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Dell: So close…but you just missed

March 25th, 2006 by smp | Comments | Filed in RANTING

Dell:

You just missed on a chance to over-deliver to me.

I got my brand-new Dimension E310 on Monday — ok, it’s Samantha’s computer and it has been sitting in a box all week because I have been in San Francisco.

I get home, fire it up, throw in the wireless card and works like a charm.

Except for one VERY annoying thing: the ATI TV tuner card doesn’t work. And this is the whole reason I chose an XP Media Edition machine. Media Edition doesn’t even detect the card; it simply doesn’t exist.

And no, I will not call support, because the machine should not have left the factory without being tested. And Dell knows that its support is not world-class. I will just yank the TV tuner out — and write a blog post about it.

Dell, you ALMOST had me sold that you could get it right.

This is the last Dell I buy.

UPDATE (Mar 26 2006): Ok, I sent an e-mail to Dell support, and THEY CAME THROUGH! They are going to send out a technician to replace the TV Tuner card. This should be interesting…

UPDATE (Mar 28 2006): Dell Tech came out and replaced the TV tuner card. No luck. Dell’s helpful response to the tech: re-install the operating system.

No. I don’t think so.

DELL: Replace the machine…NOW!

Technorati Tags: Dell, ATI TV Tuner, customer dissatisfaction

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A long time ago, in a hotel room far away… A Star Wars Christmas SPECIAL!?!?!?!?

March 9th, 2006 by smp | Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

It was December 1978.

My family had travelled to the big city of Calgary for our annual Christmas shopping expedition.

There were five of us crammed into a hotel room: Mom, Dad, my two younger brothers and me.

In an attempt to bribe us and keep us quiet, they let us watch this travesty against a modern mythology.

Some would say this is the event that scarred me and made me the man I am today.

I still need therapy to cope with the night terrors the memory of this event brings to me.

The Star Wars Christmas Special was so bad, that George Lucas sttempted to suppress it for more than 20 years.

I was reminded of the existence of the show last Christmas when NPR listed the show in some anthology of doomed Christmas specials — I remember less about that interview than I do of the special itself.

I am in awe that someone has released this again.

I know I will scream in horror when I watch it.

Via: Good Morning Silicon Valley

Technorati Tags: Star Wars, Christmas Special, bad tv, exploitation, YouTube, George Lucas

Tags: blog, HTML, HTTP, IE, IM, it, Om, One, pr, Technorati, tv, wars

Ok, this falls under freaky spam

October 22nd, 2005 by smp | Comments | Filed in Life, RANTING

This was in my mailbox just now. Huh?!?!?

NEW BBC SERIES

Thinking about having a baby?

We are looking for couples to take part in a new BBC series exploring the science behind getting pregnant and pregnancy. If you are thinking about trying for a baby or have already started trying and would like to find out more, please call us on 0141 204 6620 or e-mail: baby@mentorn.tv

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS - REPLY TO mailto:BABY@MENTORN.TV

We’d like to advise you that we got your email address from a mailing list company. Their lists are compiled from those who have agreed, when visiting relevant websites, to receive contact from third parties

If you would like to be removed from our list please reply to mailto:BABYLIST@mentorn.tv

I am trying to figure out what list I said yes to to get this email.

Tags: bbc, EAD, IE, it, Om, pr, spam, tv, web

Boeing Conexion WiFi: US Airlines caught in a nasty death spiral

October 4th, 2005 by smp | Comments | Filed in smp

Lifehacker has a great list of the airlines that offer WiFi. [here]

They also offer this quote:

Boeings Connexion, the wifi service for airplanes, adds 600 to 800 pounds to a plane. With rising fuel costs and U.S. airlines struggling to stay afloat, the system hasnt yet been adopted on this side of the pond.

This is a catch-22 for the airlines.

Lack of innovation and stupidly high fares
Low-cost alternatives
Attempt to copycat low-cost alternatives
Go bankrupt and claim poverty
See #1

The first airline in the US to implement onboard WiFi (most likely JetBlue, given their record and the fact that they have a lot of the hardware already installed to handle the DirectTV thing), will win.

Forever.

Tags: bank, EAD, HTTP, IM, it, LAN, low-cost, Om, One, tinyurl, tv

GrabPERF: Sponsorship Logos Up, Sponsors Roll In

September 25th, 2005 by smp | Comments | Filed in smp

If you are a user of GrabPERF you have noticed a few changes.

Thanks to the sponsors we have so far:

There are a couple of more in the pipeline, and I look forward to working with all of the sponsors.

On this blog and the GrabPERF site, you will see the icon. If you want to support the developer, there are a few items there that will bring a smile to my face!

Tags: blog, GrabPERF, GrabPERF.org, HTTP, IM, IP, it, media, Om, Registry, tv

GrabIP: IP Registrar Stats for September 22, 2005

September 22nd, 2005 by smp | Comments | Filed in smp

Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of September 22, 2005 00:30 UTC.

