Comments for Short Nerd Chief http://ochsenhirt.org Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:46:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 Comment on "Former Nuclear Safety Officer" says Large Hadron Collider is a Doomsday Machine, sues to stop the apocalypse by wilhelm http://ochsenhirt.org/2008/03/28/former-nuclear-safety-officer-says-large-hadron-collider-is-a-doomsday-machine-sues-to-stop-the-apocalypse/#comment-793 wilhelm Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:41:21 +0000 http://fochsenhirt.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/former-nuclear-safety-officer-says-large-hadron-collider-is-a-doomsday-machine-sues-to-stop-the-apocalypse/#comment-793 This is the biggest scary thing in history to protest about. These scientist freaks are threatening every single man, woman and child on the planet with death. They are threatening extinction to every life form and creature on earth. Can someone save us from these madmen please. We only have nine days left! The sceintists should be arrested , they are terrorists threatening oblivion and mass destruction on all the worlds citizens. They are worse than Al Qaeda! This is the biggest scary thing in history to protest about. These scientist freaks are threatening every single man, woman and child on the planet with death. They are threatening extinction to every life form and creature on earth. Can someone save us from these madmen please. We only have nine days left!
The sceintists should be arrested , they are terrorists threatening oblivion and mass destruction on all the worlds citizens. They are worse than Al Qaeda!

]]> Comment on My Verizon FiOS customer service nightmare, growing ever longer by Jon http://ochsenhirt.org/2008/01/25/my-verizon-fios-customer-service-nightmare-growing-ever-longer/#comment-792 Jon Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:08:58 +0000 http://fochsenhirt.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/my-verizon-fios-customer-service-nightmare-growing-ever-longer/#comment-792 I ordered the fios package last April. Installation came on time, took about six hours and left with everything cleaned up. The internet works amazingly fast (18,347 kpbs). The TV works. The phone works. My bill is cheaper than it was with the cable/TV/internet packages I had before. I've contacted customer service three times: 1) DVR wasn't working b/c the box wasn't reading the right date. After some wait on the phone and wading through the maze of automated options, the CS agent resnt my information to the box and it worked. 2) There were channels that weren't showing up that should have been. Same setps as above, it was fixed. 3) On Demand was very sporadic - working some days, not working others. Turns out I had to have the router on. Now On Demand works every time. Oh, I also received the $200 (was it $250?) from Best Buy for my package after about eight weeks. I ordered the fios package last April. Installation came on time, took about six hours and left with everything cleaned up.

The internet works amazingly fast (18,347 kpbs). The TV works. The phone works. My bill is cheaper than it was with the cable/TV/internet packages I had before.

I’ve contacted customer service three times:
1) DVR wasn’t working b/c the box wasn’t reading the right date. After some wait on the phone and wading through the maze of automated options, the CS agent resnt my information to the box and it worked.

2) There were channels that weren’t showing up that should have been. Same setps as above, it was fixed.

3) On Demand was very sporadic - working some days, not working others. Turns out I had to have the router on. Now On Demand works every time.

Oh, I also received the $200 (was it $250?) from Best Buy for my package after about eight weeks.

]]> Comment on Install Ubuntu 8.04 LTS from USB [HOWTO] by beankat http://ochsenhirt.org/2008/05/23/install-ubuntu-804-lts-from-usb-howto/#comment-790 beankat Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:07:02 +0000 http://fochsenhirt.wordpress.com/?p=756#comment-790 I hope this comment can help another like it did me. These directions are great with just one exception. For some reason, the bootable USB Ubuntu drive was not recognized by the eee 901. I told the BIOS to ignore all other boot media, but still I got nothing. It became very frustrating until finally, instead of waiting on the BIOS to recognize, I just hit ESC at the initial splash and found myself in the Ubuntu load menu. HOORAY! I hope this comment can help another like it did me. These directions are great with just one exception. For some reason, the bootable USB Ubuntu drive was not recognized by the eee 901. I told the BIOS to ignore all other boot media, but still I got nothing. It became very frustrating until finally, instead of waiting on the BIOS to recognize, I just hit ESC at the initial splash and found myself in the Ubuntu load menu. HOORAY!

