Archive for October, 2007

Comcast’s Netgear CG814WG is the bane of my existence.

EDIT (1/25/07) – I’ve received a lot of comments and emails with questions about what I did to get my Comcast internet to work properly. I actually wrote a follow-up entry, Follow-up On Comcast’s Netgear CG814WG. If you read that entry, I list two products I currently use in lieu of the Netgear piece of [...]

EDIT (1/25/07) – I’ve received a lot of comments and emails with questions about what I did to get my Comcast internet to work properly. I actually wrote a follow-up entry, Follow-up On Comcast’s Netgear CG814WG. If you read that entry, I list two products I currently use in lieu of the Netgear piece of crap. My internet has been flawless since I posted that entry (the end of October) and I haven’t had any issues at all (other than someone unplugging the router on me or something.) If you still are having problems or need advice, leave a comment on either entry and I’ll be more than happy to try to help you out.

In August we finally made the switch to Comcast for our internet, tv , and phone. And unfortunately we’ve been having horrible problems with Comcast’s internet service then I care to think about. The problem was originally both tv cable and internet cable. The cable on the TV would skip, scramble, lose audio, and just time out when trying to open up on-demand. The internet would lag, die off, then connect again. Turns out we had a bad line coming to the house. No problem, Comcast came out to fix the issue with a brand new line, and things were back to working properly.

For the past two months, the new problem has been this piece of crap cable modem gateway (cable modem + router). According to their support page, Netgear doesn’t even support the model, CG814WG, because the vendors have flashed their own firmware onto the hardware. I knew that before hand though, because I went to log into the router and was greeted with a GUI for dummies. Essentially the only options I could change was the WPA/WEP key, port forwarding, parental controls, and DMZ. I couldn’t even change the IP of the unit itself, which was conflicting with another computer on my network. Ridiculous!

Anyway, the problem I’m having is that the router will continually drop a signal, and then pick it back up again. Talk about annoying! I know when it’s going to happen because I’m not able to open any websites–they all just time out on me. It gets worse when there are more people are on the internet, and we usually have about 3 people connected, which is a paltry number, but nonetheless.

Googling around for the CG814WG model shows that it’s a piece of crap in general. When you google for “Comcast CG814WG” the results are all about how the piece of crap isn’t working for them. They all have the same problem. It reboots itself constantly leaving problems if you’re connected to a game, say Halo 3 (which has been my problem. I’ve lost 9EXP and ranking from dropping out of ranked games because of the connection.)

Today I have finally had it with the piece of shit. I wanted to hop on the 360 before work to play a quick game of Halo 3, and things were fine at first. I got matched with a team, and just as we got the map to play on, the other players dropped out which means that my connection lagged and I got kicked from the ranked game. Bye bye EXP.

Later on I’m going out to buy the D-Link DCM202 and I’ll just hook up my old Linksys WRT54G to get going. Instead of going wirelessly for the Xbox 360, I think I’ll just go ahead and return the wifi adapter. I’ve ordered two Netgear XE102 Powerline Adapters so that I can go wired with the unit. Even though I know the wireless issue will be resolved when I replace the unit, I’d rather go wired for the Xbox 360. I can’t handle losing any more EXP points when I’m not even leaving the team.

Here’s a big Fuck you to Comcast’s shitty firmware that ruined the hardware and rendered it absofuckinglutely useless.

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Making bad credit, good.

When I was eighteen, I received my first credit card offer. It was for students, and was through Visa. I was excited as I penned in my information, in hopes of being approved for it. I was approved for a meager credit line of $200. Wow, I finally was on my way to buying [...]

When I was eighteen, I received my first credit card offer. It was for students, and was through Visa. I was excited as I penned in my information, in hopes of being approved for it. I was approved for a meager credit line of $200. Wow, I finally was on my way to buying big! I kept at it for a few months, and after moving out of my parents house, I somehow ended up forgetting about paying the bills. Soon what was a half-paid card was now turning into $600 from overcharges and late fees. But before that happened I also applied for a Chase credit card, hoping to help ease the pain of living on my own and being broke after paying off rent and what have you. I was given a line of $250 and was again, on my merry way.

I look back at it now and I regret the fact that I could not take care of such a small credit line. If I had that card now, with the same credit line, I would have no problem paying it off in one shot. It’s because of that stupid mistake of “putting it off,” that I now have to deal with poor credit. I also have a hard time with finding a credit card, and because of that I haven’t had a credit card since I was 18. I’m 21 now. I believe the total debt between the two card is about $1800 which can easily be resolved since either of the companies will take whatever they can get, to just get it over with.

Bad Credit has such an effect on your life. I have a hard time getting approved for student loans. Actually, scratch that, I DON’T get approved for student loans and will only get approved if I have a co-signer.

