Blog or Die! | Thoughts and commentary on politics, technology, travel, religion and current events
Description: Ed's gripeline articles and reviews. Get all reviews and readers answers for companies, software, services and technologies.
When is the Internet not the Internet? When your ISP can't be bothered to see to it that your e-mail traffic gets through, answers one reader, speaking about the company formerly known as SBC and now calling itself AT&T.
It's the little things that get you, particularly when it comes to tech support. And when it comes to HP tech support, one reader has just discovered that even the must mundane of problems can cost you unwarranted time and money.
Do you own the software on your computer, or do the software companies? That's really the issue that lies at the heart of a brouhaha that arose last week regarding Windows Updates that apparently are installed without user permission. What I find most fascinating about the incident is what it reveals about the world of EULAs and DRM in which, at least if you listen to the software industry, we all now live.
Blog or Die! | Thoughts and commentary on politics, technology, travel, religion and current events