]]> Comment on My Verizon FiOS customer service nightmare, growing ever longer by David Hubbard http://ochsenhirt.org/2008/01/25/my-verizon-fios-customer-service-nightmare-growing-ever-longer/#comment-788 David Hubbard Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:35:07 +0000 http://fochsenhirt.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/my-verizon-fios-customer-service-nightmare-growing-ever-longer/#comment-788 Since 06/10/08 I have wasted 1395 min on the telephone with FIOS representatives trying to resolve a simple billing problem. Every time that I called I was told something similar but different like pieces of a puzzle. Day’s weeks and months passed while the same problem was fixed again and again often creating worse problems disconnects outages and lost email accounts. Something is seriously wrong. I am certain that a few exceptional employees fixed the problems, they followed through, they produced results and something undermined their work and recreated the trouble. Today I received a cellular bill with $274.00 in overage charges all from calling FIOS support numbers. I was thinking toll free call and overlooked air time. Transferring a good customer back and forth and leaving them on hold 20 and 30 minutes at a time for 1395 minutes is unbelievable but well documented. I put in a disconnect order for my cellular phone and FIOS accounts. As much as I like FIOS - Verizon has driven me back to Comcast for a triple play, an amazing feat. I see Comcast differently now. I find it amusing that VIOS would spend so much money running fiber to the curb only to alienate their customers so much that they return to Comcast. This has been a horrible expensive time consuming nightmare experience one that I will never forget (Comcast is month to month). I was with Comcast from the @home days FIOS is better but not that much better. On any given day Comcast is as fast or faster simply using the net. FIOS is state of the art fast enough to fill your hard drive overnight but its backend billing system is a patchwork of incompatible kludges of obsolete telephone voice billings systems. FIOS is great until you are forced to deal with the VIOS business office. After spending 1395 minutes on the phone with VIOS simply trying to find a way to pay them. I really wanted FIOS but I got a VIOS that I cant get rid of. David Hubbard Since 06/10/08 I have wasted 1395 min on the telephone with FIOS representatives trying to resolve a simple billing problem. Every time that I called I was told something similar but different like pieces of a puzzle. Day’s weeks and months passed while the same problem was fixed again and again often creating worse problems disconnects outages and lost email accounts.

Something is seriously wrong. I am certain that a few exceptional employees fixed the problems, they followed through, they produced results and something undermined their work and recreated the trouble.

Today I received a cellular bill with $274.00 in overage charges all from calling FIOS support numbers. I was thinking toll free call and overlooked air time. Transferring a good customer back and forth and leaving them on hold 20 and 30 minutes at a time for 1395 minutes is unbelievable but well documented.

I put in a disconnect order for my cellular phone and FIOS accounts. As much as I like FIOS - Verizon has driven me back to Comcast for a triple play, an amazing feat. I see Comcast differently now. I find it amusing that VIOS would spend so much money running fiber to the curb only to alienate their customers so much that they return to Comcast.

This has been a horrible expensive time consuming nightmare experience one that I will never forget (Comcast is month to month). I was with Comcast from the @home days FIOS is better but not that much better. On any given day Comcast is as fast or faster simply using the net. FIOS is state of the art fast enough to fill your hard drive overnight but its backend billing system is a patchwork of incompatible kludges of obsolete telephone voice billings systems.

FIOS is great until you are forced to deal with the VIOS business office.
After spending 1395 minutes on the phone with VIOS simply trying to find a way to pay them. I really wanted FIOS but I got a VIOS that I cant get rid of.

David Hubbard

]]> Comment on William and Mary gives in to conservative critics, fires Nichol by wheezer http://ochsenhirt.org/2008/02/12/william-and-mary-gives-in-to-conservative-critics-fires-nichol/#comment-785 wheezer Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:27:41 +0000 http://fochsenhirt.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/william-and-mary-gives-in-to-conservative-critics-fires-nichol/#comment-785 What a load of bull. William & Mary's Board of Visitors is full of Democratic party donors and overwhelmingly liberal. They just appointed three more Democratic members making it even MORE liberal! So much for Gene Nichol delusional crap about being rail-roaded by a right wing conspiracy. He used his office to further his political agenda, was a poor leader (losing track of a $12,000,000 donation) and behaved like a spoiled child. That's why he was fired: end of story. What a load of bull. William & Mary’s Board of Visitors is full of Democratic party donors and overwhelmingly liberal. They just appointed three more Democratic members making it even MORE liberal! So much for Gene Nichol delusional crap about being rail-roaded by a right wing conspiracy. He used his office to further his political agenda, was a poor leader (losing track of a $12,000,000 donation) and behaved like a spoiled child. That’s why he was fired: end of story.

