P.O.T.Y. post of the year

So it was a stifling day in the last week of July 2009 on vacation in a tiny town in northern Costa Rica when I logged in to the local Wi-Fi-per-minute via my little netbook, and after checking the local weather and surf forecast, I checked my email, only to discover an alarming message from one of our M.S.P. customers (Managed Services Program) back in Charleston, SC. She reported that her antivirus was reporting an infestation of Trojans in her i-Tunes folder.

I replied and asked her to please leave her PC on for the next 24 hours and immediately contacted my N.O.C. (Network Operations Center) in Mumbai, India. Throughout a series of emails and chats, we were able to remotely connect to her computer and isolate the issue; the antivirus definitions package that came with the automatic updates was incorrectly identifying ALL i-Tunes related paraphernalia as a Trojan infection.

Between THIS A Geek To Go in Costa Rica and the NOC in Mumbai, we were able to successfully - and here comes the buzzword - 'Transglobally' isolate the issue and restore the computer to normal operating functions within an hour!

End result: False alarm, scared, but now ELATED customer.
I can continue to melt in the tropics as I have been, although Costa Rican heat is not too far from being as oppressive as Charleston heat towards the end of the summer!

Apple Approves Safe Sexting App

redistributed from http://krapps.com/

Sexting … ever heard of it? Meh, don’t worry. Just means you’re out of high school and don’t have a MySpace page. Basically kids these days are using their cell phones to take sexually explicit pictures of themselves and then sending them via text message (MMS) to their friends. Sex + Texting = Sexting. And it’s a fairly popular activity among teens. Just yesterday, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric reported that according to a recent Pew poll (no idea, google it), 30 percent of 17-year-olds have received a sext, while 15 percent of all teens have. LOL … freaking kids these days … so technologically advanced.

But sexting is no laughing matter. Sucks for you teenager when your nude images start appearing on Facebook and Twitter. Sucked even more for High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens … naked photos from her sext swept the Internet. And the ultimate suck – it’s a crime – possessing and distributing child pornography is a serious felony.

So in efforts to keep the kiddies free from sexting danger, a number of safe sext messages are being published. Inside the Actor’s Studio host James Lipton has released a practice safe sexting PSA video … … the National Crime Prevention Council issued a Sexting: How Parents Can Keep Their Kids Safe flyer … and of course, CollegeHumor.com released a NSFW safe sexting music video, including tips like blur your face and strategic cropping.

Not to be outdone, Apple has joined the safe sext movement. Perhaps they figured with the introduction of iPhone MMS, it’s the socially correct thing to do, approve Safe Sexting.

With Safe Sexting, perverted kids can now continue to enjoy texting naked pictures of themselves and as an added bonus … they’ll stay out of jail. Before your next sexting session, simply launch Safe Sexting … which will automatically open up a safe sexting camera with four options to censor you naughty bits: Small Box, Large Box, Head Box (for the introverts) and a teasing semi-transparent Red Silk. Take picture and safely send away.

Big up’s to Apple for providing children a safe method of sexting. However we’re actually not that impressed. If Apple can somehow transform the iPhone into a condom and tackle the larger safe sex issue … now that would be revolutionary!

redistributed from http://krapps.com/

T-Mobile dropping quickly

T-Mumble is killing me today!

• Triplicate texts

• Auto-generated responses of gibberish
  

• Voicemail is not in service! DIE! DIE! DIE!

Pretty sad that I had to buy a landline 6 months ago just so I could troubleshoot their network for them!