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Comment on CSV of States and State Abbreviations by WC

WC — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:44:10 +0000

Thank you.

Comment on Twitter updates for 2008-04-02 by Dean

Dean — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:47:25 +0000

BTW…I found this Youtube video about their vision. It’s actually very interesting…

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe9qU3H3LJk

Comment on BBB of New Jersey by Ilan Rabinovith

Ilan Rabinovith — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:33:13 +0000

Doreen, I personally can’t help you and nothing stated bellow is legal advise. However a few suggestions:

1) Have you tried calling the business / bank in question to determine if the bill is legitimate?

2) Whether or not the collection is legitimate, from your description, it sounds like might be violating one of the sections of the “Fair Debt Collection Practices Act”. See thiis article in the Seattle PI: What to do if the debt collector calls

3) Read consumerist.com

4) You can file a complaint with the BBB and try to have them mediate between you and the business in question.

Comment on BBB of New Jersey by doreen martin

doreen martin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:16:42 +0000

i would like to make a complaint against someone who keeps calling my workplace and threating me about losing my home and this bill is over three years old i keep asking this person to send me a bill he doesn't want but keeps calling me home and job and when i look up his phone number which is (redacted) it says land line, and not a business but he did tell me he work for us bank and that number that was called from was (redacted) i want this person to stop calling my home which is 757-283-5658 and my job at (redacted) and send me a bill so i can pay it off can you help me.

Comment on Vultures Begin to Circle Around Zimbra by Mark R. Hinkle

Mark R. Hinkle — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:36:20 +0000

I think this is a growing problem in commercial open source. The OSS vendors are under the illusion that their competition is other OSS vendors. In reality almost all the existing OSS vendors have an opportunity to gain market share from proprietary vendors not each other. Speaking for myself, I feel that I am better promoting OSS vendors as a legitimate improvement over the proprietary vendors that offer generally the same value proposition (transparency, flexibility, OSS development and distribution). In that spirit being let me say that I think there’s plenty of opportunity for Hyperic, Alterpoint, and OpenNMS who all sell OSS systems management solutions and support.

(Disclsoure: I work for Zenoss as their VP of Community an OSS systems management company)

Comment on Vultures Begin to Circle Around Zimbra by Joe McLaughlin

Joe McLaughlin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:05:45 +0000

I agree completely, OX is jumping the gun here. Last I heard, Yahoo’s board said NO to the current bid by Microsoft. If you ask me, OX is getting desperate.

Comment on Amusing Health Warning on Camel Cigarettes in Chile by Amusing Health Warning on Camel Cigarettes in Chile | Smokers Win!

Amusing Health Warning on Camel Cigarettes in Chile | Smokers Win! — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:18:47 +0000

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Comment on Politicians in Microsoft’s Pocket by Boycott Novell » The Role of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as Industry Observer (Updated)

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:20:57 +0000

[...] Politicians in Microsoft’s Pocket Continuing on the theme of which politicians are receiving money from who. Here is a list of candidates who took money from MSFT. [...]

Comment on Sling Player and Wine 0.9.16 by jbridgeford

jbridgeford — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:10:33 +0000

there is a tutorial that will walk you through your issues at http://www.cyberpunkcafe.com/page.php/74

Comment on Still no MacBook Power Adapters by Matthew Sacks

Matthew Sacks — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:45:15 +0000

Alas, I can almost taste the irony as an advertisement for MacWizards MacCharger(TM) sits quietly in the Google Ads section as I write this post.