Category: Rants

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Rants: Windows Vista Home Basic is a digital abortion!

I’m working on a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop with Windows Vista Home Basic installed. According to Dell, this computer is not fully compatible with Windows 7. Come on! This computer was purchased in late 2008 and is not compatible with Windows 7? Does that mean Windows Vista has to stay? Windows Vista Home Basic is performing So poorly on this computer. The 3GB of RAM can not stop Windows Vista from dragging everything down.

I should try installing Windows XP or Windows 7 on this computer. The next thing I have to do is finding all the drivers myself.

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Windows 7: File Deletion Bug.

I was moving a few files from a network drive to local hard-drive on a Windows 7 computer. For some odd reasons an error occured mid-transfer and Windows 7 deleted the files both on the network drive and local drive.

I managed to replicate the issue.

Still looking into this problem on Microsoft Support site and others.

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

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Yet another Text Spam, (562) 314-8316.

I’ve got another Text Spam and this time is from (562) 314-8316.

I have been filing complaints to FCC and unfortunately they ruled that such Text Spam did not violate any of their rules. I’ll get to that in the future.

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This Decade Doesn’t End Until December 31st, 2010.

There is no year Zero so the decade starts at year One. This means this Decade starts in January 2001 and ends in December 2010. Why do everyone calling out “The Best of This Decade” already?

Well, unless we’re talking some programming logic, we’re starting at Zero. But we never had year Zero.

Once again, the 21’s Century starts in 2001, not in 2000.

Why am I doing this?

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Verizon Hates Wireless Customer and Google.

The Register reported that Verizon is forcing their wireless customers to use Microsoft Bing as the only search engine on their smartphones. What about the Droid phones? Will Verizon be able to set Microsoft Bing as the only search engine on theDroid browser search box? Afterall, Droid phones are based on Google’s Android platform.

Well, this could be something the competitors can use against Verizon. Thanks Verizon for sending those over-the-air updates to your favorite smartphone.

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Telemarketer Text Spam from (949) 439-7109

Yet another Telemarketer text spam just hit my mobile phone. It doesn’t matter if you’re on the do-not-call list because they actually never called you; they just texted you.

1 (949) 439-7109 Text Spam

The latest one that came to my phone is from (949) 439-7109 and it says:

If you are struggling to keep up with credit card payments and have more than $10k in debt, we can help. May we give you a call regarding this?

A query on Google reveals that others have also received such text message.

If you received such text messages, file a complaint to FCC (http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm).

Select the options in the following sequence:

  • Wireless Telephone
  • Telemarketing calls (including Do-Not-Call), prerecorded messages and unsolicited commercial emails received on a wireless phone

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Information for National Do Not Call Registry – http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/donotcall/

Register your phone number in the National Do Not Call Registry – https://www.donotcall.gov/

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