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godaddy gripes re presetup mx records on new domains

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Your website is one of the most confusing and cluttered ever devised it suffers badly from interface overload, try to do something about it.

How do I on domains I register with you in the future, prevent you from automatically adding dns records to forward email related to these domains I register to your own servers ? and why when I attempt to remove the records, you automatically setup does it warn me to wait 24-48 hours ? for the changes to take effect ? and not remove those records till I actually refresh the the web page manually . This kind of knackered me up because i was forwarding email : so i thought to google servers ?

Only for my clients to inform me a week later that they have not been able to receive mail sent to that domain I registered with you, as I investigate I discover its probably ? because there all these other records automatically in there pointing all kinds of email to your own servers in a most confusing way, that I didnt really ask for ? if the domain in general from a dns servers perspective points to godaddy is it really necessarily to add in tons of other dns records for other kinds of stuff mobile email etc without my knowledge by default so that when I add in my google mx records, to point it to google apps it then proceeds to fail to forward those email to google servers and fails because of records you inserted by default that seem to be overriding the records I inserted myself, to forward to googles servers.

Suggestion : Perhaps you should add in a template to set the dns to forward the mx records to google apps as standard selectably insertable from a menu to stop me having to type them in all the time, Id rather have some useful feature like that and a clearer website, than you blowing money on sponsering female sports car drivers, to be honest, As I then have to work out which of the stuff you added i need to remove in order to make it work ?

the domain whose record ive modified to forward to googles mail servers is bxxxxxxxxxxxxxh.com, could you just check that ive removed the right records to allow the mx settings I did enter to actually take effect ? as so far im still not receiving email to my google accounts but maybe this will change overnight as the record changes percolate through ?

much obliged in advance

dyndns gripes

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ok a little while back my account slipped from being paid to unpaid and therefore all but 5 of my dynamic dns names I had setup dissappeared. I made the payment work again so as to have my dyndns start functioning for domains above 5, noticed it didn’t auto reinstate my dyndns names I had created previously, complained via email, dyndns then sent me a list of the domain names I had setup when I was previously paying and I then reinstated them myself manually (boring and time consuming). I now note having a look at when the dyndns names were last updated, to see whether the routers have updated their ip’s by the end of the day, and 90% of them are left as the ip I last specified when recreating them.

Now some of them are still on the same ip’s as last specified ie the ip’s have not changed, yet the “last updated” looks like it only registers an update when the ip the router is using, has actually changed, not whether the router is still successfully logging into dyndns regardless of whether the ip is changing or not. the only way i can check whether the router is still successfully updating my dyndns is to login in to each router, and ask it to do an update and check it is logging in successfully. which again is not saving me a great deal of time : >

My suggestion : is to perhaps add a second column which says “last change”, and change the meaning of last updated to mean the last time the router logged in, perhaps rename to “last logged in” even if it did not proffer a change in ip number, ie to make a differentiation between whether a router is successfully logging into dyndns, and whether it has changed the ip number associated with it. this helps me to check the routers im managing are all still functioning fine without having to login to them.

Also I find the website interface messy, because i really wish to be presented after login with a list of the services im using, ie my dyndns in my case not a page offering tons of other services and upgrades and confusing stuff im not actually using. The layout of your website is nowhere near as bad as “godaddy” the daddy of websites sadly in terms of the crime, of “interface overload”, but still things could be allot clearer at dyndns none the less.

Also the way, when im a paid user I have to do 2 or 3 clicks per new dyndns name I add, putting it through your basket system is aggravating, in terms of speed considering there is going to be no charge in the basket anyway, as I have paid for a service that gives me dyndns names ? without an extra cost per additional one ? ie : no need to put it through a basket system except for your own records ?

thanks for listening, I hope these improvements can be made. good luck to all at dyndns.

bad translation based journalism or the worst tech article ever written ?

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worst tech article ever written ?

there seems to be allot of this on hubpages ?

