Comments for Craig.Carlen[Online].com http://craig.carlenonline.com One Man's take on Technology and how it impacts our world (and other musings and wanderings) Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:18:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on Comcast - Are You Kidding??! Truth in Advertising… by Craig http://craig.carlenonline.com/archives/30#comment-27 Craig Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:09:57 +0000 http://craig.carlenonline.com/?p=30#comment-27 <p>Nice reply.  So you're saying Comcast doesn't lie, cheat and steal with their customers?  Try cancelling service and see that you're billed three months later.  Return your digital box and get sent to a collections company when Comcast says you never returned it - even though you have a receipt showing they did indeed accept said box.</p><p><br /></p><p>Needless to say...I doubt your story.  Detroit (the biggest city in Michigan) was the first area in Michigan with AT&T's Uverse roll out.  It's available all over the Detroit area.  Of course you live one block away from the city - so that must mean you are well out of range.  Now I don't doubt your story about DSL - but that's hardly bait and switch.  The technology behind DSL is such that even if you are within the requisite distance to the main phone switch the lines to your home or area are of such poor condition they cannot support a digital subscriber line.  Uverse (which is very similar to DSL yet very much a different breed of animal) takes care of many of those problems - distance is no longer a huge issue and AT&T is replacing lines that are problematic because in the end, they want Uverse to succeed.</p><p>To say AT&T is a rip off - look at the pricing as well as what you get.  Comcast's triple play is a joke - $99 for what - fewer than 100 channels most of which are not digital and those that are are so overly compressed they look horrid.  AT&T's Uverse is 100% digital with no picture quality issues and their pricing structure is not promotional based - you're not suckered in with a sweet deal only to pay far too much for a load of crap later.</p><p>But hey - each to his/her own.  Afterall, you're one block away from the biggest city in Michigan, that's got to count for something - Right?<br mce_bogus="1"/></p> Nice reply.  So you’re saying Comcast doesn’t lie, cheat and steal with their customers?  Try cancelling service and see that you’re billed three months later.  Return your digital box and get sent to a collections company when Comcast says you never returned it - even though you have a receipt showing they did indeed accept said box.

Needless to say…I doubt your story.  Detroit (the biggest city in Michigan) was the first area in Michigan with AT&T’s Uverse roll out.  It’s available all over the Detroit area.  Of course you live one block away from the city - so that must mean you are well out of range.  Now I don’t doubt your story about DSL - but that’s hardly bait and switch.  The technology behind DSL is such that even if you are within the requisite distance to the main phone switch the lines to your home or area are of such poor condition they cannot support a digital subscriber line.  Uverse (which is very similar to DSL yet very much a different breed of animal) takes care of many of those problems - distance is no longer a huge issue and AT&T is replacing lines that are problematic because in the end, they want Uverse to succeed.

To say AT&T is a rip off - look at the pricing as well as what you get.  Comcast’s triple play is a joke - $99 for what - fewer than 100 channels most of which are not digital and those that are are so overly compressed they look horrid.  AT&T’s Uverse is 100% digital with no picture quality issues and their pricing structure is not promotional based - you’re not suckered in with a sweet deal only to pay far too much for a load of crap later.

But hey - each to his/her own.  Afterall, you’re one block away from the biggest city in Michigan, that’s got to count for something - Right?

]]> Comment on Comcast - Are You Kidding??! Truth in Advertising… by jesse http://craig.carlenonline.com/archives/30#comment-26 jesse Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:58:57 +0000 http://craig.carlenonline.com/?p=30#comment-26 AT&T suks they still dont have dsl in my area and I live one block from the biggest city in Michigan. They also lied and told me they had dsl in my area so I would sign up. I biatched and told them that was bait and switch. They said it wasnt bait and switch. needless to say that was 6yrs ago and Im still waiting. Stay away from AT&T they are rip offs AT&T suks they still dont have dsl in my area and I live one block from the biggest city in Michigan.
They also lied and told me they had dsl in my area so I would sign up.
I biatched and told them that was bait and switch.
They said it wasnt bait and switch.
needless to say that was 6yrs ago and Im still waiting.
Stay away from AT&T they are rip offs