I’ve been spending a lot of time researching solutions to my problems, and have recently come across badcreditoffers.com . They have made available a simple chart that compares all of their bad credit card offers so that you can see what is offered, what may be required, and then go from there. Including credit cards, they also offer home loans, auto loans (perfect since I’m looking into getting a new car next year), personal loans, and articles on repairing your credit.

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back to the routine

I went to Buffalo this past weekend with my girls… and 100 guys. One of my friend’s BF organizes this trip every year. It was a blast. We didn’t really get any sleep. We got up at 6:30am on Saturday morning, had breakfast with everyone and got to Buffalo around 3-4pm. We went to dinner [...]

I went to Buffalo this past weekend with my girls… and 100 guys. One of my friend’s BF organizes this trip every year. It was a blast. We didn’t really get any sleep. We got up at 6:30am on Saturday morning, had breakfast with everyone and got to Buffalo around 3-4pm. We went to dinner and then clubbing on Chippewa St until 3-4am. We didn’t sleep. Our wake-up call was at 6:30am on Sunday and then we headed to the Bills stadium to start tailgating. We went to the game and were back on the bus after. We stopped for food and then got held up at customs for about an hour. I got home at 3:00am on Monday morning, fell asleep around 3:30am and got up for work at 6:00am. I took today off because I was exhausted. Aaaaand I’m going out tonight.

I’m enjoying my life A LOT right now. Things are good… actually, things are great. I need to slow down a bit on the spending and save up a bit. I guess I just keep thinking about the fact that my house is going to sell soon and that I’ll be able to pay off everything in one shot. I’m dumb.

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Return to Sender

What would you do if your ex-boyfriend from almost two years ago “remails” you a letter that his current girlfriend wrote to you? Do you just toss it into the trashcan? Or do you do something with it?

Transcibe of the letter
Jordan,
I hope that when
you grow up
you can forgive
yourself for being
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What would you do if your ex-boyfriend from almost two years ago “remails” you a letter that his current girlfriend wrote to you? Do you just toss it into the trashcan? Or do you do something with it?

Transcibe of the letter
Jordan,
I hope that when
you grow up
you can forgive
yourself for being
absolutely
awful
as a kid… xo

I opted for the option to do something with it. Now mind you, I haven’t been with this ex-boyfriend in almost one and a half years, so it’s not something that bothered me. Although I do find it hilarious that his girlfriend is so bothered with my [non]existence that she took the time to do this. The most effort I put towards her was disliking her very existence about two years ago. She was sending Chris these pathetic letters, and some weird fucked up puppet. I knew she was bad news for any relationship.

Though I suppose I should explain why the letter was no surprise to me. About a year or so ago, I befriended Amanda. She happened to date Chris shortly after I moved out of the apartment in June of 2006. They were having problems, so I was there to console her and give her needed advice. Chris has this tendency to channel his inability to remain faithful, to the internet. So it was only a matter of time until that happened to her as it did with me. This affair was with Kat the Krude. I felt protective of Amanda for some reason, so I went to her rescue when Kat was trying to smear Amanda’s name.

I believe this is what struck Kat the Krude’s nerve with me, and left her with pent up hatred towards me. In February of this year, Amanda was telling me about how Kat was writing some letters to us, and was going to include some Chicago Bears stickers. Amanda and I joked about what we would do if we got the letters, but fortunately for me, at that time I never received it.

Now it’s October 23rd and my mom hands me a letter. My address was comparable to the penmanship of a first grader, but I ignored the return address and the post office routing information. I opened the envelope and staring back at me was a ransom’esque letter that could have only been created by that of a fucking loony bat. I glanced at the return address,Ashford, CT, and then noticed the routing information, Louisville, KY. It was easy to deduce that either Chris finally mailed this puppy off, or Kat the Krap noticed her pathetic excuse of a boyfriend never sent it to me and decided to do it for him, EIGHT MONTHS LATER.

So, when I receive a letter from an ex-boyfriend’s current girlfriend, I laugh. Then I get a ligher, ashtray, and sandwich baggy. Then I set the letter on fire, bag up the ashes, and then mail it back to the ex, to hand off to whomever he pleases. Okay, the real answer was that I did it because I knew it would make a great blog post, but I figured they’ll get a kick out of it when I mail it back.

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Apparently Dreamweaver is a time-saving software.

I normally don’t like to lurk too much on Livejournal. I’ll start off with two tabs open, and not even 30 minutes later I’ve got 10+ tabs open for different communities, posts, and comment threads. Since I was pretty bored, I decided to venture into my friend’s filter, Webdev. One of the entries I ended [...]

I normally don’t like to lurk too much on Livejournal. I’ll start off with two tabs open, and not even 30 minutes later I’ve got 10+ tabs open for different communities, posts, and comment threads. Since I was pretty bored, I decided to venture into my friend’s filter, Webdev. One of the entries I ended up coming across on the first page was made to the community webdesign.