Evidence if any were needed not to let people with little grasp of english, badly translate articles and publish them on your site, this article is so incomprehensible and appallingly written.
It looks like the hubpages website is translated into english on the fly by some translation software from chinese ? or just written by people with little grasp of english ? if this is the future of journalism we are in trouble !

Link death beware

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link death seems to be occuring more often, or at least so “broken link checker” tells this blog, and sometimes we all so easily rely on linking to things on the net, and the idea they will be there inperpetuity to link to. That when things do dissappear from the net it can catch all those, who have linked to something on the net out. And also mean that none of us have backed that resource up to the extent whereby we can put it back up again. this reliance on linking means that content can very easily be sensored or wiped from existence by removing it from just one heavily linked to location.

beware make backups of the things you link to in case they dissappear and your content suffers link death.

Apple announcement : the truth about quality and cultist behaviour iphone 4g aerial

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We all know the iphone 4 aerial issue is a real design flaw, something that would normally warrant a recall ?

whats the minimum Apple should do ?

Offer all of the 1.7 million iphone 4 users a free bumper or case delivered free of charge, or $20.00 towards a case of their choice on the apple store, that is the absolute minimum, at the moment they charge theyre customers for their bumpers to fix this ? apples users might as well pay to be ravaged, their evangilism for apple appears absurd, to any mature human organism.

$20 x 1.7 million = 34 millions dollars maximum to solve the issue, for apple thats a drop in the ocean, they have a cash war chest to cover rubbish like this in the 20 billion region. And its only steves arrogance that has prevented him from seeing this as the real issue it is, you cannot sensibly ask your customers to hold your phone a certain way for it to work !

Steve man up and do the right thing, youve already caused allot of damage to your market perception with delay and denial. Not that I dont know the dark secrets of many other previous design flaws youve got away with because people are to slow and thick to assert their rights.

like :
• Some models of Intel core2 duo macbook pro cooling systems, sometimes incapable of preventing damage caused by overheating of graphics chips through extended use.
• Some macbooks and macbook pros came with faulty nvidia chips (nvidia/apples fault)
• Lombard laptops with motorola G3 CPU’s unable to run macos x
• Lombard laptops modem sound issue, patched away.
• No cable strain relief on the transparent wired Apple pro mouse, very high failure rate.
• solder issues on power chips on white G3 ibook motherboards
• failure rate of G3/G4 ibooks in general abnormally high, to the extent of some users having them replaced once a year over a three year warranty period.
• Graphics chip failures on some ibook G4’s due to overheating and bad nvidia chips used (industry wide but heck).
• the nipple scrollwheel dying very quickly on the mighty mouse. solution was a wierd cleaning regime.
• 27 inch imac initial release high failure rate and big issues with screens
• Sudden power supply fan noise and death on some mirror door mac towers, and G5 mac pros.
• G5 imac capacitors failing causing fuzzy screen syndrome within a short lifetime.
• G4/G5 mac desktop machines unable to sleep with third party usb cards in.
• some G4 ibook 12″ machines theyre airport slots became faulty, and prevented the machines from booting until the airport card was removed.
• Ethernet port failure on apples generally a bit too high, or not syncing at the right speed (which i see allot of)
• firewire chipset variation from the Texas instruments variety to cheaper 3rd party chipsets causing huge incompatiblity issues between chained firewire devices and general instability of firewire, when it used to be a more rock solid interface then USB. Hence motu 828’s often being bundled with firewire cards that were known to work properly.
• the fact that SCSI and firewire were supposed to be hot swap but very often did not work out that way.
• How older keyboards can sometimes power some USB devices and others/newer ones not ? and the randomness of this as a trend
• Some USB ports providing enough power for devices and others not especially on laptop systems big variation in design here.
• the fact that they glued too many devices together, and went for a policy of making their batteries and components innacessible rather than accessible in newer designs.
• artifically hampered hardware, flashing dvr drives to have lower read and write speed maximums than they are capable of, for quiter use but still thats the users choice ?
• artifically low ram expansion options, compared the chipsets possible spec
• promoting some ports and ignoring others, most noteably esata ? limiting external drive performance in terms of copying with the newer drives.
• inacessibility of hard drives on allot of older laptop models.
• the overuse of BGA chip packages when the industry has proven a high failure rate with chips soldered this way which consume power or get hot (graphics glitching, RROD, YLOD etc)
• Solder reformulation from leaded to lead free solder, leading to a whole series of machines released whose lifespans were artifically low, until this formula was resolved (of course the military had a special dispensation to use leaded solder, they didnt want to lead the field on that one ?)
• USB ports to close together to connect two devices side by side on the new unibody macbooks
• slippy shouldered Apple designed USB connectors on their cables that have no grip for removing them from USB connectors.
• the nightmare of connecting ipods/iphones/ipads generally to several macs due to ruddy DRM rubbish
• the ipod dock connector being a terrible design generally

