Category: Technology
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KDE help: LibreOffice icons missing in KDE menu?
Recently, I noticed that the Writer icon had disappeared from the favourites tab of my K menu. Naturally, I right clicked and used the Edit Applications function to reset the icon back to normal by finding it in the system icons. There was no problem finding the icon, but as soon as I set it,…
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Going… Going… Gone!
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…
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Rogers Internet: Incompetence or Indifference?
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…
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Rogers: All Your Cable Are Belong To Us
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…
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Rogers: If We Can’t Have You, No-One Can
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…
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Goodbye Rogers, Hello TekSavvy
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…
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KDE help: Kubuntu Oneiric Won’t Shut Down Anymore?
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…
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Kubuntu Natty Update Weirdness
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’:…
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Facebook is Concerned about My Protection
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…