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Why I’m leaving register.com
- They’re constantly trying to tell you how great their service is. That’s an instant warning sign that it’s not.
- >3x industry rate for domain registrations
- They charge you for basic services that the industry otherwise gives away for free.
- You must talk to a human to get an “auth code” to move your domain.
- 12+ minutes on-hold time to talk to a human.
- I just got faked out where the phone rang and then went back to on-hold music. bastards!
- Annoying as hell automated sales pitches while on hold. “need a website? talk to our rep about blah blah blah”
- Smooth Jazz version of “that’s the way love goes” is the only song they play on hold. Over and over. 12+ minutes. That’s reason enough, in my opinion. Never attack your customers with an ear worm.
- “Don’t leave!” sales tactics after being on hold. Recently I went through this process and got suckered into taking a cheaper rate and staying at register.com. Now that I have to renew other domains I’m seeing the errors of my ways.
Bye bye register.com!
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PHP|architect keeps spamming me
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php|architect is spamming me. I made the critical mistake of signing up for a free webcast of theirs like 4 years ago, and every effing month since then I get a commercial spam email from them promoting their for-pay content and books, and they provide me with no opt-out mechanism.
I’ve asked them to remove me easily 3 or 4 times.
I’m sure I’ve informed you three times now that I do not consent to you sending me email. Check it out:
http://www.cauce.org/archives/79-Anti-spam-bill-Introduced-into-Canadian-Senate.html
8(1) Every person, other than an indi-
vidual, who contravenes subsection 8(1) is
guilty of an indictable offence and liable
(a) for a first offence, to a fine not ex-
ceeding $500,000;Now, I acknowledge this isn’t a law yet. I hope it does become a law soon. I’m going to remind you that I do not consent to you sending me email. We do not have any current relationship. You are willfully continuing to email me without my consent and without providing a mechanism for me to opt-out.
I don’t know what they are thinking. This is no way to run a business. What planet do they live on where that attracts friends with this behavior?
Sure, I could set up an email filter. It’s more about the principle in this case because I can actually trace the source back to a physical location and organization. Beyond that they’re trying to make money promoting a free technology that I hold close to my heart, their willful disregard for peoples common right to non-communication could tarnish the brand of PHP. So it’s pissing me off that they’re being so stupid. Just freakin’ unsubscribe me already.
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Bill Moyers on Big Media Consolidation
You need to watch this.
Read more about this disgraceful disregard for public opinion and Scream at the FCC now. I don’t care what your voting persuasion is, nobody should control all the media in any market. What would you do if the other side got control? How would your voice be heard?
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ex-Mac users
Mark Pilgrim’s list of Ubuntu essentials for ex-Mac users:
Cory Doctorow:Mac guru and software developer Mark Pilgrim recently switched to Ubuntu Linux after becoming fed up with proprietary Mac file-formats and the increasing use of DRM technologies in the MacOS. I’ve been a Mac user since 1984, and have a Mac tattooed on my right bicep. I’ve probably personally owned 50 Macs, and I’ve purchased several hundred while working as an IT manager over the years. I’m about to make the same switch, for much the same reasons.
Thank GOD! Maybe we can start a paypal donation account for his laser tattoo removal fund.
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Oh, hey, that’s not plugged in right…
Oh, hey, that’s 120V flowing right up my arm…
Wow. Funny how I’ve been working with some fairly dangerous shit in my workshop lately, and knock on wood, haven’t hurt myself in a long time. Then i go and accidentally plug in my powerbook power supply wrong ( missed one side … ) and get a niiiice shock up my hand, arm, and down to the metal stuff in my pants pocket on the same side. The LED flashlight in my pocket was on for a good 10 seconds after the brief second I was acting like a capacitor, I could see if through the material of my jeans…
Oof. We live in a dangerous world.
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catastrophe
well, The maxtor drive that was in the LaCie case I bought died, which had the server on it. Thankfully, I had a 2 month old backup on my other server. Still, what a drag. Fuck maxtor and LaCie. Make better products, folks.
