The Web Side Story from Dan's Mobile Blog

VX-10000

2008-03-01T06:02:00.005-06:00

Have an LG VX-10000? We do over here. It IS actually better than the iPhone. With the possible exception of browsing; by browsing, we mean going to the majority of most websites with some form of flash in common use - the LG VX-10000, rather the Verizon branded LG Voyager, DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL NECESSARY ADOBE FLASH.

Bullshit.

When using the camera mode, you can take a pic when the phone is folded closed (the camera is on the "bottom" of the phone, actually kind of a stupid place for it) OR if it is flipped open; the two screens will switch over appropriately, UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR SUBJECT TO SEE THEMSELVES IN THE FRAME. Nope, they can't, unless you choose the option to add in the outer display for the shot - FOR EVERY SINGLE SHOT (fixed on last OTA update March 7th, 2008).

Video? The subject being shot on video WILL NOT SEE THEMSELVES on the outer display - NOT EVER; making it a craps shoot for self-shooting. Both the frame-shot and vid-shot problems would be solved by software TODAY, NOW, and a new cam placement IN THE LID FRONT, NOT THE PHONE BACK for a new version! Maybe a VX-11000 (not sure of the number, but a NEW model WILL be out around Summer 2008 quarter)?

Bullshit.

Now, the COOL stuff: Bluetooth stereo headphones OR somewhat regular 4-conductor sub-mini (2.5mm) headphones/mic (HAS to be that combo as straight old 3-conductor 2.5mm headphones only WILL NOT WORK very well (not loud enough and may only be in one ear), and the mic part of the old 3-conductor combo just won't work at all) . USING the correct headphone mic with proper connector WILL ACTUALLY ALLOW YOU TO LISTEN TO ALL AUDIO WITHOUT THE PHONE SPEAKERS ON! That includes now ALL V-Cast and Mobile TV audio portions!! Remember what a PAIN in the ASS the 8900 was? Not so in any of the older models - including the EnV and Chocolates and 9800 or less. Actually, this was NOT an LG decision, this was and always has been a Verizon DONGLED one.

As far as this new audio thing working, don't believe the Verizon store sales clerks when they tell you that the V-cast audio-for-video and Mobile TV audio doesn't work in the STEREO BLUETOOTH headphones - they are WRONG!
However, MobileWebTV and Vcast Audio and the audio of the Vcast video still does not go to the single mono earpieces, UNLESS you switch the audio by TRANSFERING it to the headset (wich is an option that must be reset each time you need/want it - BULLSHIT)

Speaking of Dongles, the data folders on a micro-SDHC+ are NOT available for view/drag and drop when in DATA mode, and ONLY the photo folders are available in the MEDIA mode of USB-to-PC connection.
You will also HAVE to pay for a 20.00 SDHC+ reader if you want to see anything on a microSDHC that is over 2GB! (hence the "+") 3GB and up REQUIRE a more advanced reader - the good thing for you Ludites is that even Windows2000 will automatically recognize the SDHC+ series USB drives.

ANOTHER good thing is that ALL of the 9800 series and up gadgets and accessories WILL work on the LG-10000 ! So go ahead and buy that $12.00 Power-thru-2.5mm headset/mic-1/8" headphone adaptor - it DOES work.

Another nice feature is USB-through-charging-while-phone-powering at the SAME TIME - the phone is powered seperately from the battery being charged! Just like back in 1985 when Erickson phones did that! I knew the Ameritech/Verizon merger would finally show us something good.

Mobile TV? Maybe - it works pretty good thanks to a totally separate from EVDO or G3 or cellular network system (another reason why you should get the Verizon service hooked to your iPhone), but the content is a JOKE. It has to be a joke - only 7 channels! (I do not count the demo setup channel!) Only SELECT programs are live, the rest are programmed re-runs from earlier in the week or day - Big Brother however is 24/7 live - which is kind of cool (the technology is the cool thing - we can't stand the show)
And it only works in Wheeling, Illinois. Or, maybe Chicago?

Other cool, fully-working and some not-so working things?

The Vibe-as-you-touch Top Lid touch-screen - 3 levels of vibe (the iPhone does NOT have that, yet)
and
The VZ Navigator (uses actual full GPS with Cellular Tower "triangulation" as a backup)
Nice touch!

What we want to see improved NOW, TODAY:

Add a "where am I now" online web feature to the VZ-NAV system in the phone so you can loacte your phone should you lose it!

Add WAY more Mobile TV channels for the somewhat insane price you now charge. ADD MORE channels or CHARGE WAY LESS for the 7 you offer now.

Add Sirius channels over the G3 Net (make it free if we are a Sirius subscriber, too), they already do it on Europe LG-10000

Make the present camera work better (mentioned above) TODAY through OTA programming - redesign the camera placement later (should be on the outer part of the lid for self camming and webcam use) - make the video automatically show on both the outer and inner screens (this should help to avoid upskirting). Use the camera as a light sensor. Make the display MUCH BRIGHTER for daylight and adjustable so that we can DIM THEM DOWN from there present brightness (actually too bright at night for some) - there is no way in Hell that you will ever see the outer screen in full daylight - impossible, and a horrific oversight on the designers' part! You should re-assign the lead designer for that mistake alone!
Make it so the camera can be recognized by Operating Systems - the circuitry and chip allows for it, just turn the damned feature ON!

ALLOW (UN-disable) ALL Java, javascript (please, it is at version 6 already, yours is version TWO!) and Flash download installing - websites will actually load faster and work - they do it in Japan - this would allow websites like http://www.qik.com to stream the phone's video LIVE! This would also allow people to browse band websites allowing for better market-to-purchase options for the consumer, while still using the V-Cast music store! This would also allow streaming audio and video players to WORK as intended, and would allow LIVE video camming on sites like uStream and NowLive and Sitckam.

LOWER the REALLY INSANE cost of the EVDO network. 60.00 per month is WAY too much to pay for what is NORMALLY 20kbps download! The WHOLE G3 Net is free in Japan and that is what they use for phone AND data! (They don't have EVDO there)
UN-DONGLE the phones present ability to Video record WHILE on a cellular call.
FIX the fact that when you start recording video that the video AUTO-SAVE OR KEEPS RECORDING when you close the phone or take a call or MAKE A CALL, message/receive messages. BOTTOM LINE: AUTO-SAVE AUTO-SAVE AUTO-SAVE
FIX while scrolling through messages, then deleting some, so the message scroll comes back; right now the phone goes back to standby every time you delete ONE message.
ALLOW for videos and pics to be PREVIEWED FULL SCREEN before committing to a Save or Erase and let it be accomplished from while viewing (or paused if in video); as it is now, we have to guess which video it is we want to erase - the little icons don't show enough, especially if the user has several video scens that essentially start out the same way.

ALLOW Outlook Calendar and Contact SYNC - they do it in Japan and the UK - incl down under, mate!

Jeff Paul

2008-02-14T03:11:00.002-06:00

The Jeff Paul's sales-pitch girls (the girls with the HUGE boobs). I cannot decide which if those girls' boobs I want to play with first; the blonde or the brunette?

By your comments, please help me choose which pair of boobs should I play with first!

And, of course, by "play with" I mean fuck.

"Take your stinking paws off of me you damn dirty ape!"

2008-02-13T04:13:00.000-06:00

Posted for accuracy.

Primo Prima

2008-01-17T21:27:00.001-06:00

THE Priminister of Primo, Louis Prima;

Cannot wait for the Book/Movie!

Why a seperate post for this? Funny you had to ask!

R U 2?

2007-12-31T17:20:00.000-06:00

Now there is FINALLY a way to check if your site (or any other) is actually web 2.0 COMPLIANT.

http://web2.0validator.com/

With out a doubt.

BUT, before you check the validity of Web 2.0, hadn't you better check your DESIGN?
I think so, so go...

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/application-fluff-hot-air/

THE 100th BLOG POSTING !!!

2007-12-31T17:19:00.000-06:00

Wow.

Maxthon2 2.0.6.9xxx

2007-12-07T14:48:00.000-06:00

I hadn't noticed Maxthon2 doing much of anything in the way of changes or patches recently, due simply they just haven't needed to patch lately. Good job. So they are not following Firefox's lead in patch times (5 in the last 4 weeks).

No one thing I have noticed about (at least the latest update to .9xxx) is that Maxthon2 NO LONGER recognizes hidden files. Up until this latest update, I have had the WHOLE Maxthon2 folder and ALL contents HIDDEN in WinXP Pro and Maxthon2 has had ZERO problems. Now, with the newest update applied (installed over itself), Maxthon2 can NOT find hidden files in its own folder.

Just not acceptable. It worked before the update and should STILL BE WORKING.

Also, the latest update reveals that certain settings are PUT BACK to original condition - again, entirely NOT acceptable, as in; the default download folder is changed BACK to within Shared users folder insides the Maxthon2 folder! Maxthon and Maxthon 2 tout their ability to NOT install OVER previous user settings, and yet this latest update certainly DOES.

So, perhaps Maxthon WILL be following the lead of Firefox after all - in update frequency, as I doubt Firefox will ever catch up to the other par excellence of Maxthon or Maxthon2 !

Spammers' Spamming was Clogging the Blogging

2006-09-29T00:22:00.000-06:00

I will repost my one-word movie titles tomorrow. The problem of Spammers attacking blogger.com is now fixed (for good?).

I have a suggestion - all blogger.com accounts (old and new) should be forced into "Word Verification = ON" by default.

Roxio is the Happy Tree Friend of CD Burning Software Companies

2006-09-29T00:20:00.000-06:00

Dear you@your.domain,

As a valued Roxio software owner, we would like to inform you that Easy CD Creator and Easy CD & DVD Creator is no longer supported by Roxio.

This means that we will not be releasing any new bug fixes (including support for new optical drives) and will not provide any phone or webticket support for these versions.

Our system shows that you have registered at least one of these products. If you own either product, you are eligible for special pricing on the latest supported version.

We recently introduced the latest version of the above software, Easy Media Creator 9 Suite.

To learn more about this new upgrade, please visit: www.roxio.com/creatorupgrade

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ANYONE who was surprised by this should curl up in a little ball and fade away. Just as Roxio will.

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Who is taking over Easy?

One word Movie Titles of Movies that EXIST and You Have Sat Through 'til Fini - or NOT NEVER !

2006-08-19T00:48:00.001-06:00

Some fool I know got me hooked - DAMN YOU, STEVENS!

The rules now are:

1. One word (no articles; a, an, or the in front of the title - not allowed to qualify)
2. If the movie is not in general release, provide a link to it's site or MSN Movies (etc.) or iMDB
3. Try and honor the game: Think of the movie first, THEN check it for spelling / article usage on iMDB
4. Numbers SHOULD count; ie 2001, 1984 (even if alternate spelling of numbers don't count - an exception would be the movie "Thirteen" which is not known in publicity as "13", although "66" would count, as Route 66: as the remake became known, but "Route 66": the original movie made BEFORE the 60's TV show of the same name, would not count as a one-word title.
5. One word titles can count twice if there is a known or Euro-release title that is ALSO one word. In addition, I think we should count as good, titles like: Batman and Batman - counts once for the TV show spoof feature length movie and again for the newer comic-book-styled version.
6. One-word titles that contain two words should count as a one word title: "Scarface", "Slapshot", etc.
7. We should allow the inclusion of any stage play or stage Musical to count as a movie if it actually was made into a feature, rather than counting an old BBC taping or filming of actors on the stage in a play.
8. one-word titled documentaries should count (but only if it is the release t itle, not the working title
9. Published titles of one-worded Movie titles in production, as long as you are reasonably certain that title is NOT only the working title.
10. To add fairness, I have indicated in the title that we should have actually taken the time to VIEW the movie! (pls indicate when you have NOT seen it by typing NOT next to the title. This could also mean that you simply would never want to watch it!)

I have created another game called: One-word Movie TItles of Movies that never existed, as far as you know, but SHOULD be made! You must include some sort of treament or description or casting suggestions - just to make it more fun. If you ae a member of the Writers Guild, do not attempt such a game.

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My kick-off; as you add your comments, once they are approved, they will drop into the list on a time-entered priority (when you first submitted, not the time when I get around to approving your comment! That wouldn't be fair.)

The Kick-Off:

Date: Aug 17, 2006 5:54 PM

Single syllable rule?
Now working titles - only rel titles
This took me about half hour - I thought of name of film I have actually seen, then double checked in iMDB to be sure---

The original rules did NOT indicate only one submission per cutomer, so...

2001
Orgazmo (not really a pattern here, I just stuck that in because 2001 makes me horny in a technical sense, and it is a film about a film maker who stars in a XXX-sci-fi flick.)
2010
1945
Aida
Smoke
Whore (starring Theresa Russell)
Evita
Equus
Tap
Brazil
Mafia (B movie, not "The Mafia" - different movie)
Respect
Vegas
Eraser
Thing (The Thing is different movie)
Frogs
Powder
Alfie
Heist (by D. Mamet (NEVER a stage play), often INCORRECTLY listed as The Heitst, but NOT))
TOBOR
Ben
Willard
Flash (Indy 2004)
Godzila
Dracula
Frankenstein
Jack
Junk
Fatso
Poker (any version !)
Jake
Scanners
Preditor
Vampire
Blade
Alien
Aliens
Texas (doc of Rusell Crowe's band, but was rel wide)
Arthur
Excalibur
Thief (w James Caan)
Ghandi

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NOT SURE IF THE FOLLOWING QUALIFY:
(But, then if not, Heartbreakers/Spaceballs would not either)

Earthquake
Scarface
Outbreak
Batman
Catwoman
Goldfinger

Rollerball
Stuntman
Flashback (the comedy)
Waterboys (comedy MartArts)
Brainstorm
Cowboy (in production, but is planned release title)

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Here's a stretch:
P.C.U.
C.H.U.D.
Nikita (in the UK - wouldnt count for the US release title, because that would be "Little Nikita")

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The FOOL says: "You know... I thought of ALL of those... but I think the one I listed is appropriate in reference to the one above it." That fool would be Magoo. What luck you must have. Good for you. Bastard.

