Comments for Grepsedia http://www.grepsedia.com Release your inner geek Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:15:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on Time Warner Cable Sucks by Roy http://www.grepsedia.com/rant/time-warner-cable-sucks#comment-187 Roy Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:34:30 +0000 http://www.grepsedia.com/rant/time-warner-cable-sucks#comment-187 Just switched to everest because of time warner poor service and high pricing I am saving $800 a year and have one more free dvr included and voicemail on phone Iwas paying for turbo with time for years with only just above a 56k modem speed they rewired my house 3 times finally sent out a person the other day who figured out all the wires in my neighborhood were eaten up by squirels they replaced those still didn't have a good signal was way better than before though now they blame it on my TV's well I hooked up my dish network out of my RV and low and behold excellent picture well I am working with my neighbors to have time warners crappy wires removed from our neighborhood and they will be out next week to get them out of my house and off my property. Just switched to everest because of time warner poor service and high pricing I am saving $800 a year and have one more free dvr included and voicemail on phone Iwas paying for turbo with time for years with only just above a 56k modem speed they rewired my house 3 times finally sent out a person the other day who figured out all the wires in my neighborhood were eaten up by squirels they replaced those still didn’t have a good signal was way better than before though now they blame it on my TV’s well I hooked up my dish network out of my RV and low and behold excellent picture well I am working with my neighbors to have time warners crappy wires removed from our neighborhood and they will be out next week to get them out of my house and off my property.

]]> Comment on EZ-FAQ 0.1 for Wordpress Released by InternetRebel http://www.grepsedia.com/development/ez-faq-01-for-wordpress-released#comment-149 InternetRebel Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:32:27 +0000 http://www.grepsedia.com/development/ez-faq-01-for-wordpress-released#comment-149 Hi, Great idea, sure got a lot of potential to become a real nice addition to WordPress. Two tiny remarks though, which might confuse users not that good with coding and stuff. First, the ZIP archive I downloaded expanded to a folder "ez-faq" while the plugin refused to install if it wasn't in the folder "ezfaq". Second, the tag you describe in your documentation should be , not . People with just a little coding experience will know this, others might not. I made the "mistake" of just copying and pasting the code from your documentation, which didn't work either. Summing up, you seem to have an general issue with dashes. ;-) For the rest; please keep them coming. I really like these easy add-ons without all the bells and whisles which make using WordPress so much more fun. Hi,

Great idea, sure got a lot of potential to become a real nice addition to WordPress. Two tiny remarks though, which might confuse users not that good with coding and stuff.

First, the ZIP archive I downloaded expanded to a folder “ez-faq” while the plugin refused to install if it wasn’t in the folder “ezfaq”.

Second, the tag you describe in your documentation should be , not . People with just a little coding experience will know this, others might not. I made the “mistake” of just copying and pasting the code from your documentation, which didn’t work either.

Summing up, you seem to have an general issue with dashes. ;-)

For the rest; please keep them coming. I really like these easy add-ons without all the bells and whisles which make using WordPress so much more fun.

