256MB DDR 2700 memory was purchased. The brand name is Kybyte and it was brought at Staples. It was not really a good deal with a final cost of 39.94 (not counting tax) after a 20.00 mail-in rebate. The only reason I went for it was because it was the best priced 256MB 2700 memory at a ‘brick and mortar’ store in the area I live in.
There were better deals at Best Buy where you could purchase 512MB 2700DDR memory (Kingston brand) for about $59.00 with a $30.00 mail-in rebate. The same type of memory was available at OfficeMax too with a $30.00 mail-in rebate.
I only wanted 256MB more memory at this time so I am okay with the deal I got but I’m not very pleased.
DDR memory prices have remained pretty constant for the last several months. The prices are on the high side in my opinion.
CPU prices are exceptionally high right now. The price of the Semprom chip (a chip I was unaware of a day ago - I have not been keeping up with developments in the chip industry that well) are outrageous considering that the Semprom chip’s performance is somewhere between the discontinued Duron and a 32-bit xp chip (the cache in a Semprom is less than xp but more than Duron).
The price of the CPU I will have to get looks like it will cost almost three times the price of the motherboard I’ll be using. Now that’s amazing.
Verizon: The phone company that is the ISP provider for the home network I use to access the Internet (most of the time) sure showed some strange behavior these past few days.
Phone line access was being changed so another phone line had to be DSL enabled. First of all, Verizon told everyone using the home network to temporarily use a modem to access the Internet.
This became a strangely complicated process when for some reason one person who wanted to get online could not be authenticated which is just a matter concerning a user name and/or password. The tech help at Verizon seemed unable to figure out why he couldn’t log on.
Verizon had on record old and new user names and passwords. I thought passwords were supposed to be known only to the person that uses the account, not the desk help. The old usernames (and passwords) should have been discarded.
The problem turned out to be an incorrect username. The confusion occurred because Verizon had not discarded the old username.
The user would be unaware of this problem with a DSL connection because it stays on all the time making the use of the new username unnecessary or extremely rare.
After the phone tech set up the new DSL line Verizon started to say ridiculous things like, “you’ll have to wait fourteen days to get online using DSL” and giving false reasons why this was the case like, “it takes that many days to set up your account” (even after the DSL wiring had been done?).
The owner of the account then told the person from Verizon that when the service was cut off before all it took was a push of a button by a Verizon representative on the phone to get it going again.
After telling this story the fourteen-day waiting period became about six hours.
What the hell is going on with Verizon’s ISP operations?