THAT was NOT one of the RULES at first. OK, I can play that way. And, besides, somtimes you are my supervisor, oh great wise one!

Rule 11. The name must be - in some way - connected to the name above it.

No. I say , no. That's fine, butI would have to be much more organized to pull that off. No. Not unless someone has an idea to make that work. I could make this a seperate blog so that it could accept comments without approval (spam, spam, spam, spam). Still no. Unless someone else has thought of a way it could be done. Cut & Paste the list so far, and....no, that still would not work. Dammit!

On the other hand, oh wisenhiemer Magoo, I think I could make a case for a certain symetry in my choices, too. Hmmmm. Yes, I see a pattern. HA!

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Date: Aug 17, 2006 8:16 PM

And one more 45 minute sprint (15 minutes if I don't count checking iMBD (had to eliminate one, it wasn't in iMDB)

Cinderella
Dumbo ( I don't mean Dumbo Drop)
Cinderfella
Alladin
Fallen
Herbie! (60s original was longer title)
Pinnochio
Airplane!
Goodfellas
B.A.P.S.
D.E.B.S.
Spy (2006, straight to DVD)
Spawn
Chicago
FAME!
MAME!
Taps
Hotel
Psycho
Tightrope
Cars
Big
Kundun
SHOT (aka Focus, both one!)
Unbreakable (w Willis and Jackson)
Assassins
Sparticus
Hercules
Zardoz
Prime
Benji
Bingo (twice, one for the game and one for the dog!)
Airline (the drama that spawned the spoof, Airplane!)
Shipwreck
Shipwrecked
Stranded
HELP! (the beatles)
Jason (And they got Halloween?)
Punchline
America
Colors
Lolita
Rope
Vertigo
Alfred (about A. Nobel, the prize winning professor)
Scream
Drumline
Baby (3 times !)
Coma
Cujo!
Storm (twice for me)
Volcano
CATS (did I repeat myself)
Mallrats (is actually one word in all credits and releases)
Hostage
Stowaway
Hairspray
Evolution (the comedy)
Underworld (no :Evolution version)
Candyman (The Candyman is another movie NOT by Barker)
Striptease
Entrapment
Se7en (tough call, rule-wise)
Cop (J Woods 1988 or 80)
Silverado
Driven (Reynolds/Stallone)
Bean
Nickelodeon
Moonstruck ('87, never saw the original)
Moonraker
E.T.
Darkness
Star! (J Andrews, the Musical)
Gaslight (1940, but also remake in production in 2007 for 2008 rel)
Rope (1940 aka "Alfred Hitchcock's Rope" - USA (complete title, also the original play was re-cast as a Movie for television in England in 1939 - which I have never seen, nor have I heard of until iMBD research)
Tightrope (C Eastwood 1984, but this one-word title could count 5 times - for movie!)
Lifeforce (yuck)
Ghost
Casper (one word as a feat film rel)
Robots
RV
Insomnia
Flubber (early version original, palease)
Hamlet (Two times)
Awakenings
Toys
Popeye
Zulu
1984 (tough call , but US listing)
Burglar (and not proud of having seen the whole thing!)
Carrie
K-Pax (argueable as a one-word, isn't it?)
K2 (Arguable for similar naming reasons)
Misery
Wiseguy
Wolfen
Lassie
Ultraviolet (Fang - whatever)
Gladiator
Magic (two times - completely different movies)
Sorcerer
Merlin
Highlander
Ghostbusters (working title was The Ghost Busters, I believe)
Runaway (Crichton)
Alibi (james mason)
Lolita (, just once, with james mason, I refuse to count any remake)
Sliver (Sharon Stone)
Mandingo
Rebecca
Roxanne
Jumnanji (translated, is 2 or 3 words)
D.O.A. (Quaid version - remake, original better, but I believe was billed as the three-word title)
Houseguest (again, not too proud, Sinbad)
Tremors
Bewitched
Exotica
Gattaca
Gothika
Beaches

Mistake from prvious submission-

Fog is not a movie, The Fog is. Oops.

All these I have viewed, and there's many more.
I did no go into google and type "One word Movie titles" as I am sure there would plenty for the pickin!

ADDED 1-19-2007

Topkapi

-----------Below is from the original list that got me hooked on this:

Date: Aug 5, 2006 6:38 PM

Body: One word movie titles
Think of a movie with EXACTLY one word in the title. No articles (a, an, the. So 'The Matrix' doesn't count.)

1. Michael - Clerks
2. Mariah ~ Fargo
3. Christine ~ Kalifornia
4. Katie~ Gladiator
5. Darlene - Fear
6. Heather-Friday (One of the greatest movies!)
7. Deanna - Halloween
8. Serena-Shrek
9. Jenni~ Fletch
10. Scotty ~ Saw
11. Angel ~ Platoon
12. Raul ~ Hitch
13. Shae ~ RENT
14. RecieKay~ Dogma
15. Brent~ Spaceballs
16. Rhea~Chode
17. alberto~gummo
18. lucy~jaws
19. *Wendy* - Polyester
20. SISSIE~ HEAD *by :the monkeys*
21.SONYAZSAR~tombstone
22.OB1~ Thursday (best movie ever)
23. J.P. - DOLEMITE
24. shane--mask-- you gotta love a movie about ugly guys and blind women
25. Katie- Blow
26. Stephanie~beetlejuice
27. Shannon~crash
28. layla~Serindipity
29.Hudson--Shaft
30. Tori---- "Heartbreakers"
31. Tracie---"Cellular"
32. Amanda -- "Stay"
33. Emily--Memento
34 Jenny--- "Swingers"
35. Omolo -- "Snatch" (Tee hee!)
36. Magoo -- "Porky's"

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I was shocked to see that shane didn't also pick "Shane" - the Western!
And that's what got me hooked.
Dammit!

HOOK, there's another one. This game is sick.

I could go on. Next update - I'll just comment to myself newer one's.

Steve Dahl & Garry Meier getting all wet at the Beachstro

2006-08-18T17:11:00.000-06:00

I have done a bit of "cross-posting" in my own blogs, but HAHA! They're mine!

Is it two 'r's or one?

Are they shaken or stirred?

I can answer that! Steve & Garry are stirring it up, baby! Oh, yeah, I was listening the 'G' - as I like to refer to the Chicago Free-FM Talk Station, WCKG - and Steve saw Gary eating Lunch (like that wasn't pre-planned over the phone sometime ago!) at the Oak Street Beachstro, where the Dahl Crew broadcasts live every Friday now.

When a [female] reporter from Channel 2 News (whom Steve accused of wishing she were at Channel 9 right about now) asked Steve for a short over-the-air interview, Steve mentioned more than five times, "Who's going to pay Gary?". Haw Haw Haw. Steve then, as King Arthur might have done back in the day, went around the table (it might be round?) and asked Wendy, "No", Buzz, "Nope", Stan?

A moment of silence.

Then Stan says, "I'm just lookin to keep my gig.". Haw Haw Haw, laughter all around, the crowd is pleased. But, the laughter sounded more like we were listening to a golf match when Bob Hope said something amusing before taking a putt.

Everyone loves a peek at the race card, when it leads to laughter instead of mayhem, as Stan added, "Whenever two white men get together, it's always bad for the black man.". And Haw Haw Haw, more gay laughter from the Crew and the Crowd. Who wouldn't love a good bout of race-card humor? We play a few hands everyday here at work! It's fun!

Well, I doubt very much Stan will lose his job at CBS radio anytime soon - I think he has about one more year to go on that one year contract he just signed. And, Brendan, well let's just say he is like the Womper. The Womper is a big sail made for the front of the winning boat of the America' s cup race, as portrayed in the film "Wind", now playing near the IFC channel! It stars Matthew Modine as an unrespected genius of sail and the loooove interest cutie-pie sister of Ferris Bueler, what's-her-name-and-I-am-to-lazy-to-goggle-it!

Sorry.

So, It looks like S & G are back, at least in the "media" RIGHT NOW, as it will be the second to the lead story on Channel 9, 7, 5 , and 2 NEWS ! I might tune right now?

Attittude?

2006-08-17T12:27:00.000-06:00

Attittude? I can't even spell attittude! I will TELL you when and if I have an attitude - you will know.

Nothing pisses me off more than.....people saying I have an attitude.....when I am not having an attitude!

How DARE you?

But, I do hereby publicly apoligize to the lady in the orange shirt for "having" and attitude. Just make sure you read the syllabi.

Now it's your turn - next time; have your papers in order!

godaddy, whoa daddy!

2006-08-16T22:33:00.000-06:00

Today has been a banner day for spammers - a lot of the domainsbyproxy.com's return emails have been hit HARD! Domainsbyproxy.com is owned and operated by godaddy.com as there offering for Domain Name Account Privacy for regular websites.

SONY is the 4 letter word - NOT DELL!

2006-08-15T19:51:00.000-06:00

"Damn you Stevens!" Sony is in trouble. Dell hopefully has learned the old lesson - screw me once, shame on me, screw me twice you better buy me dinner first, screw me again, shame on me.

Well, something like that, huh.

Sony sold the OEM (known as Dell Computer Corp) very BAD batteries.

It's Sony's fault, NOT Dell's!

Dell to recall 4 million batteries This story first came to my attention through digg.com watchful eyes.

MY PERSONAL VIEW (8-15-2006):
It's official now, as of 2am CST today, Dell set up this newer website specifically targeting this new threat. When Dell says on their website(s) don't use something, then DO NO USE IT. Plain and simple. Take the battery out of the laptop and use the laptop on AC adaptor power ONLY. But that is not all: If I were you - more importantly, if you were me - you would be checking the serial number on the Adaptor/Charger as well as the batteries as it also may be under a DIFFERENT RECALL PROGRAM regarding adaptor/chargers sold from around the Same Time Frame is these Sony batteries were used in OEM. As the website indicates and makes very clear, the batteries affected by this recall include batteries that were shipped as extras or replacements as part of [another] repair(s) or recall!

Check on it. DO IT! DO IT!

Don't put me in jail just yet, coach, I still have so much to say!

2006-08-12T16:47:00.000-06:00

Josh Wolf vs. OUR TAX DOLLARS. Way to go , Josh's mom! Josh's mom is keeping the fight going! (Could you just imagine: The government asks the webhost provider to shut down Josh's blog and/or website? The G8 demo would be a tea party compared to the rioting of angry bloggers....on the other hand; Tea Party. Boston. Yes. I get it!)

I believe I have said all that needs to be said.

Except:

Since when do we believe government "officials" (That We Pay) when they tell us that, "[if you (let's say a college) are federally funded, then we get to go in and do what we want, otherwise don't be surprised when your next grant application gets sent back to you marked UNACCEPTABLE]", huh? Well, that is basically what colleges all across America have been told regarding better access to campuses for Military Recruiters.

Is there a law - anywhere - that says Partially federally-funded (and I stress partially ) entities must allow all manner of poking or infiltration or management by the fed? No, there isn't, and I know of no federal grant given to colleges worded in like manner, either. I should know, as I have reviewed my old Pell Grant form copies and there is nothing of this nature in the fine print;although there may be the implicit copyright violation having copied the form! My school told me to, "Make sure to copy every single form you ever are asked to sign, and never ever sign a blank contract or form.". Well, to the latter: I have been asked to sign the occasional form once maybe three times in my life, and on those occasions of course I signed them, "RICHARD NIXON". Who doesn't in those cases. It's not like those forms ever were completed - and they weren't - so I don't worry about such nonsense. To those who asked, check the form. You will see I am correct (and do not ever ask me to sign another blank form again. I will refuse.).

If there isn't a law already on the books of what I propose, then we should get one there: ALL federally granted money shall be used for the purpose(s) so granted with absolutely no other obligation by either party to be attached thereof to said grant(s).

Let's get busy, congressmen, or I will actually decide to vote in 08. Hint: Raise your glasses in hope that a citizen of the heart, and not just of natural law, can be voted into the Presidency;

ARNOLD, THE PIG, FOR PRESIDENT (Come on, the pig was "the smart one" on that show!)

IN CONCLUSION:

The real story is not so much Journalism Shield Laws protecting those who are "legit journalists" or bloggers (whom are covered as journalists under present law), but putting to test the "notion" that just because someone (the fed, in this case) GIVES you, or GRANTS you monies for a certain purpose, the only connection between the parties should be that the honest expenditure is followed. If the government GRANTS me money for TUITION, and I decide instead to buy a car, THEN, in only that case I should expect the Feds to be asking me pertinent questions about the unethical purchase!

Associative logic is the only thing holding the federal prosecutors' argument against Josh at this point. One wouldn't expect the bank to prosecute IN PLACE OF a home owner's legal claim against a thief who has broken into that home, would one? Would the builder be a better litigator? Of course not, once the home is purchased and under mortgage and the owner holds the title, the house is owned by .... the owner! What a concept. Just extend the concept of "ownership" in case you are one of those whiners at the bar who always has to add, "The bank owns my house, I don't, he he.". NOT TRUE. Just a TRUISM. There is a DIFFERENCE!

Shut up. YOU own the house when you are holding the TITLE, which almost always occurs AT THE CLOSING. If I was a vet, and I bought my home with a GI loan (OFF base, obviously), then later the house was compromised, the government will NOT step in on my behalf and pay for the prosecution nor are they going to prosecute at all. No way.

So, why is OUR government stepping in on Josh? To marginalize the Press, little by little, obviously. By marginalizing the press - OUR press - whom is to discover for us the truth, the public in general becomes less optimistic that the press will cover the truth and therefore will not much care that journalists are getting such a "raw deal".

Hey, coach, these finger cuffs are too tight. Can I go now?

3 FUN ACTIVITIES - in triplicate!

2006-08-08T14:41:00.000-06:00

Following is my short list of 3 types of employee actions used on the job,

LEAST DAMAGING: INACTIVE

SMALL RISK OF DAMAGE: PRO-ACTIVE

MOST DAMAGING: ACTIVE

You may be thinking: "Huh? We have heard of being inactive and proactive, but tell us how being active on the job is wrong.". I learned today, that by actively "picking up the ball" without first "recognizing the ball type" and "knowing which game is to be played with that ball" and "knowing the rules of that game" can have potentially adverse consequences.

