Category Archive: Rants

Feb 27

The Cheap-Bastard-Complete-Moron’s Guide to Getting a Car Sold Fast

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Wow, that’s a long title, possibly as long as this post might end up being. So anyway, what am I bitching about today? People that pull their damn cars into a field and try to sell them? Not exactly, more specifically people who park their cars and only put something utterly-fucking-retarded in the window like …

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Nov 06

A Note on Redundancy

So we had a fun night fielding contacts from customers because of server issues. After a while things slowed down because the admins got the problem stabilized. There were plenty of people I talked to that were complaining that We should have redundancy. The response I wanted to give them was simple: For the amount …

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Sep 21

The Life of a Mind Reader

This was an actual ticket I got this evening: Error message: Trying to log in to this IMAP/SMTP account failed. Verify that the username and password are correct. This affects my business directly. That’s it, no other explanation of what was happening. Well thanks to my finely tuned Techtard Translator (patent pending), I assumed that …

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Aug 26

“Unlimited” Shared Hosting

So I’ve been dealing with a lot of crap the last few weeks. Many of the problems I’ve seen at work have simply been due to us offering “unlimited” shared hosting. Which in terms of IT is a very dangerous offering, specifically because people are batshit stupid when it comes to stuff like this. People …

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Aug 17

Seriously Apple WTF?

Howdy everyone, it’s about time I got off my arse and updated the site. I just spent 40 minutes the phone helping a customer configure her iPhone. I don’t blame her though, she was nice enough. I blame the iOS design in this case. Seriously this is a HUGE fail in the department of logic. …

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