It is not the equipment, its their converting Directv accounts to AT&T accounts (RC1 conversion). I spent an hour on the phone last night only for the tech to confirm that the migration hasn't been going well and all he's dealt with are problems like this.
I suspect that whatever integrates their account system data into a satellite command signal is messed up. So when the Directv account got suspended this sent out a signal to shut down services, and under the new system the command to re-active isn't getting processed. That or the new system just isn't sending out what they think it is, so eventually with no re-activation code services start defaulting to off.
I've been at this game for a week, I'm now looking at streaming and other options as well. If it doesn't get fixed by the time I find a way of getting the shows I like, then they will loose another 15+ year customer.
AT&T has been busy converting all the old DirecTv accounts to their RC1 system and causing major pains!
I have a THR22-100 (High Def Tivo with dual directv tuners) and last Thursday (8-2-2018) when they converted the account over to their RC1 system they disabled the DVR portion. So no pause, play, fastforward, or rewind. Worse, all prior recorded shows are not available. I have been on the phone with them numerous times and keep getting pushed to tech support which then want to change for a tech to come out and do what? I know the equipment is good; I found a bug in the tivo software that you can pause and play live tv, but only if the channel menu is up. So this tells me that the drive and tuners are fine, they just disabled the dvr capability (which the settings info page shows as inactive).
Looking at AT&T's forums the problem is that when converting the accounts they miss quite a few things and end up having to re-do the accounts manually. The main cause is they change the account from a residential account to a business account (business accounts can't record any shows). They also never appeared to test this with existing equipment so people have been randomly having their service messed up and nobody can seem to fix it.
I pay about $30 for oil, filter, cap, rotor, plugs (I do the service myself), $400 for new tires (old ones lasted 10 years), $90 for a cracked windshield (didn't need replacing but it was cheap enough so why not). $0 for parking at work, $20 every two weeks fills the tank, and $175 per 6 months of insurance.
Estimates for the agreement would about $100 billion in funds per year to help out developing nations until 2025. That money would come from developed nations, ie the US being a major funding source. That alone is troubling that the US will pay to clean up other nations pollutions. Except, that is no guarantee, the nations just pledge to clean up. If they do, great; if they don't then there is no penalty or responsibility to pay back the funds.
So essentially we are just paying to bribe nations to clean up the planet, but if they don't, ehh, no big deal.
The whole things sounds like the UN, where every country has a vote and a commitment to provide funds and supplies for the common good. However, countries rarely provide funds or supplies when asked; except for the US.
When designing a server location you must take power into consideration; ie, do I have enough battery to keep all critical servers and supporting hardware up until the generator has kicked in, plus extra just in case the generator has a glitch or two of it's own. Is the battery rated at the correct surge protection to keep systems from glitching when the power does return? Is the generator more than enough to power everything between re-fuelings? Is the generator rated enough to run everything at less than 80% load? Have I staged non-critical servers and equipment to power down and power backup to spread the need for power out? Is there a backup facility that I can spin up or switch to; for this kind of operation you would want to switch to a new site in minutes to prevent business loss.
Again, these are IT problems.
Now a battery going dead, a power supply frying, circuit breakers tripping; these are power issues. Poor disaster recovery plans are not.
Sorry, I drive a 47 year old car and will keep driving it till it breaks. . . then I will fix it and keep driving it until I wreck it. . . then I will fix it and keep driving it until I am no longer capable. . . then I will be dead. . . then my kids have a turn at it.
All this I will do because: A. I like my car, B. Shut up and get off my lawn Standford!
P.S. I guess they have never thought what slobs people are and how disgusting a shared car will be, the thought makes me cringe.
You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
To me Smart means that the tv detects which inputs have a signal and pushing the input button switches between only those devices. Smart means that if a new device starts a signal the tv prompts me if I wish to switch to that input (or show it in a small window). Smart would be having FM or Bluetooth audio as an option so I can listen with headphones. Smart would be having standard outputs that can connect to any audio receiver (optical, digital, analog).
But yes, please put in a scaled down computer to shovel more pay content at me that will be outdated and unsupported in 3 years because I never used it in the first place.
Let's round it up and say you are paying $40K/year for housing and say $40K for taxes. If you are burning through $80K a year on food, clothing, transport and entertainment, then you are doing something very wrong.
