Tag: consumerism

NTFS - an even bigger piece of crap than I thought

Wow, once again NTFS has ruined my day by invalidating an entire external USB drive's data. The filesystem looks fine, passes all checks, I can copy the data even using Linux but…

AOL suspends Active Virus Shield, gives us McAfee instead

Updating the definitions keeps failing on my Active Virus Shield installation. Why? Quickly Googling it I find out that it's suspended and is being replaced with a special version…

What Virgin Mobile doesn't make clear...

I bought a prepaid Virgin Mobile phone for $25 at 7-11. I thought okay, it's simple: I buy it, I activate it, it's available to use. Wrong. What they don't tell you about (well…

Bally's Total Fitness should change their name

To what you might ask? Something like "14 Hour Fitness" - I'm not joking. Tonight I got my ass in gear and decided (around 7PM) that I had enough energy to get to the gym, which…

Verizon joins the bandwagon in text messaging fee hikes

Our cellular networks are growing. The data portions are being upgraded. There is additional capacity out there. So why are text messaging prices being raised by 50%? Three of the…

Say what you want about Best Buy...

... but they're a big company, and big companies can be useful. I won't mention the obvious bad points - the stupid salespeople, incompetent techs, people getting arrested for…

Rave: Fellowes

I recently called Fellowes to see what my options were for fixing my nearly broken shredder. There's a one year limited warranty, and a lifetime warranty on the blades. For some…