Hack of the day: Synology NAS: “semi-public” Photo Station albums
Shell script for giving a list of DSM users access to all the albums in Photo Station.
Category Archives: Computers
Recruiters to avoid: add CyberCoders to the list
Add CyberCoders to the list of cold-calling, lying, obnoxious recruiters with whom you should never, ever, ever do business.
OnePlus: the cell phone brand for masochists
OnePlus phones come with glaring software bugs, including inexcusable bugs in new features, and customer service that is beyond awful. If you want a phone that Just Works™ and customer service that actually solves problems, avoid OnePlus at all costs.
“Dilbert” banned from comics aggregator
The Dilbert comic strip by Scott Adams has been banned from the comics aggregator. I will not in any way support or involve myself with someone who writes stuff like this. If you don’t see why it’s so bad, please read this commentary. If you still don’t get it, please go elsewhere for your comics. Thanks.
Comics aggregator now supports “Bloom County 2015”
For those of you who use my comics aggregator, please note that it now supports Bloom County 2015.
Twitter, what were you thinking?
Twitter’s new layout for emails about favorited tweets is a disaster.
My own small encounter with the evil that is Zynga
Much has been written about the fact that Zynga is evil. From my own experience, I’d like to add massively incompetent and law-breaking to the list of adjectives that accurately describe them. A number of days ago, I decided to give Words With Friends, a Scrabble™-like game, on my smart-phone. I was bored, and I wasn’t… Read More »
Cision is evil
I’ve recently started receiving a lot of spam from people claiming that they got my email address from Cision. Needless to say, I never gave my email address to Cision, nor have I ever in any way given them permission to spam me themselves or give my email address out to other people. Cision is… Read More »
Fandango discriminates against imaginary Germans
November 26, 2014 Regal Entertainment Group 7132 Regal Lane Knoxville, Tennessee 37918 Fax: 1-865-922-3188 To whom it may concern: I’m writing to you to complain about Fandango, the vendor you’ve selected to exclusively handle on-line sales of Regal tickets. I have been forced to escalate my complaint to you because of Fandango’s completely inept handling… Read More »
Dear RCN, please stop blocking ports and lying to customers about it
Dear RCN, I’ve been an RCN internet customer for five years. You are superior to Comcast, the other provider on my street (and thank God I have access to two providers, when so many people don’t!) in many ways. In other ways, you were superior to Comcast when I signed up, but since then you’ve changed your policies and… Read More »