After I read this article yesterday I sent an email to their customer service department via the "contact us" link on their site and told them that they had lost a long-time customer over these announced "layoffs".
This is the response I received:
Dear XX,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We value our customers' feedback.
As we stated in our news release yesterday, we are taking a number of actions to improve our cost and expense structure. We are holding ourselves accountable to our associates, our customers, our communities, and our shareholders to build a strong company that generates sustainable growth for the future.
Our goal is to provide superior service while effectively competing against low-cost retailers. We are working towards this goal by making changes, such as announced yesterday, and with the help of over 40,000 associates who keep our customers at the center of everything we do. We hope you will allow our Circuit City team to serve you in the future.
Sincerely,
M. Garcia Customer Support Coordinato
Seems to me they would be better served by canning the upper management that is so far removed from the customer experience in their stores to actually float this idea.
And the solution the Doom9 guys will use to defeat this?
Don't upgrade to the new PowerDVD.
If the player key for your old version of PowerDVD is no longer valid on new media because it's been "revoked", then that doesn't leave you with much choice.
It seems, however, that old versions of these software players will continue to be relevant for the previously published muslix64 hack that grabs the disc keys. While neither of these exploits completely "breaks" AACS in the same way that DeCSS did for DVD, the two of them together ensure that it's greatly compromised moving forward.
Remember, only one "smart guy" needs to extract the keys. Everyone else just has to be proficient enough at using google or bittorrent to find them.
Fluorescent light makes everything look so stark. It's bad enough that we all have to bake under these things in our offices day in and day out, let alone allow them to creep into our homes. I don't particularly care for the inside of my home to look like a doctors office or retail store.
I just purchased a new home from a builder who installed CFLs in _ALL_ of the house's fixtures. The wave of the future, no doubt - but I for one will be phasing most of them out rather quickly for plain-old incandescents with their warm, natural light. Power bill be damned.
I'm hoping that the advances in LED lighting will cure some of these evils and someday soon render these expensive bulbs that produce ugly light obsolete.
Why again would one have a mail server on a dynamic IP? If you want to host your own mail, do it the right way and get a static IP address and an ISP that will host reverse DNS for you.
This is what I'm doing, and haven't had any problems being blocked by the big boys. I would assume their filters are pretty basic... probably finding a dhcp-* or the likes during a reverse lookup is how they're doing their filtering.
In CA at least, there's just no reason to give your broadband money to one of the 800lb gorillas with so many third party providers willing to give you a static IP and things like reverse DNS hosting for a tiny premium over the *Bell services. If your chosen broadband provider won't allow you to relay mail to addresses other than their own, then why again are you paying them so much money every month?
I just spent all of yesterday afternoon installing a 63-node rack from Rackable. The build quality of these units is excellent... amazingly dense and efficient. According to the installers, in addition to google, their systems are also used extensively by yahoo and hotmail.
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After I read this article yesterday I sent an email to their customer service department via the "contact us" link on their site and told them that they had lost a long-time customer over these announced "layoffs".
This is the response I received:
Dear XX,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We value our customers' feedback.
As we stated in our news release yesterday, we are taking a number of actions to improve our cost and expense structure. We are holding ourselves accountable to our associates, our customers, our communities, and our shareholders to build a strong company that generates sustainable growth for the future.
Our goal is to provide superior service while effectively competing against low-cost retailers. We are working towards this goal by making changes, such as announced yesterday, and with the help of over 40,000 associates who keep our customers at the center of everything we do. We hope you will allow our Circuit City team to serve you in the future.
Sincerely,
M. Garcia
Customer Support Coordinato
Seems to me they would be better served by canning the upper management that is so far removed from the customer experience in their stores to actually float this idea.
Perhaps we also need to condemn Sony because PS3 media doesn't work in a Wii.
And the solution the Doom9 guys will use to defeat this?
Don't upgrade to the new PowerDVD.
If the player key for your old version of PowerDVD is no longer valid on new media because it's been "revoked", then that doesn't leave you with much choice.
It seems, however, that old versions of these software players will continue to be relevant for the previously published muslix64 hack that grabs the disc keys. While neither of these exploits completely "breaks" AACS in the same way that DeCSS did for DVD, the two of them together ensure that it's greatly compromised moving forward.
Remember, only one "smart guy" needs to extract the keys. Everyone else just has to be proficient enough at using google or bittorrent to find them.
...that can't stand these bulbs?
Fluorescent light makes everything look so stark. It's bad enough that we all have to bake under these things in our offices day in and day out, let alone allow them to creep into our homes. I don't particularly care for the inside of my home to look like a doctors office or retail store.
I just purchased a new home from a builder who installed CFLs in _ALL_ of the house's fixtures. The wave of the future, no doubt - but I for one will be phasing most of them out rather quickly for plain-old incandescents with their warm, natural light. Power bill be damned.
I'm hoping that the advances in LED lighting will cure some of these evils and someday soon render these expensive bulbs that produce ugly light obsolete.
My idea was a flashing neon sign that says, "back off!"
;)
I've found flashing brake lights which correspond to sudden changes in my vehicle's speed to be equally effective.
Do you argue on behalf of your clients with responses like "I don't know what you're talking about", "probably", and "you could just default"?
Or do we need to pay you $300/hr for responses with content?
Why again would one have a mail server on a dynamic IP? If you want to host your own mail, do it the right way and get a static IP address and an ISP that will host reverse DNS for you.
This is what I'm doing, and haven't had any problems being blocked by the big boys. I would assume their filters are pretty basic... probably finding a dhcp-* or the likes during a reverse lookup is how they're doing their filtering.
In CA at least, there's just no reason to give your broadband money to one of the 800lb gorillas with so many third party providers willing to give you a static IP and things like reverse DNS hosting for a tiny premium over the *Bell services. If your chosen broadband provider won't allow you to relay mail to addresses other than their own, then why again are you paying them so much money every month?
I just spent all of yesterday afternoon installing a 63-node rack from Rackable. The build quality of these units is excellent... amazingly dense and efficient. According to the installers, in addition to google, their systems are also used extensively by yahoo and hotmail.