OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[DeanUK]

Last week I bought EA Active2 for the Wii, they couldn't shift them initially, so I got it for ?6.99 ($11.00)!
Fantastic bit of kit, really good workouts, already got my money back compared to the gym! (Mind you I might get fed up after a month, but I can't see that happening)

[nhwbrooklyn]

Last week I bought EA Active2 for the Wii, they couldn't shift them initially, so I got it for ?6.99 ($11.00)!
Fantastic bit of kit, really good workouts, already got my money back compared to the gym! (Mind you I might get fed up after a month, but I can't see that happening)

Nice.

Whats 11 dollars anyhow? That's like a movie ticket or 2 rentals. One month of use would be already worth it.

[Marko69]

My daughter bought a baby sterilising unit for my house...., for when the grand-daughter is here. Sterilises all the bottles and stuff. But it's completely different to when my children were babies. This thing you just add about 7ml of water to the bottom, plug it in and things are sterilised with steam through this "magic" filter. I was amazed. Gone are the days of big plastic containers filled to the brim with water and a stinking sterilising tablet chucked in there! Hands used to be mingin for days! I'm impressed with modern day sterilising units,

[BlksnshN]

I also hate iTunes. It has duplicated my songs about three or four times now and there's no easy way to clean that up.

My iTunes account was hacked last year, I woke up in the morning to find that someone had purchased $750.00 of Disney music on my account.

[Malto Marko]

My iTunes account was hacked last year, I woke up in the morning to find that someone had purchased $750.00 of Disney music on my account.

That was just a Disney revenue enhancement program.;-)

[bimmer84]

My iTunes account was hacked last year, I woke up in the morning to find that someone had purchased $750.00 of Disney music on my account.

How did iTunes handle it?

[Coop]

Blk - you will want to report that to your credit card company sap. They will close the account, transfer your responsible balance to a new account.

[Topweasel]

Blk - you will want to report that to your credit card company sap. They will close the account, transfer your responsible balance to a new account.

He said last year. Pretty sure he had to resolve it by now.

[CGVT]

My wife got her facebook and hotmail accout hacked last year. It was one of those "I'm stuck in London, got robbed and don't have money for plane fare. Please send money" scammers.

What a kick in the nuts. She had the hotmail account for years and she couldn't convince microsoft that it was hers. She never got it back. Almost all of our other online shit used that as the account email. We had to go change the email and passwords in every fucking thing. We signed up for a credit report warning thing just in case. Luckily we didn't have any damage other than a tremendous pain in the ass.

We think they got in through when she clicked on an e-mail that she got with a friend status up-date. We learned the valuable lesson of never going into Facebook except through the facebook log in. It sucked but it could have been a lot worse.

[Tony G]

My daughter bought a baby sterilizing unit for my house

I'll bet the babys put up a bit of squawk at going through one of those!:D

[CGVT]

It' about time somebody invented that for those dirty little bastards.

[Marko69]

Now now Tony, don't joke........, think of all those poor unfortunate babies who are being rammed into sterilising units as we speak because the mothers don't understand the concept.

[nhwbrooklyn]

Everyone should have a personal password tier system.

Highest security passwords. You only use it for that one important task.. bank account, work network access, etc..

Middle/unknown security. This can be one password. It's for trusted companies and retailer accounts and shit like that. You wouldn't want it to be stolen but it wouldn't kill you if it was (they might get your email and home address but no your bank account or social security number or anything like that)

Shit password. You use for anything you don't care about, not sure you trust, and that even if lost it wouldn't give access to any important data. It's important not to use your higher security passwords here because that's often how passwords to important stuff are stolen.

[Tony G]

https://lastpass.com/

[edindetroit]

We learned the valuable lesson of never going into Facebook except through the facebook log in. It sucked but it could have been a lot worse.

Filter Facebook emails into their own folder and never open them just delete them on occasion to keep the folder from getting too full. Like you said, only do Facebook from Facebook.