Goodbye Rogers High Speed Internet. I’ve now had TekSavvy service for nearly a week, after 5 days of wrangling with Rogers to release my line. I’m not sure if Rogers managed to fix their issues of their own accord, or with some pushing from my wife’s friend who started making waves from inside, but my [...]
So, my saga with Rogers continues. On Saturday they were to have ceased all Internet activity on my cable line, and yet they continue to mount a de-facto Denial Of Service attack on my house, preventing me from getting the TekSavvy service I’ve been paying for for the last 5 days. I filed a ticket [...]
I thought that Rogers had made it difficult to switch Internet service providers before. As it turns out, they were just getting warmed up. Saturday was my cancellation date with Rogers. Why I should owe 30 days notice to a corporation is anyone’s guess, but the Rogers service agreement is a wishlist come true that [...]
A provocative and arguably unfair title, I know, but after the evening I had it makes me wonder what it takes to leave one provider for another. I arrived home tonight to both a voicemail and an e-mail from TekSavvy. The e-mail is titled “Rejected Cable Order: Attention Required”. I shook my head. I paid [...]
About a week ago I decided I was finally tired of paying for bandwidth penalties from Rogers that were as expensive as buying a second monthly subscription. I called their customer service, and later, their retention department. They wouldn’t match the bandwidth (300 GB/month) of even Teksavvy’s cheapest cable Internet plan, nor would they match [...]
I’m really loving Kubuntu 11.10. As usual, I upgraded during the beta phase to avoid the slow downloads after the official release. It was a flawless upgrade: the best I can remember. I even did it using the wireless connection, with no significant hiccups… except this one I hardly noticed. I rarely need to reboot [...]
I just updated to Kubuntu 11.04 (Natty Beta 2) last night. All went reasonably well except for a few hitches: Inexplicably, several apps were uninstalled including GIMP and Wine. Easily remedied. This weird error message proved more difficult to fix: dpkg: warning: parsing file ‘/var/lib/dpkg/available’ near line 20544 package ‘handbrake-gtk’: error in Version string ‘svn3834ppa1~maverick1′: [...]
I closed my Facebook account about a year ago. While it had ceased to have any meaningful use or interest to me for a long time before then, it was ultimately Facebook’s recurring problems with privacy that prompted me to blank all of my profile information and request deletion. However… I’ve been a privacy analyst for [...]
(or even: Why you should join Twitter or start a blog immediately) Note: This post contains GCPEDIA links only accessible within the Government of Canada network. Not long ago, I made the acquaintance of a young, energized public servant. I was impressed by their1 enthusiasm, imagination, expression and boundless drive to create. I encouraged this [...]
Recently, I installed Lubuntu 10.10 as a dual boot to Windows 7 on my laptop as a replacement to Linux Mint. Everything seemed to go well until I rebooted and noticed that Windows 7 was no longer listed in the menu options of the GRUB boot manager. Windows wasn’t gone, but GRUB had failed to detect [...]
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