Now we have another short triple list of:

BALL TYPE

GAME TYPE

GAME RULES

WE learn the Ball Type in High School, the Game name in College, and the real "game rules" hopefully in on the job training sessions (hence un-paid internships!). Assuming that we have those three components learned well, then we can perhaps envision that being just plain Active for the sake of looking good to the boss, colleagues, family (or even, altruistically, to one's self - as in my case today) is just plain wrong.

In other words, it feels good just to be active - rather than standing around doing nothing - if for no other reason than the relatively minor physical workout, but rarely does any good come of it. A good example at most jobs in small to medium sized companies is the "wrong package delivery" - this one seems to have everyone in an office area overly concerned for usually no good reason - other than curiosity, which as small children we learn is not always a bad thing, when we take precautions. The errant package thing happened to me today. While casually talking to a co-worker, the coworker mentioned that there was a box in the conference room with t delivery label on it indicating it may have been misdelivered. "Ooh", I thought - and I did actually think, "Oooh", I'm not "doing" anything right now - just standing around and talking about work - I extrapolated, "I'll just make the conscious effort and move this box to its rightful area" How thrilling to me. But, before I do this Samaritan deed, I stop to ask at least one other person from our area as to the packages relevancy. That coworker said, "Oh no, that box is actually [for our area]", well! I was no longer fooled by our first coworkers' curiosity. The damage possible although would have been minimal - just me running back and forth all over looking for the damned box, as I could have accidentally delivered it to someone else who might not have known its true origin or destination. Conceivably, I could have wasted up to 2 hours for one box, but using my proactive nature, I turned that 2 hours into 2 minutes, thereby saving two hours and fifty-eight minutes of the future. I this were to happen to an engineer at NASA, that 2 hours would have been better spent calling a head-hunter!

Being Proactive is when you know what you are doing, how to do it (because of excellent training and your job duties demand it *, and you do it when the time is right and other precursors and dependent jobs have been properly completed (out of breath now, must get water...).

And then there is Inactive. That lone statement is its own proof of the ineffectiveness of inactivity - neither good for mind nor body.

So, to sum up: Know the game and its rules, and above all: "BE THE BALL, Danny, Be The Ball."

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* such as when NASA engineers are given "free reign" in solving a problem when not on Mission Time; Mission Time being as like now during ISS. Only in emergencies would one consider brainstorming, as brainstorming has its proper place and time.

PUREHOST LAST STRAW

2006-08-07T19:22:00.000-06:00

Mr. Engel. (Customer Service Manager of all companies run by Endurance Intl, in this case Purehostage)

A looooong email. [PLS keep in mind, I sound like a little bitch in this]

Tom (who I got off the phone with about an hour ago) is unbelievably [badly] trained. I asked him to do a UN/PW reset on my account - specifically not mentioning a Fix Permissions, he told me where to go to Change my password. I told him no, I didn't need it changed, I needed the Username Password Reset done - it only takes an hour, I tell him, and I tell him this because every other Level1 tech tells me this EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY DO IT. I told him so as well - he said that there is nothing he can do with a "so many tickets" open and that he did not have the tools to do a Password reset.

(How can this be, when I have had to have this done 5 times in 72 hours. The latest of 72 hours.)

Then after telling him what I have experienced with other Level 1 techs being able to reset, he told me to have a nice day. (apparently he did not appreciate my relay approach to what many other L1 techs have told me).

At this point, having had relatively crappy operational service since Wednesday morning passed, it sounded like he was confused, offended, and full of crap. I then started a bit of a rant.

I told him stop lying, stop the crap. He just told me to have a nice day (I kind of expected that almost at the same time the word "lying" cam out my mouth. I then asked him to transfer me to anyone else on the floor who might have the tools to do the reset (in fact I may have asked him that before calling him "out" on this issue f training). He said he was the only one there and that there was only One Level2 tech on site and that the Level2 techs are the only techs allowed to do password resets. I told him that for over 100,000 customers of shared hosting, 2 people to handle customer support (at 12:30am CST) was ludicrous.

I was harsh, to be sure. I will not gloss over that point. As the clcradio.org website has been plagued with nothing but server issues since March of this year. There has been constant permissions and roles.ini file issues that have needed constant redoing. I maybe get about a full week of uninterrupted service via using Frontpage access . Once I get the access, publishing to the site and editing live on the site has RARELY been a problem. The BIGGEST issue BY FAR has always been one of merely accessing using my regular unchanged Username and password. When I report this problem OTHER Level1 techs try it for themselves, see the same issue on their end, and then ask me to verify some account detail for security purposes - I always choose verification "before doing a UN/PW reset or a Fix Permissions on an account", and No one has EVER failed to ask me for verification. Until today, with Tom.

I called back. He answered. (I am now here thinking that perhaps indeed, although implausible, that he may be the only L1 tech there!). I heard someone talking in the background this second time. I asked him about it. Tom said it was the cable technician (or words to that effect). He then proceeded to respond to me as if I was asking him questions. An example follows:

Me: I just wanted to apologize for (being harsh earlier call). But, I have had many other Level 1 techs do a UN/PW reset and a Fix Permissions run for me - already twice today, as well.

TOM: That will be fine, sir.

silence

TOM: Yes, sir. Whatever you say.

silence (I hadn't said anything yet)

TOM: Well, if that is all you need, I can't do anything with this open ticket. And with so many tickets open I can't start another one...You have a nice day, OK?

silence

ME: Do you know that you are responding to me now as if I've said something to you? Do you know you are doing that?

TOM: Well, you're telling me how to do my job....

ME: (Interrupting) ..No, I was telling you how other Level1 techs have handled this problem before...

TOM: Well let me see if I can get permission for a Password reset with the Level2 here - only they can do a Password reset...

On Hold (no music-on-hold since Sunday, BTW) only 2 minutes goes by

TOM: Sorry about putting you on hold, I just started a Fix Permissions and that can take about 60 minutes (I had actually previously told him that is what other Level1 techs have told me recently!) and then I will be doing a Password Reset once that is finished. (I have been told by ALL OTHER L1 TECHS that Password Rest is done FIRST, THEN a Fix permissions - the reason? Because a PW reset only takes about a minute, thus allowing a customer to get to their site access quicker : in most cases.)

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This last bit kind of pisses me off.

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ME: Do you need any other information from ME before you continue with this?...(I am curious why he has started a procedure that has previously EVERY TIME called for a customer verification)

TOM: No, that is all I need. I am just waiting for the Fix Permissions to finish...Oh, jeez (here, he is probably frustrated with it taking so long) This is going to take...it will take about 60 minutes, stay out of the account for an hour, and then call back if you have any problems. OK, sir?

ME: In the past, the others were running the Password Reset first because...( I wanted to say, because a UN?PW reset takes a LOT less time to do titan a Fix Permissions)

TOM: Sir, can I help you any further?

ME: Well, Yes, I just thought you should know that the other...

TOM: Sir, you have a nice day, OK?

a bit more silence (I can tell he hasn't hung up yet...I wait about 5 to 7 seconds - I am watching the clock...)

ME: What is wrong with this fucker? (I Then hang up)

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He probably heard me say that as I was assuming he hadn't hung up yet, but I hadn't intended for him to hear that last profanity.

I truly can't figure out why (he said he has been there 3 months, which is a lie as I know I have talked with him on third shift at great length about this and that and webdesign nd things like that; Tom , this Tom, had been in your employ for at least a full year) his computer desktop wouldn't have the necessary tools one minute, then upon him "getting permission" less than 2 minutes later he is "doing his job" running a Fix Permissions, but as history shows not in quite the same way everyone else has run a Fix Permissions or Password reset - so far.

My last point: Tom did NOT ask me to verify my account details where in all other similar support calls to Purehost cases, every Level1 tech does ask me to verify either of these.]

As I am sometimes a "hard case" late at night, as most people calling late probably are anyway, putting new (3 months seems new to me for customer service reps on phones) Level1 techs on 3rd shift for customer support is a supremely bad idea.

Did you see that? Did you see what I did just then? I think I just may have told you how to do your job...or maybe I was just trying to give an example that might point to a better customer service solution for the future of Purehost, or Endurance Intl, or CrystalTech or whomever might care.

I care. I have had only ONE other Level1 tech give even (is it possible) more apparent incompetence to me. He was on 3rd shift for about a year I would say, and that one got to he point where if I heard his nasal tones answering, I knew - at least up until about a month ago - that someone else would be answering the cue on my subsequent call, and I would actually get results then.

You need to know this - the customer might always be "right" but I do not believe that should mean that the customer is always justified. I say this because, I try really hard to get to the point when on the phone, WHEN I hear from who I am talking with SOME understanding of what I am saying. Unless whom I am speaking with acknowledges what I say, I will keep talking until they do acknowledge, generally for technical matters such as a Shared Hosted website, be reading back to me what I have said by either paraphrasing or just recitation. How else would I know that something of a technical nature has been properly communicated?

For instance: If I day to a Level1 tech I am having issue with creating Subwebs (don't get us started in that mess, right now), and the Level1 tech asks me why I need subdomains. Need I go on?

Nope. Hopefully, you now understand what I occasionally go through when talking to Level1 techs - a very small few, that may perhaps need to know what they are supposed telling Purehost customers.

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And now, an hour has passed (I ran a spell check on this email).

I will now check to see if Tom's method of running the Fix Permissions FIRST worked. And if not, hopefully he will finish what he said he would do, as in a Password Reset AFTER the Fix Permissions was finished. I have a feeling that if he heard me say, "fucker", over the phone, then he may have not wanted to feel like finishing the work he had received Level2 permission to do. I hope that is not the case, because if it is, re-training might not be the only option for Tom, but I am not in your shoes, and Tom may have been having a Bad day, as I know I have talked with Tom at least 3 other times before today (as mentioned earlier, near to a year), and in very congenial terms. I am not kidding - he may remember, he may not.

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I warned you, it was a loooong email ahead.

LG VX8100

2006-08-05T01:37:00.000-06:00

And in fact I was NOT warned that my MP3s would no longer play after I upgraded to v7!

FUZZ VERIZON & FUZZ MICROSOFT for that. 2 bucking dollars per downloaded song to the phone, what BULLSHIT!

Now, what follows is a good example of a Verizon Store employee who is either lying or was lied to: (thank you Howard Forums)
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01-07-2006, 16:29

Phone Expert

Phone(s):
1:
2:
3:

Provider(s):

Joined: Jun 2004

From: U.S.

Posts: 64

No more MP3 with new software.

I am a VZW employee. We just had training on the new Vcast Music service being launched soon. All phones that support VZW music will loose the ability to play MP3. NO! YOU CAN NOT TURN IT BACK ON!!!! Upgrade your software at your own risk. I personally have an 8100 for mp3 playback and will not get the software upgrade. All of your mp3 files that are on your computer will stay as mp3 files on your computer. However, when you transfer files to your phone it will be converted to WMA. The MP3 player WILL BE DISABLED. I hope that someone comes up with a hack or something to re-enable mp3 support.

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What a genius (I say sarcastically).

There is no hack really, you just go into service and change the two settings back to ON. And he can't spell lose.

FACTOID: There will NEVER be a vendor software for ANY LG phone that can permanently disable ANY feature. ONLY the QUALCOM firmware is able to do that, and even that can be revised with the same QUALCOM chip firmware updater. I am NOT talking about bitpim, although bitpim can fuck your phone hard if you are not careful, BUT if you do screw your phone with a bitpim mistake, just re-update your firmware with the QUALCOM software (again, this is also different from the Qualcom Firmware) to reset your phone to "factory". The Qualcom software (NOT firmware) can allow you to change the Service Code Password and entry method (currently it is MENU, press 0, then press the default 6 digits). Also, there is an 800 number/website that allows you to hook to a modem/server so that you can send BREW code to your phone (iow, you can do your own OTA Programming!).

ALL LG vendor software (and only the vendor software) is DESIGNED ON PURPOSE to give the VENDORS their choice of what features they want their customers' phones to have. or NOT HAVE ! PERIOD. NO MORE ARGUMENTS. THE BUCK STOPS HERE.

And if by some off chance that a Verizon tech will not RE-ENABLE your phone settings after any software upgrade, then DEMAND a FLASHBACK (stop laughing, that is what it is called by the techs).

So you have (still have) the LG VX8100 and you want to know some tidbits? Good.

I will tell you as much as I know, so open a fresh clean thimble:

Today I went ahead and had my firmware version upgraded from 4 to 7 (I wildly ignored even asking the tech to do 5 or 6). I had heard the horror stories of , "If you update to v7, all your installed subscriptions will be deleted!" and THEY WERE to my dismay but not surprise, but what I did NOT find out about neither from the Verizon store tech nor the web yet was that this same upgrade will install a mini WMP and all of my data and MP3s and Pix located on my miniSD card would be deleted! (What really PISSED ME OFF was the fact that my Mightyphone subscription installation is NOT YET COMPATIBLE WITH v7 ! FUZZ!)

Well, it certainly looked that way. But, I need not worry because I have bitpim's latest version and a backup of all that is wholly; the spirit of my phone lives on.

Before I left the Verizon store - I had been on the phone with tech support (2 birds killed by one stone) talking of such incompatibilities of VCast AND Broadband on the SAME PHONE, hooaaa! - on a hunch I decided to ask for a "flashback" - stop laughing you bunch of stoners, that is the technical term! The nice serviceman asked, "Why?". I answered, "I already use iTunes and pay only 99 cents per song...". He stops me from talking with a wave of his Jedi hand, this Master of the Service Codes. And so, it was. I asked him, "How is this possible, that you can allow me to have not only the ability to play MP3s once again and not just WMAs, but also I can now see all of my "lost" data, mp3s and pix?!?!?!". He just nodded and said, "Service code.". "Ah.", said I, "no need to explain, thank you".

Yes.

Sorry, still on a cliff over that "incompatibility of VCAST AND BROADBAND" living together?
No worries, as the info I had received 3 months ago was a lie perpetrated by a Ludite (Really the name of an antique floor polish) still apparently allowed to continue her vast employment with the megolith known only as, V E R I Z O N !!! Basically, the two features CAN coexist on the same phone.

