Countdown remaining on what's left of my old job....

Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 4:30PM will be the last time I step foot dealing with my nightmare job.  Out with the old job and on with the new.

Windows Vista + Networked Samsung Printers = Bullshit

"I guarantee you you'll love our stupid
fucking piece of shit that doesn't work!"

Man I hate Vista with a fucking passion.  Seriously, I think Microsoft should make good and offer FREE upgrades to Windows 7 for every PC that came preloaded with Vista...I'm aware they did it for PC's that were bought 6 months prior to 7's release date, but they really should make good on the older PCs too.

Let me tell you something.... I spent 2 hours today at work, TRYING to get Vista to talk to a networked Samsung laser printer.. Every time I ran through the prompts, fucking Vista kept telling me "It doesn't have enough memory to complete the operation" which is a total bullshit error message.  How much memory exactly does a computer need to talk to a printer? Bullshit I tell you..

So naturally, I Google the error message, and unsurprisingly, other people with Vista + their Samsung printer were having this EXACT same issue.

Some people suggested installing the printer drivers locally to the computer, then assigning the local port to the network path address, which I did (\\Dell-Vostro\ml-1710) and it still didn't work.

I tried doing another trick where you have the Network folder/files expanded to the PC & have the printer's properties in a Windows Explorer window, then follow the Network Printer setup wizard... It's supposed to have an active connection to the computer & printer...  Nope, that didn't work either...

What I find strange, is I had this same exact problem with my personal workstation, the only difference between that computer and mine is I'm running Windows 7.  I used the trick by installing the printer drivers locally on my machine, and setting the network path address in the printer properties; 20 seconds later, I successfully printed a test page.. So what the fuck....

So after countless attempts, and workarounds, I said 'fuck it' and I just set the default printer to another networked printer we have in the other room within the office.  That computer will now print to a Brother Fax machine, which ironically took me 10 seconds to configure it... Fuck you Vista... And fuck you too Samsung.

P.S. Don't buy Samsung smartphones, they use shit radios in their cellphones.  I've returned 3 Galaxy phones becuase where I live I couldn't get a signal despite my old HTC phones getting near perfect signal.  From now on, I'll stick with HTC, or Motorola products.

A better explanation as to how SOPA & PIPA would work if passed

Transferring Mitalis.com off GoDaddy

For the 10 or so people (lol) that actually visit my website, there may be some downtime as I'm transferring my domain from GoDaddy to NameCheap.com.  GoDaddy are SOPA supporters and played a major part in helping draft up the bill.  Because of this there has been a boycott against GoDaddy for supporting this draconian piece of legislation. 

December 29th has been declared 'dump GoDaddy' day and I'll gladly be one of tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people that are also taking their business elsewhere.

I refuse to support any company that thinks SOPA (in its current form) is an acceptable way to combat piracy. 

I urge any of you that own any domains to transfer them as soon as possible..

SOPA, sounds like a conspiracy to me...

Finally a Victory for Consumers

I've been quiet about AT&T since they announced their plans to buyout T-Mobile.  This is mainly due to the fact that I'm tired of having to repeat myself over regarding my hatred towards AT&T.  In case you're a new reader, I fucking HATE AT&T.... Now that that's out of the way...

I'm really surprised of the final outcome, AT&T withdrew their request to the FCC about the buyout after the Department of Justice (DoJ) determined that the buyout was not in the interest of the consumer or the employees of T-mobile.  In addition, it doesn't take a genius to realize if the merger were to go through, their rates would go up.

AT&T had until sometime January 2012 to make a decision if they were going to move forward in court with the DoJ in being able to proceed with the acquisition.  The irony is, internal documentation AT&T had come up with if the plans went through were publicly leaked which basically stated the opposite of their claims.

It was clear that AT&T didn't have any proof that the merger would be in everybody's interest.and that's why rather than proceed with the fight they decided to back out..

So what does this mean now?  Bascially T-Mobile is going to get a HUGE chunk of cash from AT&T (as it was either some sort of law or agreement both companies had), in addition T-Mobile will also get some Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum in 128 markets, this would increase their coverage to about 5 million new households, plus the roaming agreement that T-Mobile has with AT&T will be extended another 7 years.

I'm happy of this outcome and it just proves that at least one person that works for the Government has some common sense.