TechnoMagicians Blog

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I finally got Dell to replace the GPU today. I was mistaken about them replacing absolutely everything except the nVidia GPU. Apparently the heat sinks and fans were not replaced either. I found out that there is one heatsink and fan for the CPU and another for the GPU. Well, [...]

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Back in Dec of 2007 I was experiencing NMI parity errors with my laptop.
It seemed to be after very intense graphic use and the cooling fans switching to high and low. It wouldn’t happen right away but it was getting to the point that it was happening too often that I wanted to do something [...]

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I can only hope that these stories are true and that Rogers crawls back under a rock where they belong.
Fortune article is here. National Post article here. All started from this blog post here.
Source: Mark Evan’s Blog.

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A Mattamy Home buyer’s experience both with the builder and the Town Of Oakville:
This blog is going to inform you of problems that have occurred.  To protect myself from libel issues, I can only tell you of experiences I have had – facts.  I will offer you links that will help you and discuss issues [...]

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Michael Geist has the full blog post here:
If true, this form of network interference – implemented with virtually
no transparency and now affecting basic Internet services such as email
- demonstrates why a dedicated consumer complaints commission is a good
start, but a place to complain is not enough.  The solution lies in
creating mandatory net neutrality provisions to [...]

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Well folks, this is what you can expect from BabyTel customer service. Note the date my email was sent (over 3 freakin months ago). Thanks for the response!!!!

Your message To: babyTEL Customer Care Cc: Subject: RE: softphoneSent: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:56:06 -0400
was deleted without being read on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:07:10 -0400

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Looks to me like SipPhone is a dead end company. Its really too bad. My experience trying to purchase XTen pro as described here was a joke.
Here is a thread that followed when I opened a ticket on the issue. How do companies like this stay in business more than a day when they seem [...]

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I wrote about Linksys and their declining customer service in the past but this time its about their anti-competitive practices.
Just recently I purchased a Linksys PAP2 VoIP adapter thinking I could use it to connect to my VoIP provider. It does say on the box that it is a Vonage start-up kit but nowhere does [...]

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I can't believe the hoops I'm having to jump through to order a $7.99 piece of software. Obviously the folks at SipPhone have no clue about ecommerce or web usability. I suggest they start with Steve Krug's book Don't Make Me Think and go from there.
He is what I've gone through so far. Fumble around [...]

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If you can't wait years for a new Mattamy home checkout this for a recently new Mattamy home.

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