This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database

IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN

registry   NUM_HOSTS  NUM_BLOCKS
--------  ----------  ----------
arin      1484282368       36395
ripencc    363643440       19126
apnic      293023232       11504
lacnic      38634752        1551
afrinic     10626304         479

NUMBER OF ALLOCATED IP ADDRESSES BY COUNTRY (65536 Hosts or more)**

COUNTRY                                     COUNTRY_CODE   NUM_HOSTS  NUM_BLOCKS
------------------------------------------  ------------  ----------  ----------
UNITED STATES                               US            1316020992       31251
JAPAN                                       JP             141465088        1510
EUROPEAN UNION                              EU             113823420        4604
CHINA                                       CN              72603904         889
CANADA                                      CA              66684672        4926
GERMANY                                     DE              50096208        1622
FRANCE                                      FR              42913408        1197
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF                          KR              40838400         359
UNITED KINGDOM                              UK              39511928        1702
UNITED KINGDOM                              GB              33562368          25
AUSTRALIA                                   AU              26556416        4762
NETHERLANDS                                 NL              16418208        1001
SPAIN                                       ES              16367648         419
ITALY                                       IT              16228448         733
TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA                   TW              15157248         322
BRAZIL                                      BR              15075072         261
SWEDEN                                      SE              12087680         533
MEXICO                                      MX              11030528         154
RUSSIAN FEDERATION                          RU              10549832        1191
SOUTH AFRICA                                ZA               8198656         255
POLAND                                      PL               7411332         729
FINLAND                                     FI               7364224         266
SWITZERLAND                                 CH               6889408         763
DENMARK                                     DK               6860064         277
HONG KONG                                   HK               6193152         538
INDIA                                       IN               5993472         360
AUSTRIA                                     AT               5763744         388
NORWAY                                      NO               5068448         244
BELGIUM                                     BE               4318208         293
NEW ZEALAND                                 NZ               4291072        1129
TURKEY                                      TR               3674304         169
CHILE                                       CL               3022592         316
ARGENTINA                                   AR               2974720         241
IRELAND                                     IE               2905504         116
THAILAND                                    TH               2857472         296
CZECH REPUBLIC                              CZ               2815232         190
ROMANIA                                     RO               2774144         292
ISRAEL                                      IL               2727296         122
SINGAPORE                                   SG               2686976         307
PORTUGAL                                    PT               2609216          98
MALAYSIA                                    MY               2569472         191
HUNGARY                                     HU               2220416         132
GREECE                                      GR               1766656         162
VENEZUELA                                   VE               1753088          79
INDONESIA                                   ID               1615872         244
BULGARIA                                    BG               1452032         196
UKRAINE                                     UA               1369536         631
EGYPT                                       EG               1280768          55
COSTA RICA                                  CR               1254144          12
PHILIPPINES                                 PH               1173248         189
SLOVAKIA                                    SK                992256          89
SAUDI ARABIA                                SA                969984          81
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES                        AE                964608          14
COLOMBIA                                    CO                938752         106
LATVIA                                      LV                882496         107
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF                   IR                844288          53
LITHUANIA                                   LT                812928          69
PERU                                        PE                679424          59
SLOVENIA                                    SI                668160         103
ESTONIA                                     EE                649472          45
VIET NAM                                    VN                627712          39
ICELAND                                     IS                507904          28
PANAMA                                      PA                469760          31
YUGOSLAVIA                                  YU                347392          35
CROATIA                                     HR                346688          34
PAKISTAN                                    PK                345600          77
LUXEMBOURG                                  LU                307968          50
KUWAIT                                      KW                297984          25
CYPRUS                                      CY                274720          58
BOLIVIA                                     BO                263424          20
KAZAKHSTAN                                  KZ                259072          28
ECUADOR                                     EC                258816         127
MALTA                                       MT                242432          32
MOROCCO                                     MA                233728           9
PUERTO RICO                                 PR                220928          30
URUGUAY                                     UY                206592          25
JORDAN                                      JO                191744          29
BANGLADESH                                  BD                187904          56
QATAR                                       QA                176128           6
PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, OCCUPIED             PS                173824          17
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM                           BN                172544          11
OMAN                                        OM                163840           5
SRI LANKA                                   LK                163840          29
NIGERIA                                     NG                159744          24
EL SALVADOR                                 SV                156672          13
GUATEMALA                                   GT                145152          19
MACAO                                       MO                143616          16
MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF  MK                143360          11
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA                      BA                137216          25
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC                          DO                128768          21
GEORGIA                                     GE                126976          20
BELARUS                                     BY                119552          16
LEBANON                                     LB                112640          16
KENYA                                       KE                107776          22
TUNISIA                                     TN                106752           4
AZERBAIJAN                                  AZ                 92160          11
ALGERIA                                     DZ                 90880          16
NICARAGUA                                   NI                 89344          10
FIJI                                        FJ                 88832          10
CUBA                                        CU                 87040          11
ARMENIA                                     AM                 86016          10
UZBEKISTAN                                  UZ                 77824           9
UGANDA                                      UG                 75008           4
GHANA                                       GH                 74496          13
BAHRAIN                                     BH                 73728          14
MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF                        MD                 71680          16
BERMUDA                                     BM                 66048          18
KYRGYZSTAN                                  KG                 65536           9

The attempt to post these weekly has been inconsistent. Let’s shoot for monthly!