AND: v7 does NOT take car of the picture taking delay at all. Still the same - pun intended.
ALSO : The sound Q of Video is still CRAP, and the 15 seconds of record time is still only 13.8 seconds - but you all know you can make that any time you want. Set it to ZERO if you want unlimited (only limited to your miniSD card) video recording time (this also affects your memo recording time as well).

HOWEVA! You do need to know that with version 7, some applications downloaded from the Qualcomm program service called "Get it Now" will no longer be available for download through that service! MightyPhone for one is NOT yet compatible (or at least the MightyPhone programmers need to GET OFF THEIR ASS and make MightyPhone version 3 available for download again for the version 7 users of the LG phone firmware/flash upgrade) with version 7. version 4, MightyPhone works. So, if you like MightyPhone better than iPhonebook (and who doesn't ?) or Remo, than you are going to HAVE to for the time being get your LG flashed back to version 4.

--------------HOWEVA, Again!

It seems there is a way to get those Get It Now apps back itno your newly upgraded 8100 !

Here's another bit from howardforums.com----------(note it is from January This year !!)

01-17-2006, 18:57

OrangeGator

My antenna is smaller than yours

Phone(s):
1: LG VX8100
2: LG VX6000
3: LG TM510

Provider(s):
Verizon

Joined: Sep 2005

Posts: 387

Backing Up/Restoring Games How To

Here's how to back up and restore your GIN games so that you do not loose them when flashing your phone.

BEFORE FLASHING YOUR PHONE

1. Goto the Filesystem tab in Bitpim and click the Brew folder. You will see a bunch of folders with numbers as their names. These are where your games are.

2. Look at the contents of each numbered folder to see which ones have your games. It's easy to tell by the names of the files inside. For example, for me folder 3015 contains tetris files.

3. Right click the game folder and select "backup directory". It will save the contents as a zip file. Do this for each of your games.

4. In the Brew directory you will also see a bunch of files with .mif extentions that have the same number name as your game folder. For example, the mif for tetris is 3015.mif. Save these files for each of your games.

GET THE FLASH

5. Open Bitpim and go to the Brew folder. You will still see the numbered folders for each of the games, but the folders are empty. Also, the .mif files are missing.

6. Unzip the backed up games into their corresponding numbered folders and copy the .mif files into the Brew folder.

Your games are now restored. The first time you try them it may say "registering apps" for a minute, but should work. Good luck.

I don't think this works for transfering games between phones. Probably due to esn coding in brew 2.0.
Also, you can back up everything at once by right clicking the root directory and selecting "backup entire tree". But that takes a while and saves everything in one large zip file.

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Just pissed. BUT, WAIT ! THERE's MORE !

Look what I found today (August 11th, 2006) [ http://www.mightyphone.com/how/phones.php?manuf=LG ]

Let's just say that it's all about the PID. For the layman, that means Version 7 - sort of. IOW, version 7 changed the PID of the LG VX8100. The PID needs to be listed by fusionone or MightyPeople to Qualcom or the Get It Now people.

Well, what are they waiting for? I want to GET IT NOW!

Get it? Now?

And now, you know the rest of the story.

Google inline module idea feeds the Page Load Hog

2006-08-04T18:05:00.000-06:00

I have checked, double checked, and rechecked again, back and forth (loading, unloading), and I have concluded that - at least for digg - that coding the "inline module" way for Google's personal home page options is really dragging the page load for Google's Personal Home page.

Either the module can be recoded (so as not to cause thie slow load time - I am on a T1 leg off an OC12) or digg can decide not to use the module method.

For now I'll just stick to going to digg through RSS Reader or the like.

BUT, digg is the shiznickle in all other restecpa!

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Now, bcak to the Google Personalized Homey Page: Live365 now offers their broadcasters a module for the Google PHG so they can montior the server status and the listeners on line! Cool, except that their modue does not hide the password in the block. Is there a way that programmers can take advantage of SSL for this sort of nonsense?

Call me Senior COBOL, or Master of Assembly, or even Mr. "Bean" but, I certainly hope there is an SSL way to enter passwords into a module for the Google PHG at some point.

2006-08-03T11:29:00.000-06:00

PUREHOST

2006-07-28T21:53:00.000-06:00

Maybe I should start to tone down a bit, after reading and finding the follwoing in response to a 2 year old query from a Lunarpages.com forum page:
-----------------------------------------------[the Raply today would be today, btw]

Re: Extensions are down for 4 Days - Support isn't Helping

« Reply #17 on: Today at 08:41:13 PM »

A similar problem is worldwide now (no pun intended in case you are a MyWebHoster customer on their windowsworldwide servers).

The issue is the Server2003 Service Pack1 update (out on November 2005, warnings and problems first appeared in January 6, 2006). A lot of webhosting companies have in the last few weekends updated their Server 2003 machine - both 32 bit and 64 bit - to make way for the a onslaught of the poor Linux Server customers using Frontpage extensions on those Linux servers. Why would there be an onslaught? Because Microsoft as of July 12th, 2006 has End-of-lifed any support for Frontpage Extensions for Linux/Unix and has no plans to make any 2003 Extensions. (this basically means that if you applied any SPs for FPSE modules on a Linux server of any version or not, you are now officially SOL ). But if you are on an actual Windows Server box, then read on.

The Service Pack 1 as applied to actual Windows machines only running Server2003 32 or 64 bit has been malfunctioning across the world, and there is only one solution. The solution involves only a fix that only your webhoster can make: It is a registry setting permissions change The message may not appear unless the webhoster ALSO has the latest version of FPSE2002 installed (yes, 2002 (two) there are no such things as FPSE2003 and there never will be, they will be called instead SharePoint Services. Period):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\Ports\Port 80

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;264922

The above link is really only helpful to Server2003 engineers.

You may or may not also receive the following error IF you are on an actual Windows machine:

Server error: Error 2 opening registry key Software/microsoft/shared tools/web server extensions/ports/port 80

This error is coming ONLY from a Windows machine running ONLY Server2003 and only AFTER SP1 AND FPSE2002 latest version has been applied SUCCESSFULLY. If there was a failure to apply, then another message would appear on the back end at the webhosting company machine doing the install of the patch.

That is a whole other problem.

This behavior can occur if the Web Server Extensions key and its subkey do not have the correct type of access rights assigned to them.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873148

Hey you Linux peeps, sorry to bring the bad news, but there are a LOT of webhosters NOT telling their customers of these issues.

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So I gues, MAYBE, I'll start toning down..

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PUREHOST

2006-07-27T23:33:00.000-06:00

A PSA from an idiot....me.
Based on the Purehost Idiocy (the newest story of Jason Bourne). now filming in Canada. It's a secret documentary about idotic webhosting companies. Since I couldn't go to Italy for another idea (State Department ENS snafu), this one will probably get distributed.

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Hello, [actually no name used here by Purehost!]

Thank you for following up with us. [I am following up with THEM?]

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. I understand your concern and realize that this is important to you. [to truly understand, this woman must have a website with Subwebs on the same lame server my account is on!] I have updated the ticket #1,nnn,nnn and given the highest priority to your issue. Currently, one of our Senior Specialists is working on your issue to resolve it at the earliest. They will contact you as soon as your issue is resolved. Thank you in advance for your patience and co-operation.
[no you are not seeing things, you did read this crap from last years archived blogs!]

Regarding the free credits for your account I have asked a member of our team who specializes in billing to review your account. ["here's your night table reading"] You should be hearing from this specialist within the next 2 business days. If you have any questions in the meantime, please let me know and be sure to refer to ticket #1,nnn,nnz for the quickest service. [I'm thinking goddaddy would give me qucker service]

If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. We are available 24/7.
[Further questions? Yes. As I am not swallwoing this, do you swallow?]
Sincerely,

Harry Cartier
Customer Suckport

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Haven't you stopped laughing yet? Honestly, this looks like a boiler-plate Level 4 incidence letter.

All this is about is: They are trying to runa Frontpage enabled website in a UNC share. BFD.

PUREHOST

2006-07-26T20:45:00.000-06:00

Just a reminder with a bit of history:
From www.infoworld.com

"...Host Traumatic Stress Disorder: Former DellHost denizens found themselves forcibly deported when DellHost’s new owner, VeriCenter, sold their accounts to Purehost. [link removed on pupose] Unfortunately, some of their Web sites and e-mail failed to make the trip. One Cringelican reports he lost three sites he’d had on DellHost; when one of them was finally restored, it was a six-month-old version. He still hasn’t gotten all his e-mail back. CEO Steve Sydness apologized for the transition snafus, which he estimates affected about 200 [try 2000, dickhead!] DellHost customers. Wonder if he’d consider changing the company name to PureHell...."
(Reposted, with apologies.) If Sydness estimates like that in reality, then he should consider a career in career counseling. Or Tech Support for his own companies. Teh diskhead never apologized to me.

Purehosed again. On Saturday to Sunday 8am last (July 15-16th) - actually with a heads-up warning from, the usually most incompetent company ever spawned on this Earth, Purehost - Purehost upgraded their Servers ! Ohio, I get so excited to hear that! Yeah, right.

Since 8am Sunday the 16th, signing into our clcradio.org account for live editing purposes was flawless for the first time EVER, since April 2004 (after the migration from HELL). A usual expected and CONSISTENT ten minute window occurring from 7 minutes passed to 17 minutes passed ANY given hour of ANY day, we would be BLOCKED from signing in to the account using the Fronpage client, but only for those precious few minutes. That, foolishly and sheepishly, I could deal with. I could rationalize that.

Then, for no apparent reason, as of 6am Wednesday morning (July 19th), we were prevented from signing in AT ALL at ANY time we tried. I would call support each and every time as SOON as I was blocked The connection would last about 5 to 10 minutes once they ran their ever-famous "Fix Permissions" program. This "fix" can take as long as "sixty minutes" once started. The program is either triggered directly from a Level 1's desktop OR they have to "get permission from a Level 2 tech BEFORE they do this" OR a combination of the two? (I have never received a credible answer to which).

Unfortunately as of Sunday afternoon, the Level1 techs have reported to me that they now get errors when trying to run the Fix Permissions program - local errors. 5 L1 techs told me that it is a local (their local) issue and that for the time being another support ticket would have to be sent up to Level2 for them to do the Fix Permissions from the server side. Oh, Joy! Hey, reader, is your ass hurting from the pain yet? One level tech today earlier told me that the issues for the 503 errors they were getting locally was specific only to my account! I think she just didn't have a clue, and I am inclined to side with the 5 other barely trained L1 techs in this particular.

Yesterday, Tuesday night at about 10pm, I stopped receiving countless Username Password requests, and received only the following (but not consistently) Error from their servers:

In case the pic isn't big enough the error is: "(Child window title is: "Microsoft FrontPage"), the error is:
Server error:Error 2 opening registry key "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\Ports\Port 80".

Well? Yes, of course I googled it! And, it turns out that this error first appeared in one and ONLY ONE place in the KB articles of Microsoft's warehouse of mistakes, and could be the result from only ONE possibility.

You guesses correctly! SERVER2003 service Pack 1 update. The error first appeared minutes after people updated on January 3rd, 2006. The error has a KB date of January 6th !!!
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;264922
Also integrated with this problem, see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873148

At the same moment I received this error, my FTP viewing brought forth another surprise - missing the postinfo.htm and the _vti_pvt.htm files from the ROOT directory !

HA!. Purehost is the biggest mistake I have ever made (except for that time I drank yeast beer and my girlfriend....nevermind, you get the connection and the regret!).

Today, they said they would be re-installing the Frontpage extensions - this generally takes 3 to 4 hours on a UNC share which is what they have - and asked ME if I had a backup of the site. I said, "Of course I do , it's 6 days old now, then again it hasn't changed for 6 days because I have not been ABLE TO SIGNIN FOR 6 DAYS". Morons. I also asked the Level 1 tech why I needed a backup so badly since Purehost keeps "Daily backups for 48 hours"? That is most likely a BIG FAT LIE FROM PUREHOST. Especially considering their pat answer to ALL support ticket "resolutions" is, "...the turn around time is 24 to 48 hours..."! Big fuckin' joke.

Purehost techs and billing departments have promised me 4 months free credit (or "non-billing", their words) from these constant issues I have been blogging only about 1/5th of (so as not to bore you with their idiocy), and the records show since April 2004 I have not been given this credit.

I would settle out of court for either:
ALL the money I have EVER paid Purehost multiplied by 3 PLUS my attorney's costs and his/her and my travel and Hotel SUITES back and forth to the trial or mit,

OR

let me put the top 5 muckity-mucks of Endurance international (Purehost's parent company) in the Der-Dunker tank and just let me walk up to the paddle and BASH IT. The water must be 55 degrees Fahrenheit and the event must be broadcast live on G4TV and ESPN 2 or 3 - I don't care which. The event must also be publicized in at least one major Boston newspaper, one major Boston Radio station, and One Major Canadian TV station as well as regularly on ESPN 1, 2 AND 3. All production content will be mine, all expenses will be paid upon my executive approval, and all ads will be paid for by Purehost and approved or disapproved by me.

I know that is not too much to ask.
I am so pissed.

Intellisync by Microsoft

2006-07-07T20:12:00.000-06:00

Intellisync by Microsoft has been sidcontinued and is no longer supported.
Their offer of replacement is to use:

"If you want to synchronize your calendar with Microsoft® Outlook, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook Live, which includes Outlook Connector and a subscription version of Outlook. If you have an MSN Premium account, you can use the version of Microsoft Office Outlook Connector that is included with MSN Premium."

Fuck you very much, Microsoft, fuck you very much.

G4TV

2006-07-06T23:00:00.000-06:00

PLUSSES: Great, funny, and sincere to the comedy that is TechTV (or was TechTV).
They still have that 'TechTV" spirit which I enjoy.

Office Jesus having His morning coffee? nothing short of genius. (or perhaps, Jenius, if you will)
to the newest
Inside the Porn Actors' Studio (or anything else); Pure conscious wrap-around.

