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Re: Fystemroot – Fix BITS for Windows Update after Virus Removal on Windows XP

Guest — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:22:21 -0000

Would deleting the affected key in the registry also have the same result?

Re: ADT Alarm Service and Installation Review: Overpriced Liars and Unskilled Technicians

Bsparky134 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:56:16 -0000

I actually work as a technician for Adt.For the moment because they have every technician sitting on edge waiting on some catastrophe that will be made up or not approved of , while our bosses make it impossible to call and ask any questions we have.Instead we make our own decisions , and sometimes they are not exactly right, but we deal with management micromanaging us , but we cant call them they can only call you.
Sorry about your terrible excuse for a sales person and teJust like they say shit rolls down hill, and techs get it all. We really try to do a good job for everybody. I would say our minds are on other things like what arre they going to do to me next fire me.? We are all worried about getting fired right now. and having that hang over your head day in and day out wears on me.
I work in the Southside install team. The neighborhoods I frequent are rough at best. But the big bosses want us to sit at the address waiting for the arrival of the customer...for hours and hours. I refuse to do that because I am a woman and i get a lot of unwanted attention from street people. Odds are the more time I am out there exposing myself to real real bad areas the higher chance will be for me to become a statistic. No thank you.I do it my way. And not go there until I have already contacted the customer. But now They are bringing me in for suspension tomorrow. After 15 years this is how they treat me.

Re: Confidence and Skill: Tip Toe Past your Boundaries

kmapjr — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:56:48 -0000

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Re: ADT Alarm Service and Installation Review: Overpriced Liars and Unskilled Technicians

Geilt — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:40:10 -0000

I just finished paying the balance on that bill, it really hurt me financially the past 3 months, not to mention the constant hounding by ADT for payment when I had already signed a contract as to how to pay.

Just glad that it is over. Alarm is still working and haven't had any problems. It triggers properly when I goof and open the wrong door while armed.

I think though that my Cameras I had installed (custom job) have really helped. No robberies in my neighborhood since. Even the UPS guy tells me I'm the only house he cant throw a package at because of my cameras ;)

I love being able to see my house from anywhere, even my phone.

I would be a poor man had I set that up through ADT though!

Re: ADT Alarm Service and Installation Review: Overpriced Liars and Unskilled Technicians

Ohiosadie — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:14:06 -0000

ADT is trying to clean out my bank account too. Beware of them. They have forged my initials and signature on altered contracts and have made up fraudulent installation records. Be very careful with them and document everything.

Re: MegaUpload Takedown Heralds New Age of Digital Paranoia

Brilliance On Demand — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:10:24 -0000

Excellent article, Alex! Very good point about DropBox. Everyone will have to rethink the 'in the cloud' ideal.

Re: MegaUpload Takedown Heralds New Age of Digital Paranoia

Bill Grunau — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:09:47 -0000

One thing #OpMegaUpload did accomplish is it created a HUGE buzz and conversation about a questionable FBI bust that would not have made the network news otherwise. I don't support the attack and actually think it may set the anti SOPA movement back, giving congress a "reason" to enact legislation and look justified in doing it.

The really scary thing about the FBI raid is that the Gov can pretty much go after any site they want right now, without SOPA. Good lord I keep expecting to see V on TV, what next...

Re: Confidence and Skill: Tip Toe Past your Boundaries

M Nurul Ikhsan Saleh — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:33:45 -0000

Great writing. I do like this blog

Re: Google+ “Nearby”, What Latitude + Buzz Should Have Been

Geilt — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:58:37 -0000

Actually, Google even allows you to set your location now via the desktop version, meaning I no longer have to update solely from my phone to get local attention. It's great! I am sure they will add local filters to the web app soon. Haven't found it yet.

Re: Google+ “Nearby”, What Latitude + Buzz Should Have Been

Greg Miernicki — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:30:17 -0000

You can do it on the desktop too... just use this url >>
https://m.google.com/app/plus/...

Re: What is a Geilt?

Erynn — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:56:58 -0000

There's a lot of stuff out there in the otherworlds that can be dangerous, definitely. Caution is always a good idea when delving into things that can overwhelm. As you say, there are a lot of paths that lead to similar states and places. I'm not one of those who believe that all paths lead to the top of the same mountain (I'm very much both a polytheist and an animist) but I do certainly think that there are a lot of useful spiritual states and practices that can lead to different types of enlightenment, or at least to the possibility of healing. When one finds oneself in a place where trauma has occurred, spiritual work is absolutely one of the possible methods for getting through it.

