Tech
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3 random link
- Meaningful advances in battery technology
- A 24 inch monitor for $229. My, how the prices have fallen
- China executes ex-drug chief for graft
China executed a former drug and food safety chief on Tuesday for corruption in an unusually swift sentence which will serve as a warning amid a series of health scandals that have stained the “made in China” brand.
Can you imagine that happening in the US? I can’t.
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A thousand curses upon Comcast Broadband
I’ve been getting 90% packet loss on all upstream traffic all day, which pretty much kills any and all productivity on my part. The tech support couldn;t do anything and had to schedule a service appointment for Thursday.
Does anyone know if you can get DSL without a phone number?
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Sony VAIO customer service – an exploration
Jane Galt vents most eloquent on her frustration with the Sony Corporation, specifically Sony Vaio tech support. Short version; it’s lame.
In the post she states
So instead, I’ll try to change the cost-benefit analysis. With your help, I’d like to make this little incident as expensive for Sony as possible.
Let’s remind Sony that sometimes, the dumb bitches have blogs. And friends with blogs.
So if you’re reading this, and you have a blog, if you wouldn’t mind linking to this post, preferably with the words “Sony VAIO customer service” in the link, I’d appreciate it awfully.
Sure, it’s revenge. But revenge has positive social uses. If it gets expensive enough to screw over their customers, they’ll stop doing it. To all of us.
We’ll see what happens. It creates an interesting exercise in feedback, i.e. an advancement in the first of of the OODA loop.
That would be a good company to start – a service that monitors the blogosphere for mentions of a product and somehow differentiates the positive and negative threads so one could track the source and find hidden problems with the business process.
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Quick Friday roundup
- E-Snailer – Write a letter on the internet
- High Trust Societies
- Fair and Balanced Radio – by Radley Balco
- Better and better car batteries. From Wired. We probably need at least one generation more of advancement before plug-in hybrids are feasible.
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An interesting Vista fact
You can’t use four gigs of DDR RAM on 32 bit installations of Microsoft Vista. I recently got another two gigs (it’s very cheap right now) and was disappointed to see that Windows was only registering 3,326 megs. I do some research and find that 32 bit OS have a max of 4 gigs total memory it can use, and that includes sound cards, video cards, (everything) as well as sticks of DDR.
More details at CodingHorror.
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Two things worth reading
- A DIY guide to building your own CNC machine (for about $600)
- Interesting thoughts on Global Warming
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Friday round up
- A look at where the I-Pod is made, it’s pretty much all of East Asia
- A nice look at Electronic Medical Records
- Coming Anarchy does math
- Get your postal mail over the internet! This would solve a lot of problems for me actually.
- 72 year old Marine beats crap out of 27 year old pickpocket.
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Why must everything involving hard drives take forever?
I’ve been running a checkdisk for the past six hours. No fun at all. And I find out last night that my hard drive doesn’t work with Vista. Totally funless.
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SkyNet
An interesting vision of what it might look like.
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Yet another FireFox tip
Type about:config in the address bar, filter by cache, and change the value of browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl to true. It speeds up the browing experience by quite a bit on ssl sites, particularly if they use Ajax.