Howevuh! Bring back Kevin Rose and add that Albrecht guy, and you've got sompin! (you could easily lose the Man Show or just slide it further into darkness).

Come on, bring back some of those good olden times, that feeling of geekery most of us geeks crave like a teenager loves a good fresh, cold banana.

MINUSES: Pinch my ride (Pimp my Ride, actually, as "Pinch My Ride" was a great parody) and any show like it - save those kind of lame shows for Saturday mornings and Sunday afternoons. Awful. Or AT LEAST get a new host that actually knows something about cars and women. That dude on there now knows little about either.

2006-06-25T14:22:00.000-06:00

2006-06-04T21:49:00.001-06:00

H.E.A.R. PSA

2006-06-04T21:49:00.000-06:00

H.E.A.R. PSA

PureHost DOES NOT OFFER CORRECTLY CONFIGURED FrontPage 2002 Extensions

2006-05-11T01:34:00.000-06:00

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	4/24/06 3:03 PM	Ticket Resolved
	4/24/06 3:03 PM	Subject: [C0xxxxxxx000000000]	Support Reply
		Hello Don, Subwebs are one of those things that don't work 100% the way they would if you were running on a single webserver serving your data off of the C drive. If, for instance, you tried to change the permissions to turn off "use same permissions as top level web", that would probably cause the Subweb issues to occur. In this case, we were able to get your Subweb working by recreating it (Convert to folder and back to subweb). It's a brute force solution, but it rectifies all of the permissions settings that are unique to our environment and gets the site up and running again. Our Windows architecture is unique to our environment, but a significant majority of the FrontPage functionality works without a hitch. Some functionality (subwebs, editable regions) work with some pecularities. If you are still experiencing issues, please either reply to this email, or call us at 877-440-7872, and make reference to the above ticket number. We do apologize for any inconvience, as we do appreciate your business. Thanks Tanya - Purehost Technical Specialist
	4/26/06 4:35 PM	Action Taken
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	5/01/06 3:28 PM	Subject: [C0xxxxxx000000000]	Support Reply
		Hello Don, We have changed the three subwebs to use the same permissions as the parent web. It appears that you had changed it to use unique permissions for each subweb. Please be advised, THIS WILL NOT WORK IN OUR HOSTING ENVIRONMENT. Please check. If you are still experiencing issues, please either reply to this email, or call us at 877-440-7872, and make reference to the above ticket number. We do apologize for any inconvience, as we do appreciate your business. Thanks Tanya - Purehost Technical Specialist
	5/01/06 7:36 PM	Subject: Re: [C0xxxxxxx000000000]	Member Report
		I am amazed that it took 9 weeks to figure this out. Absolutely amazed. Also, I had never been previously told flat out that having Unique perms applied to various subwebs - a FRONTPAGE FEATURE - will not work in your hosting environment. It should work, and no excuses will convince me or Microsoft engineers otherwise. One phone support person mentioned, about 4 weeks ago, that it MIGHT not work, but he wasn't sure and he SAID HE WOULD EMAIL OR CALL ME BACK ABOUT IT. From a previous email either from Raylaeonard or John Parker told me of the unique nature - somewhat - of how the systems are set up. It sounded good for Frontpage 2000 / IIS5 / Server2000 environments, but not for Server2003 / IIS6 / FPSE2002. Judging from the basic terminology used in the explanation it sounded like the system is trying to emulate an application pool approach (which is BUILT in to server2003 / and FPSE2002). I still don't understand why you guys just don't setup each account in it's own garden - this would allow all FP features and security to be implemented. On Mon, 01 May 2006 15:28 , support@purehost-inc.com sent: >Hello Don, > > >We have changed the three subwebs to use the same permissions as the parent web. It appears that you had changed it to use unique permissions for each subweb. Please be advised, THIS WILL NOT WORK IN OUR HOSTING ENVIRONMENT. Please check. > > >If you are still experiencing issues, please either reply to this email, or call us at 877-440-7872, and make reference to the above ticket number. > > >We do apologize for any inconvience, as we do appreciate your business. > > >Thanks > > >Tanya - Purehost Technical Specialist
	5/01/06 7:42 PM	Subject: Re: [C0xxxxxxx000000000]	Member Report
		How do I set up a user to be able to edit a subweb using Frontpage, and only that subweb - is this where the Password protection page in the control panel of my purehost account comes into play for us? Is that where I should be implementing our security for editing purposes? Remember EVERYONE should be able to web-browse (I don't mean directory browsing) without a UN/PW anything made available in the subweb, but username/password requirement for EDITING is CRUCIAL. WE could used the new WS FTP versions of their software which has Frontpage-safe filtering code so as not to obliterate Front-Page created pages such as the _folders and files. But, I would rather that they student editors use FP as the main pub and backup client. On Mon, 01 May 2006 15:28 , support@purehost-inc.com sent: >Hello Don, > > >We have changed the three subwebs to use the same permissions as the parent web. It appears that you had changed it to use unique permissions for each subweb. Please be advised, THIS WILL NOT WORK IN OUR HOSTING ENVIRONMENT. Please check. > > >If you are still experiencing issues, please either reply to this email, or call us at 877-440-7872, and make reference to the above ticket number. > > >We do apologize for any inconvience, as we do appreciate your business. > > >Thanks > > >Tanya - Purehost Technical Specialist
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	5/03/06 1:34 PM	Subject: [C0xxxxxxx000000000]	Support Reply
		Hello Don, In our environment, we don't have the ability to support subwebs edited by subusers. We've looked at a variety of ways of supporting it, but it's not able to be supported in our environment. The only account able to edit a page in FrontPage is the main account. It's unfortunate, but it's a necessity at this point. Using a web garden wouldn't work in our environment (a web garden is a number of processes on one server, not a number of servers). We've looked at moving to web farms, but it's not a perfectly simple solution. There are a number of considerations (how it interplays with our network hardware and network storage, for one). We do apologize for any inconvience, as we do appreciate your business. We would love nothing more that to be able to accomodate you on this, but this is not something we will be implementing right now. But possibly (might) in the future but that is several months away. If you are still experiencing issues, please either reply to this email, or call us at 877-440-7872, and make reference to the above ticket number. We do apologize for any inconvience, as we do appreciate your business. Thanks Tanya - Purehost Technical Specialist
	5/10/06 6:55 AM	Subject: Re: [C0xxxxxxxx000000000]	Member Report
		Frontpage2002 is for concurrent collaboration between multiple users and subwebs. If "your environment" was Server2003 and IIS6 and not some extra UNIX crap on top of it all - just for authentication, what a waste of brain power - then subwebs would most certainly work properly; they would also be more secure than your current setups, there is no arguing that point (the old adage that if the Frontpage Extensions break then there can be security issues - yeah maybe in IIS4!). There is no "variety of ways", there is only the Microsoft way if you want to use Microsoft product. Remember your 2 big DOS attacks in December '05, all over digg.com and slash-dot BTW? IF your environment had been set up the way Microsoft suggested back in June last year (during the start of the Server 2003 Partnership Certification process), your security issues of the have been zero in December! This is clearly the reason that you will not Server2003 Certified Partnership with Microsoft any time soon, at least not for a few months, right? Perhaps you will benefit from Microsoft ISA Servers in the near future? http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/default.mspx Something to seriously discuss and think about. Frontpage2002 is for concurrent collaboration between multiple users and subwebs. This constant Subweb creation and breaking issue probably has to be the biggest joke ever played on a customer. Hearing this news this late is ludicrous and I deserve at least 3 months credit applied for all the crap I have had to endure over the last 2.5 years (80% related to subweb issues, the other due to roles.ini and FTP account changes made internally and then "fixed" 72 hours later - that should only take 4 minutes to fix, and has only taken minutes a few documented times), and basically mis-information I have from many of the LevelOne and Two tech staff - blaming things like the use of FTP is what is breaking extensions - OMG get off that one, even the MVP's at Microsoft are on to that loose interpretation! If you don't know by now what SPECIFICALLY using ftp will break in the way of FPSE, then find another line of work. Basically, recalculating hyperlinks fixes the "break" of extensions that ftp can cause - since most ftp clients don't show the _files with out a deliberate change in program preferences. Frontpage2002 is for concurrent collaboration between multiple users and subwebs. I have not heard of any other webhosting company advertising the implementation of Front Page 2002 extensions for their customers and NOT making fully sure that they work utterly completely (with the exception of GoDaddy.com being slow to improve in the hosting business, but at least they are TAKING Microsoft's advice and letting Server2003 and IIS6 do the work they were designed to do). You really seriously need to put this warning on the Purehost.com website right at the top of the Front Page page in BOLD BANNER sty...oh, I'm sorry, not Banner - that's a Frontpage thing, sorry. You can't use the Frontpage Banners, because of your "environment". To say, "Frontpage subwebs don't work quite the way they would as if they were on a single machine on the C: drive" is BULLSHITE and is just one of the many laughable excuses thrown to me. The subwebs would work EXACTLY that way IF they were served in the PROPER environment designed by MICROSOFT (and I rarely think of MS being the Kings of all that is computing). Endurance International - your parent company - just bought ReadyHosting.com - are their servers to be configured in the same way as Purehost's? What a nightmare that would be. Frontpage2002 is for concurrent collaboration between multiple users and subwebs. As far as interplay with your hardware and network storage goes: I was told that your storage and servers are in different parts of the country. So what's the problem? Switch out the old crap and put in the blades. Get 'er done! Judging by the new (same template, however) Endurance International website and owners, changing out the old equipment for the new should be a drop in the bucket for you guys. So, what you are really trying to say (but, I can't figure out why you just say it) is that we should be collaborating with using Macromedia product? Is this what you are thinking? ALSO, you are blocking ip addresses at the sign-on dialogue of Frontpage at the public address range 208.54.xxx.xxx (possibly port 80, but who knows, as your "environment" is so different) and you need to stop doing that - you are cutting off alot of editing possibilities from a large range of customers needing access from FedEx/Kinkos locations - and any other company using NAT'd routers in the 208.54.xxx.xxx range - that is a HUGE friggin' range, too!. This has been verified through a forced-ip change, after the change then I COULD sign-in using the FP client. Frontpage2002 is for concurrent collaboration between multiple users and subwebs. On Wed, 03 May 2006 13:34 , support@purehost-inc.com sent: >Hello Don, > > >In our environment, we don't have the ability to support subwebs edited by subusers. We've looked at a variety of ways of supporting it, but it's not able to be supported in our environment. The only account able to edit a page in FrontPage is the main account. It's unfortunate, but it's a necessity at this point. > > >Using a web garden wouldn't work in our environment (a web garden is a number of processes on one server, not a number of servers). We've looked at moving to web farms, but it's not a perfectly simple solution. There are a number of considerations (how it interplays with our network hardware and network storage, for one). > > >We do apologize for any inconvenience, as we do appreciate your business. We would love nothing more that to be able to accommodate you on this, but this is not something we will be implementing right now. But possibly (might) in the future but that is several months away. > > >If you are still experiencing issues, please either reply to this email, or call us at 877-440-7872, and make reference to the above ticket number. > > >We do apologize for any inconvenience, as we do appreciate your business. > > >Thanks > > >Tanya - Purehost Technical Specialist
	5/10/06 7:07 AM	Subject: Re: [C0xxxxxxxx000000000]	Member Report
		Addendum to the IP address blocking (this will show your public ip) that your servers are doing, the range 208.54.xxx.xxx is not entirely what is occurring. What is happening is that as a new 3 rd and 4th octet is created and then used for a while, then that newly created ip is getting added to the block list you have set up. Please allow all traffic from that range to punch through - they use NAT'd routers at hat location, not all, but at least that location. At any rate, ip blocking or filtering is clearly occurring at the www.yourhostingaccount.com router and it needs to stop. On Wed, 03 May 2006 13:34 , support@purehost-inc.com sent: >Hello Don, > > >In our environment, we don't have the ability to support subwebs edited by subusers. We've looked at a variety of ways of supporting it, but it's not able to be supported in our environment. The only account able to edit a page in FrontPage is the main account. It's unfortunate, but it's a necessity at this point. > > >Using a web garden wouldn't work in our environment (a web garden is a number of processes on one server, not a number of servers). We've looked at moving to web farms, but it's not a perfectly simple solution. There are a number of considerations (how it interplays with our network hardware and network storage, for one). > > >We do apologize for any inconvience, as we do appreciate your business. We would love nothing more that to be able to accomodate you on this, but this is not something we will be implementing right now. But possibly (might) in the future but that is several months away. > > >If you are still experiencing issues, please either reply to this email, or call us at 877-440-7872, and make reference to the above ticket number. > > >We do apologize for any inconvience, as we do appreciate your business. > > >Thanks > > >Tanya - Purehost Technical Specialist
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Un-friggin-believa-BULL

This has been a PSA for anyone thinking of hosting services with PureHost, Bizland, ReadyHosting, and any other company owned by Endurance Intl.

Some names, and numbers are fake or changed to prevent anyone spamming or phreaking directly from info contained in this blog - no moochers, do your own research if you run with wolves!

Winamp 30 streams-only fix is fixed for good.

2006-05-01T22:39:00.000-06:00

DJ Egg
Moderator

Registered: Jun 2000
From:

Current Status

Shoutcast TV search is broken

And apparently, TV and Radio Listings aren't updating. More info here:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread...245#post1915245

Note again, these are all serverside issues, and not Winamp client related.

It's also possible that support for pre 5.2 versions is broken due to the old servers frying, ie. it wasn't intentional. Note that the "upgrade needed" error message also appears on www.winamp.com/music

Update 2
Ok, the flash listings on winamp.com/music is now fixed
Though I'm not sure if listings on pre 5.2 builds is/will be fixed yet...

Update 3
The old pre-5.2x listings are limited to 30 streams only.
The old list server fried due to flaws in the old listing method.
It is deemed no longer viable to maintain/serve the old listings. Sorry.
Full content (including ~13,000 shoutcast radio streams) is available in 5.21.

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And the End Of Winamp.

Who needs it.
Too many 5.21 complaints.

