May 3rd, 2010
I’m back to rant again. Look out Microsoft, it’s your turn again. Might wanna duck…hahahaha…well, it might not be that bad. Windows Media Player only acts like a Windows Media Failure. It’s flat ridiculous!
It’s almost without fail…haha, that when I play music with WMP, at some point it stops working…(I might actually think it’s closed too), and begins to chew up CPU and RAM like there’s some kind of famine going on. If I’m not careful, and check the task manager (tsk tsk manager), and the WiMP has only decided to take up SOME of the CPU, then it sits there in the background forever until I realize there’s something slow.
Seriously? Does it have to act this retarded? Geeze. I don’t even have any special plugins or custom settings on it. I’ve just freshly installed Windows 7 only a couple of months ago.
Anyhow….it certainly IS a Windows Media Failure, which is why I nearly never use it anymore, and when I do, I’m reminded why I try not to. This is why I actually un-installed the stupid thing before I re-installed Windows. I’m actually considering doing it again.
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April 30th, 2010
Well, you know what. I am sick of Chrome having issue’s with Google’s OWN video site…YouTube. I’m sick of it! SO sick of it! Why can’t they just make their browser work right with their own videos??? It’s like they purposely sabotage their browser so it fails. It’s been having issues with youtube videos since as long as I can remember….the early versions of Chrome. It’s not necessarily all the time, but it seems to randomly decide not to work at all. It’s so much fail that I blog about it’s epic fail.
So Google, can you fix your browser? Don’t tell me it’s my fault… don’t tell me my comp has some kind of virus. That’s bull crap and we know it, because I keep my comp spotless from that junk and I know because everybody getting viruses has all sorts of antivirus apps and anti malware apps, and I don’t use but one, along with virustotal.com.
If it’s anything to do with my computer, then it’s got to be due to a flaw or something overlooked with standard compatibility within the browser related to the hardware I run on. I have a pretty typical setup, but you can’t blame it on software. It was doing this back when I was running a fresh install of XP, then the same thing on Vista…now a fresh install of Windows 7 and it is STILL wacko!
Get it friggin together Google!
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April 24th, 2010
Yeah. I’ve got one freaking amazing phone. My iPhone did pretty much everything almost flawlessly for a long time. I even have a great app called “Tune-In” which actually played streaming internet radio in the background by utilizing Quicktime in the Safari browser. Then it broke out of the blue!
I believed the background streaming feature broke the very day I upgraded the app to the newest version, but after emailing their support, they told me that they’ve never heard of it doing that.
I scoured for endless hours on the internet for a solution to this problem and found nothing…. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I couldn’t believe it. Something so insidious…just sitting there laughing at my every effort to fix it.
I tried a lot of different things, but in the end, the whole reason it wouldn’t play any audio in my safari browser anymore, was (unknowingly) the iPhone Safari setting (Settings->Safari) had been switched to OFF. Once I switched it to on, the feature immediately began to work again.
I hope that if any other soul out there had this issue, that some how my blog post could help them. I’ve been living with this for months now. Today I just couldn’t take it anymore, and that’s when it dawned on me to try looking for a Safari setting.
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March 29th, 2010
More like CenturyWin…
I have to admit that when I wrote the previous blog post that trash-talked CenturyLink, I had no idea that they would find my blog and actually try and make it right. I wasn’t even aware that ANYBODY was even reading my blog at all, other than the occasional friend who felt obliged to read what I was babbling about.
I hardly expected that they would get to the bottom of it. It was a cohesive effort between CenturyLink management, CenturyLink techs, and myself and a bit of help I enlisted. I had to prove that the issue was not coming from inside wiring or anything like that. So I got a friend’s help and we ran brand new CAT5 wire straight from the box outside to the modem with no other taps anywhere. After that, CenturyLink was able to determine that everything looked good all the way from the central office to the modem.
They managed to discover where the problem was on their end, and they fixed it. We got credit to our account, and we also got our speed bumped back up to the full 10mbit/sec.
If you’re thinking about getting CenturyLink DSL service, …it’s likely to be a lot more reliable than wireless service, and now that they are aware of how this problem occurred, they should be able to avoid that pitfall again. Plus paying for the wireless equipment and install from a wireless broadband company is pretty spendy. I’d recommend going hard-wired.
Now if only Microsoft would take as much initiative and fix the stuff I complain about on this blog…
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March 1st, 2010
Ok, I think this is gonna be short, because frankly, I’m sick of talking about it already. MS Windows 7 RC1 told me a few days ago that I had 12 days before it would start rebooting by itself. Well, only a day or two later, it said, “You have 2 days left,…” WHAT?!?! TWO days??! So it went from being nice and giving me a decent amount of time, to only 2 days which is entirely unacceptable! I have hundreds if not THOUSANDS of apps and tweaks and various things I have installed. There’s no way I could get this ready in that amount of time even if I didn’t already have a million o
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