Too bad most people are on low-value ISPs like Big Pond which count uploads, and only give 12GB transfers... For the same price as my 150GB downloads-only ADSL2 plan with another ISP.
I can't *not* read stuff. Hell for me would be locked in a room with a sign with one or two words written on it. Which is also why is it almost midnight and I'm still up... (The Internets are calling me!)
Yes, mikerowesoft.com is exactly what "Michael Rowe Software" should be using./sarcasm. IIRC he was being "cool" but his homonym namesake paid him enough to change.
A counter example is nissan.com: Nissan Motors trying to bully a small computer shop run by a Mr Nissan, and Nissan Computer winning. This could be like the OP's case, but with the big company offering to buy the domain instead of trying to lawyer in. I'm guessing the.nl company doesn't have the trademark internationally but still wants the international domain name. And there's nothing wrong with that. Perhaps the best advice would be to reply with "make an offer" and see the ballpark of what they are willing to pay for it. (IANAL, IAN in the US, etc)
You buy a Mac USB dialup modem separately from the Apple store. They aren't cheap though: US$49 or AU$79. The Linux users need to test their modems before disaster strikes. The modem in my laptop (3yo LG) works with Ubuntu so that's all that matters to me.:)
Talking about "ditching" cordless: why not have both a cordless and a corded phone in parallel on your line? That way you can use the cordless phone in general, but you'll have the corded one when the power is out. We do that also to extend the ringer as the cordless phone's ringer was too high pitched to recognise it as a ringing phone.
I've had several mobile phones from Nokia, and they've all used the same connector (even if the voltage ranges from 3.3 to 5.8 at least it can get you out of trouble). My latest Nokia has a much smaller connector which annoys me. It means I have to carry the charger around instead of just leaving them where I use them (in bedroom, in kitchen, at work...)
In a related rant, I have several devices that run off 12V. Problem is they use the same connector but some have reverse polarity. Someone has already blown a wireless router by switching its power with a modem's. Even two devices from the same manufacturer suffer this problem (I'm looking at you, D-link). Those DC connectors are good, it would be better is they all had the same polarity!
And in most countries the plan price includes taxes! So there is no "sales tax" to add. Here if I sign up to a "$75.00/month" plan all I'll pay is $75 and no more (unless I go over a limit) including fees and taxes.
Where I used to live there was an expensive-looking Netgear router that would always crash when I logged into my VOIP provider. This provider had no problems with any other (cheap or otherwise) router (including the ~$60 Billion 5100 modem/router I'm using now). It didn't matter which softphone I used, on both Linux and Windows, the Netgear would lock up hard: even with the latest firmware. It would only come back after shutting down the softphone and waiting 3-5 minutes.
Perhaps the funniest thing was when I tried a different VOIP provider and had no problems, even though they both used Asterisk. I dropped the second one when I moved house...
We've had to go back to Flash 8 for most of our projects because of the Flash player no being up to scratch. Too many of our clients (and their clients) have Flash 9.0.16 which is quite broken, even causing one of relatively simple video websites to crash the entire browser. Since they have "Flash 9" they don't understand when we tell them to upgrade Flash
Using express install (setting minimum version 9.0.115) there are still problems - especially if they don't have admin rights on their machines. We even had one machine in the office that refused to express install the ActiveX control, and then to even install manually (Of course the FF plugin worked).
"[...] how long it tends to last before going south, and then sets the warranty for just under that amount of time."
Isn't that exactly what a "warranty" is? "We warrant (guarantee) this product to work for XX years or your money back/we'll fix it" - After that time all bets are off.
I was at a music festival recently and I sent a SMS each to my wife and friend. They both got them hours after I sent it. Just having 30000+ people in close proximity seems to completely kill the cell. (I had 7/7 bars and tried to make a call and it just wouldn't)
That was actually a management decision: Zimbra is only "supported" on certain paid distros so they figured they'd want to make use of that support. We had a Zimbra test server on CentOS for a month before we replaced the Fedora server.
I used to work at a church where the previous IT guy had setup a standard Fedora box as a server. Everyone used Outlook with POP3 mail over the LAN. It was only a Celeron 600 that also did file serving, spam/virus scanning and web filtering. With 35 users it was seriously underpowered.
I upgraded them to two servers: RHEL with Zimbra for everything mail-related and CentOS for fileserving. They were even considering Evolution for the client, which I found funny for a church! Anyway, they've been like this for over a year and there has been no major problems. The new servers even had Gigabit cards so people could get full speed from the gigabit switch!
They were a little against Exchange because their neighbouring retirement village used Exchange on SBS and had no end to problems. Last I heard they linked networks and migrated the retirement village accounts to their Zimbra server.
