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Facebook sucks!
Facebook sucks; I honestly can't understand its popularity.
It has so many gratuitous and useless bells and whistles that I'm reminded of those busy box toys for toddlers (not to be confused with the very useful software package whimsically called busyboxI still find ordinary email far better for non-real-time communications with friends, family ( Read more... ) -
Giving up on AT&T U-verse
I'm finally giving up on AT&T's U-verse service after four years of frustration.
Around October 1 AT&T pushed down a firmware update to my "residential gateway" (the AT&T-provided VDSL modem and router I must use) that supports IPv6. That would seem like a good thing, but it's not. IPv6 is disabled, I have no way to turn it on, AT&T's support ( Read more... ) -
Recommendation to NTSB on the grounding of DC power system neutrals
To the NTSB, 787 Battery Investigation ( Read more... ) -
Ecotality's brain damage continues
You can see from a previous Livejournal entry just what I think about Ecotality and their (On The) Blink network of electric vehicle chargers.
Their brain damage continues unabated.
About the only useful feature of their bloated software is to delay charging to an off-peak electricity rate period. This could have been a "delay" button like on our ( Read more... ) -
A silver lining to Hurricane Sandy
Here's a fascinating story about the damage Hurricane Sandy did to Verizon's cable infrastructure in lower Manhattan ( Read more... ) -
Credit card insurance for rental cars? Don't believe it!
Note: VISA has finally paid! See the followup at the end ( Read more... ) -
More Ecotality braindamage and incompetence
The web server on my Blink EVSE has been broken for the past several months. (EVSE = Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, a fancy term for the now-standard-but-special extension cord used to charge an electric car.) Whenever I tried to connect to it, I got a "500 Server Error" message.
(Note added in response to a comment: no, this is not a joke. ( Read more... ) -
SOPA is horrific
The proposed Stop Online Piracy Act is truly horrific. Please sign the petition shown here:
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Steve Jobs
I never met the man, but I still feel his passing as a lost symbol of our generation. Back in the 1970s I was building homebrew computers just as Jobs, Wozniak and many others were. All of us could see the enormous potential in those primitive machines. We all had vague notions that someday they'd be everywhere and ordinary people would use them. ( Read more... )