We have received word from our partnership vendor that Verizon has put a halt on their deployment of their Fios Product. This means if your county has not signed a Franchise agreement with the telecom giant. You will not be seeing Fios in your area anytime soon. They are claiming to be running on a tight budget and do not see a profit in the coming months. They are hoping for some stimulus funds to keep things moving.
As for Philly, This agreement was signed back in 2009 with a rollout in Chestnut Hill, followed by Brewerytown, East and West Mount Airy, South Philadelphia and Kensington.
(side note)
It seems to be that Verizon is skipping over the minority sections of Philadelphia. After searching online I found this post in a forum
“I have had conversations with several Verizon construction crews going around South and West Philly and they tell me they are having problems with laying fiber in those West Philadelphia alleyways with all that trash and trees and obstructions. They told me 3-5 years minimum. I work for Comcast. I am not a fan, I just work for them.”
This is very disturbing news if this is true.
At the time of this writing they have removed Pennsylvania from their community section on http://www22.verizon.com/about/community/ . The link is still there but seems to be broken now. We managed to file the pdf which shows the Pa locations to received Fios.
Alternate link just in case VZ removes the pdf
The pdf gives a general area and does not going into much details. But lets takes E Woodland ave since this is in the pdf file. Verizon completely skips southwest philly on the south side of Baltimore Ave. E Woodland is Sharon Hill. This does not include 65th and Woodland at all. This areas will continue to have DSL instead.
Verizon has also ended its Wholesale fiber to the home in which Powserve.com was effected by this. Powserve was working on a deal with a vendor to roll this out to their customers in early 2011. Powserve currently offers DSL services using the Verizon network to customers in the tri-state area.
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Baltimore was completely skipped over. Rumors has it that Baltimore was skipped due to their low incoming communities and they did not see a profit in the entire city. But Verizon has denied this rumors and says they the city could not agree on a Franchise Agreement.
The Baltimore sun reports on this
Reported by Mas for Openkb
This is actually a old Issue that resurface for a user. So i figured it was good to post for others to be aware.
You will generally receive this error message when your copy of Windows is no longer Genuine. It means you have installed windows self proclaimed important update KB940510 via windows update. Some users have reported that this update has disabled their system if a activation exploit has been found on their system.
A activation exploit is a attempt to bypass Windows Activation process to avoid purchasing a legit copy of windows..
Per M$ they say “Note Installing this update does not affect the functionality of your operating system.” which is true if your system does not contain any activation bypass cracks.
Please note that you can opt-out of updating your system by disabling windows update. If you installed this update and wish to remove it, you can uninstall this via the control panel. You can also pruchase a legit license from the Microsoft Store
*We are not promoting the use of illegal software , but are promoting taking charge of your own system. ” Microsoft owns the operating system but you own the hardware. it is up to you if you decide to participate in using pirated applications. You have been warned *
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Over time after doing multiple Kernel updates and security patches. You will notice the /boot partition is getting full to about 90% when doing a df command.
Example
df
/dev/sda34 124427 12078 105925 11% /boot
Is this case I am only using 11% of my boot after cleaning up the unused kernel images.
The Fedora Community has released a Open Source script under the GNU Licensing called Kernel-prune . you can download this script using the following command via ssh
curl -O ‘http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/kernel-prune.py’
You will then need to make the python script executable by issuing
chmod a+x kernel-prune.py
Then running it using ./kernel-prune.py
The return value will give you a list of unused kernel images which can be safely removed from your system.
To remove the kernels I created a file called cleanboot and added the following content
PKGS=`./kernel-prune.py`
echo $PKGS
yum remove $PKGS
Again making this new file executable using
chmod a+x cleanboot
Then running the file as ./cleanboot
The script will ask you if you would like to remove the unused kernel packages , hit Y for yes and give it a few moments. Perform a reboot and you should be all set.
This script may work on centos and other distros , but i have not tested this solution on those systems. Please make a backup of your data before proceeding with this process.
Thanks,
Confidential powerpoint slides have been leaked onto the internet. The slides seem to show that M$ is continuing to eyeball Apple and Linux in more ways then one. We are unable to post the material on our website due to copyright laws. But we found a interesting breakdown at MSFT Kitchen .
Researchers say that the end of the keyboard and mouse may be near. I don’t believe this is a good idea and hope this is just a rumor. I cant see me using a touchscreen to code up a program or troubleshoot a network issue. 
Another thing i am seeing is a increase in laptop sells. With the reduce cost on laptops these days more people are dumping desktops for a laptop in the home. While laptops can provide a convenience during American Idol or Big Brother. Nothing beats a desktop with a movable mouse and larger keyboard. How can you be productive if you always have to touch the screen to type up your resume or contract. The consumers need to stop buying these units so we can keep the production of keyboards and mouse up.
Mas
Error: ail send failure. Error was 503 Bad sequence of commands
This normally occurs when the script is unable to authenicate on the mail server.