]]> Comment on Time Warner Cable Sucks by Hates TW http://www.grepsedia.com/rant/time-warner-cable-sucks#comment-76 Hates TW Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:47:46 +0000 http://www.grepsedia.com/rant/time-warner-cable-sucks#comment-76 All I wanted to do was pay my CABLE bill online. Apparently we signed up for their payXpress (my ass) over a year ago when we had a simple peoplepc account, so now I can't remember my payXpress user name and password when I click remind me it dosen't recogize my current roadrunner (unfortunately) email, but if I put in my old people pc account it asks for my secret question and then says it emailed my password to my now closed inaccessible email account. So I make the poor choice of calling them. I was transfered/told to call 10 different people over 2 hours and Every Freaking one of them was conserned about my email account. I just wanted to pay my cable bill but one guy went in to my email accounts and changed my passwords even though I kept saying, it's not my email, leave my email alone, I just want to pay my cable bill. I ask one idiot, "Can't you just clear me out of payXpress like I never signed up, let me start over" I got "Well Mam, it may seem as simple as 1-2-3 to you but it's not that simple, you would have to take your modem back to the office...." I have to return my modem to pay on a website? one guy wanted the number on the back on the modem, if I was using XP or Vista???????? NOONE could comprehend this wasn't about my internet connection! They have a cable monopoly here too. we've been forced to have them for cable for as long as I remember. Personally been a cable customer for over 15 years, had roadrunner internet for less than a year and THEY WOULD NOT ASSIST ME IN PAYING MY BILL. I WAS VERY CLEAR and they kept guessing my user name should be my MASTER username. I DIDN'T HAVE MY ROADRUNNER EMAIL WHEN I MISTAKENLY SIGNED UP FOR THIS SERVICE. It was totally beyond their comprehention. No kidding 10 people. All I wanted to do was pay my CABLE bill online. Apparently we signed up for their payXpress (my ass) over a year ago when we had a simple peoplepc account, so now I can’t remember my payXpress user name and password when I click remind me it dosen’t recogize my current roadrunner (unfortunately) email, but if I put in my old people pc account it asks for my secret question and then says it emailed my password to my now closed inaccessible email account. So I make the poor choice of calling them. I was transfered/told to call 10 different people over 2 hours and Every Freaking one of them was conserned about my email account. I just wanted to pay my cable bill but one guy went in to my email accounts and changed my passwords even though I kept saying, it’s not my email, leave my email alone, I just want to pay my cable bill. I ask one idiot, “Can’t you just clear me out of payXpress like I never signed up, let me start over” I got “Well Mam, it may seem as simple as 1-2-3 to you but it’s not that simple, you would have to take your modem back to the office….” I have to return my modem to pay on a website? one guy wanted the number on the back on the modem, if I was using XP or Vista???????? NOONE could comprehend this wasn’t about my internet connection!
They have a cable monopoly here too. we’ve been forced to have them for cable for as long as I remember. Personally been a cable customer for over 15 years, had roadrunner internet for less than a year and THEY WOULD NOT ASSIST ME IN PAYING MY BILL. I WAS VERY CLEAR and they kept guessing my user name should be my MASTER username. I DIDN’T HAVE MY ROADRUNNER EMAIL WHEN I MISTAKENLY SIGNED UP FOR THIS SERVICE. It was totally beyond their comprehention. No kidding 10 people.

]]> Comment on Time Warner Cable Sucks by wfrench http://www.grepsedia.com/rant/time-warner-cable-sucks#comment-17 wfrench Tue, 20 May 2008 13:59:22 +0000 http://www.grepsedia.com/rant/time-warner-cable-sucks#comment-17 Actually that's a pretty poor analogy. My complaint was that Time Warner was misleading with their advertisements and at that point. In San Diego there are two cable companies, Time Warner serving North County where I live, and Cox Cable everywhere else. Cox cable offers more channels, has better internet, and is about 30% cheaper then Time Warner. However, I can't get Cox because I'm in Time Warner's area. It doesn't need to be that way anymore. The infrastructure is already there why shouldn't I be able to get Cox cable in my house. That competition would be a nice change for the consumer. Dish or ATT Uverse do not compete in my book, I have no use for either of those providers. Actually that’s a pretty poor analogy. My complaint was that Time Warner was misleading with their advertisements and at that point. In San Diego there are two cable companies, Time Warner serving North County where I live, and Cox Cable everywhere else. Cox cable offers more channels, has better internet, and is about 30% cheaper then Time Warner. However, I can’t get Cox because I’m in Time Warner’s area.

It doesn’t need to be that way anymore. The infrastructure is already there why shouldn’t I be able to get Cox cable in my house. That competition would be a nice change for the consumer. Dish or ATT Uverse do not compete in my book, I have no use for either of those providers.

