Author: Schultzter
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Two weeks with an LG Xenon – Part ONE
It’s been two weeks now that I’ve given up the ‘ol Blackberry 7130g that I picked up almost four years ago and turned on a brand spankin’ new LG GR501 Xenon that runs on Bell’s brand spankin’ new HSPA network! If you recall it was not too long ago that I was agonizing over which…
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Taking the Wind Out of Their Sales
So we’ve got telecoms suing each other over their ad claims and trying to block new entrants with lobbying. We’ve got a new entrant that has finally made it to market. And we’ve plenty of new phones and changes to plans happening here in Canada. What does it all mean? Sadly, not much!
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Schultzter’s Holiday Reading List
So what is the Schultzter going to be reading this holiday season? Here’s a quick look…
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J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Canadian Wireless Customer Satisfaction Study
J.D. Power and Associates released their 2009 Canadian Wireless Customer Satisfaction Study today, and I found the results quite interesting.
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Is Google Evil? Part 3
Part 1 and part 2 of this ongoing series looked at visual clues that Google didn’t really believe in their mantra of “Do no evil.” In this installment I’m going to investigate some operational evilness on Google’s part. I’m a big, big, really big, fan of Google’s products and services. But what would you call…
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Federal Liberals still begging for hand-outs without doing anything to deserve them
I got another letter from the Federal Liberal Party of Canada today, extolling the virtues for their glorious leader and how much better they would be at running the country than the current crop of scoundrels (my words). The bottom of the letter includes a little form where you can contribute to their Victory fund.…
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The new OS is in the wild – SL 64-bit on the prowl!
Since the release announcement in August I’ve been itching to get my hands on the new 64-bit version of my favourite operating system. Until now I’ve running a clunking old 32-bit OS that was getting kind of tired; the allure of 64-bit was really quite tempting.
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We are the Knights who say *Nix
Unlike all the other posts/rants on the topic of Linux vs. Windows vs. FreeBSD this one will explore my take on the issue from my point of view.
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Backups, redux
Following on my trials and tribulations of getting backup routine going for my NAS, I’m pleased to announce I’m more-or-less there!
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Backups?! We don’t need no stinkin’ bac…DATA ERROR: Abort, Retry, Panic?
There are plenty of online polls showing that most users don’t backup regularly and I was proud to NOT be one of those people.