The poster, cyclotron, had asked how he could add to <body> element, without making the content between <body></body> uneditable in Dreamweaver. The question is paraphrased as I can no longer access the original entry. I skimmed through some of the comments and essentially most of the replies were asking/making fun of him for using Dreamweaver.

I decided to go ahead and give some advice–albeit it wasn’t in relation to Dreamweaver, but seeing as I’ve got experience with this, I figured it could do him some good. I told him that instead of taking the extra time to ruin an otherwise gorgeous design, to go charge the client a predetermined amount of support hours that can be used to make changes to the coding. This way the client doesn’t have to work with material he’s unaware of, and so he wouldn’t have to turn the designs into absolute crap.

Apparently this advice just pisses this guy off.

Thank you for your input. But I didn’t mention anywhere that I want an alternate solution to using DW templates, I want a solution using
Dreamweaver’s template functions. I am not asking for an apraisal of Dreamweaver’s value or usefulness to web development. Nor do I am I asking for business advice. I am asking specifically for Dreamweaver advice. I do appreciate your input but I am baffled why so many people are trying to convince me to do things their way and completely avoid the question I asked. Adobe Contribute depends on DW templates. A web maintenance contract is not the situation here.

So of course I tell him that this is the internet; You can’t whine about people giving you advice that doesn’t pertain to the subject. If you can’t accept that it’s inevitable, then don’t post it. He’s obviously steaming over the original comment that, ZOMG doesn’t have any relation to DREAMwEaVerZ!!!, so his next response is even more bitter.

Whine? You say I am whine because you offer advice that conmtains “I honestly can’t help you with your problem, as I’ve never used DW ever in my life…” So why even both replying? You advice DOESNT APPLY. Sheeesh, you people come in with anything BUT useful comments and you say I am whining!? I bent over backward to be polite to. Thanks for the returned favor.

Apparently giving him advice on how to avoid having to “Dreamweaverize” his work for his “fool” of a client has no correlation whatsoever. Well, I’ll be damned. And here *I* was the one being polite to him, despite the fact that he bitched and moaned to everyone else that gave him advice, albeit not the solution, but advice nonetheless.

I went to go to the entry to reply, only to see that he had deleted it. Well, well, looks like someone wasn’t able to handle the hotness that is teh internets. So, I decided it was time to troll a little bit, and head on over to his personal journal. I wanted to get a glimpse into this person who is to adamant upon Dreamweaver’s godliness. Boy, was I in for a real shocker! First of all his website, •Buy A Pixel, Build A House• is hosted on Geocities. I hadn’t even clicked on the link, so I had no doubt that I would be in for a real shocker. Indeedly doo! He’s begging on the internet for complete strangers to donate to him so he can buy a house. I guess his Dreamweaver coding isn’t too hot?

The best was finding that he wrote about the entry he created over at the community.

I swear.. I asked in a comm for some technical help using Dreamweaver and the only people who are replying are those stupid elite fucks who say real web developers don’t use time saving software and their features that prevent the client from fucking it up later.

One guy who replied doesn’t even know how to use DW so I replied “You don’t even know how to use the application!?” To which a third party replied “DW isn’t vital to the internet.” True, but knowledge of DW is vital for giving replies to my question. Dumbasses.

…And then one lowlife comes over here to my personal journal and reads my post from last night about a song and vibrating gonads and comments over back in the comm about. Then continues to rant about how elitist web developers don’t need Dreamweaver.
Cyclotron @ Livejournal (Copy is saved to server; Po’ Baby deleted the original entries. Sob!)

Now I can finally relax! My design woes are solved. I can use Dreamweaver to speed up the amount of time it takes to get a design pumped out. I’ll just have to sacrifice semantics, accessibility, and hell, a decent design.

But what, the juicyness doesn’t stop right there! He made a post today too!

No wonder our country is messed up. No one ever addresses the actual problem. …I just got advice for that Dreamweaver thing again. Instead of making something with Dreamweaver work, the latest advice is to sell someone web maintenance hours!? How does that even address or fix an issue of getting software to do what your want it to do???
Cyclotron @ Livejournal (Copy is saved to server; Po’ Baby deleted the original entries. Sob!)

I Dont fucking care what you have to say. You cant help me. You proved that you are some rude and arrogant fuck who would rather charge clients more money than do the job properly – and give people complete BS for advice.

Why did you bother to go out of your way to be mean and rude to me!? And then you invade m y personal journal to continue to attack me? How
fucking small are you!? Idid I mention your name here? No one knew it was you.
Cyclotron @ Livejournal [Deleted Comment] (Copy is saved to server; Po’ Baby deleted the original entries. Sob!)

Needless to say, this proved for quite entertaining. I have no doubts that he actually uses Dreamweaver on a regular basis, and only used that excuse to compensate for his lack of actual skills.

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