]]> Comment on Install Ubuntu 8.04 LTS from USB [HOWTO] by suraya http://ochsenhirt.org/2008/05/23/install-ubuntu-804-lts-from-usb-howto/#comment-784 suraya Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:03:11 +0000 http://fochsenhirt.wordpress.com/?p=756#comment-784 install from usb stick can save a lot of cd/dvd waste. install from usb stick can save a lot of cd/dvd waste.

]]> Comment on Google finally fixes Gmail IMAP for Windows Mobile by MadHat http://ochsenhirt.org/2008/01/30/google-finally-fixes-gmail-imap-for-windows-mobile/#comment-783 MadHat Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:44:35 +0000 http://fochsenhirt.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/google-finally-fixes-gmail-imap-for-windows-mobile/#comment-783 Fresh, I've been syncing my calendar with this: http://www.goosync.com/ I've also been looking at this one since it includes contact sync, but I haven't tried it yet: http://oggsync.com/ Fresh, I’ve been syncing my calendar with this: http://www.goosync.com/

I’ve also been looking at this one since it includes contact sync, but I haven’t tried it yet: http://oggsync.com/

]]> Comment on Install Ubuntu 8.04 on Compaq Presario A900 laptop [HOWTO] by jose http://ochsenhirt.org/2008/05/02/install-ubuntu-804-on-compaq-presario-a900-laptop-howto/#comment-782 jose Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:00:30 +0000 http://fochsenhirt.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/install-ubuntu-804-on-compaq-presario-a900-laptop-howto/#comment-782 Hello, I'm absoluteley new to Ubuntu, linux and almost everything. So it's difficult for me fix my problem. I try to do everything you say, but... I have put ndiswrapper-common, ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and Windows drivers for the Broadcom chipset into my USB stick. Then I have put all this things into the folder called "host" in the ubuntu zone of my computer. And finally, I have written down in a strange window called "terminal" the things you said bellow, but nothing happens. It gives some kind of "error" message. Thank you very much, Jose Hello, I’m absoluteley new to Ubuntu, linux and almost everything. So it’s difficult for me fix my problem. I try to do everything you say, but… I have put ndiswrapper-common, ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and Windows drivers for the Broadcom chipset into my USB stick. Then I have put all this things into the folder called “host” in the ubuntu zone of my computer. And finally, I have written down in a strange window called “terminal” the things you said bellow, but nothing happens. It gives some kind of “error” message.

Thank you very much,
Jose

]]> Comment on Use Internet Connection Sharing on WM6 with Hardy Heron [HOWTO] by scenkner http://ochsenhirt.org/2008/05/20/use-internet-connection-sharing-on-wm6-with-hardy-heron-howto/#comment-781 scenkner Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:32:02 +0000 http://fochsenhirt.wordpress.com/?p=752#comment-781 If I understand this correctly, in order to enable the internet connection for ubuntu using the only available option for me(ics via wm6) I have to first have an internet connection!!! How can this possibly be an acceptable option. I have to have an internet connection to get an internet connection??? Can someone please tell me how to install this without first having internet available. I am using a dual boot machine with Ubuntu and XP. XP connects, Ubuntu doesn't. The line: svn co http://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synce/trunk/usb-rndis-lite obviously wont work until this is installed. If I understand this correctly, in order to enable the internet connection for ubuntu using the only available option for me(ics via wm6) I have to first have an internet connection!!! How can this possibly be an acceptable option. I have to have an internet connection to get an internet connection??? Can someone please tell me how to install this without first having internet available. I am using a dual boot machine with Ubuntu and XP. XP connects, Ubuntu doesn’t.

The line:
svn co http://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synce/trunk/usb-rndis-lite
obviously wont work until this is installed.

]]> Comment on Google finally fixes Gmail IMAP for Windows Mobile by Fresh http://ochsenhirt.org/2008/01/30/google-finally-fixes-gmail-imap-for-windows-mobile/#comment-779 Fresh Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:56:04 +0000 http://fochsenhirt.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/google-finally-fixes-gmail-imap-for-windows-mobile/#comment-779 Thanks for the easy step by step instructions. Now if you have any idea how to sync my calendar, you would be my hero. Thanks for the easy step by step instructions. Now if you have any idea how to sync my calendar, you would be my hero.

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