Re: What is a Geilt?

Geilt — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:10:29 -0000

I spoke to a Shaman once in Miami, and he mentioned that he had a traumatic experience that opened him up, but it changed him forever. He wandered the streets, completely traumatized for a week.

He warned me to be careful when studying Shamanism and looking for that spiritual experience because there "Might be a guy with a shotgun behind a door somewhere out there waiting for you". I took his advice! I do not feel it is necessary to go through a traumatic physical experience in order to achieve spiritual sensitivity, nor do I seek it. I prefer to explore the route of the mind. There are many traditions that prove that there are many paths to the same, or similar states. This was one of the reasons I became so interested in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Devotion(Bhakti), Service(Dharma), and Knowledge(Jnana) are all Valid paths toward perfection/enlightenment/liberation.

I do not really recommend looking for a traumatic experience to become a Geilt in the true sense of the word to anyone, but for anyone who has had a traumatic experience I urge them to see the geiltadecht, as you have termed it, that can be practiced and harnessed to increase one's spiritual awareness instead of leaving the, albeit unfortunate, opportunity, remain completely negative in ones life.

Re: What is a Geilt?

Erynn — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:45:26 -0000

I'm actually having kind of a hard time reading the white-on-white comments here, so I'm working from a place of some difficulty. I haven't read the book you mention by Sargant, but I do agree that trauma changes perception and behavior in many (though probably not all) people. It also often changes brain chemistry, as can be demonstrated in a number of studies of people who suffer from PTSD. One of the huge puzzles the Veterans Administration is struggling with is why some people develop PTSD while others do not under the same or similar traumatic circumstances.

The book sounds like an interesting one, though it's possible that Conway and Siegelman's "Snapping" covers much of the same territory. http://books.google.com/books/...

I think that such experiences can result in both positive and negative changes in a person, but I would never recommend trauma as a way to spiritual enlightenment. There's far too much risk of never coming out of it. As I've said to people before, being a professional madwoman is interesting, but I can't recommend the training program.

Traditionally, the training of the filid, the poets in Gaelic culture, was said to result in one of three things -- poetry, madness, or death. Madness, geilt, seems to be one of the results of an only partially-successful assay into the field.

Re: What is a Geilt?

Geilt — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:55:29 -0000

Thanks! I just Google'd your name and you dominate the first page and then some! There are a couple of Alexander Conroy's but I pushed em down in the dust ;)

Geilt was actually harder since it is also a topic. Only recently did I hit the top.

Re: What is a Geilt?

Melanie Shebel — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:48:16 -0000

That's really interesting! Thanks for sharing. I wish I'd picked an online pseudoname as cool as geilt, a crazy madman who, while crazy, is wise. I often Google my own name, first and last, but it's no fun as I am the only Melanie Shebel in existence. Perhaps special that I'm the only one, but it doesn't do much to set me up for some competition in ranking for my own name. :P

Re: What is a Geilt?

Geilt — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:39:30 -0000

Thanks so much for the response Erynn! It is an honor to have you post here. I am happy to say I do not have PTSD, but I can understand where the connection between Geilt and those who have it. It is commonly known that great traumas can open up spiritual doors because of the sudden shock toward ones sense of reality.

There is a book called Battle for the Mind, by William Sargant that correlates religious conversion experiences to the effects of PTSD. It goes in depth about how trauma can change perception and behavior. And how normally, a true religious convert participates in their religion every day hoping, but not often finding, the same sense they had when they had converted. Enduring the drudgery of everyday religious rite for a glimpse at that initial experience.On the flip side, there is an interesting study in that book that discusses the project of Pavlov's dogs which salivate when they hear a bell ring due to conditioning. The little known story is that Pavlov's lab had flooded at one point, causing great Trauma to the dogs. Those dogs no longer salivated when they heard a bell ring, it is as if their conditioning had been erased, or at least the fear and trauma from the environment they were in caused them to focus on that more than the ringing.

