For the past few months, Comcast has been sending me emails, postal mails, and at one point, even having an automated system call me to inform me about the impending DVR upgrade. I was excited: one of the promised fixes as part of the update was the “DVR hangs while fast forwarding” bug, which was [...]
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Sky Radio Network: First Spam, now Astroturf?
Posted in tech on Jul 25th, 2007
Just when I thought my issues with Sky Radio Network had blown over, it appears they’ve gone and shot themselves in the foot again. For those of you not familiar with the case, Sky Radio Network sent me an unsolicited email back in May, and they were relatively unrepentant about it.
Now, almost two months later, [...]
$9.99 Server
Posted in tech on Jun 30th, 2007
I’ve been looking for a “toy” server for a few months now to run at home. I didn’t want anything particularly powerful, but I wanted something that met the following criteria:
Small
I didn’t want something like a rackmount PC. I have a wooden rack for AV equipment, but I find that 1U rackmount cases are overpriced, [...]
Spam followup: Sky Radio Net
Posted in tech on May 30th, 2007
On Tuesday, I got a call from someone at Sky Radio Networks on my cell phone. (Unfortunately, I missed the name of the caller, and when I asked later in the conversation, he didn’t want to provide it to me.) For the purposes of this post, let’s call him John.
In total, John and I [...]
Spam doghouse: Sky Radio Network, American Airlines
Posted in tech on May 28th, 2007
One of the great things about owning your own domain name is that you can give different email addresses to different companies that ask for it, and track down the origins of your spam. One email address I use that’s particularly spammy, of course, is the address I have to give for WHOIS information when [...]
Thumbs up: Crucial
Posted in tech on Apr 17th, 2007
About 4 years ago, when I was still in college, I purchased my last laptop. It’s a Dell Inspiron 4100, loaded with 512MB of aftermarket RAM from Crucial, because at the time Dell charged an arm and a leg for RAM upgrades. It served me well until a little more than a year ago, just [...]