Uh, dude, how many Americans "escaped the shitty hell" of the United States to become citizens of Australia? I'd guess very few did.
My fiance's great-grandfather and his two friends wanted to escape the War to the USA. For some reason he had to initially stay behind so they got separated. Since he couldn't read English (he was Finnish) he ended up on a boat to Australia. He did very well here: his friends weren't doing so well in America so he got them both over and they ended up moving to Australia too!
(FWIW on the other side of her family the male-line came over on the First Fleet in 1788 - the man was an officer who married a convict woman. My own family tree hasn't been compiled but all my grandparents and almost all of my great-grandparents were born in Australia, AFAIK)
You said around 2000 you had the slowness problems; Gnome 2.0 was released late 2001.
I use a fairly standard install of ubuntu feisty (Gnome 2.18.1) on an XP1600+ and I never notice performance problems. It usually feels snappier than my Windows XP at work (P4 3GHz).
Didn't a similar thing happen in the 1980s/1990s when VHF channels got converted over to UHF? I remember our old TV couldn't tune into any channels one day so we had to use the tuner in the VCR to see any TV at all. It's still a bit confusing for some people that "channel 7" is really "channel 56" (or something)!
I don't understand "pay to activate to send/receive text messages"? I have never known SMS to cost anything other than sending them, or the dodgey "subscription" messages. Is this because I'm not in the technology dark ages? (Although I am still using a Nokia 6100 from four years ago)
said firm emailed to ask we pulled the comment otherwise they might need to get legal on us
I would have replaced the post with a large "XYZ Company has asked us to remove this post due to a user posting a negative comment about them". It still shows that there is something wrong with XYZ Company but this is potentially worse for them and it doesn't say how bad they are - and since it is completely true they can't do anything about it.:)
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Especially if they give you the skills and tools to change it. And the parts to supercharge it, and add a "fully sik" stereo, etc!
Too bad most people are on low-value ISPs like Big Pond which count uploads, and only give 12GB transfers... For the same price as my 150GB downloads-only ADSL2 plan with another ISP.
Could just use tinyurl.com. :)
I can't *not* read stuff. Hell for me would be locked in a room with a sign with one or two words written on it. Which is also why is it almost midnight and I'm still up... (The Internets are calling me!)
Yes, mikerowesoft.com is exactly what "Michael Rowe Software" should be using. /sarcasm. IIRC he was being "cool" but his homonym namesake paid him enough to change.
A counter example is nissan.com: Nissan Motors trying to bully a small computer shop run by a Mr Nissan, and Nissan Computer winning. This could be like the OP's case, but with the big company offering to buy the domain instead of trying to lawyer in. I'm guessing the .nl company doesn't have the trademark internationally but still wants the international domain name. And there's nothing wrong with that. Perhaps the best advice would be to reply with "make an offer" and see the ballpark of what they are willing to pay for it. (IANAL, IAN in the US, etc)
You buy a Mac USB dialup modem separately from the Apple store. They aren't cheap though: US$49 or AU$79. The Linux users need to test their modems before disaster strikes. The modem in my laptop (3yo LG) works with Ubuntu so that's all that matters to me. :)
Talking about "ditching" cordless: why not have both a cordless and a corded phone in parallel on your line? That way you can use the cordless phone in general, but you'll have the corded one when the power is out. We do that also to extend the ringer as the cordless phone's ringer was too high pitched to recognise it as a ringing phone.
I've had several mobile phones from Nokia, and they've all used the same connector (even if the voltage ranges from 3.3 to 5.8 at least it can get you out of trouble). My latest Nokia has a much smaller connector which annoys me. It means I have to carry the charger around instead of just leaving them where I use them (in bedroom, in kitchen, at work...)
In a related rant, I have several devices that run off 12V. Problem is they use the same connector but some have reverse polarity. Someone has already blown a wireless router by switching its power with a modem's. Even two devices from the same manufacturer suffer this problem (I'm looking at you, D-link). Those DC connectors are good, it would be better is they all had the same polarity!
Get them to install a shower and be 10 minutes early. My work has a full bathroom for this, and they even supply a personal trainer once a week!
And in most countries the plan price includes taxes! So there is no "sales tax" to add. Here if I sign up to a "$75.00/month" plan all I'll pay is $75 and no more (unless I go over a limit) including fees and taxes.
So instead of user@example.com it should be com.example!user (or something)?