And what in the hell is with the Passive Voice, "It was deemed..." Huh?
I want to know, neh, we all want to know the name of the IDIOTS that deemed this crap, "The old list server fried due to flaws in the old listing method." PURE CRAP. They just didn't feel like maintaining it. THat sounds like an AOL A-HOLE's "plan" to get everyone to go 5.21.

BUT THAT SHOULD'NT MATTER:

Since they are not willing to allow more than 500 streams appear in the ML at a time in version 5.21 AND they are not willing to fix backward comapatiblity for full station listings (which we all know could EASILY be FIXED server-side with ONE XML PAGE and an RSS feed to keep up to date, all without being FORCED to use a version that is clearly not ready, I mean they don't need a server farm to keep a list alive - that's ludicrous blaming fried server's for what amounts to be an html document) as was available in Winamp versions up to 5.13, I say

SCREW USING WINAMP ANYMORE.

It's just not the same.

At all,

EOW.

PurePhukUps

2006-04-29T00:02:00.000-06:00

This has to be seen to be believed. Notice how the "owners" of BizLand promote themselves, and then how the owners of their parent company look (see THAT one below this, following the BizLand "joke"):

home > about bizland > executive bios

Executive Bios

BizLand has assembled a cross-disciplinary team with a broad range of skills and experience. Senior management members are demonstrated innovators from the arenas of consumer products and services, financial services, software, and information technology.

Steve Sydness
Chief Executive Officer

Steve Sydness, chief executive officer, joined the BizLand team in September 1999. In addition to overseeing the company's day-to-day operation, he is principally responsible for determining its long-term strategy and directing its future growth. Steve has been instrumental in building BizLand's management team and securing its sources of capital.

Most recently, Steve served as executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Great Plains Software, where he spent 12 years helping to grow the company's workforce from 100 employees to 1,100, and its annual revenues from $6 million to $150 million. Steve played a key role in leading Great Plains through a successful IPO, obtaining venture funding, and directing expansion into global markets. In 1992, Steve took a leave of absence to run for the United States Senate. He holds a B.A. in business administration and history from Principia College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Hari Ravichandran
Chief Technology Officer & Founder

Hari Ravichandran today serves as the company's chief technology officer, directing the activities of the site's development and engineering teams. As the individual most closely involved with creating BizLand's technological infrastructure, Hari also plays an integral role in BizLand's overall business development and strategic planning.

Before founding BizLand, Hari was with industry giant Sun Microsystems, where he served as a senior systems engineer. While at Sun, Hari helped design microprocessors, routers, massively parallel computers, operating systems and various other Internet architecture protocols. His algorithm and protocol designs have led him to file eight single inventor patents four of which have already been granted. Hari has also published in various leading journals and conferences.

Michael Sattler
Vice President of Engineering

Michael has been actively involved with the development of Web-based applications and with the strategic use of the World Wide Web for business purposes since 1994. His current responsibilities at BizLand include strategic design and development of BizLand's technology capabilities, and the day-to-day management of the Engineering department.

Michael previously co-founded both WebOnTap, Inc. and Highwired.net. Michael also served as President and CEO of The Ortelius Group, an Internet strategy consulting firm focused on small businesses. Under his direction, the firm designed and built sites for clients in industries ranging from law firms to business schools to technical consulting firms. Michael holds an MBA (magna cum laude) from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College (1998) and a BA from Princeton University (1992).

Joe Bardenheier
Vice President, Corporate Development

Joe Bardenheier’s duties include the management of mergers and acquisitions, investment banking relationships, and private label sales to Global 2000 firms. Joe brings to BizLand over 15 years of experience building and operating companies and has had tremendous success in rapidly implementing marketing, sales and acquisition strategies for product and service firms alike.

Prior to BizLand, Joe was a Co-Founder, President and CEO of The Gavin Group, an apparel company that grew to revenues of more than $2 million in three years, and was sold to a publicly traded firm in 1992.

Previously, Mr.Bardenheier was the Senior VP of Sales and Marketing for Vanguard Sailboats, Inc., and a Senior Consultant with Ernst & Young LLP.

Most recently he was the Co-Founder of WebOnTap, which was acquired by BizLand in 2000. Joe holds a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

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And now, for BizLand's parent company info:

Management Team

Endurance International has assembled a cross-disciplinary team with a broad range of skills and experience. Senior management members are demonstrated innovators with experience in consumer and business products and services, financial services, software, and information technology.

Steve Sydness — Chief Executive Officer Steve Sydness, Chief Executive Officer, joined the team in September 1999. In addition to overseeing the company's day-to-day operation, he is responsible for determining its long-term strategy and directing its future growth. Steve has been instrumental in building the Endurance International management team and securing its sources of capital. Before joining Endurance International, Steve served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Great Plains Software, where he spent 12 years helping to grow the company's workforce from 100 employees to 1,100, and its annual revenues from $6 million to $150 million. Steve played a key role in leading Great Plains through a successful IPO, obtaining venture funding and directing expansion into global markets. In 1992, Steve took a leave of absence to run for the United States Senate. He holds a B.A. in business administration and history from Principia College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Hari Ravichandran — Founder and Chief Technology Officer Hari Ravichandran founded the company in 1997 and currently serves as the company's Chief Technology Officer, directing the architecture and technical-migration teams. As the individual behind the creation of Endurance International's technological infrastructure, Hari also plays an integral role in the company's overall business development and strategic planning. Before joining Endurance International, Hari was with industry giant Sun Microsystems, where he served as a Senior Systems Engineer. While at Sun, Hari helped design microprocessors, routers, massively parallel computers, operating systems and various other Internet architecture protocols. His algorithm and protocol designs have led him to file eight single inventor patents, four of which have already been granted. Hari has also published in various leading journals and conferences.

Joe Bardenheier — VP, Corporate Development Joe Bardenheier's duties include the management of mergers and acquisitions, investment banking relationships, and other strategic initiatives. Joe has a long history in merger and acquisitions over his 15 years of experience while building and operating companies with tremendous success in rapidly implementing marketing, sales and acquisition strategies for product and service firms alike. Prior to joining Endurance International, Joe was a Co-Founder, President and CEO of The Gavin Group, an international apparel company that was successfully sold to a publicly traded firm in 1992. Mr. Bardenheier was the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Vanguard Sailboats, the largest manufacturer by volume of sailboats in the world where he was involved in the acquisition of a larger competitor. Joe was a Senior Consultant with Ernst and Young LLP and most recently he was the Co-Founder of WebOnTap, which was acquired by the Endurance International Group in 2000. Joe holds a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

Michael Sattler — VP, Engineering Michael has been actively involved with the development of Web-based applications and with the strategic use of the World Wide Web for business purposes since 1994. His current responsibilities include strategic design and development of technology capabilities, the day-to-day management of the Engineering department and responsibility for managing the migration process. Michael previously co-founded both WebOnTap and Highwired.net. Michael also served as President and CEO of The Ortelius Group, an Internet-strategy consulting firm focused on small businesses. Under his direction, the firm designed and built Web sites for clients in industries ranging from law firms to business schools to technical consulting firms. Michael holds an MBA (magna cum laude) from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College (1998) and a BA from Princeton University (1992).

Gary Engel — VP, Customer Support Gary has been building and managing customer service operations since 1991, with a focus on delivering support for online businesses. He is currently charged with ensuring outstanding customer service and technology support for our growing customer base, ensuring a smooth transition and ongoing support for all acquired customers. Prior to joining Endurance in the spring of 2002, Gary was a founding member of the internet based support organization, eSupportNow, providing multi-channel customer care and data analysis. Managing through explosive growth in the online support industry, he set strategy and direction for a team of over 200, at 4 global locations, ensuring outstanding service delivery to some of the industry's leading eCommerce sites. Before that, Gary served on the integration team at NSTAR, defining the goals and strategies for merger of Boston Edison and Commonwealth Energy. Gary holds his BA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Christina Lane — Vice President of Finance Christina joined the team in September 2003, assuming responsibility for all financial and accounting requirements. She plays an integral part in Endurance International's long-term strategic planning and directs the financial integration of all mergers and acquisitions. Before joining Endurance International, Christina served as Vice President of Finance with Kewill Systems, a British Software Company that experienced tremendous growth through mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. and Europe. Having played a key role in Kewill's acquisition and integration activities, Christina brings more than 10 years experience in international corporate finance to Endurance. Christina has also worked for Air Europe, Storno UK (GE) and 3M. Christina is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and attended the University of York in Great Britain. She is currently also a Trustee of the Boston Institute for Arts Therapy.

David Bryson — VP, General Counsel David first joined the Endurance International team as VP & General Counsel in 2000. David is responsible for all legal aspects of Endurance's business, including corporate, funding and acquisitions, as well as day to day legal issues. David has substantial experience handling mergers and acquisitions, and advising on legal aspects of web-hosting. David spent a number of years as General Counsel of major business groups at BankBoston and is the former Chief Regulatory Counsel of FleetBoston. David is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School and Saint Anselm College. He has been actively engaged in leadership positions in a number of professional and charitable organizations.

Mitch Haber
Director of Corporate Development

Jean McCarthy
Senior Director of Marketing

Eric Rayleonard
Director of Channel Marketing

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I just love how .bml pages just drag and drop.

PureHost, PurePuke

2006-04-21T22:23:00.000-06:00

I don't believe it, just las week Endurance Intl (owners of Purehost, bizland, ReadyHosting, etc.) has been moved from the books of HighPoint Financial's AUDAX group to the books of Technology Investment Capital Corp. Or TICC bought AUDAX or HighPoint?

EI has changed their website...well, their colors, same template, though. Their logo reminds me of HighPoint's logo.

TICC also owns CrytalTech Web hosting services and Questia Media, Inc. (for all you schools out there).

Yipee. It sounds like Purehost's Customer Service frontline personel has changed, too. Coincidence? Nope. They now seem to all have thick Canadian accents. ALL SHIFTS. (Outsourcing, bad, see this link hosted at digg.com....whatever, now I can complain about dig.com removing high stories....I found it, We're stressing Indian callers
KEVIN NAUGHTON
19mar06 )

A PureHost Aged PureHostage

2006-04-20T01:24:00.000-06:00

Support Reply
Hi Dan,

I see that you have one existing ticket outstanding and it is currently being worked on by our Senior Windows Engineer. That ticket number is 1,XXX,XXX. [THAT's RIGHT Kiddies, over 1,000,000 tickets given out!!!!]

I'll let you know what the status is of it once I hear back. This individual does have many other tickets so I'm not sure exactly how soon it will be resolved.

Thanks,

Eric Rayleonard
Director, Reseller Programs

PureHost PureHell, by the PureHostage

2006-04-18T20:35:00.000-06:00

Here is an explanaiton emailed me today as to why creating Subwebs in IIS6 on Server2003 does not work properly:
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Hi Don, [OK, whatever]

I wanted to try to comment on how we've fixed your Subweb issues and why,
sometimes, these issues crop up.
[SOMETIMES? This issue has been going for 7 weeks straight]

One of the unique things about PureHost is that we have a redundant,
load-balanced architecture for our sites. At the web server level, we've got
between 5 and 7 Windows 2003/IIS6 boxes serving pages.
[I don't think he lost count, I think he means that there are at least 5 of 7 running, the others are there for redunancy sake OR they started with 7 machines, are down to 5, and soon he will be looking for a real job at goddady.com]. These boxes point to central network storage (so that when you update your files, it's update across all of the servers).
[EVERYBODY has load-balancing architecture if they have load-balancing networks]

For standard, run of the mill FrontPage usage, this stuff works fine.
[run-of-the-mill? Doesn't he mean out-of-the-box, ergo WORKING PROPERLY AND INSTALLED ACCORDING TO THE MANUAL?]
We've had to work with Microsoft to have them [OH, I THINK YOU HAD TO PAY THEM] put together some custom fixes for our setup
because we're doing thing slightly out of the norm for FrontPage.
[out of the norm, yes, just not out of the box - that is NOT what they mean when people say, "Think outside the box".]

[I have no idea what the HELL he is saying here, and neither does Microsoft engineers who worked with this guy, who "...tried working with them {Endurance Intl companies} to get them up to Certified SharePoint Provider level since last May, and gave up in December 2005...we weren't even sure who gave up first". I had a girlfriend like that for a year - or did she have me - It happens to companies, too.]

Subwebs are one of those things that don't work 100% the way they would if you
were running on a single webserver serving your data off of the C drive.
[THIS IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG AND LUDICROUS, and besides that, why would you want to F-UP the VERY reason we have Frontpage in the first place?]
If, for instance, you tried to change the permissions to turn off "use same permissions
as top level web", that would probably cause the Subweb issues to occur (because
of some particular permissions things we have to do to make FrontPage play
nicely with our centralized storage).
[MAYBE, but I LEAVE IT ALONE and DO NOT CHANGE IT AS HE SUGGESTS I may have - ever]

In this case [this one case, yeah right, whatever], we were able to get your Subweb working by recreating it.
[again, this is a recent email and 6 subwebs created, well 5 admittedly as a test to see if they knew what the hell they were doing and and to see what the hell I was still doing with them as a customer, and still no real fix]
It's a brute force solution, but it rectifies all of the permissions settings that are
unique to our environment and gets the site up and running again.
[YES, they recreate it, and recreate it, and recreate it, then they wait about a week, I go and check - everyday actually - and magically the subweb(s) is(are) working !!!!???? Yes, the "Brute Force" approach recitifies it for about 10 minutes tops. I know, because I brute forced it myself constantly - as they do, and then give up for about a week, and then I call again.]

I hope that helps clear up some of the questions about our FrontPage setup.
[NO, it actually clears up how holding companies work]
It's definitely unique to our environment, but a significant majority of the
FrontPage functionality works without a hitch. Some functionality (subwebs,
editable regions) work with some pecularities.
[UNIQUE to their environment, which must be on ****ING MARS OR VENUS! Editable regions? I hope he doesn't mean forms.....OMG, I think he does!]

[Actually, why am I getting this email after 7 weeks, I should think an email like this would be more comforting after 1 week of PureHell, maybe 2 at the worst.]

