I worked as an AppleCare support rep. If a customer doesn't feel that the issue is resolved (and clearly these "testers" didn't) then all they have to do is ask to have the issue escalated. About the broken Wifi "test" - there are *so many* brands of 802.11 base stations out on the market that if you're not getting any network information at all, and the computer thinks everything is ok (Tiger has a nice "Network Diagnostic" utility) then suggesting that you contact the manufacturer of the 802.11 base station certainly isn't a bad thing at all. It's a *third party product* (I'm goign to assume that they did't try with an Airport Base Station, because if they did, Apple would have addressed it.) and Apple's policy was to not even try to support 3rd party products. The write up was pretty vague, and that's sad.
That's pretty much what happened. But this isn't just some list.. this was *SORBS* - a pretty big list. They admitted that a lot of the mail (if not all) is automated? No apology from the guy and it took them a while to remove it. Completely unacceptable in my book.
Go ahead, try that. Try that "You, the ISP, broke the contract" bit.
See how far it gets you. How far will it get you? Absolutely NOWHERE. You've obviously never dealt with a colocation provider.
That stupid type of comment always pops up in these threads (nothing against you personally) but in reality, it won't work. it'll cost you thousands of dollars in legal fees at the very least.
They tell people to "Get a different colo" which is just ridiculous. Or, they'll tell you to pressure your colo to stop hosting spammers. Mine *doesn't* host spammers, and I'm in a contract. I can't pressure them to stop hosting spammers if they don't host any.
I stopped using RBLs/MAPS/SPEWS years ago and have never looked back. Even more interesting is that the volume of spam *did not* increase, but the complaints about being bounced/not getting through decreased.
I'm in California. The state agencies are too tied up. I looked into it (half brother is a paralegal) and found that in the end, it'd cost me way more money than I could afford and the chances of a payoff are too little. It's too easy for employers to invent reasons for the termination, that's the problem. And people say that unions have outlived their purpose.:|
Hair is still an issue, and it's a sexist one, plain and simple. But yeah, the issue still exists.
Those hp laserjet printers aren't too expensive. I got a Laserjet 1100 for $249 almost 3 years ago and I'm still on the original toner cartridge. A new one will be about $90. That's about as much money as I blew in *INK* on a previous injket printer in 6 months, and I got half the quality. there's an hp color laserjet for around $500 now, too. In the long run, it's a much much cheaper alternative.
"The traditional media -- newspapers, TV, radio -- will be the ones to go, if they don't adapt to the new situation"
I highly doubt that. There are billions of people on the planet that have never read a blog and have absolutely no desire to, but they still get 'traditional media.' To say that traditional media will just fold if they don't adapt to blogs is.. well, a rather typical self-serving blogger thing to say.:)
A somewhat relevant example is that the MPAA/RIAA hasn't gone away yet. They haven't adapted to the new situation, but they're still wielding a mighty sword.
The traditional media isn't going to go away, no matter what bloggers think. The two will exist in their own realms, appealing to the appropriate audience, if anything.
Ah, I am happy that it's a former employer. When I got laid off and was also told that I wouldn't be getting any of my 2 weeks vacation paid out because they official company policy had been changed a few weeks prior, I pondered a tri-state killing spree. Instead, I found a much better environment to work in..
I actually looked into the issue as one of religious discrimination but found that it would have been a *very* difficult road to follow, and also one that was far more expensive than I could afford.:(
If this is the same Daniel Robbins.. I don't think it is, though. If it is, He's been living a secret squirrel life and has been at Microsoft the whole time!:O
like Waiter.com and a couple other ones that roam around the Bay Area.
Guess nobody told them the dot-com boom was over.
So, what's newsworthy about this? I know that the editors don't bother to read the stories, but this doozy makes it look like they've been living under a big rock.
Yeah, I installed Windows and I got support for my RAID card.
Tried installing Fedora Core 3 and got absolutely nothing, because apparantly the drivers for the very common MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 card were yanked. I'm lucky that I wasn't one of the many people that did a kernel upgrade from RHN/RPM repositories to find out that the box would't boot after a reboot..:(
Point is, hardware issues affect any operating system. Fedora isn't a magical OS that just works on everything.:)
I've never heard of anyone with a shaved head having any issues. It'd be easier to explain, too. The typical attitude towards ling haired guys is "must be a pot smoking hippy slacker" - although I don't know one single long haired guy that smokes pot. All of the potheads I know are actually the clean cut corporate types!
