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Huwei u1250
IMEI: 35983903010****
2361231310255624
Samsung Gravity SGH-T469W
IMEI: 35862403024****
Unlock Code: 46303190
Huawei u8100
IMEI: 35173604001****
Unlock Code: 9322476412071520
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Canadian Credit Card Issuers choose Proportionate Payment Allocation
So when I make a payment it pays off my new pusrchases before that low rate balance right?
The government was given a clear mandate by consumers to force banks to apply their payments to high interest rate balances first; however, after negotiating with the credit issuers and their lobby groups the FDAC failed consumers by making this even more complicated, giving banks the choice. Payments must either be allocated to the ballance with the highest interest rate first or distributed based on the proportion of each. Wow! Even less transparentcy.
Who's responsible?
Credit Card Issuers in Canada come under the jurisdiction of:
The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
Educate yourself then Get Involved! Call the FDAC ask questions and register your comments. 1-866-461-3222
Proportional. Payment (PP).
Schedule I banks Domestic banks
There are 22 domestic banks as of October, 2010.[1]
The Big Five
VISA 003 Royal Bank of Canada LIBF PP 18007692512
VISA 010 Toronto-Dominion Bank (operating as "TD Canada Trust") 18009838472 LIBF PP
MC 001 Bank of Montreal Mastercard 1-800-263-2263 "Unable to transfer call not enough lines"
Bank of Nova Scotia VISA 1-800-387-6466 LIBF Agnet was unprepared to answer question and gave incorrect information
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 1-800-465-4653 mp lri pp
Bank West
Bridgewater Bank
Canadian Tire Bank
Canadian Western Bank
Citizens Bank of Canada
CS Alterna Bank
DirectCash Bank
Dundee Bank of Canada
First Nations Bank of Canada
General Bank of Canada
HomEquity Bank
Jameson Bank
Laurentian Bank of Canada
Manulife Bank of Canada
National Bank of Canada
Pacific & Western Bank of Canada
President's Choice Bank
The government was given a clear mandate by consumers to force banks to apply their payments to high interest rate balances first; however, after negotiating with the credit issuers and their lobby groups the FDAC failed consumers by making this even more complicated, giving banks the choice. Payments must either be allocated to the ballance with the highest interest rate first or distributed based on the proportion of each. Wow! Even less transparentcy.
Who's responsible?
Credit Card Issuers in Canada come under the jurisdiction of:
The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
Educate yourself then Get Involved! Call the FDAC ask questions and register your comments. 1-866-461-3222
Proportional. Payment (PP).
Schedule I banks Domestic banks
There are 22 domestic banks as of October, 2010.[1]
The Big Five
VISA 003 Royal Bank of Canada LIBF PP 18007692512
VISA 010 Toronto-Dominion Bank (operating as "TD Canada Trust") 18009838472 LIBF PP
MC 001 Bank of Montreal Mastercard 1-800-263-2263 "Unable to transfer call not enough lines"
Bank of Nova Scotia VISA 1-800-387-6466 LIBF Agnet was unprepared to answer question and gave incorrect information
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 1-800-465-4653 mp lri pp
Bank West
Bridgewater Bank
Canadian Tire Bank
Canadian Western Bank
Citizens Bank of Canada
CS Alterna Bank
DirectCash Bank
Dundee Bank of Canada
First Nations Bank of Canada
General Bank of Canada
HomEquity Bank
Jameson Bank
Laurentian Bank of Canada
Manulife Bank of Canada
National Bank of Canada
Pacific & Western Bank of Canada
President's Choice Bank
Thursday, November 18, 2010
RANT: Vancouver BC: Choosing an affordable local wireless carrier
History:
Bell Mobility
I dumped Bell back on 20100501 and haven't looked back.
Even though my contract term had lapsed, Bell stuck me with a sucker fee built into the agreement which required I pay an additional month to cover the 30 day cancellation notice. This is my fault as a consumer for not demanding a copy of the original agreement in a size I can read, and reading it in full. I assumed that ending the contract term meant I could cancel at any time. That was my mistake, and I accept it.
In my mind there is no justification for this charge. This is purely punative, and so it will forever impact my opinion of Bell. Combining this with my the Past incident when Bell canceled my service on their Unlimited plan for using it too much, that leaves Bell Canada with 2 strikes against them. Even if they start actively competing with the new wireless providers entering the market this year WIND and Mobilicity (Formerly DAVE Wireless), I will still think of them as a provider of last resort. I don't think of myself as one who holds a grudge, reather as judging copmanies by their past practices.
WIND
Bell Mobility
I dumped Bell back on 20100501 and haven't looked back.
