Pappy, did you end up purchasing the iBooks from my place or were we still awaiting their arrival? I heard my boss this morning bitching about Ingram-Micro's failure to keep us stocked with product.
Anyway, you can find some hacks to change that volume up/down blip or you can change it in the sound prefs and then it will make the error noise you specified:
(Note that you can disable the sound, too.)
Hey guys, I'm switching my e-mail address. I got rid of the "calliander" name, so just IM me with your e-mail address and I'll re-add you to my address book then send a new e-mail to you guys. Thanks!
Yes, we know. It will be changed shortly. We were testing our Latin version of the site for all those clients that might need it ;)
Pappy, did you know that the Libido Networks page is all in Latin?
I haven't read insult in a long time (at the time of writing this, I still have yet to read the site). Anyway.. I wanted to share an amusing spam I received.
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:46:07 -0700
From: "DON"
Subject: for info@libidonetworks.com from http://cvv.ru/
To:
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.9 required=7.0 tests=RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,
RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK,RCVD_IN_RFCI autolearn=no version=2.60
X-Spam-Level: ****
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here is a list:
1. Heroin, in liquid and crystal form.
2. Fake currencies, such as Euros and US dollars, prices would match
+competition.
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+lolita
galleries, to keep out clients busy.
Everyone is welcome, be it in States or any other place worldwide.
http://cvv.ru/
ATTENTION. Clearance offer. Buy 30 grams of heroin, get 5 free.
Prepay your batch of rockets (air-to-air) and recieve a portable
+rocket-lacuncher
for free.
http://cvv.ru/
This offer won't last! Only until 20th of October all our clients will also
+recieve
a pack of 2 CDs, with best selection of child pornography.
Happy anniversary, Insult.
I would like to rant about an ongoing problem with the fucktards over at Apple Computer. I don't mean the marketing people, or the CEO's or anyone like that. I mean the deadweight engineers they have doing the tech assist program. These sycophantic dim-wits can't read and simply type the words that their supervisors program into them. They are supposed to be there for support when an Apple technician has hit a wall whilst attempting to fix a machine.
So the other day a customer dropped off a machine with the following reported problem on their 15-inch FlatPanel iMac: Slow internet. The guy was complaining that it took him like fifteen minutes to upload a small image. As an Apple Tech, the first thing to do is gather information about the problem. Has the customer had this problem before? Does anything else not work properly? How long has the problem been occurring? Does the customer have any peripherals plugged in? What OS does the customer use? How much RAM? Blah, blah, blah.
So this is the guy's only problem. I take it in back, plug it in, and the damned thing connects to our network just fine and I copy some stuff to it from my machine. However, when I went to copy the data back to my machine, bam: we're talking transfer speed of a 2400 baud modem. Usually, in instances like this, the DSP (digital signal processor, on the logic board) is at fault. You connect via the machine's modem (if it has one), just to verify, then you replace the logic board. I like to be thorough, so I verified that it wasn't the software and then ordered the board. When the replacement logic board arrived, though, it didn't fix the problem.
First, I checked Apple's service manual for the iMac and then their Knowledge Base to no avail. I then consulted with the other technician at my shop and ran some more tests - tried a different hard drive, tried without the optical drive plugged in, even tried it with the display's backlight connector and the sound disconnected. In the meantime, I sent an e-mail to Apple's Tech Assist people describing the problem and the steps I had taken.
The dolt replies back telling me about the DSP, general troubleshooting steps, and then says, "If your troubleshooting fails, then your next step would be to replace the logic board." In the process of describing the problem, I told the dickhead that I had already replaced the logic board. I told him of all the troubleshooting steps that I took. Why the hell was he telling me this stuff again? Did he only look at the part about "slow internet speed"?
So I fire another e-mail back to this shit-for-brains, explaining the obvious to him in detail. He responds back with yet more unhelpful, cookie-cutter fluff and doesn't give any suggestions as to where to go. My most recent e-mail yielded yet another dismal attempt at communication from these donkey-raping shit-eaters. Why is Apple hiring these schmoes!? What's going on?
Sorry for the rant, but hey - journal. :P
Knaa'mean?
Amnesty Pleas.
Fuck them. Pappy, can't we do something about this? This is too much.
Knaa'mean?
Well, today at 9:15AM I went to the Prometric Testing Center and sat down at a computer to take my certification tests for Apple Desktop & Portable service. At noon I walked out with these:
The hardest exam is yet to come, however. Dunno when we're going to schedule that, but here's to full certification! Huzzah!
Knaa'mean?
Yeah, I remember that, you jerk. Every morning before school I was pissed because Stone beat me to Hippocampus. Hehe. =)
I'm thinking of setting up my old Gateway for a Telnet BBS. Anyone want to let me know the best config for doing this? I've got DOS 6.22 on the biotch right now. FAT only lets you have up to 2gigs on any particular HD and I can't friggin' remember how to get DOS networked. You guys think I should just put 95 on it and run the BBS that way with NETMODEM? I'm probably asking this question to Pappy and/or Wilson, but anyone else with suggestions can chime in, too.
Knaa'mean?
I acquired an old Compaq LTE Elite laptop today. It's a 486 with 8MB of RAM. Had to replace the internal drive with a new one, but it works thrillingly. The whole old computer thing reminded me of LORD, so I promptly installed it and got Sapphire hooked on it. Here's some fond memories for you all:
Knaa'mean?