Stop eating at restaurants for every meal. Stop buying expensive coffee. Stop using uber for everything. Stop subscribing to every stupid service. Stop spending real money to buy fake money in video games.
It seemed like an updated HDMI version of the WII at launch. The graphics didn't seem improved from what I saw advertised or in the store. The hand held controller seemed like an attempt to get me to buy another 3DS (which if it would allow existing 3DS units to work that way might have been a selling point). Lastly, launch games were not that great.
So in the end it didn't seem worth shelling out the money for what appeared to be a minor upgrade. As time passed there were some good games, but with rumors of a new console it still didn't seem worth it.
I'm holding out hope for the switch, but without a good line up of games I don't see a compelling reason to buy a new system.
How can it take up 16 gigabytes when it doesn't know anything?
Simple, all that space is used for storing tracking and real world data about you for "product development" purposes. You know the kind, where you are the product!
Instead of an app, why is there not a reminder setting?
This setting could be triggered if the phone has a set of airpods paired with it, they become disconnected, and the phone moves more than say 100 feet since it disconnected? Once triggered, the phone rings/vibrates and alerts the user that the airpods may have been left behind.
Time to jump on the "Russian Hackers did it" bandwagon.
For example: I had a doctors appointment scheduled that I missed, the only way this could have happened is if Russian Hackers who hate health care hacked into my doctors system and changed the appointment so I would have to pay a missed visit fee. Now, time to tell the masses that we need to start a war so I can get my fee back!
Seriously though, why does the media seem to think that hacking the ticket site would this stop anyone from seeing the film critical of Russia? You do know there are other crazy people out there who hold a low opinion of Sundance (me for one, heck maybe I did it).
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It is not the equipment, its their converting Directv accounts to AT&T accounts (RC1 conversion). I spent an hour on the phone last night only for the tech to confirm that the migration hasn't been going well and all he's dealt with are problems like this.
I suspect that whatever integrates their account system data into a satellite command signal is messed up. So when the Directv account got suspended this sent out a signal to shut down services, and under the new system the command to re-active isn't getting processed. That or the new system just isn't sending out what they think it is, so eventually with no re-activation code services start defaulting to off.
I've been at this game for a week, I'm now looking at streaming and other options as well. If it doesn't get fixed by the time I find a way of getting the shows I like, then they will loose another 15+ year customer.
AT&T has been busy converting all the old DirecTv accounts to their RC1 system and causing major pains!
I have a THR22-100 (High Def Tivo with dual directv tuners) and last Thursday (8-2-2018) when they converted the account over to their RC1 system they disabled the DVR portion. So no pause, play, fastforward, or rewind. Worse, all prior recorded shows are not available. I have been on the phone with them numerous times and keep getting pushed to tech support which then want to change for a tech to come out and do what? I know the equipment is good; I found a bug in the tivo software that you can pause and play live tv, but only if the channel menu is up. So this tells me that the drive and tuners are fine, they just disabled the dvr capability (which the settings info page shows as inactive).
Looking at AT&T's forums the problem is that when converting the accounts they miss quite a few things and end up having to re-do the accounts manually. The main cause is they change the account from a residential account to a business account (business accounts can't record any shows). They also never appeared to test this with existing equipment so people have been randomly having their service messed up and nobody can seem to fix it.
a copy of the leaked file, titled "IMG_ l563.TRIM.MOV.
They should be looking for an Apple user.
Hmm, [Windows]+[R] notepad [Enter]... Well I'll be!
I'd still rather use NotePad++.
Facebook already has this covered.
I pay about $30 for oil, filter, cap, rotor, plugs (I do the service myself), $400 for new tires (old ones lasted 10 years), $90 for a cracked windshield (didn't need replacing but it was cheap enough so why not). $0 for parking at work, $20 every two weeks fills the tank, and $175 per 6 months of insurance.
So yes, YMMV.
At this point wouldn't it be quicker to list things that were not compromised by Equifax?
Estimates for the agreement would about $100 billion in funds per year to help out developing nations until 2025. That money would come from developed nations, ie the US being a major funding source. That alone is troubling that the US will pay to clean up other nations pollutions. Except, that is no guarantee, the nations just pledge to clean up. If they do, great; if they don't then there is no penalty or responsibility to pay back the funds.
So essentially we are just paying to bribe nations to clean up the planet, but if they don't, ehh, no big deal.
The whole things sounds like the UN, where every country has a vote and a commitment to provide funds and supplies for the common good. However, countries rarely provide funds or supplies when asked; except for the US.
