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ISP Difficulties

ByMike McBride June 5, 2007July 19, 2014 Reading Time: 1 minute

We’ve been having problems off and on with our Internet connection at the house. Finally, last night Angela gave them a call. The bad news is that it’ll be Thursday before they get out to our house, so I can’t really plan on having reliable Internet connection during the evening until then. (For example, it just came back after being down for about a half hour, that’s been pretty typical.)

The good news is that apparently, Time Warner had our account coded incorrectly, so for just $1.68 more than we had been paying for cable/Internet, we have about 60 more cable channels, including HBO, ESPNews, ESPN classic, VH1 Classic, History International and others. That’s cool, but I still want my Internet! 🙂

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Not that any of you will ever need to know this, but I found out today that I needed to know this, so I’m writing it down in case I need to know it again. (Because searching for a solution turned into quite the time-consuming task.) When the MS Mail for Mac program gets corrupted…

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“A little over a year ago, Microsoft bought beloved calendar app Sunrise. For the past 14 months or so, things have been more or less business as usual… at least for customers. But this week, the other shoe finally dropped: August 31st will be the last day that Sunrise exists as a standalone app. Sure,…

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“A new ransomware, Popcorn Time, gives users the option of infecting others in lieu of paying the ransom.” I can’t imagine infecting someone else on purpose, but I learned long ago not to underestimate what people will do to others if it’ll benefit themselves. Don’t do this, just keep yourself safe and keep your data…

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Linked – Facial Recognition Tech Is Creepy When It Works—And Creepier When It Doesn’t
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Ultimately, this is the problem with wide-scaled facial recognition use. It’s going to “find” a lot of similar looking people. For an extreme example of what can go wrong, take data recently released by an EU Freedom of Information request and then posted by the South Wales police. It shows that at the Champions League…

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Negative Attitudes in Tech Support
ByMike McBride September 12, 2008July 20, 2014 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Jenn Steele, who writes a blog dedicated to discussing how to manage the IT department called Leading Geeks, has an interesting post today, On Attitude. I find that geeks easily fall into sub-optimal attitudes, which usually fall into two categories. The first is what I call the “stupid user” category, where they develop the attitude…

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Question for the Gamers – How Will Non-Console Games Work with Data Caps?
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When I saw a recent news story about Google Stadia, and the fact that other console makers, like Microsoft and Sony, are seriously considering moving to an all online gaming platform, and away from selling consoles, I immediately began to wonder how that would work with ISPs that have data caps and charges for using…

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