to be honest i could go on for hours about the faults with apple design, they do an amazing job generally but they suffer from too much pride to ever openly admit their mistakes.

Well I can barely remember them all theyre have been so many things Apple has got away with not recalling, by not anouncing the issues and dealing with those who complain quietly on an individual basis or not making much fanfare or apology, until the disquiet has faded with time enduced apathy, and people gullibly by another machine.

Apple isn’t better quality for its higher price than any other manufacturer, go view a genius bar anywhere in the country for an hour, to see the quantity of returns, and you will realise they are just as badly built design wise and flawed quality wise, its apple gloss and software wizziness the machines are sold on, and lets not even get started on software issues, except perhaps to mention the find function, hasnt worked properly since 10.1.

warcraft region transfer and blizzard corp

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Yes it is damn well needed, blizzard as per usual ignoring their customers generating more samey, mess around with existing environments content > catacysm, rather than add a feature weve been seeking for years > “region transfer” havent played for three years as my level 70 is trapped : US side and no region transfer to eu yet available, do blizzard care ? > not a jot . theyve had six years to make such a feature and havent bothered, the classic scenario theyre working on is if you ignore descent it eventually fades through lack of fosterance from its own will. most of those who are trapped region wise have just stopped playing hence how blizzard can ignore those users. after all theres an endless generated global population of teenagers to fill the ranks of the descenters views. from a money corporacy perspective they are in the fortunate position still perhaps only just to be able to ignore their customers and still grow richer.

Their apparently seperate financial entitys (as if the customer cares what their relationship is ?) that dont talk to each other lord knows why, and they say its so difficult to do. In my reckoning if I can email an attatchment to the states, why the hell they cant send my character file between us and eu regions ive no idea, digital data is the most portable thing on earth, its in its genes to be moved from one place to another, the idea they cant manage this is ridiculous, I whole heartedly support this forum post. I ended up with a US char because the initial trial was only available in the US originally.

And I will not start a char again as mine has allot more than 100 days actual playtime invested, which blizzard thinks nothing of. Because they dont truly understand the concept of character investment, though they think they do. If I invested that time in doing something in real life or earning money lord knows what value of that time might be, but blizzard think such playtime is their input and property hence the agreement which basically says your chracter is their property. I will never knowingly ever play any MMO ever again because of these badly weighted licence agreements until there is an open platform file format and standard for online mmo characters, so that time invested in such games is not wimfully wasted by a corporate whos love of itself and self glorification seems to know no bounds, anybody fancing paying $500 dollars to dine with microsoft employees before going to a computer fair ? lol : aparrently blizzard thinks everything they do smells so sweet, pity they only asked their own opinion, and if they can stonewall, silence, outmarket and censor all descent, then such descent doesnt actually exist ?

