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In the US, there are 4 major players in the cell industry. Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. Each company seeming to have very different business models and methods of attracting users. Each company has their “Fanboys” and their critics. I have been a customer of all 4 of these carriers at one point in my history of owning a cellphone and have my opinions of each. Now you get to read them.

To begin, I am not a huge fan of Apple products to begin with. Yes, I have an iPad, but that is certainly the limit of the distance I am willing to go with Apple at this point. With that said, with the release of the Apple TV for $99 USD, I was intrigued me. [...]

If you are reading this post, you are probably about as annoyed as I am about seeing the following: Well, after a bit of googling I found the fix! Best part about it is that it’s quite simple to fix whether you have XP Pro or Home. Check it out at Code Retard. Hopefully this [...]

I had an issue where doubleclicking on a .SQL file always launched a new instance of SSMS instead of just creating a new query window. Needless to say, it was a bit annoying. Usually, you would fix this by deleting and recreating the file association. Well, thanks to Microsoft’s wonderful engineers, Windows Vista and 7 [...]

When running the Microsoft Exmerge utility, you may receive the following error in your exmerge.log file: Error opening message store (MSEMS). Verify that the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service is running and that you have the correct permissions to log on. (0x8004011d) Even though you may be a Domain Admin or Enterprise Admin, you will [...]

When running sysprep tool with the /generalize switch on Windows Server 2008 Standard, I received the following errors (viewable in C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\panther\setupact.log): Error [0x0f0082] SYSPRP LaunchDll:Failure occurred while executing ‘C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer returned error code 2 Error [0x0f0070] SYSPRP RunExternalDlls:An error occurred while running registry sysprep DLLs, halting sysprep execution. dwRet = 2 Error [0x0f00a8] SYSPRP [...]

Well, Verizon and Google had a joint press conference announcing the soon coming release of two Android powered Smartphones on the Verizon network. While they didn’t give many specific details, they said the release would be “in the coming weeks”. While they didn’t specify what phones, Verizon CEO and Google CEO were holding what seems [...]

We all know that Microsoft hates their competition and will do anything to eliminate it (but not before stealing it’s technology). While you may think it’s just another bug in Microsoft’s programming, some seem to think they are trying to sabotage Firefox and their growing market-share. A while back, Microsoft silently installed an addon to [...]

When executing a batch file via scheduled task, cmd.exe is called by the user the task is running as. If you use the default user, or a user with administrative rights, it works perfectly. What happens when you want to lock down permissions and run the task as a non-administrative user? Chances are, you will [...]

Network Woes? Hate the iPhone, Not AT&T – PC World Historically speaking, AT&T has always had horrible service reception, dropped calls and customer service. Not to mention frequent billing mistakes that take months to fix if they ever do get fixed. I personally had to call the FCC and PUCO to file federal disputes with [...]