Even though my contract term had lapsed, Bell stuck me with a sucker fee built into the agreement which required I pay an additional month to cover the 30 day cancellation notice. This is my fault as a consumer for not demanding a copy of the original agreement in a size I can read, and reading it in full. I assumed that ending the contract term meant I could cancel at any time. That was my mistake, and I accept it.
In my mind there is no justification for this charge. This is purely punative, and so it will forever impact my opinion of Bell. Combining this with my the Past incident when Bell canceled my service on their Unlimited plan for using it too much, that leaves Bell Canada with 2 strikes against them. Even if they start actively competing with the new wireless providers entering the market this year WIND and Mobilicity (Formerly DAVE Wireless), I will still think of them as a provider of last resort. I don't think of myself as one who holds a grudge, reather as judging copmanies by their past practices.
WIND
Sunday, October 31, 2010
My First RAID
3Ware 8000 Series RAID controller card
Hmmmm. How long is this going to take?
1 terabyte = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
2TB =
Time = 30.54198966 Hours
~20000kB/s
Hmmmm. How long is this going to take?
1 terabyte = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
2TB =
Time = 30.54198966 Hours
~20000kB/s
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, errors: 0
Current status
Current status
rescued: 1089GB errsize: 0 B current rate: 11796 kB/s
ipos: 1089GB errsize: 0 B Averige rate: 19.550kB/s
opos: 1089GB time from last successful read: 0s
Trying non-tried blocks...
Aquiring more hardware
Tuesday I was at The Hackery again to shoot the shit with Pentium before stopping in at FreeGeek to get more SATA power connectors. The FG Store wouldn't break a $20 for a $2 item so I grabed a set of computer speakers to temporarily replace my JVC RX-6000V with the gremlins in it. Back to NCIX today to purchase my third WD20EARS 2TB drive
NCIX
WD20EARS $111.99 CAD
FreeGeek
Duel SATA power adapter and Panasonic RP SP-1000 computer speakers $10.00 CAD
NCIX
WD20EARS $111.99 CAD
FreeGeek
Duel SATA power adapter and Panasonic RP SP-1000 computer speakers $10.00 CAD
Aquiring Hardware
Monday my lover was kind enough to drive me over to NCIX for to purchase another WD20EARS 2TB Hard Drive.
Issues: I'm out of SATA ports on my MOBO and SATA power connectors on my two older 250 Watt power supplies. Best Buy replaced the power adapter for my wife's Toshiba laptop with a clunky universal type she dislikes, and I need to get that new drive powered up and copy over all my data.
Tuesday I stopped off at The Hackery to see if David might have a power adapter for my wife's Toshiba laptop, which he did, and he also had a used 32bit PCI RAID card. Excellent! Now I can build a redundant hardware RAID and put this isue to rest.
NCIXWD20EARS $111.99 CAD.
The Hackery3Ware 8000 series 32Bit PCI RAID card and a SATA Ppower adapter 20.00 CAD
After returning home and installing all the new hardware, It was late and I chose to spend most of my time with my partner watching lost and scrubs amungst other less g rated activities. After a few days spending a few hours at it spread over the next dew days I ran into a wall while setting up the raid card as I only had 2 drives and I didn't want to take a chance hooking my original drive with all my data up to a RAID card that might newk it by mistake rather than migrate the data to both drives. I need another drive.
Issues: I'm out of SATA ports on my MOBO and SATA power connectors on my two older 250 Watt power supplies. Best Buy replaced the power adapter for my wife's Toshiba laptop with a clunky universal type she dislikes, and I need to get that new drive powered up and copy over all my data.
Tuesday I stopped off at The Hackery to see if David might have a power adapter for my wife's Toshiba laptop, which he did, and he also had a used 32bit PCI RAID card. Excellent! Now I can build a redundant hardware RAID and put this isue to rest.
NCIXWD20EARS $111.99 CAD.
The Hackery3Ware 8000 series 32Bit PCI RAID card and a SATA Ppower adapter 20.00 CAD
After returning home and installing all the new hardware, It was late and I chose to spend most of my time with my partner watching lost and scrubs amungst other less g rated activities. After a few days spending a few hours at it spread over the next dew days I ran into a wall while setting up the raid card as I only had 2 drives and I didn't want to take a chance hooking my original drive with all my data up to a RAID card that might newk it by mistake rather than migrate the data to both drives. I need another drive.
SMART
It's been 3 weeks since I received a message on startup warning me that a problem was encountered reading from /dev/sdc and that it may indicate the drive may fail. Shit, I have 1.2TB of data on there and only 600GB of it (the irreplaceable data) is backed up on my 1GB drive, while the rest of it is vulnerable.
Hard Drive Monitoring and testing under Linux
sudo apt-get install smartmontools
Hard Drive Monitoring and testing under Linux
sudo apt-get install smartmontools
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