What a perfect marriage. I never liked CrapUSA. It seems TigerDirect has bought them out, and now I am getting weekly spam about the CrapUSA store re-openings. I honestly don’t care. I unsubscribed — supposedly — after receiving the second email about them, but today I have yet another. Supposedly [...]
I was flipping through craigslist today and came cross a job posting for Web Freaks worthy of a ticket to planet clue. Let’s take a trip down the rabbit hole.
We are seeking a highly motivated Level 3 (Highest Level) Linux System Administrator to
maintain and administer approximately 500 LINUX servers in a Kissimmee, FL based [...]
Today I received my third email from someone claiming to be a Daniel Suarte, writing about filing open IT positions. However, I’ve never heard of this person before and I have no company or positions to fill. Clearly, this lamer is a spammer. He’s posting from a gmail account Daniel.Suarte@gmail.com. The [...]
Damn. I’ve never quite had such a worthless experience with a company before. I shall attempt to explain. I signed up for a Citi Preferred Rewards card last year. When I called to activate the card, some dude from India harasssed me continuously about their credit production plan. But, I [...]
Never in my life have I been so thoroughly ecstatic with a telecom provider. (Of course the honeymoon is over. Embarq is highly unreliable for DSL. Worse service I have ever had thus far.) Last Wednesday I ordered service completely online using the Embarq Web site. It was straightforward and [...]
Okay. Enough. I’ve been using Firefox since before the 1.0 release came out. I enjoyed version 0.8, even if it crashed a little. It was light weight and fast. Browsing was fun and fully featured again. KHTML wasn’t bad, but still didn’t support enough of the Web as I [...]
I recently upgraded to Firefox 2.0.3. Previously I had been using a 1.5.x version. After discovering Firefox frequently using 100% of the CPU after using it only for a short while, I investigated further. It apparently is makes tons of gettimeofday syscalls. I stumbled upon a known issue in bugzilla. Mozilla [...]
Which isn’t to say I find Experts Exchange dot Com not to be completely worthless, rife with mostly worthless “experts” and an obscene amount of ads. Thankfully, they’ve taken the first step towards pulling the plug on their worthless site by forcing you to register to view any threads that appear in Google. [...]
I had been looking forward to the latest release in the Silent Hunter series, Wolves of the Pacific. UBISoft’s track record in the past has been very poor, but I was still somehwat hopeful SH4 would be least mildly release quality when it finally hit the stores. Sadly, such is not the case. [...]
I had no idea my blog was so popular. 100,000 page views in ten days. That’s 10,000 views a day! What kind of crack am I selling? A quick check of the logs indicates it is merely referrer spam. I’ve never seen it so bad, though. Serious brute force [...]