In this way, a traumatic event could "shock" a person out of their own social, spiritual or religious conditioning and open them up to possibilities, however frighting, that they had no considered or repressed / ignored. With this opening there is the opportunity for power and wisdom or weakness and despair, I would assume this is mostly decided by the individual and the rest of their life's conditioning.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this!

Re: What is a Geilt?

Erynn — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:45:30 -0000

Thanks for the links and for the friendly quotations here. I very much appreciate it.

I do think that geilt can be seen metaphorically, though in its cultural origins the phenomenon was definitely indicating some form of mental disturbance or mental illness. Some scholars read this as a shamanic illness of sorts, seeing the flight of the geilt as "shamanic flight" and there are certainly otherworldly resonances to what's happening in pretty much all of the tales where the geilta make an appearance.
Merlin was definitely regarded as mad in the source materials, though:

Basil Clarke's translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's "The Life of Merlin: Vita Merlini" offers this:

"Merlin called his
companions from the battle-field and instructed them to bury the brothers in a
richly-decorated chapel.

He mourned for his
heroes; his flooding tears had no end. He threw dust upon his hair, tore his
clothes and lay prostrate on the ground, rolling to and fro. Peredur and the
other princes and commanders offered comfort. He would not take the comfort and
rejected their entreaties. So for three long days he wept, refusing food, so
great was the grief that consumed him.

Then, when the air
was filled with these repeated loud complainings, a strange madness came upon
him.

He crept away and
fled to the woods, unwilling that any should see his going. Into the forest he
went, glad to lie hidden beneath the ash trees. He watched the wild creatures
grazing on the pastures of the glades. Sometimes he would follow them,
sometimes pass them on his course. He made use of the roots of plants and of
grasses, of fruit from the trees and of the blackberries in the thicket. He
became a Man of the Woods, as if dedicated to the woods. So for a whole summer
he stayed hidden in the woods, discovered by none, forgetful of himself and his
own, lurking like a wild thing."

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Basil
Clarke (ed./trans.), The Life of Merlin:
Vita Merlini, University of Wales (Cardiff 1973) There's a great deal more to the tradition than just Merlin and Suibhne, though. I'm planning on exploring the material and some of its modern implications in further writing. I hope to do a book on the topic at some point, particularly in regards to the links between geilt and PTSD, and the spiritual possibilities it opens for people who are working on recovering from trauma.

Re: Amazon Kindle Fire and Silk’s Cloud Browsing Evolution

Georgi Hadzhigeorgiev — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:42:55 -0000

Yep, Kindle Fire really looks promising :)

Re: Amazon Kindle Fire and Silk’s Cloud Browsing Evolution

Angeline — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:26:37 -0000

I want the Kindle Fire bad! I wrote a blog on it as well: http://ow.ly/6OJUq .
Btw, thanks for following on Twitter.

Re: Social Music Review: TurnTable, Google Music, and Spotify

Katie_87 — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:53:04 -0000

Try http://jampri.com let's you create playlist and have facebook friends help out by adding songs of their choice which they feel are suitable for the playlist you had created

Re: Google+ in Gmail = Gmail+ A Match Made in Heaven

Marvellan Hinton — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:47:24 -0000

How do you reply to a comment without leaving your inbox? I treied unsuccessfully. The email address that the Google+ comes from is a "no reply" address. Just wondering if I am missing something...

Re: Google+ “Nearby”, What Latitude + Buzz Should Have Been

Geilt — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:15:47 -0000

Not sure why Google Limits it, I know a couple of people in Google+, I'll try asking them for a followup.

Re: Tweet Share Like Plus One +1 Modified for Individual Networks

Geilt — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:14:35 -0000

No problem, I have a thing for Aesthetics. The newest version has an issue with CSS when removing certain Icons, I had to modify mine yet again to get it to look "right". Basically the bubble at the top should not be the focus of alignment, but the box at the bottom with the action command.

Re: Google+ “Nearby”, What Latitude + Buzz Should Have Been

Barry — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:25:45 -0000

Why not from the website version? Seems silly to me. I could be out at a cafe with my laptop and it should be able to find where i am and find posts from nearby, or even from home. Whats the problem?

Re: Tweet Share Like Plus One +1 Modified for Individual Networks

Zeaks — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:06:48 -0000

Wow finally someone made a simple share plugin that works and actually took the time to make the icons look good. Thanks so much for this, works and looks great