While rooting around I saw a “buy one get one free” sign. So I decided to dig around and make sure I find something. Well I found a web page design thingy disk. I pretty much knew it would be crap because it’s price and the fact that the makers say nothing about it’s form or style. Like css,html javascript. Nothing just says something about templates.
The product is made by a company named Cosmi, the product name is “WEB PAGE CREATOR”. there is a circle stamp on the front with a symbol that says “#1″ and some stuff in tiny freaking print though I can make out the work “productivity” . Well I scanned it with asquared,virscan.org, norton anti vir and found no reason to freak out.
So today I finally install the software. The actual software they are selling is all of about 10 megs of software, the rest, well, the rest is a 2002 version of open office.
The software they created (I think they created or just downloaded from some poor joke’s website) is just a shell script hand full of short cut links to open office items but named differently in the program. Don’t worry, when the open office items open up they do show their names at the top of the program’s window.
Well My True honest opinion, as far as web design goes, you can do everything this software bundle can do, Simply by using netscape navigator 7.2 suite edition. ns 7.2 suite comes with a program called “composer” and well, you can do the whole “what you see is what you get” web design part of using a program just like you can with cosmi’s erm, uh, java sun system’s? open office program.
plus netscape 7.2 s does not come with netzero crapware like this program does..

My call?
Walk past this thing, sure waste of ten bucks.

I am the owner of iworkwithpeople.comI have not been able to connect to my website now for nearly a week, I have seen that I can connect while at work on a t3 line, and I can connect on my female friend’s computer that has a dsl line, and a few friends from live.Pirillo.com have helped me and checked the connection from where they are and they all connect.. except the people on comcast . My site’s address is iworkwithpeople.com and the service I have is through 50megs.com. i assume they took it upon themselves to block 50megs.com for what ever reason they saw fit. in the process of blocking 50megs, they blocked me.. This reduces the number of page visits considerably. Considering they monopolized the cable industry, it looks more like a 20’s gangster bull crap “ehh mugsy don’t let no one connect to them until they pay me 50% seeeeeeee” .I am not happy with this .

The letter I wrote is to follow…

Comcast Houston blocking my domain.
I own a website, through 50megs.com
I can connect to my file manager on sbc dsl, I can connect through sprint dsl and I have connected at work with a t3 line, but when I get home or to any of my friend’s houses with Comcast I can not connect to 50megs.com . I am near time to re up on my domain name and hosting bills and getting really frustrated that I can not connect from home where i feel safe. I want to connect to my service and it appears you are blocking me. Please look into this and solve this issue.

From work we did a tracert

After doing a tracert and a whois we find these services
1 19 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 74.7.23.193
3 8 ms 9 ms 7 ms 172.22.213.125
4 14 ms 7 ms 9 ms 192.168.39.48
5 13 ms 9 ms 7 ms 192.168.38.34
6 12 ms 8 ms 9 ms ge-1-6.r03.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [128.241.1
.177]
7 13 ms 9 ms 8 ms xe-0-1-0.r20.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250
.2.228]
8 15 ms 16 ms 14 ms as-0.r20.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.1
29]
9 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms ge3-0.cr02.dal01.pccwbtn.net [206.223.118.48]
10 54 ms 50 ms 48 ms unitedonline.ge2-5.br01.lax01.pccwbtn.net [63.21
8.25.14]
11 52 ms 57 ms 57 ms ve113.r1.bu3.lax.untd.com [64.136.1.171]
12 51 ms 48 ms 57 ms pop.communityarchitect.com [64.136.25.170]

Trace complete.

communityarchitect.com
northsky.com
freeservers.com
direct-connect.com

tell me if you can connect through Comcast

these three are the chain I chased at work.

Now from home I do a tracert

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\TruXter>tracert 50megs.com
Unable to resolve target system name 50megs.com.

C:\Documents and Settings\TruXter>

It has been confirmed by my Domain Host that Comcast is surely blocking all of 50megs.com domain hosting from being connected by Comcast users !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Message today 1-15-08 from 50megs.com

We have contacted Comcast and have ticket open with them. They are working to clear out the cache and correct the outage issues.

We have resolved the issues on this side.

It should be up and running shortly. Mike

Mysite Customer Service

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Form Message

Message from comcast today 1-15-08

Dear Customer,

Thank you for contacting Comcast Cable.

I understand that you are experiencing difficulties with your Comcast
service. Offering our customers the most effective possible support is a
priority at Comcast. We appreciate that you have given us this
opportunity to communicate with you and we want to address your concerns
as quickly as possible. Although most issues can be addressed from
within the email forum, in some cases "Live Interaction" is necessary as
this issue will have to be escalated for resolution. In order to assist
you, we ask that you use the link below to open a "Chat session" with a
representative or call us using the information provided.

 http://www.comcastsupport.com/chat

If you require assistance and prefer to speak to a representative:
Please call us at 1-800-COMCAST (266-2278) - Customer Care and Internet
Support 24/7

If you need further assistance, please feel free to respond directly to
this email. We appreciate you taking the time to contact us.

Thank you for choosing Comcast.

Sincerely,

Tonya
Comcast Customer Care Specialist
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Comments:
Comcast houston blocking my domain.
I own a website, through 50megs.com
I can connect to my file manager on sbc dls, I can connect through
sprint dsl and I have connected at work with a t3 line, but when I get
home or to any of my friend’’s houses with comcast I can not connect to
50megs.com . I am near time to re up on my domain name and hosting bills
and getting really frustrated that I can not connect from home where i
feel safe. I want to connect to my service and it appears you are
blocking me. Please look into this and solve this issue.
IPAddress:
98.XXX.X.XXX

Kinda looks like they sent me a bunch of nothing from comcast.. feels like I am trying to teach my cat how to pee in the toilet.

************update****************

Someone sent me a link to a proxy thingy for myspace
and it actually worked, just typed in my web site address and bamI whent directly to my site. I did not type in my password or anything though, I really do not know if I trust a third party site like that… ya know? so if you are on comunismcast or any service that can not see my site right now, gie that a try. see for your self that you are actually blocked.

************update***********

They host my stuff and for two days now I can not log into my account or even see http://iworkwithpeople.com

which is hosted at 50megs.com .. heck i can’t even go to 50 megs. . this is killing my visit count.

You know, I am starting to think  comcast is blocking my host’s i.p. address.

No one can go there that I know of, who are on comcast.

I mean my buddy in another city on dsl can go there

I can go there from my job just 4 miles up the road, and my job uses a whole nother service.

if you can go to 50megs.com or iworkwithpeople.com   please leave a notice as to what service you use and which of the two sites you can access.