Okay. I'm going to summarize this thread because I need to post my very own rant

1) Closeup, I give you lots of credit for trying to blast your way into the technological age, but I hope you don't take offense to my non-surprise at the lack cooperation from an electronic device after your use... unless, of course, closeup4 is the one using the device... He was pretty sharp.

2) Gnappy, good job on finding reveiws. While I did not even click on the link, I'm sure they'd be very useful for one of the many closeups out there.

3) the most important you mentioned, closeup, in this entire segment is that you live next door to a University... so, um, pics???

4) I don't mean pics of the university, I mean pics of the female students.

Living next door to a university huh.
I picture closeup's house like the one from Old School.
Have you started a fraternity yet, and when are the naked girl KY wrestling match pics gonna be posted?

That is all.

Okay. here's MY rant!!!

I have 6 static IP addresses at work. I use one of them to run my own email server. well, all of a sudden I'm having problems with return DNS when sending email to a student I'm stalking at Columbia University. I call my ISP to get the issue resolved and I find out that they decided to change my static IP addresses. They said I put in a change request sometime last week. Um, yeah, whatever. why the fuck would I do that???? that defeats the purpose of having a STATIC IP address!

So after making about 10 phone calls to automated voice near-recognition bullshit numbers, I finally get through to the tech dept. then after 10 minutes of BS there, I finally get to the level 2 tech guy who knows WTF a static IP address is. We almost get the issue resolved to where I have my old IP addresses assigned to me again. After about 40 minutes of talking to that guy, we get disconnected.

so i call back and no one knows the guy I talked to last time. So I'm stuck talking to Sszawanjumal, who goes by the alias Alan, who claims he is a level 2 tech. I've never begged so hard to find out if there was a level 3 guy. so after 1 hour and 20 minutes I've spent about 90% of that time on hold, he's asked me to clarify the problem about 3 times, my bladder is nearing capacity. at first he came on the line every 5 minutes to thank me for my patience and see if I wouldn't mind continuing to hold. I told him he didn't have to keep doing that... he then switched to every 10 minutes. after a total of 1 hour and 40 minutes on that phone call, he tells me he almost has the problem resolved, but he needs to check with the rep next to him cuz his computer is not responding properly (they probably just changed is IP address without him knowing).

In case anyone was wondering, he still really appreciates my patience. I just peed my pants.

I'm ready to fucking scream!!!

priceless

That's the problem with big "help" centres. Sometimes you get someone who is actually helpful but most of the time you get one of the people who supposedly has the same amount of training but is more like a level .5 tech.

BTW, why do you run your own email server?

In maine I think university means PRE school ..

welcome to the amrican way of doing things

because, contrary to popular belief, you can't just pee in your pants and be the coolest, you have to pee your pants AND run your own email server.

it's a long story so I'll spare you ALL the details cuz that tech help BS really put me back (issue is all resolved now and I've got it all working again, but I do have lots of work to do before I can leave for the day)

Anyway... when I first got high-speed Internet when I lived at my parents', I thought it'd be fun to have my own domain name and use an email client rather than put up with the irritation known as AOL (is that COL for you?? ) . So I registered one. Well, turns out you have to host it and then register it and all this other crap. Turns out I had a friend who had his own Internet company and some pretty crazy servers and kickass connection and stuff like that. So he hosted it for me. Well, he ended up leaving the company he started and shortly thereafter the company continued with the plans he started and upgraded all the servers and they got the equivalent of a T3 line in there. That meant all the IP addresses changed and I lost my email. coincidentally, I was looking at getting faster Internet at work and came across a deal for really fast speeds and static IPs. so I convinced my dad that that's what we needed and voila, I had my own static IP address to run an email server... we also had an old computer that I was able to orphan for use as an email server. so I now host my own domain name for about 5 dollars a year. Not too bad. In so doing, I have zero limits on file size or inbox capacity. I can also sign up any of my friends I want. and if I'm feeling psycho enough, I can read other people's email and see if they have any hot pictures attached. It works out well, cuz it's easier than doing hotmail or gmail and I can make all the accounts I need.

so that's teh short version, believe it or not. aren't ya glad you asked.

Let me know if you want your own email address... just be sure to have some pictures of hot naked girls in your inbox so I can hack into your account and check them out.

oh, yeah, that email server can also be used to host a website. but since I have only a DSL connection, my upload speeds are slow... meaning anyone downloading information from a website hosted here would be irritated by the slowness. that effect isn't even noticed with the email, though.

My cat's breathe smells like cat food.

Thanks Gnappy, I just finished reading all the reveiws. I don't think I'm off track by saying it's quite a mixed bag. The guys who write these reveiws are supposedly pros and even they had a hard time making it work. The one guy who said it works great if you're willing to make alot of corrections misses the point completely. Making corrections is time consuming and counter-productive. The whole idea from my point of veiw is to handle a receipt once, then never deal with it as a piece of paper again. Thanks for going to the trouble of providing those links. I owe you one.

damn is there a new contest for most words , instead of posts ?

wow your brave !!!!

There are other reasons to have a computer?



bwahaha

So you gotta up your bandwidth just in case you, I don't know, wanted to host a ficticious message board that has never existed.

Precisely, at least in theory.

You know, most people around here would post a joke in the jokes thread. But not this bobaloo. No, sir or ma'am. I'll post wherever I please. And if you can't handle it, well then just sod off.

here's my joke:

A stranger was seated next to a little girl on the
airplane when the stranger
turned to her and said, "Let's talk. I've heard that
flights go quicker
if you strike up a conversation with your fellow
passenger."

The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed
it slowly and said
to the stranger, "What would you like to talk about?"

Oh, I don't know", said the stranger. "How about
nuclear power?"

"OK," she said. "That could be an interesting topic.
But let me ask you a
question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat
grass, the same stuff.
Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns
out a flat patty, and a horse
produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose
that is?"

The stranger thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have
no idea,"

To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel
qualified to discuss
nuclear power when you don't know sh*t?"

Lynette won that one, hands down, no contest....

well Bob will have to try harder ..

I enjoy how you censored sh*t.

hey, that sh*t was copied and pasted from my email. Why the f*ck would I care if I swore in a f*cking post or not?