Google Voice and Blocking Unknown Callers

In the last few days I have had a few calls to my Google Voice phone number where the caller lets it ring once or twice and then hangs up. The calls are coming from an “Unknown” caller but that is why I went with Google Voice as my primary number, call blocking and call history.

I logged in to the Google Voice site and sure enough there are the inbound calls from “Unknown” with the option to either report them as spam or to block them. Reporting them as spam isn’t really what I want as that still rings the phone and just doesn’t allow for voice-mails to be left so I wanted to block them. I have some concerns about doing this though as I know Google Voice knows who is actually calling as you can see when choosing to block them they ask “Are you sure you want to block Unknown

Remy Services Wiki

I created this blog to record interesting issues and unique situations in my daily trekkings but there are sometimes those little things that just aren’t worth blogging about.If I don’t blog about the issue I end up forgetting the solution. So how do you get around this issue? Creat your own wiki,  that’s what I did.

Vista Network World Icon

I have always wondered and never looked into how Vista knows when it is online with the little globe over the network icon and today I found out how it does this. This might not be anything surprising to many of you but I thought I would share this little tidbit.

Aardvark

So it has been way to long, again… I have two posts I am working on that I should be posted soon but in the meantime I have something quick to post about.

Over the past few months I have been playing around with Aardvark and I must say it is an interesting idea and I have already found it to be most usful. The idea behind Aardvark is a search engien where you can find someone to ask about recommendations, research help, advice, second opinions, tips and more. It is a little hard to explain as this is one of the first such search engiens I have seen but if you check out their site you can get a feel for the technology and its uses.

If you happen to want to join my Aardvark network feel free to use the link I have in my links section.

Video Card Corruption

Ok, so here is an issue I have seen around work and I just found again with the side business and it has always been a sore spot with me. The issue seems to lie in ATI video cards more often then any other company and does not seem to be limited to just PC boxes but also Mac’s. The issue is memory corruption, and it happens way to often for me to say it isn’t just an over heated card or a single bad card here and there.

My experience with this issue started just about three years ago around work, we had 90+ desktops shipped to us with some ATI cards in them

Infamous “Applying Computer Settings” and “Applying User Settings” Issue in XP

I know that if you run a domain with multipul computers and users you have been bound to run into a computer that says “Applying Computer Settings” or “Applying User Settings” for longer then expected, it’s just a matter of whether you fixed it or not.

Apple Quote

Here is a quote a friend of mine found a few years ago and I just had to pass this on.

QUOTE (Keldyn @ Nov 4 2003, 11:04) Steve Jobs has one hell of a sweet deal. Apple fans have my utmost respect. No, really it is true. They are so damn dedicated. Never before have I seen a group of people so staunchly defend a product. Infact I am willing to bet Apple could probably market and release crap. A turd. Hell it could even come in 5 fruity flavors. Berry, orange, lemon, lime and tangerine. Let’s for arguments sake call it the iTurd and undoubtedly you guys would buy it. Slap an apple logo on it and BOOYA!!! You’ll be all over it like flies on the proverbial cow pat…..

The Importance of Cleaning Your PC

If you have neglected cleaning your computer in the last few months I would suggest opening it up and taking a look, you never know how much dust has collected.

Cross Platform Sysprep’ing with XP SP3

Well I ran across an issue the other day that I should have seen coming…

For a few years now I have been building all our images on Intel boxes and pushing the images back to Intel box with no issues. Newer hardware to older, older to newer, switching HAL’s and switching SATA controllers all without any problems. Well this year we are getting in some AMD’s to replace a few hundred Intels so I decided to start taking a look into syspreping the new AMDs.

Text Messaging, IM, Emails, Phones and Social Networking

Not that any of this matters to anyone but me but this is a little bit of a personal pet peeve of mine so hang in there with me.

Why is it text messaging and social networking have become such a great way to communicate with friends and family? I can see uses here and there for all these new methods but many of the applications for them just don’t seem to be much better than other methods already around. Take text messaging, if you want to talk to someone, you are both free and nether one of you must be quiet then just call just call them. You have a phone, they have a phone, and have you ever noticed that you can talk to someone faster than you can text? I have seen text messaging conversations take hours just to have the same conversation that takes less the 5 minutes if they had just called each other.