My Review of Throwdown Protector T-Shirt

Originally submitted at UFC Store

A shield to protect the wearerthis is what the Throwdown Protector T-Shirt offers up. Rules to live by: Honor and Respect. Virtue/Honor. The Throwdown Protector T-Shirt is armed and probably dangerous.

Throwdown Protector T-Shirt

Threads hanging of it

By The TOUGH Spot from Brisbane, QLD on 1/11/2012

 

2out of 5

Fit: Feels true to size

Length: Feels true to length

Pros: Stylish, Great Colors

Cons: Threads hanging of it, Poor Quality

Describe Yourself: Career

Was this a gift?: No

Like the way it looks, just very unhappy with how the threads we’re lose and coming of more and more.

(legalese)

CrazyDomains.com.au Review / Feedback

If this post would only help one other person with their decision on whether to use CrazyDomains.com.au for registrar it is worth it!

In my opinion and experience their:

- customer service lacks, no urgency or proper response
- their DNS system is not intuitive at all and hard to understand even for someone working with DNS for many years

Here is my latest message to them, awaiting reply from them on complaints@crazydomains.com.au.

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

I would like to lodge a formal complaint about the service I received from your company.
First let me tell you that I have been working with the Internet since they created BBS, I’m no dummy and know what is involved with a transfer, how long it takes etc. (just letting them know so we can skip the usual template reply of you needed to follow this, or wait for that)

I transferred our domain executiveresults.com.au from our other registrar in the hope that we would get better service. (Other registrar failed to notify us via email about our domain expiration)

I initiated transfer on the 25th of Dec and confirmed it . Note the following in your email:
You should experience NO disruption to the service of your domain name, website or emails, and you will be notified once the process is complete.
Our website which brings in about $500 to $1000 per day in leads has been down since the 25th of Dec and is still down as we speak.  Please note that I have warned your staff about taking this further and seeking damages, I’ve had no reply or concern shown in regards to this. I’ve asked for a contact in higher management to get this matter escalated, I’ve had no response, it got completely ignored. Note that you have received all these emails as a ticket is assigned to them. Your staff shows total lack of concern or urgency for a serious situation like this.

NOTE: on the 28th I got an email from May asking to call and renew the domain. See below.

Hello Taco,

Thank you for contacting Customer Support.

Please give us a call to renew it asap.

Telephone number : (08) 9422 0855
(08) 9422 0888
1300 210 210

Regards,
May

I called ASAP as I’m sure your records will show and spoke to some Indian guy who said he could not renew it, I said that I was just asked to call and renew it, nothing I said helped. Asking to speak to someone else did not help either, he put me on hold for a while and then he came back on himself several times. Many more emails got exchanged in between then and now, but the most important thing is that TODAY when I called and spoke to someone else, they asked me for my credit card and renewed the domain. WHY COULD THIS NOT BE DONE WHEN I CALLED THE FIRST TIME!

First off, the domain should have never been down as stated in your auto reply email, secondly once May sent me an email asking to call and renew, it should have been renewed, thirdly, when I asked to speak to senior management I should have been given a contact, fourthly, your staff shold have answered my other tickets submitted with concerns and possible solutions to this matter (i.e. canceling the transfer, or asking whom I can contact higher up to get a solution).

I would like to know from you.
1. are you going to resolve this matter before we take it any further?
2. if not, please forward the contacts and addresses for us to forward proof of loss of income and further action

iTunes Mute Problem – iTunes 10.2.2.12 mutes itself

This same problem has been reported since 2005

See below
https://discussions.apple.com/message/1256738?messageID=1256738
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081214155444AAnQfKm
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/68397/
http://www.ehmac.ca/all-ios-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-apple-tv-itunes/86457-itunes-mutes-itself.html
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12058842?messageID=12058842

My setup is as following
Windows XP 2002 SP3
itunes 10.2.2.12
Free disk space is 20Gb
3.5GB memory
Page file is system managed
Audio drivers are up to date
No iTunes plugins
Audio Hardware acceleration is set to full

This problem is driving me nuts and will require me to go back to Windows Media Player and returning the Airport Express I got.

iPhone error 1015 Recovery

OK, I’ve literally spend 3 days trying to recover my iPhone from an error 1015. I tried to remove the jail break from my phone and restore it to its original firmware etc. Nothing seemed to work, everytime I seemed to run into the dreaded 1015 error, only thing that did work was install another jail break on it. But I did not give up and finally found Fixrecovery OSX from http://thefirmwareumbrella.blogspot.com/ and it worked like a charm. I got everything back on it after re-installing and upgrading my iPhone…. I hope this will save someone else a hell of a lot of time.

WordPress IIS7 IUSR File Permissions on Windows 2003

Been having some issues with WordPress on IIS7 windows 2003 for a while now and think I finally got it solved, thought I’d post the info here for others to see, as I had a hard time finding this info myself anywhere else, not even the WordPress website.

This is what I found after a lot of playing around, if you see any issues with this or have any feedback please let me know below.

On the wp-content folder I applied the following permissions.

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-content
- IUSR with following permissions

• Traverse folder / execute file
• List folder / read data
• Read attributes
• Read extended attributes
• Create files / write data
• Create folders / append data
• Write attributes
• Write extended attributes
• Delete subfolders and files
• Delete
• Read permissions

I also have the following groups and users on there

• IIS_IUSRS
• Trustedinstaller
• SYSTEM
• Administrators
• Users
• CREATOR OWNER

Here are the steps I followed

• Right click wp-content
• Properties
• Security tab
• Advanced button
• Change permissions button
• Add button
• Advanced button
• Find now button
• Locate IUSR and double click
• OK button
• Check box Allow Full control
• Uncheck the boxes; Full control, Take ownership, Change permissions
• Click OK button
• Check box “Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object”
• Click OK button
• Click Yes when asked if you want to continue
• Click OK button
• Click OK button

I’m not making anything in the root writable, like wp-config etc. I change that manually or as a one off.

CF9.0.1 CFLOCATION onRequestEnd problems…

Quick heads up! This has caused me serious headache.

The way onRequestEnd works in ColdFusion 9.0.1 has changed, it now executes the onRequestend method in the application.cfc after a redirect… This can seriously mess up some code like it did mine.

Show PHP errors

By default PHP does not show you the errors or debugging, you need to enable this in the config or add the following code to your page to display the PHP errors.

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set(‘display_errors’, ’1′);
?>

cfhttp I/O Exception: peer not authenticated Error

cfhttp I/O Exception: peer not authenticated Error

Replace tab in MS SQL

Replacing a tab with something else in MS SQL is easy peasy, following is the code

update [table name]
set [column name] = REPLACE( [column name], CHAR(9), ' ')

Direct Debit Service Providers and Solutions

I asked around on Facebook the other day for any other Direct Debit Service Providers and Solutions and following is part of the conversation that followed. I’m posting this to give you some idea of what’s out there. and I will also have a follow up on the EzyPay experience soon.