Comments for corey gilmore's blog

Comment on Verizon doesn't realize what "degrade" means by J

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:54:36 +0000

I got my "upgraded" blackberry 8530 yesterday and spent over an hour arguing with verizon once I realized I couldn't change my default search provider. I finally contacted the federal trade commission and reported it. I asked them to look into the issue. For anyone that would like to call and complain, FTC's # is 877-382-4357. Be prepared to provide a quick summary of your complaint immediately before the representative will determine if you are making a legitimate complaint. I stated I wanted file a complaint against Verizon Wireless and their internet search engine agreement with Bing for restricting my ability to choose and set a new default search company if I choose. The agent was helpful and asked me a series of questions about it and filed a report. I stated that in my opinion not only am I being forced to use a single specific company, but it so happens that the company I'm being forced to use is supremely inferior when compared to others that offer the same service. I informed her that there is no way to download apps and then change the default and I have to go thru a convoluted process to use another search engine. A few years ago Microsoft got in trouble with their bundling of IE and other features on Windows and I believe were found guilty of violations despite people could use another internet browser if they chose and make it the default. This to me seems an identical issue with the exception that I can't simply download google/yahoo/whoever app and then make it my default. I have the option to choose between BB, Internet Explorer as well as Mozilla for my online browser on the phone but when it comes to the search engine nothing but Bung, er, Bing. She said it very well could be classified as an unfair trade practice and a unfair restriction of competetion. I know it's a diservice to Verizon's customers and hope that enough people with complain or at least talk to the right people to force them to at least allow us as consumers the option to spend our time to download and use the features we want provided it doesn't give unfair advantage to their competetion (Sprint, AT&T, etc…) In less than a second using GOOGLE I was able to come across this thread so I'm happy to know that at least one other person is upset about this issue as well. I hope we're not in the minority and there's enough complaints to effect a change. I mean has anyone at Verizon actually compared the search results side by side for their usefulness and for their depth of info?

Comment on OneNote – Much ado about nothing by Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:49:48 +0000

Resolved the issue by (combined):
- closing all workbooks
- moving all documents from the "Unfiled Notes" into a new folder
- closing OneNote
- reopening OneNote
- Adding the workbooks
— now it is working :)

Comment on OneNote – Much ado about nothing by Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:48:56 +0000

Same Problem and it runs much longer than 5min.
After adding a Tag (here Ctrl-1) (this started yesterday, 1-Sept-2010!), I have to wait much more than 5 min to watch a progress bar stuck in the last 2% of completion.
Cancel needs two cancellations then the progressbar reappears with the next Todo task (CTRL-1).
Program is basically unusable now.

System:
Windows 7 / Office 2007 with actual patches
OneNote File Version: 12.0.6500.5000
no suspicious network. memory or harddisk activity seen
No comment on the progress bar, no information about what is going on…

Comment on Per-site custom CSS in Firefox by And now for something completely different! | Rebellious Thoughts

And now for something completely different! | Rebellious Thoughts — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:22:57 +0000

[...] Firefox also renders my CSS correctly, with a few exceptions. Firefox's support for CSS3 attribution statements, which I've used here because they're awesome, is somewhat limited. As such, some orange text and images will occur. As I don't routinely use Firefox, I'm not about to go and find complicated methods of doing hat Opera can do in a single line. If someone else finds a way to remedy the issues Firefox has with my CSS, feel free to post a link to your version here, and I'll include it in this post. Directions for how to customize your Firefox CSS can be found here. [...]

Comment on Cisco VPN connections from an iPhone by PeteLong

PeteLong — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:30:29 +0000

Heres some more information that might be helpful for setting up the ASA end,

Cisco ASA Remote VPN

Pete
PeteNetLive

Comment on Fix PHP 5.3 hang on Windows by David

David — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:42:49 +0000

Hey Corey, thanks man! I had just upgraded from PHP5.3.0 on my Windows 7 64-bit development machine to PHP5.3.3 and PHP could no longer connect to MySQL. I replaced my few scripts containing 'localhost' with '127.0,0.1' and everything worked. There must have been some changes made to how PHP connects to MySQL for the connection to break like that.