]]> Comment on Time Warner Cable Sucks by Dish Bender http://www.grepsedia.com/rant/time-warner-cable-sucks#comment-14 Dish Bender Tue, 20 May 2008 04:03:32 +0000 http://www.grepsedia.com/rant/time-warner-cable-sucks#comment-14 SO how long have you tards been working for direct tv? I am sure no one is dumb enough to not see through your BS. What the hell is your problem. Darhh, I wanted to buy a loaf of bread but I did not want to give the bread people more money. So I called them up and they said it was $1.00. THen when I got the loaf they charged me $1.00 like they said. Strike 2, I ate the bread and now I want my dollar back. Strike 3, do you think of I shit the bread out, Time Warner will take my pile of shit and gove me my $1.00 back. Get for real moron, you get what you pay for! If you do not like the high quality of cable, then get a dish and enjoy not watching tv when it snows out, rains or there is a small gust of wind. SO how long have you tards been working for direct tv? I am sure no one is dumb enough to not see through your BS. What the hell is your problem. Darhh, I wanted to buy a loaf of bread but I did not want to give the bread people more money. So I called them up and they said it was $1.00. THen when I got the loaf they charged me $1.00 like they said. Strike 2, I ate the bread and now I want my dollar back. Strike 3, do you think of I shit the bread out, Time Warner will take my pile of shit and gove me my $1.00 back.
Get for real moron, you get what you pay for! If you do not like the high quality of cable, then get a dish and enjoy not watching tv when it snows out, rains or there is a small gust of wind.

]]> Comment on Time Warner Cable Sucks by J S Vandiuveer http://www.grepsedia.com/rant/time-warner-cable-sucks#comment-13 J S Vandiuveer Tue, 20 May 2008 00:31:28 +0000 http://www.grepsedia.com/rant/time-warner-cable-sucks#comment-13 YES! I cannot agree more. I thought monopolies were illegal?? or are we not in the US anymore? YES! I cannot agree more.

I thought monopolies were illegal?? or are we not in the US anymore?