So, for the price of a new ipod 
, I now have two 250 gig hitachi SATA drives RAID’ed together, and an external case for the SATA drive that was in the server to begin with. Sigh… ok, so what did I do over the last two months?
Anyway, now I have more hard drive space, mirror raided together… that should give me a big boost of uptime. Now if a drive fails, I know I’m not completely dead in the water… when the Maxtor drive arrives, I’ll figure out how to get SuperDuper on a regular timed backup schedule.
sigh.. gotta install gallery2 again, migrate all 10k photos over from phpix again… gotta install the furbaby site again. Gotta get my processing stuff up.. again…
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To busted tees and jerkass clothing: One of you is a biter.
Busted tees on the left, jerkass on the right. One of these is a biter. Boingboing has both of these companies as advertisers. I wonder if anyone else has noticed?
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nice election, Arnold.
Final official 2005 california election results here. I sure am glad we’ve been made to pay $55 Million for this total void of future former governer Schwarzenegger’s leadership. Ah, just so you know who he is, there are ten photos of him on his california state page homepage. And one headshot of his wife.
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bipartisan opposition
Folks, that ain’t bipartisan opposition to Miers, that’s a fracturing and splintering republican party. Rush limbagh pondering early retirement (please do), because a listener accusing him of selling out to the bush administration… this is where the party turned ugly.
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treo 670/700
I can tell you right now that the new Treo just jumped the shark. Palm just jumped the shark. My treo 650 was the last great thing they ever did. As long as I can still get batteries for the next 3 years or so, that’ll be fine, all will be well in the world. But… putting a microsoft OS on your phone… what a horrible idea. The next phone I get ain’t gonna be a M$ device… count on it.
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Bush takes responsibility?
Bush only “takes responsibility” because there are no consequences for doing so. I just saw this headline “Owners of flooded St. Rita’s Nursing Home charged with 34 counts of negligent homicide, Louisiana attorney general says.”… well, shouldn’t you charge Bush then, too? He says he takes responsibility for the failures of the response. He should have offered transit for those especially at risk for catastrophic events like this. He’s equally negligent, and therefore should be equally culpable for real, tangible consequences.
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echo echo
I totally agree, Dave. Katrina seems like exactly the kind of thing the president should be ready to spring into action on, and what we get is guitar pluckin’ backstage. A classic george bush “What me worry?” moment. Nicely done.
Indeed, if the best bush can do is show up 5 days later and say “This is unacceptable”, and essentially wring his hands in a “shouldn’t someone do something about this? Gosh!” fashion, we’re in really big trouble if an UN-predictable emergency happens. Big trouble… dude, we’re totally fucked. Perhaps if we weren’t occupying our military and reserve military in a war sold on a giant pack of lies, we’d be able to put more boots on the ground faster.
Worst president ever. :( And then you get Dennis Hastert saying maybe we should really reconsider rebuilding New Orleans. Nice.
Let’s see.. Cost of fully funding the army corps of engineers’ new orleans levee maintenance programs: $27 million. Cost of only giving them less than $6 million: up to $100 Billion. I mean, that’s totally unacceptable. The corp or engineers is back tracking now so that they don’t lose all their funding in the future. Pretty smart, imo.
Seriously, this president is simply costing the country too much money, we should ask him to resign, now. He has no concept of listening to real experts, period. It’s like he’s in a dream world where everyone tells him what he wants, or he throws a tantrum and gets them fired, at best, and endangers their life at bad, or sends them into battle at worst. Meanwhile, our economy is shit, gas has never been more expensive, the ecology is violently attacking us because of us, and he makes these empty promises.
We don’t need talk, we need action. This man has no action for the common good. All his actions are calculations for increasing power for only himself and his cronies. Ask him to resign now. He’s irresponsible, and has his priorities in all the wrong places for our community.
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