We're waiting with baited [delicious, if he knew how to spell, then again, the usage of this word is actually debaited amung scholors !] breath for IIS7 and the next-gen SharePoint technology. They're designed for scaleable web infrastructures like ours and we hope they'll help us to better take advantage of our platform.
[NExt-Gen? He must be talking about Vista 64 Public Beta, because that's the only time he's gona see IIS7. And scalable web infrasrtuctures? Doesn't he know about GARDENS? It is in the ****ING MANUAL of I I S 6 WTF? RTFM! The very phrase he is misuing is actually what II6 (sis) was built for! OMG!]

Regards,
Ryan T
PureHost Engineering Team

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Outsourced EVERYTHING, phone & engineering support, on 2nd and 3rd shifts EST.

Stay FAR away from any company that owns more than one company in WEBhosting land, if you want sanity in your life.
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2006-04-12T00:20:00.000-06:00

From G4TV comes the announcement (hey, I drive a Caravan so this new news to me) from pimpstar.com of their Lit Spinners...

Jazz, Auditioning, and The Practice of BIG COLLEGE PRACTICING

2006-04-08T22:50:00.000-06:00

CLC MONDAY NIGHT JAZZ BAND REHEARSAL MUSIC LISTS

Swing ..or I'll kill you ( Bill Potts )
RIP

(MOST RECENT AT TOP)

Sc2

ConspiracyTheory.ram

Layover_In_San_Juan.mp3

Andy Griffith Show - TV Theme - Big Band - 00 - Big Band.mp3

Work_Song.m4p (Apple should have this capability working, as long as you have iTunes installed on your computer, this would be seen on the 'network' as a shared file and should play, but it doesn't work yet)

The_Heat's_On.m4p (Apple should have this capability working, as long as you have iTunes installed on your computer, this would be seen on the 'network' as a shared file and should play, but it doesn't work yet)

This just in (for me, anyway):

http://www.emilrichards.com/

and on the jazz vibes: Type in "Emil Richards" at the iTunes or Rhapsody Stores!

Friday, December 02, 2005

["XMAS" CONCERT SONGS FOR STUDY:]

CLCMNJB REH T1 Moon (T swing)

MP3 File

CLCMNJB REH T2 A Way in a Temple (T 6/8)

MP3 File

CLCMNJB REH T3 Hall Decks (D Faster Samba)

MP3 File

CLCMNJB REH T4 Most of Me (D Basie Slow Swing)

MP3 File

CLCMNJB REH T5 World Joy (D Fast Samba)

MP3 File

MIDI SECTION:

Sweet Georgia Brown

Sweet Georgia

Satin Doll

A-Training

Tune-Up (Lew

These 2 Pat M Songs are here for my (Dan, Drummer) consideration of making a couple of CLC BB arr of one or both.

American Garage from American Garage by Pat Metheny would feat: Guitar, then Sax

MP3 File

Heartland from American Garage by Pat Metheny would feat: Bass, then Guit (or Bone or FlugHrn)

ERNIE CHARTS

Video portions Courtesy of MF's personal equipment and he Baritone Saxist of the Tuesday Night Jazz Band's camera work.

Friday, December 02, 2005

CLC MNJB with E Watts pt 1 of 4 at

VIDEO SECTION

CLC MNJB part 1 of 4 with E Watts at Slightly Higher Quality WMV File

CLC MNJB part 2 of 4 with E Watts at Even Higher 512kbps Quality WMV File

CLC MNJB part 3 of 4 with E Watts at Even (same as 2 of 4) Higher 512kbps Quality WMV File

CLC MNJB part 4 of 4 with E Watts IMHO Best 512kbps Quality RM File

AUDIO SECTION

Echoes -- c Ernie Watts w Pat - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST
ARTIST CONCERTS - 07 - Big Band

Mr Smooth -- arr Don Schamer - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST
ARTIST CONCERTS - 06 - Big Band

Wabash -- arr Mike Barone - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST ARTIST
CONCERTS - 08 - Big Band

Tones for Jones Bones -- Chic - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST
ARTIST CONCERTS - 09 - Big Band

Lover Man -- arr Bill Holman - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST
ARTIST CONCERTS - 10 - Big Band

Joyous Reunion -- Ernie Watts - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST
ARTIST CONCERTS - 11 - Big Band

Encore Cadenza -- Ernie Watts - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST
ARTIST CONCERTS - 12 - Big Band

Drummers

Most of the following will be posted first to the blog: http://tubopt52.blogspot.com but, the blog may occasionally be cluttered with nonsense unrelated to general jazz music.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Basie in Vegas - Live
This is the way we do it....should.

MP3 File

# posted by DP : 12:33 AM

Homework (You can stream these by pressing the play button or download them by Right-Clicking and choose Save As or something like it, depending on your browser)

MP3 File Harry James, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton - Satin Doll

MP3 File Stan Kenton - How High the Moon - Carioca (Artie Shaw)

MP3 File Stan Kenton - Malaguena

The 5 tracks below are the Monday Nite Jazz Band "Ernie" charts (remember, Track 5 and 1 are combo versions, but have the same exact kicks as the BB versions)

Track 5

MP3 File

Track 4

MP3 File

Track 3

MP3 File

Track 2

MP3 File

Track 1

Drummers (and a bit of my bio-graph, but I needed to give cred to my teachers):

Practice rudiments (build-style; i.e., Start slow, increase gradually to AFAP without pain, then slow abck down to ORIGINAL starting tempo; and various steady kick-off tempi; i.e., pick a mm and stick with it for a full minute on all 26 rudiments, pausing for a full minute between each).

Practice various tempi of jazz, samba, rock, funk, shuffle, and shuffle funk beats with 6 bars time, 2 bars fill/solo - as well as chords (M and m and hm), scales, arpeggios of 16th notes even and 8th notes triplet for 3 octaves up to 1/4 note = 90mm through 140mm leading with left, then right hand (depending on rudiments / sticking pattern needed).

For styles, practice going from one style of 2, 8-bar phrases (for a total of 16 bars) into another style of the same length. For instance from Swing to Funk to Swing and repeat, or Swing to Samba to Swing and repeat or continue. Not a new concept, but I need this kind of practice. Recently, I have discovered through reminder as well as me actually listening to recordings of bands I have been in - both past and present - that a small range of tempi (for me, 95 to 102mm), I have a tendency to play the first few beats to a bar and a half a bit rushed - especialy when going from swing to samba (not noticing a difference when in reverse). A lot of this is a matter of remembering to keep subdividing or doubling (half-timing) the beat. In other words, feeling the pulse and hearing the time feel, no matter the tuplet.

Toward this success in keeping honest time, I had been reminded of the concept of "Visualising TIme", by Dr. Mike Flack. My personal fave is imaginin I am driving a Greyhound bus and keeping the pulse of the white lines in the road as I pass by them. Hmm, the drummer as "Bus Driver" concept, not new, but somewhat ignored in recent years, until lately. You know, where the Bus is the Band and the Drummer is the Driver and the Sound Engineer is the Toll Booth Operator!

Remember, Blues styles can be generally 12-bar OR 16-bar phrases on their own! There are light shuffles and heavy ("Chicago") shuffles. And don't even get me started on The Real Purdie Shuffle!

Try Stone Stick Control as if it were a chart book - using the staves of practice routines as if they were part of a longer chart - per page and even 2 or 3 pages, in order to practice turning pages while playing and keeping the time (by stringing the excersices together into full page excersises). Do this by playing the single rhythms on just the high-hat, while beating underneath in a style pattern as above. Then move to the ride cymbal. BOTH hands need equal practice (and, once mastered, it will look cool and fool your friends!). Then the Bass drum or Bass drums (i.e., both feet L-R then R-L), then back to the high-hat - this time with your usual HATFOOT!. I was taught this initial concept by Joe Varhula around 1972.

And, speaking of superb teachings, Charles "Chuck" Schultz taught me a linear concept - not called "The Linear Concept" - back in 1968, re-visiting the Stone and its Holy Grail, only this time, instead of just Right Hand/Left Hand or Right Foot/Left Foot (ala Carmine Appice), Hand/Right Foot and its "eviL" twin: Left Hand/Left Foot, now I think of Left Hand/Right Foot (actually very common in Pit playing) and Right Hand/Left Foot (common, but still skill-raising in Jazz and Gospel) to go alongside the usual, starting your practice day with rudiments in this fashion. Whoa.

It wouldn't be until about 1978-79 where I started putting the 2 concepts together in my playing (and about 1983 into my practicing!)

And, remember you can apply all of the hand-to-hand on any instrument - even the keyboards, and not just as a dexterity element either. Speaking of Keyboarding, it was Joe Varhula that taught me the mad keyboard foundation I needed to transfer from CLC into NIU (or anyplace like it). But, I needed rudimentary skills first before I tore into the exerpts or "hard stuff" (exerpts are the gateway to the hard stuff!).

My teachers of note at NIU were

Rich Holly (his chordal approach to music memorization and visualizing the performance),

Mike Steinel (just listening to him play was enough and for allowing me to play behind his AUDITION to NIU - also thanks to Rich for that as well / Trompeter and Brandt were in that combo),

Clifford Alexis (cursory Pan making - I wouldnt pound a garbage can lid without his approval),

G. Allen O'Connor (who taught me that I must strive and continue to keep my ass from engulfing my head - my words, but his philosophy for me)

Robert Chappell (his accuracy approach to music memeorization),

Stephen Duke (the art of cock-blocking and yet not offend),

Jim Ross (yes THAT Jim Ross, for his music memorization approach to music memorization),

Peter Middleton (for allowing me to "hang" with the gang on "free" weekends and really absorb recording techniques)

Tom D. Rossing (without your help, my proposal would have sucked, and through his book, the guts to make it a career:

)

Ann Montzka (how to have "me" time)

Ott (why practicing music reading is more important than anything else in practicing music)

Paul Ross (no relation to JR, except in approach to life in music!),

Dean Groenemier as percussion major (he taught me well, and ye didn't even know it!),

Robert (for his approcah to computer programming & World Premiers),

Erich Miller & What-the-hell-is-his-name-? (for exerpt training skills),

Frank Bibb (not taking shit from anyone, but when it really matters - not when I just feel like it most of the time!),

The "Paradox" (get it?): Ron Price, PhD. and Eileen Rexroad, PhD (there is that saying, "gettin' back up on that horse", but, sometimes ya just gotta get another horse!)

Robert Fleisher (Instrumental in getting me out of Theory 3/4 Vocal, because he realized I could sing rings around the "other" pecussionists - uh, I mean "other" non-vocal majors, sorry. oops.)

The Guy who innvented the T.A.P. system..........HA! Take That! Level 5, baby, yeah!

Steve Squires. Wow. The Legend. The Man. The Pot-sticker CHAMP! (really, though, for being able to conduct a tempo and pattern in one hand, and a complete other in the other hand - and mean it!)

Carl Roskott. (advice to me - granted at a party - that even the "pros" can suck, hello Pittsburgh ! )

Ouch. I'm breaking a sweat just thinking about it.

If I left anything out, let me know.

I did. The following is culled from Rich Holly's NIU Percussion syllibi pages.

Rich's "found" and re-"known" links:

Percussive Arts Society YOU MUST JOIN.

Marc Z's Percussion Information

Drummerworld

2006-04-03T16:15:00.000-06:00

What a pleasant surprise, and refreshing.

2006-04-02T02:46:00.000-06:00

An Anarchist's Joke

MP3 File

Purehost Purehell

2006-04-01T18:59:00.000-06:00

OK, so why did I post the previous? Because PureHost sucks. That said, so does ReadyHosting . com
Why? Probably because they are owned by the same company: Endurance Intl. EI is in the Web Hosting procurement business. That is all they do or care about. Unless you have a problem with Customer Service Support at any of their companies (Biz.com, and 14 others at last count last Friday, March 10th, 2006), then you might have a chance, maybe. EI out-sources their Phone support for whenever their daughter companies require, but, their Tech Support is completely out-sourced on ALL shifts.

Friggin' amazing, and their out-sorcerers of Tech Support know absolutely nothing about FrontPage extensions/pick-yer-version nor FTP - and SFTP? Your dreaming, pal!

All very basic things to know as a Web Hoster.

I don't pay a web hoster to do the work I can't do myself, I pay them to do the work I DO know how to do, but don't have time to do. Its that simple. Most (and surely, EI's cadre) web hosters must think they are doing us a favor by knowing ANYTHING about the tools they should know EVERYTHING about!

And, yes, as a customer with PureHost, I suck! (you know, 1st time shame on you, 2nd time shame on me, 3rd time shame on my family)

The only fun silver lining about this mess, is that Tucows now owns the domain names of ALL of Endurance Intl's companies, including Endurance Intl. The reason? Tucows is a domain name registrar AND aggregator, unlike godaddy which is just a registrar! I love this kind of passive and uninvolved revenge!

Purehost Purehell

2006-04-01T18:58:00.000-06:00

NO. Your engineers have not actually fixed anything at all.
They do not follow customer instructions - which by itself will be the ruin of Purehost. You MUST listen to the customers - and re-read the Server2003 manual in the section that talks about using Frontpage 2002 extensions vs. using Sharepoint Services (also known as FrontPage2003/XP extensions - just in case there is some confusion about that from last year's seminars).

I have stated - and recorded for quality purposes - "The engineers must fix the subweb, wait 10 minutes, then go back to double check, IF the fix was successful then they must contact me via email with the methods and steps used to accomplish the fix, wait until I have had a chance to check that the fix worked, then wait for me to contact back via phone or email with verification or failure notice - THEN the ticket either can be closed to the former or remain opened if the fix failed." Well, I paraphrased, but that is the spirit of the recording, and what was essentially read back to me as to what was put into this ticket for the engineers by Level 1 Phone Tag Support.

Obviously, this is how all tickets should be handled, along with adding the ability for CUSTOMERS TO MAKE THEIR OWN TICKETS OR AT LEAST ADD TO OR CLARIFY THEM!

You have to be kidding: "Such as" ? HUH? Nothing has changed in the way of operating system and FrontPage version that I have been using. The only thing that has changed is the wait on hold for Level 1 Phone Tagging has increased by 600% !

YOU GUYS FIXED THIS CRAP IN NOVEMBER last year.

