[nflug] tw rr screwjob

[Stephen Burke]

Cyber Source wrote:

> What exactly are you activating? If you activating a new modem, you can
> call them to "provision" the modem, so it stops the loop back, they can
> do it from their end using the mac address of the modem. If this was an
> existing account, you shouldn't need to go through all this. I activate
> literally hundreds of new accounts and I'm very happy to tell them that
> I DO NOT have windows and/or IE. Also, I'm not going to do wine or
> vmware or whatever else it takes to get freaking IE working so they can
> do whatever they do with active x or whatever the F they wanna work
> with. And if they tell me that they do not support Linux, I promptly
> tell them that I'll use the competition because they will work with me,
> you'll soon get up a level in support and some real help. STOP BEING
> PUSHED AROUND PEOPLE! TELL THEM YOU USE LINUX! How crazy has this become
> that we let these people insist on using the most insecure, virus prone
> POS and tell us that that's what they support??!! SPEAK UP! You'll get
> heard, they don't want to loose their 50 a month. For dsl, I found a
> nice little trick to stop the loop back,
> http://localhost/verizon/redirect.htm in your browser and a little click
> of a button on that page will stop the redirect. This is what they do
> from their end and I'm sure RR has something similar, but of course,
> they want you to put in some POS cd and install some bullshit toolbar,
> wtf ever else. Can you tell I've done this a few times? And like you,
> don't like the bs? So, speak up people! Tell them you use Linux!
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I think you're right, after all. This is for activating the former 
adelphia.net email over to the new roadrunner.com one. I finally got 
exploder running here on feisty with ies4linux to get me into the damn 
site and set all the security crap to low so it could run activex, but 
now it's giving me some bs like this:

If you are using Windows 2000 or Windows XP, your userid must have 
Administrator privileges to use the Activation Wizard.

and refusing to go any further. As if just running that damn program 
weren't making me sick enough.

And running this shit as root doesn't seem like a good idea at all. 
Letting tw install some creepy activex bullshit on my machine hardly 
sounds even LESS good.

So it looks like the phone call is next. My threats to use the 
competition will be rather hollow, however, as dsl is still unavailable 
in this neighborhood or I would have switched a long time ago.

I'm not a very good bullshitter, but I am truly pissed at this creeping 
M$ fascism.

Thanks for the encouragement, Pete,
S.