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Comment on $119 to set up a PC by Sol Libes

Sol Libes — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:52:24 +0000

A friend told me that his friend recently bought a new laptop from Best Buy and paid for them set it up for him and move over all his files from his old system to the new system they took both units and shipped them to an outside service to do this. I am told he is still waiting to get both systems back. I wonder what they are going to charge for this service?

Comment on How to make a comment on a post by Vic Laurie

Vic Laurie — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:37:55 +0000

@Bliss
Welcome to the blog. I hope it will be useful.

Comment on How to make a comment on a post by Bliss

Bliss — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:07:49 +0000

hi! thanks for this very informative blog. i came to this through google after a very exasperated morning of having my pc suddenly restart 4x in just one morning. i am not a techie so you can imagine how anxious i was…the anxiety later turned to exasperation. although i haven’t really figured out yet the reason for my pc’s problem, i was just glad that i could turn to this site/blog to learn more about computers. thanks!

Comment on Is Microsoft scared? by Joseph McEntire

Joseph McEntire — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:11:18 +0000

Great article and thanks for posting the link. This brings to mind the odd, slow decline of Novell in the early ’90s. I can recall reading very similar articles highlighting incongruous behavior in that company. Although the decline of Novell was not as drastic as pundits predicted, the decline was nonetheless very real. Today Novell is still around and is a strong company but it’s revenue and sway in the market is nothing like it once was. Will the same happen to Microsoft? Only three technology firms (that I know of) have been able to weather these storms over the long haul: IBM, Oracle and Intel. The question is whether or not Microsoft will be able to do the same.

Comment on How to make a comment on a post by Vic Laurie

Vic Laurie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:28:05 +0000

Good point. Thanks.

Comment on How to make a comment on a post by Snakefoot

Snakefoot — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:49:19 +0000

Btw. if enforcing the policy “have to approve it”, then I would suggest that you tell the user after a comment has been submitted, that the comment might not be displayed at once if it has to be approved.

Comment on Blue screen of death at the Olympics by Sol Libes

Sol Libes — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:49:19 +0000

I tried watching some of the Olympics event videos using Internet Explorer and Microsoft’s Silverlight add-in on the MSN website. This is supposed to give better resolution images than using Flash video. I have only gotten it to work once. I have given up and gone back to using Firefox and the NBC and YouTube websites. The resolution may not be good but at least they are more reliable.

Comment on How to make a comment on a post by Snakefoot

Snakefoot — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:54:13 +0000

Also using Akismet and my experience is that it sometimes creates false positives (But still a good tool). One seldom sees that comments are falsely marked as spam, because the spam amount is so high.

With Yawasp only 5 or 10 spam comments are let through a week, and it makes it easy to monitor whether Akismet makes right decisions.

-Rolf

Comment on How to make a comment on a post by Vic Laurie

Vic Laurie — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:53:13 +0000

Thanks, Rolf. I have been using Akismet. I’ll take a look at your recommendation.

Comment on How to make a comment on a post by Snakefoot

Snakefoot — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:58:14 +0000

I have had very good experience with using the spam plugin Yawasp. Most spam is actually submitted by spam-bots that uses wp-comments-post.php directly. The Yawasp plugin verifies that the comment was submitted using the actual form.
But if using WP-Cache or SuperCache, then it will require a modification to work.

Best regards

-Rolf