Bet they would have loved a glitch which stopped customers from being able to do this!
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If I Only Had Time to Focus
How many times have we all said that? I would complete “thing x” if I had time to focus on it. Sadly, it is a lie we tell not only ourselves, but to others. Today, October 30th, 2013, we had yet another HughesNet outage. No matter what those commercials say about Gen4 and its “customer satisfaction” I can tell you J.D. Edwards never talked to me or anyone I know. The phone number for HughesNet … If I Only Had Time to FocusRead more
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If You Ran OpenVMS You Wouldn’t Have to Be Outraged
I almost couldn’t write this post. My sides hurt from laughing so hard. This story about Google being outraged by the NSA hacking is absolutely hilarious! Seriously??? You run a business on a “free” OS on a joke-of-the-industry CPU and you are outraged you got hacked? I got news for you, the source is available to everyone. Much of the code which goes in gets written by people who are unemployed and may not even … If You Ran OpenVMS You Wouldn’t Have to Be OutragedRead more
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The Sad State of LifeScan and Bayer
I must give a nod to the post and title I’m ripping off: The Sad State of Diabetes Technology in 2012. It has been almost a year and not much has changed. Well actually, the things which have changed should have made the required course of action completely obvious. Microsoft canned the head of Windows. (Okay, he “left” two weeks after Windows 8 came out with no prior warning or hint from the company, no … The Sad State of LifeScan and BayerRead more
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Do Kids Know This Today?
I was sitting in my office checking email this Sunday morning when suddenly I couldn’t send email. Oh I thought, my email service must be down. No problem, I’ll check on my eBay auctions. Nothing. I enter the IP address of my HughesNet Gen4 device and run the little test it has, zero packet loss. Click the customer care link, nothing. Okay, now it’s time to call. Oh wait, I have this thing auto billing … Do Kids Know This Today?Read more