Power issues of this kind are IT issues.
When designing a server location you must take power into consideration; ie, do I have enough battery to keep all critical servers and supporting hardware up until the generator has kicked in, plus extra just in case the generator has a glitch or two of it's own. Is the battery rated at the correct surge protection to keep systems from glitching when the power does return? Is the generator more than enough to power everything between re-fuelings? Is the generator rated enough to run everything at less than 80% load? Have I staged non-critical servers and equipment to power down and power backup to spread the need for power out? Is there a backup facility that I can spin up or switch to; for this kind of operation you would want to switch to a new site in minutes to prevent business loss.
Again, these are IT problems.
Now a battery going dead, a power supply frying, circuit breakers tripping; these are power issues. Poor disaster recovery plans are not.
I knew one who beat his kids for anything grade less than an A. Both kids are now successful engineers.
Wait a second, is the lesson here that I need to beat my kids?
Sorry, I drive a 47 year old car and will keep driving it till it breaks. . . then I will fix it and keep driving it until I wreck it. . . then I will fix it and keep driving it until I am no longer capable. . . then I will be dead. . . then my kids have a turn at it.
All this I will do because: A. I like my car, B. Shut up and get off my lawn Standford!
P.S. I guess they have never thought what slobs people are and how disgusting a shared car will be, the thought makes me cringe.
You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
To me Smart means that the tv detects which inputs have a signal and pushing the input button switches between only those devices. Smart means that if a new device starts a signal the tv prompts me if I wish to switch to that input (or show it in a small window). Smart would be having FM or Bluetooth audio as an option so I can listen with headphones. Smart would be having standard outputs that can connect to any audio receiver (optical, digital, analog).
But yes, please put in a scaled down computer to shovel more pay content at me that will be outdated and unsupported in 3 years because I never used it in the first place.
This is a few years old, but yes:
http://business.time.com/2012/06/26/orbitz-shows-higher-prices-to-mac-users/
Not news for nerds.
That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?
Or
Maybe we can build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh? Why don't we try that?
Or the final option we have left:
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Let's round it up and say you are paying $40K/year for housing and say $40K for taxes. If you are burning through $80K a year on food, clothing, transport and entertainment, then you are doing something very wrong.
Stop eating at restaurants for every meal.
Stop buying expensive coffee.
Stop using uber for everything.
Stop subscribing to every stupid service.
Stop spending real money to buy fake money in video games.
But Mom! Everybody else is doing it!
Skynet; now now sonny, let me tell you a story about your grandpa Colossus!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
It requires one to analyze why someone is saying what they're saying.
Bingo!
It seemed like an updated HDMI version of the WII at launch. The graphics didn't seem improved from what I saw advertised or in the store. The hand held controller seemed like an attempt to get me to buy another 3DS (which if it would allow existing 3DS units to work that way might have been a selling point). Lastly, launch games were not that great.
So in the end it didn't seem worth shelling out the money for what appeared to be a minor upgrade. As time passed there were some good games, but with rumors of a new console it still didn't seem worth it.
I'm holding out hope for the switch, but without a good line up of games I don't see a compelling reason to buy a new system.
I thought Facebook was funded by the NSA, did Facebook loose their funding?
How can it take up 16 gigabytes when it doesn't know anything?
Simple, all that space is used for storing tracking and real world data about you for "product development" purposes. You know the kind, where you are the product!
I mean really a feature named after a 1982 movie where a couple of morgue workers turn the place into a brothel.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084412/
Instead of an app, why is there not a reminder setting?
This setting could be triggered if the phone has a set of airpods paired with it, they become disconnected, and the phone moves more than say 100 feet since it disconnected? Once triggered, the phone rings/vibrates and alerts the user that the airpods may have been left behind.
Time to jump on the "Russian Hackers did it" bandwagon.
For example:
I had a doctors appointment scheduled that I missed, the only way this could have happened is if Russian Hackers who hate health care hacked into my doctors system and changed the appointment so I would have to pay a missed visit fee. Now, time to tell the masses that we need to start a war so I can get my fee back!
Seriously though, why does the media seem to think that hacking the ticket site would this stop anyone from seeing the film critical of Russia? You do know there are other crazy people out there who hold a low opinion of Sundance (me for one, heck maybe I did it).
Or a copy of the 1946 Song of the South?