www.tires-easy.com
Recently purchased a couple of tires from this site: http://www.tires-easy.com/.
They sent the wrong tires twice, finally received the correct tires the 3rd time. They covered the return shipping of the wrong tires including UPS pickup at our house both times. Minimized the hassle of the return at least.
One thing to note, I got a foreign currency charge on my credit card with this purchase. Was only like a $1.50, but still unusual.
Comcast sucks again
Over the last month or so my Comcast cable internet service has gone in and out regularly. I have service outages nearly everyday or every other day.
The 1st time I made an appointment for a tech to come to my house, the tech installed an amplifier on the cable line. That worked for two days then the random outages started again.
Next, I called again and made another appointment and was told the next available was three days away. Fine. The next day I called to reschedule the appointment due to a scheduling conflict and was told by the call center that I never had an appointment in the first place!
The third time I made an appointment for a tech to come to my house, they didn’t show up. No call or anything. That was last week.
I’m getting ready to call again. We’ll see what happens this time.
If Comcast sees this blog, please help me before I’m forced to switch to Knology. Maybe somebody can contact me who can actually do something and not just say, “Call Comcast and make an appointment”. I already tried that. Send me a message here.
UPDATE:
So we called and made an appointment for after 5pm on Wednesday. 10 minutes later we call again to double check the appointment time with the automated system and it says our appointment is Tuesday between 8 – 5pm. WTF. So either Comcast’s appointment system is a piece of junk or the call center staff is intentionally screwing up appointments. With 3 of our 4 appointments were scheduled incorrectly, I wager that Comcast staff is screwing up the appointments intentionally (or they just don’t care).
UPDATE AGAIN: Comcast tech came out Tuesday and ran a new cable from the pole to the house. Been working fine since. Comcast tech was super nice and seemed very competent.
Datson Ferrari
iSCSI
Aimed at VMWare users:
A “Multivendor Post” to help our mutual iSCSI customers using VMware
Comcast HD sucks? Not anymore.
A technician came out and fixed whatever the problem was. He had to go up the pole in front of the house. No idea what he did. Seems to be working fine now though.
Comcast seems to be prowling the web for unhappy customers, if you notice the comment on the previous post. Not a bad thing.
Comcast HD sucks?
Anybody else experiencing crappy HD on Comcast these days? Has been choppy video and sound for about the last month and a half for us. Only on the HD channels.
Send email from Ubuntu
Let’s say you have a home Ubuntu server behind router and you want to be able to send emails via a cron job or Nagios or something like that. Here is how to configure Exim4 to do that.
A Speech
Patton Oswalt’s speech to the graduating seniors at his former high school.
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Rise in SQL Injection Attacks Exploiting Unverified User Data Input
Microsoft Security Advisory (954462)M
Found via Carpe Datum
Have fun.
A post to put your work life in perspective.
Mark Russinovich’s blog
History World
General interest site for those interested in history.
Apocalypto
Apocalypto turned out to be a pretty good movie despite being written and directed by Mel Gibson. I’d recommend watching it if you get the chance.
Urban Decay
Built St. Louis is a great site about urban decay, specifically about St. Louis of course, which I’ve read for years now. I just found this site via the current issue of Harper’s which has a photo series on some urban decay in Detroit.
What Have We Learned, If Anything?
NY Review of Books link
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Bicycle Trails in Huntsville
Two Men and a Truck
We recently used Two Men and a Truck for our recent move (about 5 miles) across town. I can’t recommend them enough. They charge $95 an hour which includes labor, truck and all. They actually sent three guys for our move. They did the move in less than 2 1/2 hours, which I thought was really fast, with a total bill of around $230. I tipped them also.
Furniture moved included:
Diring room table and four chairs, couch, love seat, TV stands, roll top desk, full size bed, queen size bed, 5 drawer chest, large dresser, washer, dryer, another big TV stand, coffee table, gas grill, misc other furniture pieces and about 10 good sized and heavy boxes.
El Dorado
El Dorado Mex Grill on Weatherly is very good. Better than the other big Mexican cuisine restaurants in Huntsville. Prices are reasonable also. I had the steak fajitas, which were excellent, for $10.95 and a house margarita for $5.50. Best margarita I’ve ever had and it comes in a large glass. Recommended. They are located here.
Mike Wallace Interviews 1957 – 1958
Link here. I’m not used to seeing Mike Wallace that young or the blatant cig commercials on TV. The “man sized”, unfiltered cigarettes…
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Yoo
Quote from this Harper’s article:
“In the end, this whole affair is about political hack lawyers behaving badly and doing so with impunity: the arrival of a culture of alcoholic frat boys chortling as they turn coathangers into branding irons, come now to middle age. When the scandal erupted, Rumsfeld and his crew turned to a standard “soldiers are cannon fodder” response–let’s scapegoat some grunts, and then it’ll all die out, they reasoned. And some two dozen low-level soldiers were court-martialed. Serious officers, and more to the point, the political hacks who crafted the torture system and hammered it through faced no accountability in any form. They depart with a big party and go off to take in six-figure salaries as oil company executives, it seems. The heroic figures in uniform who stood against the criminality are intimidated, hounded, denied promotions, forced out of the service. It’s all like some dark parallel universe–not the America I thought I grew up in.”
