Diary Products - Hannes Schmidt - Dummy

Quickly enable/disable default gateway for VPN on Windows

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:53:46 +0000

Whether a VPN connection has the "Use default gateway on remote network" option enabled has big impact on how network traffic from your machine is routed.

Letstalk - Review Of a Negative Customer Service Experience

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:35:40 +0000

To make a long story short, do not ever shop at Letstalk.

I ordered two Motorola E815 cell phones from Letstalk on July 06, 2006 along with a Verizon family plan for my wife and I. The two handsets arrived on July 11. The two holsters I had ordered for the phones were too big although Letstalk advertised them as accessories for the E815.

After a week the battery of one of the phones started to show signs of a defect. Although it had been charged all night, it would only hold the charge for 10 hours without any calls made or received. A call to the Letstalk customer service number yielded an RMA number that was needed to send the phone back to Letstalk for exchange.

Why the iPod sucks ...

Wed, 17 May 2006 22:15:40 +0000

Update: Apparently, I forget easily. Or should I say forgive? Just came back from the Apple Store with a brand-new iPod touch. Good news is that it doesn't have a hard-drive but uses Flash memory instead. Also, the Hold switch is gone/virtual. Make of it what you want but I'm leaving this article up.

Being what's usually referred to as an early adopter, I was one of the first people to buy an 1st generation iPod. And I didn't even have a Mac. So I relied on a software called ephPod to upload and manage songs from my PC. That software still exists but is bug ridden and not as versatile as iTunes, which is what I use now with with my 40G 3rd generation iPod.