Virgin Mobile Customer Service Sucks!

Never, NEVER, call 1-888-322-1122. The people there suck and have no clue. Call 1-855-250-5271. It's some escalation number that the sucky, non-English-speaking people at the first number will never tell you. They will claim they are the only customer service available.

The person I spoke with at the 855 number was extremely helpful and knowledgeable. If you call the 888 number, swear at them, but be kind to the people at the other number.

As a side note... I used Virgin Mobile's only form to send a message (complaining about their customer service). They ask for my name, phone number, and personal pin. I received a "message received" email back from them. The email included BOTH my phone number AND personal pin! That's the information I use to log into their webiste!!! That isn't very secure for many reason.....

By the way, I got the phone number from this blog:

http://www.screenwerk.com/2011/02/20/virginmobiles-bad-customer-service-im-starting-to-rank/

Windows CMD .bashrc equivilant

This is the best thing ever! I could never find a way to automatically source a file no matter where/how I started "cmd" from Windows.

But here it is:

http://mindinthewater.blogspot.com/2010/11/bashrc-for-windows-cmdexe-shell.html

Bottom line:

1. Create some file like: C:\Windows\cmdauto.cmd
2. Add some stuff, like: doskey cp=copy $*
3. Add a String Value "AutoRun" to this key:
   [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
   
4. Put "C:\Windows\cmdauto.cmd" as the value.

Now, no matter where you start cmd, it will execute "cmdauto.cmd" first.

Dare you to look at this site...

http://www.penisland.net

(probably not what you think)

Quote of the Day

If you force a yawn, then more will spawn.

Loan Calculators

All I wanted to do was to punch in my loan term, monthly payment, and rate, then see what the total of my payments would be and the total interest... I searched for at least 30 minutes trying to find a page that did that! Every other page wanted me to punch in the principle as part of the calculation, but I did not have that info at my finger tips...

Here's the page:

http://www.dinkytown.net/java/SimpleLoan.html

A kangaroo walks into a bar...

A kangaroo walks into a bar and orders a martini. The bartender
figures that a kangaroo probably isn't very economically aware, and
charges him $50. The marsupial orders a beer next time, and is charged
$60. Finally, the bartender's curiosity gets the better of him. He
casually remarks, "You know, we don't get too many kangaroos in here."
The kangaroo replies, "At these prices, no wonder."

Linux Media Server

Trying to set this up right now...

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=924980