**Please note that the total number of IP Addresses for the United Kingdom is the sum of totals for the two unique country codes used when registering IP Blocks — UK and GB.

Technorati: ARIN, RIPE, LACNIC, APNIC, AFRINIC, GrabIP, GeoIP

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JetBlue: Los Angeles Landing Great Buzz Marketing

September 22nd, 2005 by smp | Comments | Filed in smp

Yesterday, a JetBlue plane suffered a failure of the front nose-wheel system shortly after take-off.

After 2 hours and an spectacular light show, the Airbus A320 slowed to a perfect stop on a runway at LAX. [here]

The winners? JetBlue. A perfect landing, flight attendants who were calm in-flight, and the ability to watch the whole thing from your seat on the plane via DirectTV.

Buzz Marketing at its most unique — what does this experience say about the quality of JetBlue to you?

UPDATE: Shel Israel watched the whole thing. [here]

Tags: HTML, HTTP, IE, Israel, it, LAN, marketing, Om, run, tv, update

Crowsnest Pass: Alberta Weather is Weird

September 14th, 2005 by smp | Comments | Filed in smp

People laugh when I say that I am from a part of the world where, in my lifetime, snow has fallen in every month of the year.

Crowsnest Pass still recovering from freak storm

Power still out for 100 after Crowsnest Pass snowfall

Heavy snow cuts power

I don’t make this stuff up.

Tags: Canada, cbc, cro, HTML, HTTP, IM, Om, tv

Dear Karl Rove: Shut Up, and Go To Kansas

September 5th, 2005 by smp | Comments | Filed in smp

<RANT>

George Bush is lame, and a lame duck.

He is a stooge, only in place to ensure that the right-wing packs the Supreme Court for a generation (Think Pelican Brief).

Now, after playing politics with 9/11, Karl Rove is playing politics with Katrina.

WHY?

What does playing politics mean? How many lives does it save?

FEMA failed. DHS failed. Santorum wants to gut NOAA so it can fail during the next crisis.

Karl Rove committed treason. George Bush committed stupidity. Brown and Chertoff were shown to be useless in the face of a disaster.

SHUT UP.

Unless you are going to New Orleans to DO something, stay home. Stay off the TV. Stay out of the media.

The White House has NOTHING to add to the conversation. It has added nothing to the effort to save these people.

The president of the oil companies and conservative religious fanatics failed the United States. And Karl Rove is trying to make the chimp look good.

Karl, you have failed. You are the most reviled man in America. I think that Karl Rove should be made to clean the Superdome. By hand. Alone.

</RANT>

Tags: conversation, DHS, IE, IM, it, live, media, Om, One, politics, pr, president, tv, United States

GrabIP: IP Registrar Stats for August 29, 2005

August 29th, 2005 by smp | Comments | Filed in smp

Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of August 29, 2005 00:30 UTC.

This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database

IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN

registry   NUM_HOSTS  NUM_BLOCKS
--------  ----------  ----------
arin      1482539776       36379
ripencc    362089028       18957
apnic      290555904       11443
lacnic      38464256        1538
afrinic     10545920         474