]]> Comment on Time Warner Cable Sucks by Gail http://www.grepsedia.com/rant/time-warner-cable-sucks#comment-11 Gail Fri, 16 May 2008 03:21:40 +0000 http://www.grepsedia.com/rant/time-warner-cable-sucks#comment-11 I hate, and I mean HATE Time Warner Cable. They suck. I've had the worst experiences with them over the past couple months it's just been hell. I lost my job in November, and our bills fell behind. They wouldn't work out a payment plan, and my bill was almost $200 a month!! Including some fees and other crap! I was able to pay a portion of it, and wanted to change my services so I wouldn't have to pay so much...nope. The ass***s said I had to be current with my bill in order to do that. Well...from what I was told, Time Warner makes you pay 1 month ahead of time. So if I only owed $200, then why can't I change my services? So anyways, I had to keep paying for services I didn't want, and the bill fell behind again, with more fees, probably late fees..who knows. Never shows it on the bill. So...like a week later a guy came and said he was there to disconnect my cable...I was so mad I said fine and went back in the house. He probably wanted the 2 boxes I had, but I was so mad that TW didn't want to work with me that I didn't feel like bothering with moving everything around and unscrewing the cables and besides, I need my husband to move the enterainment center in order for me to unplug them. SO...that was Friday of last week. Today I called..asked what my total due was. Some stupid chick said it was $1250!!! I totally went off. She said that since I didn't return the equipment after my services were shut off manually by the tech, that I got CHARGED for them!!! I went off some more..... I didn't think to ask for a stupidvisor....I was just....so steaming I can't tell you enough....so..1.) I couldn't yet change my services, even tho they were disconnected..but the chick said if I returned my boxes, then my fee would only be $348...but how the hell did it get that high again?? See, this is why we couldn't keep up..because they have stupid added fees n s**t 2.) she said I had to drive the 40 miles down to the stupid TW office and return the equipment, pay the amount owed, which by the way somehow got up to $348 in two weeks.....#$%#$^@$#$@#%^#$@! 3.) EVEN THO I WOULD RETURN THE EQUIPMENT, PAY THE FEE, I COULD NOT GET MY CABLE TURNED BACK ON INSTANTLY. I WOULD HAVE TO CALL AND MAKE AN APPT. FOR ANOTHER TECH TO COME OUT AND "CLICK" IT BACK ON AGAIN AND......GET CHARGED $50 MORE FOR THAT!!!!!! Ya know what...that is BULLLLL S**T!!! If I'm going to do that, then I want to be treated as a NEW customer and get a SPECIAL price!! I'm going to ask to talk to a stupidvisor and so help me, they better give me a deal. I want some serious fees waved! I can't believe they won't work with you..not everybody makes $40,000 a year. Oh...you have no idea how pissed off I am. And I've been a long time customer of theirs for over 10 years. How dare they treat their customers this way!!! WTF!??? #$^^&@#$!@$#$&@!!^$%^*()&#$!!!!!!#%$@#!!! So..tomorrow, I'm going to have to drag my little toddler down to friggin mayfair mall and stand in line and deal with this s**t. And my husband and I decided for a while that we just want BASIC BASIC cable because with the way prices are today with gas, food, and the rest of the economy f****d up, we don't need this kind of S***! Especially with summer just around the corner. DAMN!!! I wish AT&T would get their friggin' act together, and get thier fiber-optic cable service out in OCONOMOWOC already!! We do not want a satellite, because it goes out during storms. So...it looks as tho we're STUCK with FRIGGIN' TIME WARNER CABLE ****** CUSTOMER SERVICE!! And the motto is "the customer is always right??" BULLS**T. After I was done complaining...all this chick said was "is there anything else I can help you with today?" I hung up. I just can't believe this. THIS, is so not tolerable, and so help me God, as soon as AT&T get their act together and stop advertising for cable on TV when they don't even HAVE it hardly ANYWHERE except for the DISH which aboslutely SUCKS....we'll switch. I hate, and I mean HATE Time Warner Cable. They suck.
I’ve had the worst experiences with them over the past couple months it’s just been hell. I lost my job in November, and our bills fell behind. They wouldn’t work out a payment plan, and my bill was almost $200 a month!! Including some fees and other crap! I was able to pay a portion of it, and wanted to change my services so I wouldn’t have to pay so much…nope. The ass***s
said I had to be current with my bill in order to do that. Well…from what I was told, Time Warner makes you pay 1 month ahead of time. So if I only owed $200, then why can’t I change my services? So anyways, I had to keep paying for services I didn’t want, and the bill fell behind again, with more fees, probably late fees..who knows. Never shows it on the bill.

So…like a week later a guy came and said he was there to disconnect my cable…I was so mad I said fine and went back in the house. He probably wanted the 2 boxes I had, but I was so mad that TW didn’t want to work with me that I didn’t feel like bothering with moving everything around and unscrewing the cables and besides, I need my husband to move the enterainment center in order for me to unplug them. SO…that was Friday of last week.

Today I called..asked what my total due was. Some stupid chick said it was $1250!!! I totally went off. She said that since I didn’t return the equipment after my services were shut off manually by the tech, that I got CHARGED for them!!! I went off some more…..

I didn’t think to ask for a stupidvisor….I was just….so steaming I can’t tell you enough….so..1.) I couldn’t yet change my services, even tho they were disconnected..but the chick said if I returned my boxes, then my fee would only be $348…but how the hell did it get that high again?? See, this is why we couldn’t keep up..because they have stupid added fees n s**t 2.) she said I had to drive the 40 miles down to the stupid TW office and return the equipment, pay the amount owed, which by the way somehow got up to $348 in two weeks…..#$%#$^@$#$@#%^#$@! 3.) EVEN THO I WOULD RETURN THE EQUIPMENT, PAY THE FEE, I COULD NOT GET MY CABLE TURNED BACK ON INSTANTLY. I WOULD HAVE TO CALL AND MAKE AN APPT. FOR ANOTHER TECH TO COME OUT AND “CLICK” IT BACK ON AGAIN AND……GET CHARGED $50 MORE FOR THAT!!!!!!