The idea blizzard listens to its customers is farcical. I’m also tempted to pay $500 to go to their suck ups dinner, so they can meet a real customer with real views, and why theyre geting it so wrong. Oh but i forgot you cant just pay $500 you have to be so lucky as to be drawn in a lottery for the privilege of being able to pay $500, my bad, and perhaps youd like to pay for all the overmerchandised franchised rubbish they market at you while your at it, apart from the game itself every day of the flippin week we have pushed in our faces, comics, miniatures, fanzines, card games jeesh do they have no humility ? theyre marketing machine is and endless behemoth its like some nasty microsoft acolyte rubbish, everytime they make an announcement its like the “dance monkeyboy dance” video , with same braying game drugees, whooping theyre way more deeply into virtual acheivement lives, with every word the blizz corporate crew spew. Also raiding times are completely incompatible when your on the wrong region which makes high end play impossible, and lag times in tournaments also a problem.

Oh and you cant post on warcraft forums unless you have an active subscription ? ie anyone they kick out or isnt paying money regardless of whether they have previously for years is not entitled to criticise or have an opinion they are effectively instantly censored ! wow blizz are so not interested in customer feedback, blizzard are a horrible corporate.

iphone 4g no keynote video visible ? thoughts

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anyone got the link to the iphone 4g keynote video (comment back), with the stuffup or has it been pulled to protect the overly precious about itself image of apple, by getting rid of an onstage fluff by pulling the video, they’ll use that fluff to make a wifi blackout at newer keynotes be sure, theyll probably start confiscating peoples tech or something before steve gets on stage.

What we do have access to video wise ? is a fucking advert on the apple site (obviously thats a unintentional metaphorical karmic joke representative of apple itself) A new advert has been released we can all lapup like the shmucks we are, with ives and steve and the crew all cooing into cameras and calling it another fucking … “revolution”, i’m begining to get serious marketing fatigue from this shit, god these fuckers need some fucking humilty and a lack of ego for gods sake, or theyll stop fitting through doors, the iphone needs some promotion with a small p and for the rest, it can sell itself, but the marketing onslaught ? which is Steve’s true skill is relentless, it makes me sick. Jonathan Ives in particular, being once upon a time a British person, should show some evidence of reserve in his character, but all he can do is blow Apple corporate cock, because his apples shares value must keep growing and giving him a corporate erection. Soon theyll be dancing onto stage like Balmer in “dance monkey boy dance”, because they know that an incremental upward tick in share value means they can all buy a new prius
for theyre dog or some such tech mad rich guru guff. Oh to have a british technology company to show how you could create products without all this endless egotistically framed self congratulation talk. Even the audience don’t necessarily whoop on cue in the keynotes any longer to every point, much no doubt to Steve’s chagrin.

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Snow Leopard search or find add sort by size

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ok i followed some info from this page to add sort by size functionality to mac os x’s find / search funtion, so all credit to their respective authors as mentioned on the above page, what i have attempted to do on this post is to add the extra information to make the procedure foolproof from my experiencing of doing it. if you follow this information i will not in any way be held responsible if you naff this procedure up.

1: open a new finder window in list mode
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ps3 & xbox360 heat death ylod rlod rrod

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These devices provide good reasons, as to why ball grid array surface mounting graphics chips with early lead free solder, was a cheap … but very bad idea.

the majority of failure associated with these machines can be attributed to this design decision, graphics processors just like cpus get very hot, as such they need attatching to the graphics card in the same way as the cpu itself, ie into a slot onto the graphics board using pins on the graphics processor die itself, the same as a cpu would be, as this is the only way to reduce the failure rate of the bga sfm package design, in such intense thermal environments as current consoles and laptop motherboards, especially under the loads that these devices may find themselves, also I doubt the aging issues with thermal paste , is a an acceptable thermal contact design solution long term, under heavy load, for devices that are not designed to be user serviceable.

My brothers fatboy playstation 3 lifespan 2years 3 months.
not acceptable for any electronic product made with resources from earths limited supply.

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