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I have complained about this many times, going back as far as 8 months. Every time one of these sites is taken down, another springs up. In many ways, what CNET did was legitimize their business model - making them much harder to deal with in the future.-db90h (September 05, 2011, 01:06 PM)
Hmm...
Why does the word 'anonymous' start popping into my head all of a sudden?-40hz (September 06, 2011, 05:49 AM)
F, G, H, I, and N are unused drive letters, in that no physical drive is attachedWhich is accomplished by... It's an SD/Flash Card Reader?? I could have zero space drives of type X just report as "Empty" instead of a string of zeros ... But I need to be sure of what I'm dealing with.
Our support team was trained on investigating issues around ecommerce, payments, domains, email etc. It didn't prevent customers calling for every internet related problem ever, and blaming us for every email problem ever (like receiving an email too big for their client or computer to cope with. Or having installed Norton which blocked email...). And often being rude about it.... even when it was something that had nothing to do with our services (we host your website, not your email and we arent your ISP...)-iphigenie (September 04, 2011, 03:18 AM)
Are the ads foisted on everyone? or just the free version?-Stoic Joker (September 02, 2011, 07:15 PM)
There is only free version now from what I can see + some sort of paid service that implements the continuous client idea.-apankrat (September 02, 2011, 08:14 PM)
Miranda does look interesting.-Stoic Joker (September 02, 2011, 07:15 PM)
Well... hrm... I don't know. My hopes have sunk after seeing this:
(see attachment in previous post)
It feels like it was done by a software developer for a software developer.-apankrat (September 02, 2011, 08:14 PM)
I've been using Trillian since it was first released... and given its rather abysmal quality I don't really know why I didAnd now that they started to stuff ads into the IM stream it seems like a good time to part ways with it.
-apankrat (September 02, 2011, 02:30 PM)
Only to the person that created them. Because only they know the (true) reasoning behind whatever deviation(s) has/have been used to achieve said target number(s). Statistics are projections of what might be if ... All of the other formulaic assertions used fall into place in accordance with the known factual parameters used, and nothing odd happens. To anyone else there simply an educated guess, that leverages their level of trust in whom ever ran-the-numbers.They are mathematically bases guesses, or assumptions if you will.-Stoic Joker (September 02, 2011, 09:50 AM)
Actually, they're a lot more than that.-40hz (September 02, 2011, 01:14 PM)
But isn't the mac crowd sort of mixed in with the *nix crowd now?-wraith808 (September 02, 2011, 12:20 PM)
Is there a format to use instead of hh which will give me military time when I set the format for the mouse click but I have my basic Time format set to am/pm?-MKappy (September 02, 2011, 02:21 PM)
Is there a page somewhere that lists all the format codes?-MKappy (September 02, 2011, 02:21 PM)
If you have the time and resources to be constantly watching the entire web for references to your company name, why can't you make a similar effort to get a responsive support and service department into place?-40hz (September 02, 2011, 05:25 AM)
The schism/stepping off point is (or seems to be) cost. For the cost of 10TB of BestBuy class NAS boxes one could easily just get a refurbished commercial server that will always have parts available, is designed to take 100+ times the beating you'll ever give it, and it has a proper true hardware RAID controller ... With a year warranty ... For roughly the same price.-Stoic Joker (September 01, 2011, 06:00 PM)
The running cost, the noise, the heat, the storage space... all for just 10TB in a home storage context? Hardly worth it IMHO.-lotusrootstarch (September 01, 2011, 07:06 PM)
In my field of business there's a saying: The first 90% of a project consumes 90% of the budget. The last 10% of the project consumes and additional 90% of the original budget.
I found that to be pretty much the case.-40hz (September 01, 2011, 05:50 PM)
Hi Stoic Joker,
This is Joey with CenturyLink. I'm sorrry to read about the trouble you've had with your service. We would certainly be happy to look into this issue for you. Can you email us at [email protected] with your name, account information and reference your post here on donationcoder.com? Thanks.
Joey H
Manager, @CenturyLinkHelp Team
[email protected]-CenturyLinkHelp (August 31, 2011, 02:28 PM)
Do please feel free to provide contact info via the boards PM system.First, hard drives are super cheap: 10 TB of hard drives is like $500, so what? Is that really that expensive and crazy?-superboyac (September 01, 2011, 12:02 PM)
Of course. When you can buy a complete computer for that money, most people are going to flip over at the prospect of blowing away $500 in a bunch of hard drives for personal use. Not everyone can afford that luxury.-Lashiec (September 01, 2011, 02:19 PM)
Or not 2B? My favourite deliberately mangled quotation was in the gent's toilet of the waiting room for the Corran Ferry in Scotland, quite a few years ago. It saidSupport graffitti. Sign a partition.-rjbull (September 01, 2011, 02:56 PM)
...what makes something more serious than another thing?-superboyac (September 01, 2011, 11:09 AM)