Archive for May 3rd, 2006

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Harold Perrineau as MichealFor two weeks they have been teasing us that a traitor will be revealed on lost. It’s Micheal. We don’t see the brother since the beginning of the season and he comes back like this ??? Don’t get me wrong I did NOT see this coming. Its just that dang. Its Micheal. I liked him. But now he has be evil.

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True virtualization on a Mactel for 50 bucks

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

You can run ANY OS that will run on an intel type chip, on your Mac desktop.

New Virtualization Software Lets Mac OS X and Windows Share Desktop
According to Benjamin Rudolph, marketing manager, the software is based on the company’s virtualization engine.

The Mac OS X port of Parallels Workstation 2.1 will let users build secure, “self-contained virtual machines running any version of Windows—all the way back to 3.1—Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS/2 and DOS … directly on your OS X desktop,” he said.

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Latest Attack on Fair Use

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

A New telecom bill lacks any Net neutrality provisions also throws a bone to the MPAA & RIAA outlawing digital receivers that allow you to record with out any DRM.

Net neutrality missing from sweeping telecom bill | Tech News on ZDNet
Included in the massive proposal is, however, one requirement sure to please the recording industry: authorization for the FCC to start the process of outlawing digital over-the-air radio and digital satellite receivers sold today that permit users to record broadcasts. Those would be supplanted with receivers that will treat as copy-protected anything with an “audio broadcast flag” in the future.

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Tips for Handling Telemarketers

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

The following was in my in-box. Thought I would share:

Three Little Words That Work !!

(1)The three little words are: “Hold On, Please…”

Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.

Then when you eventually hear the phone company’s “beep-beep-beep” tone, you know it’s time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.

These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.

(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?

This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.

This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a “real” sales person to call back and get someone at home.

What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!

(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get “ads” enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these “ads” with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.

When you get those “pre-approved” letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.

Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage “IF” and when they receive them back.

It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.

One of Andy Rooney’s (60 minutes) ideas.

Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn’t get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn’t on anything you send them.

You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.

The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let’s let them know what it’s like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they’re paying for it…Twice!

Let’s help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that’s why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !

If enough people follow these tips, it will work —- I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.

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X-men 3 Clip

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

I am starting to get psyched for X-Men 3. Hopefully they will use Storm (Halley Berry) Al lot more than in the first two. Granted, I still have trouble seeing her as Storm. She’s short and dainty. Storm is Claremont female, and they, as a physical type, are Amazons. But those are things I can over looked, ’cause she can act. Not to mention fine as she want to be. ;-) Check this clip.

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