WHY CAN't IT BE FIXED THE SAME WAY THE PROBLEM WAS FIXED THEN?

FrontPage 2002 all updates applied all patches applied.
Windows 2000 SP4 all updates and patches applied.

Now, you tell me what EXACTLY is preventing the ACLs to be handled by Server2003 and 2002 Extensions instead of letting some old Linux frontend security CRAP still running that prevented things from working properly on my accounts last year.
(BTW, its about time you all start actually using SharePoint Services instead of just FP2002 Extensions, seeing as how you are using Server2003! I cannot believe Microsoft knows you are trying it this way.)

I tried a retune once already beginning last week. This problem has been going on again for 2 weeks and the problem needs to be fixed.

And, BTW - who the HELL is ReadyHosting Tech Support? I noticed you all have the same crappy music on hold. My God, a BMI license doesn't cost that much.

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:26 , support@purehost-inc.com sent:

>Hello
>
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>This email is in regards to Thread: 1294801 about your website.
>
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>Our engineers have corrected the permissions and fixed the sub web errors in FrontPage Admin console and now sub-webs are working fine. If the problem still arise then please provide the information such as the Operating System / FrontPage version and methods used for publish your site.
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>If you do have questions or concerns feel free to contact us at 888-257-2052 or reply to this email.
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>Thanks Stephen, Readyhosting Tech Support

The PureHell of PureHost

2006-04-01T02:20:00.000-06:00

Upon first reading this, you will swear this has nothing to do with " CLC RADIO REALLY LOCAL NEWS", but it really does, because it affects our Really Local Stations web presence - for now.

As one of CLC Radio's web hosting companies, PureCrap.com is owned by Endurance International Group , Inc. (Redundant actually and not legally necessary - actually, legally, rather misleading as most Partnerships use the word Group in their titles, genrally not corporations).

The following is something - I don't know what - from their website.

If any English or Business professor at the college here would like to take a crack at this, be my guest for a free lunch at the Country Squire - I am very serious. WARNING, the folowing makes no sense.

"Acquisition Expertise

Since its founding in 1997, Endurance International has focused on developing technologies and expertise to serve the shared-hosting needs of businesses around the world (with fewer than 100 employees).

The company distinguishes itself from the competition by offering one of the most comprehensive and best-integrated platforms for shared hosting on the Internet, which can be easily re-purposed and re-branded depending on the needs of a segment or niche.

Endurance International currently manages a number of Web-hosting properties, each of which is a provider of Web services to a targeted segment of the small business community. Tens of thousands of small businesses pay an Endurance International property a recurring fee in excess of $10.00 per month for a Web-hosting solution. Almost one million additional small businesses do not pay a recurring fee, but join Endurance International in order to purchase individual non-hosting products and services. Once a small business joins the Endurance International community, ongoing marketing efforts promote more complex Web sites and other value-added solutions.

Endurance International manages its large and fast-growing customer base through a proprietary Operational Support System. The Company's OSS is an interlocking series of Web-enabled systems that provides real-time information and controls all business operations. Designed to manage more than one million paying accounts, the Endurance International OSS provides a significant operating-cost advantage in the development, management and support of Web-hosting initiatives. By leveraging this technological and experiential base, Endurance International will become one of the world's largest and most successful shared-hosting companies.

Since 2001, Endurance International has acquired the Web-hosting assets of more than a dozen separate organizations and integrated them into its hosting platform. Acquired customer sets have ranged in size from several hundred to more than 10,000. The average migration process, from contract signing to "domain switchover" of the migrating property, ranges from three to six weeks.

Combined with the financial resources of our financial partner, a $1 billion investment fund, Endurance International is prepared to purchase Web-hosting customers that fit its technological and demographic profile. If you are associated with a Web-hosting company and are interested in exploring the possibility a business relationship with Endurance International, please contact us."

END OF PURECRAP.

Of interest, is the non-mention of their "financial partner", which is a rather bosting company called (actually, not their partner, but their owner) Audax Private Equity, an investment firm owned by

Audax Group
101 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02199
(617) 859-1500
fax (617) 859-1600

Since Audax is eager to mention investing in EIG, Inc., why is EIG so reluctant in mentioning their Billion dollar partner?

Who cares? We do and you should, should you ever be in the market for a good Web Hosting company - they are not an ISP, btw. Unfortunately they have to go through DNS servers at Cogent !!! And, also unfortunaelty for them - and somewhat ironically - their domain names are all registered with Tucows who is a domain name aggreagator (that means that the Tucows owns the domain names of ALL of Endurance Intl Group's held companies. Talk about a huge blunder in web world...).

NOW for the best part:

Why would we want to bash our web hoster? Because for 6 months they have not been able to properly install Front Page Extensions on a Windows platform running IIS6 on Server2000 or Server2003 - take your pick. You see, I know the solution, they wont implement it, our private donor pays them 24.95 per month, and yet....just type Purehost in Google for a laugh.

OTher companies that both suck and are owned by the same group:
(Keep in mind, that Purehost just happens to be cusotmer support for ALL of these companies - engineering, as they like to call it, is also outsourced, sick)

bizdot.com
ReadyHosting (the most recent)
bizland.com
yourdomainname.com
AppSite Hosting (dedicated hosting only)---direct blurb from their site:

"...A Web hosting business begins with a collection of Web servers, powerful computers stored in secure and climate-controlled environments and permanently linked to the Internet through high-speed data lines. These computers store the Web pages that make up Websites. You can send your Web pages to the host's server using a Web browser interface or a dial-in connection and FTP (File Transfer Protocol). As soon as your pages are installed on the server they become available to visitors and customers on the Internet, providing they have the correct address (www.Website.com)."

ARE THEY KIDDING? They are the Dedicated Hoster arm and they are talking to their potential customers as if they were taking Computer 101 at the local Junior High School!

Even a cursory glance through the "Team" members of each of these companies and parent comanies will give you a REAL GOOD idea what is motivating them.
Marc B. Wolpow & Jeff Renhert, Audax (sometimes spelled Goeffrey when he's braggin about his J.D., but from the site :

"Mr. Rehnert received a J.D. from Stanford Law School and an A.B. from Duke University."- just what the Hell is an A.B., and can I get one?

Co-Chief Executive Officers are ALSO on the managing board of Highpoint Financial,
who is partnered with Audax. Checkout Highpoint's services.

And educational credentials? The vast majority of all these companies' educational force is that of Bachelor's or less. Who says you have to have an MBA to make it in this world? Oh, sorry, ther is one employee with an MBA. And, realy, Olin University doesn't suck too bad. The only upside to working with Highpoint's other partner, Kraft, is getting free season tickets to a Patriots' game. But the really cool part is Highpoint's huge friggin' portfolio - HOLY COW!

They have really hit their lowest point being in any way affiliated with PureHostage.

More of the bad and ugly:
http://kennethhunt.com/archives/000978.html
http://embezzler.livejournal.com/19317.html

2006-03-26T01:04:00.000-06:00

CLC Lancers vs Cecil file 1 of 3

Pregame Show Starts 2:30 with CLC Wind Ensemble

This is a long but hilarious PReGame show with Dan having a PANIC
ATTACK !!!

GAME starts at 2533 into the file

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2006-03-26T00:56:00.000-06:00

CLC Lancers vs Cecil file 2 of 3
Game Middle File - with Halftime show band

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2006-03-26T00:50:00.000-06:00

CLC Lancers vs Cecil file 3 of 3
Game Ends at 4:03
Post Game Show Ends at 14:00

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2006-03-26T00:44:00.000-06:00

CLC Lancers vs Phoenix file 1 of 3
Pre-Game Show Ends /
Rubin Interview Starts At 10:00 /
Game Go Time 25:00 into the file

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2006-03-26T00:43:00.000-06:00

CLC Lancers vs Phoenix file 2 of 3

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2006-03-26T00:42:00.000-06:00

CLC Lancers vs Phoenix file 3 of 3
Post Game Show Ends at 32:00

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2006-03-21T15:38:00.000-06:00

This is Thee epsidoe Thou chose to leave us about, on, uh over. And out.

2005-12-02T22:18:00.000-06:00

Words & Music Expansion

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2005-12-02T13:12:00.000-06:00

CLC MNJB with E Watts pt 1 of 4

2005-12-02T12:40:00.000-06:00

CLCJB REH T1

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2005-12-02T12:39:00.000-06:00

CLCJB REH T2

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2005-12-02T12:38:00.000-06:00

CLCJB REH T3

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2005-12-02T12:37:00.001-06:00

CLCJB REH T5

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2005-12-02T12:37:00.000-06:00

CLCJB REH T5

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2005-11-30T17:06:00.001-06:00

Echoes -- c Ernie Watts w Pat - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST
ARTIST CONCERTS - 07 - Big Band

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2005-11-30T17:06:00.000-06:00

Mr Smooth -- arr Don Schamer - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST
ARTIST CONCERTS - 06 - Big Band

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2005-11-30T17:05:00.000-06:00

Wabash -- arr Mike Barone - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST ARTIST
CONCERTS - 08 - Big Band

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2005-11-30T17:04:00.001-06:00

Tones for Jones Bones -- Chic - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST
ARTIST CONCERTS - 09 - Big Band

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2005-11-30T17:04:00.000-06:00

Lover Man -- arr Bill Holman - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST
ARTIST CONCERTS - 10 - Big Band

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2005-11-30T17:03:00.000-06:00

Joyous Reunion -- Ernie Watts - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST
ARTIST CONCERTS - 11 - Big Band

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2005-11-30T17:02:00.000-06:00

Encore Cadenza -- Ernie Watts - CLC MNJB w Ernie - CLC JAZZ GUEST
ARTIST CONCERTS - 12 - Big Band

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2005-11-28T22:17:00.000-06:00

Heartland from American Garage by Pat Metheny

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2005-11-28T22:16:00.000-06:00

American Garage from American Garage by Pat Metheny

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2005-10-24T23:33:00.000-06:00

Basie in Vegas - Live
This is the way we do it....should.

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2005-10-20T22:38:00.000-06:00

Kashmir - Matt Haimovitz on Cello v UCELLO - Goulash! - 01 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:37:00.001-06:00

Romanian Folk Dances 1 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello w UCELLO - Goulash! - 02 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:37:00.000-06:00

Romanian Folk Dances 2 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello w UCELLO - Goulash! - 03 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:36:00.001-06:00

Romanian Folk Dances 3 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello w UCELLO - Goulash! - 04 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:36:00.000-06:00

Romanian Folk Dances 4 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello w UCELLO - Goulash! - 05 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:35:00.000-06:00

Romanian Folk Dances 5 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello w UCELLO - Goulash! - 06 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:34:00.001-06:00

Romanian Folk Dances 6 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello w UCELLO - Goulash! - 07 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:34:00.000-06:00

Goulash - Matt Haimovitz on Cello w DJ olive on turntables - Goulash! - 08 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:30:00.001-06:00

Gordun - Matt Haimovitz on Cello - Goulash! - 09 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:30:00.000-06:00

Oracion Lucumi - Matt Haimovitz on Cello w John Mclaughlin on guitar - Goulash! - 10 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:29:00.001-06:00

Sonata For Violoncello Solo - 1 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello - Goulash! - 11 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:29:00.000-06:00

Sonata For Violoncello Solo - 2 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello - Goulash! - 12 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:28:00.000-06:00

First Rhapsody For Violin And Piano - 1 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello - Goulash! - 13 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:27:00.000-06:00

First Rhapsody For Violin And Piano - 2 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello - Goulash! - 14 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:23:00.000-06:00

Menevse - Matt Haimovitz on Cello v Constaninople on setar,oud, vielle, cornetto, tombak - Goulash! - 15 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:22:00.001-06:00

Suite from 44 Duos - 1 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello v Andy Simionescu - Goulash! - 16 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:22:00.000-06:00

Suite from 44 Duos - 2 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello v Andy Simionescu - Goulash! - 17 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:21:00.001-06:00

Suite from 44 Duos - 3 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello v Andy Simionescu - Goulash! - 18 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:21:00.000-06:00

Suite from 44 Duos - 4 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello v Andy Simionescu - Goulash! - 19 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:18:00.000-06:00

Suite from 44 Duos - 5 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello v Andy Simionescu - Goulash! - 20 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:17:00.000-06:00

Suite from 44 Duos - 6 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello v Andy Simionescu - Goulash! - 21 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:16:00.000-06:00

Suite from 44 Duos - 7 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello v Andy Simionescu - Goulash! - 22 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:09:00.000-06:00

Suite from 44 Duos - 8 - Matt Haimovitz on Cello v Andy Simionescu - Goulash! - 23 - Classical

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2005-10-20T22:08:00.000-06:00

Trans - Matt Haimovitz on Cello w DJ olive on turntables - Goulash! - 24 - Classical

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2005-10-20T18:12:00.000-06:00

Homework

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2005-10-20T17:45:00.000-06:00

Homework

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2005-10-20T17:44:00.001-06:00

Homework

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2005-10-04T18:28:00.000-06:00

'Nuff said?

2005-10-04T18:27:00.000-06:00

She looks cold, does she look cold to you? I'll bet she's shivering.

2005-10-04T09:54:00.000-06:00

2005-10-04T01:27:00.000-06:00

Track 5 Reduxed !

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http://www.erniewatts.com/discography/quartet.html

Dan's Mobile Blog

2005-10-04T01:16:00.000-06:00

I can have these ready in a 22k mon for slow dial up users or a better quality 44.khz stereo fo faster DSL or Work LAN speeds. If you click in the word "Mp3 File" below the mini plaers, you can actually download the Mp3. If you are on a slower connection and just dont want to wait, you can play the file - itis streamed and ready to play quickly.

You can also press play, press download (MP3 File as above) all at the same time!

Be careful! You can also play ALL of the files simultaneously! Just press each Play button inturn and the fun begins!

2005-10-04T01:02:00.001-06:00

Track 5

Its a blank file up in this player, check up 2 posts or the replacement

2005-10-04T01:02:00.000-06:00

Track 4

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2005-10-04T01:01:00.000-06:00

Track 3

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