Comment on Fix PHP 5.3 hang on Windows by Php 5.3.3 Upgrade, Mysql 5 Connection Problem Solved « Zeletron

Php 5.3.3 Upgrade, Mysql 5 Connection Problem Solved « Zeletron — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:33:36 +0000

[...] my scripts' connection host parameters to "127.0.0.1". I can thank the post http://coreygilmore.com/blog/2009/11/20/fix-php-5-3-hang-on-windows/ by Corey Gilmore for that little detail. Although, it was working perfectly fine with PHP5.3.0, so [...]

Comment on Decrypt a Cisco VPN Password by Jo

Jo — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:36:25 +0000

Works great! VPN setup on Mac (Snow Leopard) took seconds with standard, pre-installed Apple software.

Comment on Fix PHP 5.3 hang on Windows by Michael

Michael — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:23:22 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks, this solved a problem I was having!

Comment on Use Windows Classic Search Not Windows Desktop Search as the Default by Fedor

Fedor — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:04:52 +0000

Dude, you are my HERO!!!
Thanks a lot for helping me getting rid of that @!§$@%&* Desktop Search! ;-)

Comment on Helper Application to View the Event Log on a BlackBerry Storm by Joey

Joey — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:15:02 +0000

thank you very much for posting this was very helpful and phone is alot faster thanks a million

Comment on Configure ActiveSync with a single Exchange server (Exchange sync for an iPhone) by Rob-in-NC

Rob-in-NC — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:05:36 +0000

Outlook, Exchange 2003, OWA via port 443 and Blackberry Server all working well. "Microsoft KB 817379" was the fixed that allowed me to add OMA support for Droids. Nice.

Comment on The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022). by Bit Hacker

Bit Hacker — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:13:15 +0000

can't run the dll one command, gives Access Denied and I'm logged in through Administrator Account.

Comment on Convert a SIM to Micro-SIM or a Micro-SIM to SIM by Greg

Greg — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:22:00 +0000

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Comment on BlackBerry GPS: difficult is not disabled by Ferdy's

Ferdy's — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:36:47 +0000

Great info, but I wrote otherwise about this topic at my blog

Comment on Fix PHP 5.3 hang on Windows by Houston IT support

Houston IT support — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:11:27 +0000

Corey this is awesome. It is for this reason that I run PHP on a linux box instead of a windows box. I will pass the word along that this fix will allow my fellow developers running PHP and MYSQL on a windows box the ability to implement IPv6 by a simple change to the hosts file is system32. Also guys if you really want a cookie cutter way to do some dev work on a windows box use XAMPP!

Comment on Remove VMware Fusion and Parallels "Open With" Context Menus by Bart

Bart — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:58:08 +0000

Thanks for this!
Just a small comment, it works for me but after a restart.

And I like also your solution in another post to avoid Windows App in Spotlight (last time I try to run the calculator, I "freeze" my small macbook with VMWare launching the windows calc app!).

Comment on Fix PHP 5.3 hang on Windows by Jorge

Jorge — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:20:00 +0000

Spent 2 days "googling" and finally a simple but smart solution for Windows 7. Thanks so much. I wonder why the Microsoft's guys keep changing operating systems settings. Maybe they do not want third party software.

Comment on Fix PHP 5.3 hang on Windows by prozac

prozac — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:29:55 +0000

This was driving me crazy for days.

Thank you man

Comment on The greatest advertising campaign of all time by nuova simonelli

nuova simonelli — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:34:38 +0000

I don't think it's the greatest advertising of all the time… This some kind of showing up nudity! A lot of popular model who do more than just advertising with extremely sell the product in just a seconds.