]]> Comment on Make Mozilla Thunderbird look and act like Microsoft Outlook by Craig http://craig.carlenonline.com/archives/26#comment-13 Craig Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:42:35 +0000 http://craig.carlenonline.com/archives/26#comment-13 Hi Mary - I've got one other calendar in Google Calendar that I import that uses my Google ID and it worked fine. I just created another calendar in my Google Calendar to see if I can recreate what is happening to you. One thing I noticed when Thunderbird asked for my user name and password - if I didn't enter my gmail.com account information that is linked to my Google Calendar it did what you described. Normally to access my Google Calendar my user name is my private e-mail address - but Thunderbird would not accept that (although it did for my default calendar). So I entered my gmail.com login information (which is also associated with my Google Calendar) and it worked fine. The only thing I can think of that might be causing this is the default calendar private address has your gmail.com login information already in the address: (http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/<strong>usernameXXXgmail.com</strong>/private-xxx...xxx/basic) where as other calendars you create do not. So other calendars may require a gmail.com login for access. But beyond that, I can't really think of why it works for me and not for you. I hope that was of help. Hi Mary - I’ve got one other calendar in Google Calendar that I import that uses my Google ID and it worked fine. I just created another calendar in my Google Calendar to see if I can recreate what is happening to you. One thing I noticed when Thunderbird asked for my user name and password - if I didn’t enter my gmail.com account information that is linked to my Google Calendar it did what you described. Normally to access my Google Calendar my user name is my private e-mail address - but Thunderbird would not accept that (although it did for my default calendar). So I entered my gmail.com login information (which is also associated with my Google Calendar) and it worked fine.

The only thing I can think of that might be causing this is the default calendar private address has your gmail.com login information already in the address:
(http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/usernameXXXgmail.com/private-xxx…xxx/basic) where as other calendars you create do not. So other calendars may require a gmail.com login for access. But beyond that, I can’t really think of why it works for me and not for you.

I hope that was of help.

]]> Comment on Make Mozilla Thunderbird look and act like Microsoft Outlook by Mary http://craig.carlenonline.com/archives/26#comment-12 Mary Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:21:15 +0000 http://craig.carlenonline.com/archives/26#comment-12 Thanks for this great tutorial! I was wondering if you were able to get this working with multiple calendars under one Google account? It seems I can only get it working with the default calendar under my account. If I try to add any additional calendars into Thunderbird that already exist under my Google account, it continually asks me for my password, even after I have both put in my Password and saved it to Password Manager, and the calendar won't load. Thanks for this great tutorial! I was wondering if you were able to get this working with multiple calendars under one Google account? It seems I can only get it working with the default calendar under my account. If I try to add any additional calendars into Thunderbird that already exist under my Google account, it continually asks me for my password, even after I have both put in my Password and saved it to Password Manager, and the calendar won’t load.

]]> Comment on Corporate Greed leads to Corporate bullet in the head by Craig http://craig.carlenonline.com/archives/17#comment-4 Craig Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:36:15 +0000 http://craig.carlenonline.com/archives/17#comment-4 WOW! Didn't realize blogging about Corporate stupidity would generate hundreds of unique hits to this story. For everyone that has contacted me looking for those drivers - I'm sorry, I can't help you. I would start researching the use BitTorrent networks if I were you. You might have more luck. WOW! Didn’t realize blogging about Corporate stupidity would generate hundreds of unique hits to this story. For everyone that has contacted me looking for those drivers - I’m sorry, I can’t help you. I would start researching the use BitTorrent networks if I were you. You might have more luck.

]]> Comment on Good Friday by Robin Carlen http://craig.carlenonline.com/archives/12#comment-3 Robin Carlen Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:29:19 +0000 http://craig.carlenonline.com/?p=12#comment-3 Wow. That is a video that I need to watch more then once in awhile. It is good reminder of the pain and suffering that Jesus went through for each and every one of us. Wow. That is a video that I need to watch more then once in awhile. It is good reminder of the pain and suffering that Jesus went through for each and every one of us.

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