My office was not the only place to notice this.
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I couldn’t get an answer or even a verification that I wasn’t out of my mind on twitter today. I swear it’s like twitter is either getting A.D.D. Mentality, or as snobbish as facebook.
But anyway. I posted like 3 notices by lunch time trying to get a ” yeah we don’t see squat working here either” . I got nothing from it.
So as the tech guy for an office I work in (of about 20+ admin staff), I kept having to tell a half guessed story ” um yeah looks like The server google is on is down” and of course someone would walk up ” Did i just hear you say the internet is down??? I can’t work like that” .
So thanks Twitter.
You guys rock.
lol.
Tag: internet
Myspace on the hunt for new blood.
taken from Forbes
Sample pages for the new service closely resemble Yelp’s. On each business’ page, a block of basic information (phone number, address, map, price range) is followed by a string of comments with the name of the MySpace user who commented and a picture.
Like Yelp, MySpace and Citysearch will sell ads to local businesses that can run alongside its listings and user comments. MySpace will also place ads for national brands among the local content. So far, it has signed up Coors and Outback Steakhouse as the first advertisers.
Internet Explorer released
Well here we are passed the whole” let’s catch up with firefox” phase of adding tabs. Let’s see if explorer caught up on the whole ” well let’s let them see the page they are trying to access , before we ask them if they want to save the password.” One thing I hate is when a page will not load until I select yes or no on save password “what if I typoed”.
Some have informative responses (kinda)
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5937995.ece
Steve Ballmer, the chief executive officer of Microsoft, said: “With Internet Explorer 8, we are delivering a browser that gets people to the information they need, fast, and provides protection that no other browser can match.”
but here is the actual page so you can evaluate for yourself
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx
Now you can quickly display websites that were designed for older browsers. If you’re looking at a page and the text or images aren’t lined up right, just use the new Compatibility View button next to the Refresh button on the Address Bar.
Cloud Computing taking off?
Looks like everyone is buzzing about cloud computing right now.
Cnet
I don’t think I trust the whole “cloud” computing crap.. The whole being in it’s name is very broad and leaves to much to your imagination, and turns out … quite cloudy.
but again, the whole day is nothing but cloud this
http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=NEWS+FEATURES-qqqm=nav-qqqid=40434-qqqx=1.asp
and Cloud that
http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/?p=590
So the word of the day is “Cloud”
Best Online Video Outlets of 08
I can not say that Youtube is the best, just the greatest used. When they get the whole “hd” version and time span thing worked out. In due time, we all know google has a big plan somewhere up their sleave. lol.
Ok on to my favorites:
3.VEOH Nothing major ground breaking but a great gathering of videos on other people’s sites.
2.Joost The first of the best High quality, Could be best but had a face lift mid year that changed everything and started them back at point zero, to follow hulu. I would like to locate their media player again.
1. HULU very high quallity high resolution videos. Bad thing is, fox focused, and all the really good shows, are on fox’s website not Hulu’s. I still after 5 tries can not get the fox media player to work at all. I tried Xp,Xp64,Vista,Xandros Linux. but other than that, what shows they do host, are very high quality with tiny short advertisements
Comcast – Acceptable Use Policy
Well I got some crap from Communism-Cast today.
Looks like they re-worded their plans that where “discontinued”
and are still going full force into Selling you 29 mbs but only letting you use
4mbs… and only for the websites they approve. I am guessing within five years
this place will go AOL and consume it’s self When everyone jumps ship for DSL
and the freedom to go to more websites than just Communism-cast approved sites.
Read this crap:
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Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Customer, We appreciate your business and strive to provide you with the best online experience possible. One of the ways we do this is through our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The AUP outlines acceptable use of our service as well as steps we take to protect our customers from things that can negatively impact their experience online. This policy has been in place for many years and we update it periodically to keep it current with our customers’ use of our service. On October 1, 2008, we will post an updated AUP that will go into effect at that time. In the updated AUP, we clarify that monthly data (or bandwidth) usage of more than 250 Gigabytes (GB) is the specific threshold that defines excessive use of our service. We have an excessive use policy because a fraction of one percent of our customers use such a disproportionate amount of bandwidth every month that they may degrade the online experience of other customers. 250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of bandwidth and it’s very likely that your monthly data usage doesn’t even come close to that amount. In fact, the threshold is approximately 100 times greater than the typical or median residential customer usage, which is 2 to 3 GB/month. To put it in perspective, to reach 250 GB of data usage in one month a customer would have to do any one of the following: * Send more than 50 million plain text emails (at 5 KB/email); And online gamers should know that even the heaviest multi- or single-player gaming activity would not typically come close to this threshold over the course of a month. In addition to modifying the excessive use policy, the updated AUP contains other clarifications of terms concerning reporting violations, newsgroups, and network management. To read some helpful FAQs, please visit http://help.comcast.net/content/faq/Frequently-Asked-Questions-about-Excessive-Use. Thank you again for choosing Comcast as your high-speed Internet provider. |
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Right way to order cable / Satellite
Call Comcast and request your cable to vbe installed. They will give you a “Time frame Window” .
As soon as they state their little window of 6 hours that you are supposed to stay home from work to accomodate this company who makes you feel as if you have no alternative. Don’t bother requesting anything or asking any questions, they will belittle you and let you know they are very busy. Go the full nine yards with the phone call, make sure all of the paper work is done and then slam them with the big fat juicy one. Just before they get the chance to build up the steam and read the last line or recite the last line of their typical ” how to end a call” Rule book. Say with excitement ” Awesome that works out fine, I also ordered Direct Tv to arrive that same day, My friends and I have a bet which one will come and install first, I am betting on direct tv and from the huge time frame you gave me, I am gonna win the $200 bet, Well which ever shows up first is the one I am gonna use”.