Ya know what…that is BULLLLL S**T!!! If I’m going to do that, then I want to be treated as a NEW customer and get a SPECIAL price!! I’m going to ask to talk to a stupidvisor and so help me, they better give me a deal. I want some serious fees waved! I can’t believe they won’t work with you..not everybody makes $40,000 a year.

Oh…you have no idea how pissed off I am. And I’ve been a long time customer of theirs for over 10 years.
How dare they treat their customers this way!!! WTF!???
#$^^&@#$!@$#$&@!!^$%^*()&#$!!!!!!#%$@#!!!

So..tomorrow, I’m going to have to drag my little toddler down to friggin mayfair mall and stand in line and deal with this s**t. And my husband and I decided for a while that we just want BASIC BASIC cable because with the way prices are today with gas, food, and the rest of the economy f****d up, we don’t need this kind of S***! Especially with summer just around the corner. DAMN!!!
I wish AT&T would get their friggin’ act together, and get thier fiber-optic cable service out in OCONOMOWOC already!! We do not want a satellite, because it goes out during storms. So…it looks as tho we’re STUCK with FRIGGIN’ TIME WARNER CABLE ****** CUSTOMER SERVICE!! And the motto is “the customer is always right??” BULLS**T.

After I was done complaining…all this chick said was “is there anything else I can help you with today?” I hung up.
I just can’t believe this. THIS, is so not tolerable, and so help me God, as soon as AT&T get their act together and stop advertising for cable on TV when they don’t even HAVE it hardly ANYWHERE except for the DISH which aboslutely SUCKS….we’ll switch.

]]> Comment on 14 Firefox plugins for today’s web developer by wfrench http://www.grepsedia.com/development/14-firefox-plugins-for-todays-web-developer#comment-9 wfrench Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:16:46 +0000 http://www.grepsedia.com/development/14-firefox-plugins-for-todays-web-developer#comment-9 You are correct genesis. Firebug is a resource hog and should only be enabled for sites you are developing. It is known to break some sites or cause poor performance on others, i.e. gmail. Thanks for the clarification. You are correct genesis. Firebug is a resource hog and should only be enabled for sites you are developing. It is known to break some sites or cause poor performance on others, i.e. gmail. Thanks for the clarification.

]]> Comment on 14 Firefox plugins for today’s web developer by genesis http://www.grepsedia.com/development/14-firefox-plugins-for-todays-web-developer#comment-8 genesis Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:49:23 +0000 http://www.grepsedia.com/development/14-firefox-plugins-for-todays-web-developer#comment-8 A great list with one caveat. I added a bunch of these and Firefox (2.0.1.13) started behaving really badly and was almost unusable as the memory usage went through the roof. After a bit of hunting around I found that disabling Firebug restored things to normal. I guess I'll enable Firebug only when I need it and watch and hope for an update that fixes the memory issues. A great list with one caveat.

I added a bunch of these and Firefox (2.0.1.13) started behaving really badly and was almost unusable as the memory usage went through the roof.

After a bit of hunting around I found that disabling Firebug restored things to normal. I guess I’ll enable Firebug only when I need it and watch and hope for an update that fixes the memory issues.

]]> Comment on Sprint HTC Touch With a Broken LCD by Teresayf http://www.grepsedia.com/technology/sprint-htc-touch-with-a-broken-lcd#comment-5 Teresayf Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:35:31 +0000 http://www.grepsedia.com/technology/sprint-htc-touch-with-a-broken-lcd#comment-5 omg.. good work, man omg.. good work, man

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