"Ford Motor Co., for example, doesn't have a specific policy regarding body art but does prohibit midriff-baring outfits."
Aw, that's a bummer. Back when I worked at AT&T, the policy was basically "please wear clothes." It was distracting to work there because of all the hot chicks that were dressed up like they were going to the dance clubs after work. Tight clothes, bare midriffs, thongs showing.. holy cow, I never thought that life at the phone company could be so wonderful.
That job would have been great if it wasn't for the fucking customers.
I have NO piercings and NO tats. But I'm a long haired white guy.
I've had job issues based on my hair alone. The most recent was when the little cocksucker (sorry, I don't have enough middle fingers for my former employer.) that became my boss who started calling me "Jesus" and having one of his lackeys follow suit. Yes, because I wasn't showing up to work with polo shirts & boat shoes, I became the one to poke fun at. (These people were all hired well after I was.)
So if you're worried about piercings causing you problems, the answer is "yes, they'll cause problems. So will the tattoos."
But Hot Topic will discriminate against you if you're *not* covered in tats & metal. Dig around Fark.. some girls did some study recently about how they were treated when they applied for jobs at Hot Topic and Abercrombie & Fitch.
The results were not scientific, but interesting anyway.
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Oh, that bit I know. My current place of employment dealt with those products quite a bit. :)
AppleWorks was pretty much ClarisWorks but carbonized. :-)
It's still a decent product and does what many people need.
I worked as an AppleCare support rep. If a customer doesn't feel that the issue is resolved (and clearly these "testers" didn't) then all they have to do is ask to have the issue escalated.
About the broken Wifi "test" - there are *so many* brands of 802.11 base stations out on the market that if you're not getting any network information at all, and the computer thinks everything is ok (Tiger has a nice "Network Diagnostic" utility) then suggesting that you contact the manufacturer of the 802.11 base station certainly isn't a bad thing at all. It's a *third party product* (I'm goign to assume that they did't try with an Airport Base Station, because if they did, Apple would have addressed it.) and Apple's policy was to not even try to support 3rd party products.
The write up was pretty vague, and that's sad.
That's pretty much what happened. But this isn't just some list.. this was *SORBS* - a pretty big list. They admitted that a lot of the mail (if not all) is automated?
No apology from the guy and it took them a while to remove it. Completely unacceptable in my book.
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/200 5-05/1770.html
The postfix-users list wound up in SORBS because the admin was sloppy.
Read the thread. That's the attitude that you get from blacklists. It's *never* "their fault" - somehow it's *your* fault. That's just bullshit.
Hrm, I'm on the courier-users list and have never seen him act that way. in fact, it's been exactly the opposite.
Now, check out the dumb shit that blocked the server that does nothing but host the *Postfix Users* mailing list..
Google for "camomile.cloud9.net listed on SORBS"
Go ahead, try that. Try that "You, the ISP, broke the contract" bit.
See how far it gets you. How far will it get you? Absolutely NOWHERE. You've obviously never dealt with a colocation provider.
That stupid type of comment always pops up in these threads (nothing against you personally) but in reality, it won't work. it'll cost you thousands of dollars in legal fees at the very least.
They tell people to "Get a different colo" which is just ridiculous. Or, they'll tell you to pressure your colo to stop hosting spammers.
Mine *doesn't* host spammers, and I'm in a contract. I can't pressure them to stop hosting spammers if they don't host any.
I stopped using RBLs/MAPS/SPEWS years ago and have never looked back. Even more interesting is that the volume of spam *did not* increase, but the complaints about being bounced/not getting through decreased.
I'm in California. The state agencies are too tied up. I looked into it (half brother is a paralegal) and found that in the end, it'd cost me way more money than I could afford and the chances of a payoff are too little. It's too easy for employers to invent reasons for the termination, that's the problem. And people say that unions have outlived their purpose. :|
Hair is still an issue, and it's a sexist one, plain and simple. But yeah, the issue still exists.
In the 60s, a tsunami caused by a quake off of Alaska killed a dozen or so people in Crescent City.
So, some initial concern is definitely warranted.
Heck, half of them can't stand to hear anything that could be negative about the blogosphere..
