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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: I'm Now Officially a FiOS TV Customer!

« on: February 16, 2008, 02:23:34 PM »

I just went to the Comcast office in the Penn Hills Shopping Center, and there was a whole slue of people waiting to take back their STBs and Internet modems, as most of them had recently switched to FiOS. Sadly, I've been to that office many of times (to swap out boxes because their boxes suck) and I've never seen that many people in there before. Comcast had seriously consider dropping rates (even though they increased them a LOT in early Feb.) or they will loose a bunch of customers.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: I'm Now Officially a FiOS TV Customer!

« on: February 16, 2008, 12:21:58 AM »

BTW, I noticed I don't have those carzy flavors other FiOS customers have, which I don't mind.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: I'm Now Officially a FiOS TV Customer!

« on: February 15, 2008, 11:56:58 PM »

Shut up. I'm tired, I just worked a long, hard 5 hours with a two screaming in my ears because I wasn't cleaning tables fast enough. Meanwhile, I was the only busser on tonight, for the ENTIRE restaurant (Chili's, and it's quite large), on a FRIDAY EVENING. But, I made a whopping $65 in tips, and that doesn't include my hourly wage. 

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: I'm Now Officially a FiOS TV Customer!

« on: February 15, 2008, 11:38:45 PM »

Get this... I just called Comcast to cancel our services, and the dept. who handles cancellations was already done for the night, but the dept. that handles new customers or new service for existing customers is there 27/4. What a crock of

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TWC and your Cable Company / I'm Now Officially a FiOS TV Customer!

« on: February 15, 2008, 11:30:06 PM »

Yes... and I LOVE it. We're saving upwards of $50/month over Comcast... the boxes run so much smoother, faster, and the DVR is MUCH quieter. Also, I really like the interactive guide. It, as well as the channel #s, will take getting used to, but overall, it was an excellent idea to switch.

The install took about 2.5 hours, not bad. We had 3 boxes installed, 1 of which is a DVR. With Comcast, we had 1 DVR and 1 normal STB.. however with FiOS, all TVs must have a box. But, we're saving a lot of money, so that really doesn't matter.

Any other FiOS customers here have good (or bad) stories to share?

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Next Local Across The 48's

« on: February 14, 2008, 04:11:26 PM »

gary i will have mine up around 9am saturday  because my camera's batteries ran out 

So run to the store right now and get new batteries. That's what, 10 min. tops?



JK. 

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 11, 2008, 07:47:35 AM »

Mike I have a delay today...

Temp: 3
WCF: -12

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Epic Conditions to be released on DVD and Blu-ray

« on: February 09, 2008, 11:51:34 AM »

Me neither. I wish they'd release Atmospheres or Weather Classroom on video.

Never... they're too old, and weren't popular enough.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 04, 2008, 10:27:45 PM »

I've always considered that a "co-admin" was more like an assistant administrator. BTW, I think three admins here is enough for now. There's more admins here than at TWCC, yet the activity here is not as high as over there.

Look, as much as I love gossip (the girl in me sings!). I think we should just end the whole admin bashin' contest here. You've all won. Congrats.

Woah, I finally won something. Now I can go slap my mother in her face and tell her she was wrong about me!




Just kidding, of course. 

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 04, 2008, 10:07:49 PM »

Sorry to be a hardass, but i prefer Matt doing this not you

Matt wouldn't have done it any differently.

Nah. I'm saying that because in here, Gary's the one usually doing action not the co-admons

Well then maybe Gary needs new coadmins (no offense intended, folks)? I'm a co-admin, and have equal rights, responsibilities, and privileges. Dislike it? You can stop coming to TWCC then. 'tis a free country, you know; you can do as you please.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 04, 2008, 10:02:47 PM »

Sorry to be a hardass, but i prefer Matt doing this not you

 

............why? I'm just as equal an admin as he is?

Sometimes you make no sense...

And, just to remind you, we're not forcing you to visit our site. 

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Storm Stories going into syndication

« on: February 04, 2008, 10:01:37 PM »

The article mentions WPXI has signed on... whippie! 


 

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 04, 2008, 09:59:50 PM »

I think that's a really good idea. I'm considering a similar policy here.

Sure you can prohibit personal threads bit i dont appreciate my thread being all of a sudden locked without telling me

 

1) I'm an admin. I can do what I want when I please, though I usually tend not to run my ship that way.
2) I posted the new rule in the announcements/guidelines area, and then locked your thread. What's wrong with that? It wasn't the other way around or anything...

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 01, 2008, 02:45:20 PM »

And contrary to your belief, it COULD have something to do with the storms. I assume you use an ethernet cable and card to connect to the internet, and if that's the case lightning could very possibly have traveled through that and fried your PC. Yep, you don't need to have it plugged in to get it fried. I've dealt with many computers that were fried via the modem or ethernet connection.

Actually that's what came to my mind, too.

I was going to say temporarily short the CMOS setting on the motherboard, but probably not in this situation.

Yeah I don't think that messing with the CMOS would do any good.

My advice, provided Stephen doesn't want to attempt to tackle the inside of the PC himself, would be to take it to a place like FireDog or Geek Squad, at Circuit City or BEst Buy, respectively.

EW. I don't recommend either, but CERTAINLY NOT FIREDOG. They SUCK. And yes, thats coming from experience.

I fix my own, so I have absolutley NO experience with either one. 

I fix my own too, but I bought a PC once from Circuit City and FireDog, and they were HORRIBLE. Lied about the pick-up time(and it was clearly a "slow" business day)... and the people there are idiots.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 01, 2008, 01:58:04 PM »

And contrary to your belief, it COULD have something to do with the storms. I assume you use an ethernet cable and card to connect to the internet, and if that's the case lightning could very possibly have traveled through that and fried your PC. Yep, you don't need to have it plugged in to get it fried. I've dealt with many computers that were fried via the modem or ethernet connection.

Actually that's what came to my mind, too.

I was going to say temporarily short the CMOS setting on the motherboard, but probably not in this situation.

Yeah I don't think that messing with the CMOS would do any good.

My advice, provided Stephen doesn't want to attempt to tackle the inside of the PC himself, would be to take it to a place like FireDog or Geek Squad, at Circuit City or BEst Buy, respectively.

EW. I don't recommend either, but CERTAINLY NOT FIREDOG. They SUCK. And yes, thats coming from experience.