NUMBER OF ALLOCATED IP ADDRESSES BY COUNTRY (65536 Hosts or more)**

COUNTRY                                     COUNTRY_CODE   NUM_HOSTS  NUM_BLOCKS
------------------------------------------  ------------  ----------  ----------
UNITED STATES                               US            1315062784       31238
JAPAN                                       JP             140932608        1505
EUROPEAN UNION                              EU             113820348        4600
CHINA                                       CN              72411392         882
CANADA                                      CA              65902336        4923
GERMANY                                     DE              50387568        1657
FRANCE                                      FR              42360960        1190
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF                          KR              39729408         356
UNITED KINGDOM                              UK              39097560        1636
UNITED KINGDOM                              GB              33562368          25
AUSTRALIA                                   AU              26428928        4751
NETHERLANDS                                 NL              16439200        1000
SPAIN                                       ES              16302112         418
ITALY                                       IT              16215136         730
TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA                   TW              15157248         322
BRAZIL                                      BR              15075072         261
SWEDEN                                      SE              12067200         529
MEXICO                                      MX              11030528         154
RUSSIAN FEDERATION                          RU              10458920        1171
SOUTH AFRICA                                ZA               8188160         253
POLAND                                      PL               7339934         711
FINLAND                                     FI               7232128         262
SWITZERLAND                                 CH               6894016         760
DENMARK                                     DK               6839072         274
HONG KONG                                   HK               6190592         536
INDIA                                       IN               5897216         354
AUSTRIA                                     AT               5671584         385
NORWAY                                      NO               5060384         244
BELGIUM                                     BE               4309504         289
NEW ZEALAND                                 NZ               4274688        1125
TURKEY                                      TR               3666112         168
CHILE                                       CL               3018496         315
ARGENTINA                                   AR               2923520         237
IRELAND                                     IE               2905248         115
THAILAND                                    TH               2853376         295
CZECH REPUBLIC                              CZ               2804736         187
ROMANIA                                     RO               2767744         279
ISRAEL                                      IL               2726528         119
SINGAPORE                                   SG               2678784         306
PORTUGAL                                    PT               2604864          96
MALAYSIA                                    MY               2569472         191
HUNGARY                                     HU               2220416         132
GREECE                                      GR               1766400         161
VENEZUELA                                   VE               1753088          79
BULGARIA                                    BG               1370112         194
UKRAINE                                     UA               1357530         621
EGYPT                                       EG               1280768          55
INDONESIA                                   ID               1277440         228
COSTA RICA                                  CR               1254144          12
PHILIPPINES                                 PH               1138432         187
SLOVAKIA                                    SK                992256          89
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES                        AE                964608          14
SAUDI ARABIA                                SA                904448          80
COLOMBIA                                    CO                868864         103
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF                   IR                844288          53
LATVIA                                      LV                814912         102
LITHUANIA                                   LT                788352          66
SLOVENIA                                    SI                667392         100
PERU                                        PE                646656          58
ESTONIA                                     EE                645376          44
VIET NAM                                    VN                625664          38
ICELAND                                     IS                507904          28
PANAMA                                      PA                467712          30
YUGOSLAVIA                                  YU                347392          35
PAKISTAN                                    PK                345600          77
CROATIA                                     HR                338240          32
LUXEMBOURG                                  LU                307968          50
KUWAIT                                      KW                297728          24
CYPRUS                                      CY                274720          58
BOLIVIA                                     BO                263424          20
ECUADOR                                     EC                250624         126
KAZAKHSTAN                                  KZ                242688          27
MALTA                                       MT                242432          32
MOROCCO                                     MA                233728           9
PUERTO RICO                                 PR                218880          29
URUGUAY                                     UY                206592          25
JORDAN                                      JO                191744          29
BANGLADESH                                  BD                180736          53
QATAR                                       QA                176128           6
PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, OCCUPIED             PS                173824          17
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM                           BN                172544          11
SRI LANKA                                   LK                167936          30
OMAN                                        OM                163840           5
NIGERIA                                     NG                159744          24
EL SALVADOR                                 SV                156416          12
GUATEMALA                                   GT                145152          19
MACAO                                       MO                143616          16
MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF  MK                143360          11
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC                          DO                128768          21
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA                      BA                124928          23
BELARUS                                     BY                119552          16
GEORGIA                                     GE                118784          18
LEBANON                                     LB                112640          16
KENYA                                       KE                107520          21
TUNISIA                                     TN                106752           4
AZERBAIJAN                                  AZ                 92160          11
ALGERIA                                     DZ                 90880          16
NICARAGUA                                   NI                 89344          10
FIJI                                        FJ                 88832          10
CUBA                                        CU                 87040          11
ARMENIA                                     AM                 86016          10
UZBEKISTAN                                  UZ                 77824           9
GHANA                                       GH                 74496          13
MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF                        MD                 71680          16
BERMUDA                                     BM                 66048          18
KYRGYZSTAN                                  KG                 65536           9

I will try and post these weekly.

**Please note that the total number of IP Addresses for the United Kingdom is the sum of totals for the two unique country codes used when registering IP Blocks — UK and GB.

Technorati: ARIN, RIPE, LACNIC, APNIC, AFRINIC, GrabIP, GeoIP

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Posts Tagged ‘tv’

Dell: So close…but you just missed

A long time ago, in a hotel room far away… A Star Wars Christmas SPECIAL!?!?!?!?

Ok, this falls under freaky spam

Boeing Conexion WiFi: US Airlines caught in a nasty death spiral

GrabPERF: Sponsorship Logos Up, Sponsors Roll In

GrabIP: IP Registrar Stats for September 22, 2005

JetBlue: Los Angeles Landing Great Buzz Marketing

Crowsnest Pass: Alberta Weather is Weird

Dear Karl Rove: Shut Up, and Go To Kansas

GrabIP: IP Registrar Stats for August 29, 2005

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