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Those hp laserjet printers aren't too expensive. I got a Laserjet 1100 for $249 almost 3 years ago and I'm still on the original toner cartridge. A new one will be about $90. That's about as much money as I blew in *INK* on a previous injket printer in 6 months, and I got half the quality.
there's an hp color laserjet for around $500 now, too. In the long run, it's a much much cheaper alternative.
Inkjet = days are numbered.
4mbit down, 384kbps up... typical Comcast cable modem.
;)
1.5mbit down, 128-384kbps up.. typical SBC DSL line.
*Downloading* a video blog might not be too much of a hassle, but *uploading* one is going to turn a lot of people off from it.
Let's not forget all of the poor saps that are still on dialup.
Wow, so many totally appropriate threads for ASOT to post in! Is he/she being hidden deep in the bowels of the sewer system in Cupertino? :P
"The traditional media -- newspapers, TV, radio -- will be the ones to go, if they don't adapt to the new situation"
:)
I highly doubt that. There are billions of people on the planet that have never read a blog and have absolutely no desire to, but they still get 'traditional media.'
To say that traditional media will just fold if they don't adapt to blogs is.. well, a rather typical self-serving blogger thing to say.
A somewhat relevant example is that the MPAA/RIAA hasn't gone away yet. They haven't adapted to the new situation, but they're still wielding a mighty sword.
The traditional media isn't going to go away, no matter what bloggers think. The two will exist in their own realms, appealing to the appropriate audience, if anything.
Ah, I am happy that it's a former employer. When I got laid off and was also told that I wouldn't be getting any of my 2 weeks vacation paid out because they official company policy had been changed a few weeks prior, I pondered a tri-state killing spree. Instead, I found a much better environment to work in..
:(
:(
I actually looked into the issue as one of religious discrimination but found that it would have been a *very* difficult road to follow, and also one that was far more expensive than I could afford.
Too many lawyers cost too much money.
If this is the same Daniel Robbins.. I don't think it is, though. If it is, He's been living a secret squirrel life and has been at Microsoft the whole time! :O
http://research.microsoft.com/~dcr
like Waiter.com and a couple other ones that roam around the Bay Area.
Guess nobody told them the dot-com boom was over.
So, what's newsworthy about this? I know that the editors don't bother to read the stories, but this doozy makes it look like they've been living under a big rock.
Well paint me stupid. I hadn't checked the WBEL site in a long time. I thought that it had died. :)
I believe that Whitebox Linux has gone stagnant and has mostly been replaced by CentOS.
Yeah, I installed Windows and I got support for my RAID card.
:(
:)
Tried installing Fedora Core 3 and got absolutely nothing, because apparantly the drivers for the very common MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 card were yanked.
I'm lucky that I wasn't one of the many people that did a kernel upgrade from RHN/RPM repositories to find out that the box would't boot after a reboot..
Point is, hardware issues affect any operating system. Fedora isn't a magical OS that just works on everything.
I've never heard of anyone with a shaved head having any issues. It'd be easier to explain, too. The typical attitude towards ling haired guys is "must be a pot smoking hippy slacker" - although I don't know one single long haired guy that smokes pot. All of the potheads I know are actually the clean cut corporate types!
The irony of it all...
"Ford Motor Co., for example, doesn't have a specific policy regarding body art but does prohibit midriff-baring outfits."
Aw, that's a bummer. Back when I worked at AT&T, the policy was basically "please wear clothes." It was distracting to work there because of all the hot chicks that were dressed up like they were going to the dance clubs after work. Tight clothes, bare midriffs, thongs showing.. holy cow, I never thought that life at the phone company could be so wonderful.
That job would have been great if it wasn't for the fucking customers.
I have NO piercings and NO tats. But I'm a long haired white guy.
I've had job issues based on my hair alone. The most recent was when the little cocksucker (sorry, I don't have enough middle fingers for my former employer.) that became my boss who started calling me "Jesus" and having one of his lackeys follow suit. Yes, because I wasn't showing up to work with polo shirts & boat shoes, I became the one to poke fun at. (These people were all hired well after I was.)
So if you're worried about piercings causing you problems, the answer is "yes, they'll cause problems. So will the tattoos."
But Hot Topic will discriminate against you if you're *not* covered in tats & metal.
Dig around Fark.. some girls did some study recently about how they were treated when they applied for jobs at Hot Topic and Abercrombie & Fitch.
The results were not scientific, but interesting anyway.