Now end the call with something you have rehearsed ” thanks for accepting my call and taking my order, if there isn’t any more information you need from me again I would like to thank and wish you a good day.”
Now call direct tv and do the same.
Direct tv takes for ever, but do your best to schedual the same day.. which ever one shows up last, tell them it must have been a prank call. If you get lucky, you get direct tv and Dsl. Dsl shouldnt exceed $30 a month and sometimes has greater bandwaidth than comcast, I mean comcast shows cool stats and specs when you do bandwidth tests, but in file transfer , they fall short of dsl. Earthlink is inexpensive and can find people to work with you.
Dsl has gotten really good in the past few years.. If you are in the right area.
Affiliate program gets lawsuite
I was signed with an affiliate program for years, and never made more than $7. Two weeks ago I got a notice in my email saying they sold the company. They went on saying that all current bills will be paid by the end of what ever month, not sure I just started to ignore the junk I would get from them.
now this is what I suspected all along.
RE: Important Legal Notice Regarding Commission Junction’s Affiliate Network
If you joined or were a member of the affiliate marketing networks operated by ValueClick, Inc., Commission Junction, Inc. and/or Be Free (collectively, “Defendants”), between April 20, 2003 and the present, you may be a class member in Settlement Recovery Center et al. v. ValueClick, Inc. et al., No. 2:07-cv-02638-FMC-CTx, a lawsuit which is pending in the Central District of California. The Settlement Notice informs you of the Court’s certification of a class for settlement purposes; the nature of the claims alleged; your right to participate in, or exclude yourself from, the class; a proposed settlement; and how you can claim an award of advertising credits under the settlement or object to the settlement.
The proposed settlement will resolve claims that Defendants failed to adequately monitor Commission Junction’s Network for the use by third parties of software that does not comply with Commission Junction’s (“CJ”) Publisher Code of Conduct and that is intended to steal or divert commissions from publishers on CJ’s network (“Non-compliant Software”), failed to adequately monitor or prevent third parties from engaging in the theft or “hijacking” of commissions from Advertisers and Publishers on CJ’s Network, and failed to make sufficient disclosures regarding the existence of Non-compliant Software and commission theft, resulting in losses to both advertisers and publishers on the CJ Network.
The proposed settlement will provide a monetary recovery to eligible class members. For class members that currently maintain an account on the CJ Network will receive payment through payments or credits deposited or applied to their CJ accounts; eligible class members that no longer have accounts on the Commission Junction Network will receive a check for an equal amount.
If you are a member of the class, your legal rights are affected by whether you act or do not act. You should review the Settlement Notice as soon as possible as there are several important deadlines that you must meet to take certain actions in connection with this proposed settlement. In particular, the deadline for filing an objection or excluding yourself from the proposed settlement is September 30, 2008. For further information, please refer to the Settlement Notice.
They used to tell me that I just had a crappy second rate website.
The email notice ended with
For a copy of the Settlement Notice, click on the link, or visit the case website at www.CJSettlement.com
If you would prefer not to receive further messages from this sender, please Click Here and confirm your request.
Taste Of Cool (cuil search engine)
Very simple pretty look, the black background looks nice with the blue search button and rounded text area box. The engine fast and gives results almost instantly. A great thing for them is after you have done a search, there is a preference link at the top of the page. so far there are only two options there, but in time I am positive they will include new applets that run with the site’s engine. This could be a good thing. I have yet to have found a “submit url” on the site, but I did find a link to talk to tech support, I did request a few things. When they reply I will be posting more on that subject. Yes I did cover a link submission. If they know what’s best and simplest for them, they will bring that option in. If they bring it in too soon, chances are we are looking at another crash like their launch. I can imagine all of the people flooding in to submit the links. All at once. The name is short and easy to type and remember. The place has huge potential of being the greatest. But I had to do a search.
First thing I had to do is a vanity search on cuil.
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=TruXter
I found links that are well over a year old and dead.
I found links from a blog I deleted nearly two years ago.
None of my current /recent projects showed up. (recent as in within the past year and a half.
When I got home I did a search for a Fire Alarm company in Houston that I built a website for
But the results show a website that has been on a whole new server for about two months now.
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=hitech+fire+detection
The old long dead link, out ranks the fresh clean actual page.
Try HiTech Integrated Solutions, Similar results.
Cuil needs to re-crawl pages and check for updates.
As of right now, Not quite the Google killer some have claimed. But really this company seems a bit more modest than that. They might just be a new search.
How to own people in a forum
if you have ever wanted to know how to fight better in a forum, how to better than rick roll people in a forum. If you wanted to be a bigger man and let the whole world know that you are a greater person than they are. then you need to just poke them with a link that puts them in their place. http://truxter.org/mph/
That video will set them straight. If they are the a.d.d. type who open it and close it and tell you it sucks, there’s a little treat in there for them too.. look at the page title :-) .. that would be located at the top and in your taskbar.
Thanks to Cali lewis for the great find, she is such a sweetheart. The internet was what it was meant to be. it was meant to a be a freedom, it wa snot meant be some dill hole threating people to forcably pull their finger only to make a honk noise and laugh with everyone wondering “WTF” .
I mean it used to be violent, but now it’s just weird stupid and the meanness is lame. The elders have seen the worse, and the crack pots on it now, well , they are just looking for a way to laugh. But what they laugh at is pointless. :p)