Lummoxx - Slashdot User

Comment Re:It's the price of books has became obscene... (Score -1, Redundant) 414

by Lummoxx on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @08:47AM (#33136470) Attached to: Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put In Play

I agree. They don't even try to compete, and I stopped trying to compare prices with Amazon years ago, because B&N was NEVER less expensive. My company also provides a Books24x7 account now, and everyone in the company has it. So right there is a few thousand people who have no need to purchase tech books anymore.

Comment Re:What are the costs like? (Score 1) 107

by Lummoxx on Monday August 02, 2010 @07:33AM (#33108548) Attached to: Average Cellphone Data Usage Is 145.8 MB Per Month

Well, on Verizon, it's $30/month for "unlimited" data. Since the average Verizon uses 421 MB per month, I'll go with that. Your rate, multiplied for 1GB of data, works out to be $16.90 US. So the average Verizon users pays almost twice as much as you do, for less than half as much data. I can only wonder what the hell those who only use a couple hundred MB/month (or less) are thinking. I'm a long time Verizon Wireless customer, and only recently became interested in a smartphone, due to Android and Droid. I thought for sure there would be some kind of data plan for families, that would be reasonable. There isn't. In order for my wife and I to both have a smartphone, and assuming we'd both be average users (and my wife would be well below average), Verizon wants me to pay $60/month for 842MB/month. Not just no...but hell no. I even called them, and was told (in a long winded, roundabout, very polite way) that if I wanted the phones, I had to pay the data. Apparently, people are falling over themselves to pay this money, because the only other option they give is $9.99/month for 25MB of data, on their 2nd tier "3G Multimedia" phones.

Comment Re:What do you do on other computers? (Score 1) 499

by Lummoxx on Thursday January 21, 2010 @12:17PM (#30846942) Attached to: Analysis of 32 Million Breached Passwords

Use a USB key, copy your database to it, when needed. Portableapps.com has Keepass as a utility. The only real hassle is the database isn't synced, have to remember to overwrite the copy. I rarely, if ever, use a public computer, so...non-issue for me.

Comment Password Utils (Score 1) 499

by Lummoxx on Thursday January 21, 2010 @10:33AM (#30845568) Attached to: Analysis of 32 Million Breached Passwords

I know it's been said around here before, but... Dropbox + Keepass. It's been working great for me.

Comment Remember the Viacom Fight (Score 1) 479

by Lummoxx on Saturday April 11, 2009 @09:18AM (#27541473) Attached to: Time Warner To Offer Unlimited Bandwidth For $150

Earlier this year, TW and Viacom had a falling out. The commercials blaming each other. Recall the letter from TW, stating that, if the Viacom channels were not renewed, don't worry, you can always view them online? TW makes sure to do what they can to make as many people as possible aware that, Hey! We can watch shows online!

Comment Re:get shitcanned, its good for character (Score 1) 958

by Lummoxx on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @02:17PM (#27332861) Attached to: How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work?

That's awesome...but it's old. Any newer articles? It's been 6 years, it would be interesting to know how it's worked out long term.

Comment Re:Use Watch Instantly daily, no probs w/ Verizon (Score 1) 207

by Lummoxx on Monday March 16, 2009 @08:24AM (#27208701) Attached to: Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming

I was having all sorts of trouble. Watching my bandwidth meters on my Smoothwall (stand alone firewall on a spare machine), it appears that the data stream on the RED side (connected to the cable modem) was being interrupted somewhere, (7Kbps to 0Kbps for 5 seconds back to 7Kbps) and of course, I blamed the ISP. While waiting for the tech to arrive, I dug a bit deeper. SSH'ed into the firewall, and turns out the RED NIC was going bad. Collisions and errors like crazy. Swapped out the Smoothwall with a spare Linksys and DD-WRT, and the issue is resolved, and have full 10Kbps download again. The moral of the story...check your hardware in detail, too. Working doesn't always mean it's working correctly.

Comment Re:And a meter would be nice (Score 1) 939

by Lummoxx on Friday August 29, 2008 @08:22AM (#24792771) Attached to: Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October

Well, that's easy enough, then. If using just any old tool off the internet is acceptable, I'll just roll up my own. You can be certain, I'd never go over the cap.

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