July 3rd, 2006
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OK, it seems like a not a day goes by when I don’t receive a “Special Message” from Bob Parsons and company. I love GoDaddy as much as the next guy but they are one spam machine let me tell you.
Today takes the cake. Normally the subject of the messages are pretty clear like; save 10% on .foo domains this week, or buy one get one free.
But today’s was simple. “A Special message from GoDaddy.com” I had to open it, then I had to click “View Images” to actually see anything.
Then I had to click a button to ‘retrieve my special message’. WTF?
(in the P.S. however I did notice that in honor of the 4th they were taking 25% off of .US domains. Yippe! I always wanted one of those, not).
So, why not, I clicked the button to get my ’special message’
I then got a FULL SCREEN POP-UP window with yet another screen requiring a click to get my special message.
Jeeze, the suspense is killing me.
From there, I get some flash, animated fireworks, and a patriotic message from Bob himself. Yet another click let’s me hear the star spangled banner and a touching screen presentation on someones laptop.
Well that was 5 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. Thanks Bob!.
Tags: godaddy.com, waste_of_time, spam, click_this, Bob_Parsons, WTF
Written by datapoohbah on July 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
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Well son of a @#$%@ Mr. Chambers. Before you run off on a tangent and try to give us video Tele-Presence. How about giving us something we really need, like hot standby functionally for IPCCX (now know as Unified Call Center Express)?
Right now we’re in the midst of dealing with software bugs in IPCCX (oh sorry, Cisco Unified Call Center Express) Which the TAC expects us to UNINSTALL and REINSTALL in the middle of the day, taking my queues off-line and leaving my inbound customers just hanging the wind.
Oh, we can run the complex script we’re working on but we can’t “Debug it†because it crashes. The TAC and Development Engineers have alluded to seeing this before but the only fix apparently is to reinstall. They aren’t *sure* that will fix our problem but what the hell. We’ve already wasted an entire day, what are a few more hours? Why they wouldn’t want to take a look at what’s actually going on and try to correct it I’ll never understand.
This wouldn’t bother me so much if the box we were developing on was a backup to the production box (i.e. the HOT stand by box), but it’s does because NO such functionality exists. Ok there is warm standby now, but that’s not the same, and it didn’t exist until 4.x which we _just_ upgraded to. Callers in queue would still be lost. But at least our agents wouldn’t be down for the hour and a half while we reinstall just to get the script development environment working again, if that in fact solves our problem.
Can you tell we’re just a tad frustrated?
Written by datapoohbah on July 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
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INSECURE.ORG has posted their top 100 network security tools.
Enjoy the list here.
There aren’t many surprises on the list, but it’s broken out well with nice icons so you know which platform things are going to run on, and if it’s command line only or GUI.
Thanks fellas.
Tags: Network_Security_Tools, Insecure.org, Top_100, List, must_have
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