I guess example.com/path is an extension of the US-centric M/D/Y middle-endian syntax. :)
Where I used to live there was an expensive-looking Netgear router that would always crash when I logged into my VOIP provider. This provider had no problems with any other (cheap or otherwise) router (including the ~$60 Billion 5100 modem/router I'm using now). It didn't matter which softphone I used, on both Linux and Windows, the Netgear would lock up hard: even with the latest firmware. It would only come back after shutting down the softphone and waiting 3-5 minutes.
Perhaps the funniest thing was when I tried a different VOIP provider and had no problems, even though they both used Asterisk. I dropped the second one when I moved house...
We've had to go back to Flash 8 for most of our projects because of the Flash player no being up to scratch. Too many of our clients (and their clients) have Flash 9.0.16 which is quite broken, even causing one of relatively simple video websites to crash the entire browser. Since they have "Flash 9" they don't understand when we tell them to upgrade Flash
Using express install (setting minimum version 9.0.115) there are still problems - especially if they don't have admin rights on their machines. We even had one machine in the office that refused to express install the ActiveX control, and then to even install manually (Of course the FF plugin worked).
"[...] how long it tends to last before going south, and then sets the warranty for just under that amount of time."
Isn't that exactly what a "warranty" is? "We warrant (guarantee) this product to work for XX years or your money back/we'll fix it" - After that time all bets are off.
I was at a music festival recently and I sent a SMS each to my wife and friend. They both got them hours after I sent it. Just having 30000+ people in close proximity seems to completely kill the cell. (I had 7/7 bars and tried to make a call and it just wouldn't)
That was actually a management decision: Zimbra is only "supported" on certain paid distros so they figured they'd want to make use of that support. We had a Zimbra test server on CentOS for a month before we replaced the Fedora server.
CentOS for the other as it didn't need support.
I used to work at a church where the previous IT guy had setup a standard Fedora box as a server. Everyone used Outlook with POP3 mail over the LAN. It was only a Celeron 600 that also did file serving, spam/virus scanning and web filtering. With 35 users it was seriously underpowered.
I upgraded them to two servers: RHEL with Zimbra for everything mail-related and CentOS for fileserving. They were even considering Evolution for the client, which I found funny for a church! Anyway, they've been like this for over a year and there has been no major problems. The new servers even had Gigabit cards so people could get full speed from the gigabit switch!
They were a little against Exchange because their neighbouring retirement village used Exchange on SBS and had no end to problems. Last I heard they linked networks and migrated the retirement village accounts to their Zimbra server.
Also, "beta" is pronounced like "better" by some people, so they use it because it's "better" than the alternative. Blah!
In the days of yore they didn't care about spelling too much.
(I am a recovering spelling nazi)
Uh, dude, how many Americans "escaped the shitty hell" of the United States to become citizens of Australia? I'd guess very few did.
My fiance's great-grandfather and his two friends wanted to escape the War to the USA. For some reason he had to initially stay behind so they got separated. Since he couldn't read English (he was Finnish) he ended up on a boat to Australia. He did very well here: his friends weren't doing so well in America so he got them both over and they ended up moving to Australia too!
(FWIW on the other side of her family the male-line came over on the First Fleet in 1788 - the man was an officer who married a convict woman. My own family tree hasn't been compiled but all my grandparents and almost all of my great-grandparents were born in Australia, AFAIK)
You said around 2000 you had the slowness problems; Gnome 2.0 was released late 2001.
I use a fairly standard install of ubuntu feisty (Gnome 2.18.1) on an XP1600+ and I never notice performance problems. It usually feels snappier than my Windows XP at work (P4 3GHz).
Here in Australia "unlimited" meant "around 10GB"
Yep, past tense. It's now 12GB. Uploads + Downloads. Then 64kbit shaping. Or $150/GB excess.
Didn't a similar thing happen in the 1980s/1990s when VHF channels got converted over to UHF? I remember our old TV couldn't tune into any channels one day so we had to use the tuner in the VCR to see any TV at all. It's still a bit confusing for some people that "channel 7" is really "channel 56" (or something)!
I don't understand "pay to activate to send/receive text messages"? I have never known SMS to cost anything other than sending them, or the dodgey "subscription" messages. Is this because I'm not in the technology dark ages? (Although I am still using a Nokia 6100 from four years ago)
said firm emailed to ask we pulled the comment otherwise they might need to get legal on us
:)
I would have replaced the post with a large "XYZ Company has asked us to remove this post due to a user posting a negative comment about them". It still shows that there is something wrong with XYZ Company but this is potentially worse for them and it doesn't say how bad they are - and since it is completely true they can't do anything about it.
Where I come from meter maids are a good thing :) http://www.metermaids.com/
Maybe Apple could do the same thing?