http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com Free advice - at least you know what it is worth! Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:09:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow... less and less impressed as time goes by. Roomba has been broken for two months. It worked for three months before it broke and still no parts for it. One more month goes by without a repair and I'll have had a broken unit just as a long ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2008/06/16/roomba-6-months-in/ Well... my initial reviews were enthusiastic. However, April 25th (just over a month ago) Roomba broke. I phoned their customer support - and I must say it was the best customer support call I'd ever had. Bottom line was it needed a replacement part, which would be ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2008/05/30/roomba-560-5-months-in/ For those of you unfortunate enough to get your Internet through Rogers... Now that Rogers has changed the amount of Bandwidth you get and the charges associated with them be warned... If you were to download at the full speed of the line, how many hours would you be able to do ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2008/04/15/rogers-high-speed-internet-monthly-limits-suck/ National Car Rental -- Don't bother using their online rental service or you might end up with a similar experience. Reserved a car online 3 days in advance. I show up at the rental place. No vehicle. Apparently they need to phone you to confirm the online rental. And they didn't. ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2008/03/18/dont-use-national-car-rental-online/ 6 weeks in with the Roomba 560 - Do I still think it's great? I've scheduled Roomba for 3 day a week cleaning. It automatically starts, does its work in the three zones, and returns to its dock. Overall - still impressed. As a parrot owner (currently going through a moult) ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2008/03/16/roomba_560_review/ The Book the 4 hour work week talks about a site called GetFriday.com as an assistant site. I'm sure you've read my previous posts about my experience with them. They content that their problems were mainly growing pains associated with the popularity experienced as a result of being in the ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2008/03/13/getfridaycom_explains_bad_service/ I purchased two Seagate 500 gig drives for a new server of mine - set them up as a striped RAID, installed Ubuntu. Within two weeks, in the middle of the night, it sounded like a bandsaw coming from the server. One of the drives died. I had ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2008/03/03/hard-drive-failures/ As always, I needed more drive space, so I took a look at what was available and it seems like the best price per gig is now the 750GB drive. I thought I'd just buy a SATA drive and drop it in my Linux box and share it to ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2008/03/02/maxtor-one-touch-4-750gb-usb-drive-on-mac-and-linux-a-review/ it's hard to pick a good firewall for a person working from home who has a lot on a go... let me describe my network. 1. VOIP lines for personal and toll free voip for business. Calls need to reach me anywhere in the house and out on my cell ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2008/02/05/pfsense-firewall/ Well, I have had the Roomba 560 robotic vacuum by iRobot for 4 days now. Here is my initial review of the product. Originally, I had thought of this as a luxury item. We have a regular vacuum and this was just something we thought would be 'cool.' We've just ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2008/01/31/roomba-560-review/ Grande Entertainment is selling adult websites... Are they a scam or real? They seem like a scam to me. http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2008/01/16/grande-entertainment/ I recently obtained a new server - Intel 2.4Ghz Quad processor - Two 500GB drives (as software raid) - Overall, it is far more powerful than any of my other machines. I have 5 other servers (Two file, one PBX, one firewall, and one Windows machine) I moved my Windows XP machine onto one of ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2007/12/30/vmware-pbx-problems/ Well so far my new VA has done two weeks of work for me. So far so good. Pros: - my work is at last getting done - accounting work is being finished... that isn't much fun I'll admit. Cons: - not on my time zone - not doing 40 hours a ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2007/12/30/indian-outsourcing-continued/ Well, it is the season for gift-giving and guilt. I had a discussion with a few people about my problems in offshoring and I mentioned having hired an assistant (who, one week in, is working out great so far!). Plus I'm considering adding a second one to the mix - ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2007/12/20/sit-at-home-and-do-nothing/ OK - I really should have learned my lesson my now... But apparently, I haven't! I hired my second choice from my Craigslist Bangalore post. I've given him access to my task manager and VNC access to my accounting machine. We shall see how this unfolds... by this point I should say ... http://www.uselessfreeadvice.com/2007/12/16/outsource-assistant-to-india-attempt-5/