Google says Shit - um, sorry! We're working on it, I swear!. (New Buzz privacy controls to be added soon.)

They have a very important "Disable Buzz completely" option coming, because as far as I can tell, the instructions given don't do that--they just close off what your profile is currently showing and takes Buzz off your Gmail screen. I'm not sure if it stops people from following you, and I think there was some email address oversharing happening there.

I have a Gateway laptop that is a month and a half old, and I got a warning that my hard drive was failing, back everything up, and don't turn the computer back on until I've fixed or replaced the hard drive. After panicking and disconnecting the internet cable so I could rush it over to the external hard drive and losing an hours worth of a journal entry, I've been deleting files just to make room and at least got the music backed up.

But, what the hell? A little voice inside my head is saying that it's got to be a really malicious trojan trying to get me to back up my info to their server by hitting okay. Another little voice is telling me my father got me a broken, bargain laptop like he did with my digital camera. But I'm sure the reality is it's my fault. In which case, how did I break a month and a half old laptop? I really want to know. I'm so glad I finished vidding.

Now to see if I have a warranty or whatnot.

eta it also said that I could choose to ignore the backup and cross my fingers that the failing/corrupted hard drive issue wouldn't pop again (paraphrased). So, is there a problem or not? So I drop 70 bucks on a diagnostic or what?

I knew I was tempting fate when I chose not to create a restore point this afternoon when installing an older version of Quicktime to make Streamclip run.

They have a very important "Disable Buzz completely" option coming, because as far as I can tell, the instructions given don't do that--they just close off what your profile is currently showing and takes Buzz off your Gmail screen. I'm not sure if it stops people from following you, and I think there was some email address oversharing happening there.

I'm glad to hear it. I really like Google products and I hope they learn a lesson from all of this.

They have a very important "Disable Buzz completely" option coming

Good. I don't, frankly, see the point of Buzz at all, but for people who dig it, rock on for them. I do, however, have a problem with a company as large as Google getting so pumped about their new thing that they unleashed it upon everyone unasked, without (apparently) consulting their legal team first. Sheesh.

I have a question about OS upgrades. If I were to get an unlocked Android phone from a different vendor and OS upgrades are pushed out by my carrier, would TMobile be sending them to me too? Anyone know?

Argh.

I impulse bought a new TV (flat screen HDTV, whee!) today. I finagled a nearby friend into helping me get it out of my car and into the house, etc.

I have it hooked up to the cable box and TiVo and all (though I'm sure some of this will change as I get new accessories). And it talks to the TiVo and the cable box SEPARATELY....but suddenly the TiVo and cable box don't want to talk to EACH OTHER! WTF???

[Edit: Whew, never mind, guided setup saves the day! And my new TV is SO PRETTY!! And now I want to spend money on other things to make the rest of it look so pretty...dang...]

I just spent nearly three hours tearing my hair out over a SECOND new router not working before I realized I'd plugged in the wrong grey ethernet cable. (Turns out it's the modem that provides the interbunny connection and not the Tivo. Who knew?)

Note to self - label things!!

I have a question about OS upgrades. If I were to get an unlocked Android phone from a different vendor and OS upgrades are pushed out by my carrier, would TMobile be sending them to me too? Anyone know?

Probably not. And I wouldn't necessarily seek the TMobile upgrade out. Carrier-specific OS upgrades do funny things like disable fuctionality if it's not a supported feature. I'd go after the generic OS upgrade, tweaking your settings to be compatible with your carrier.

Besides, TMobile is sloooooow with OS upgrades. My last BB upgrade came almost 8 months after it was officially released by RIM.

From reading around, it wasn't obvious what other way I could get upgrades. It would complicate things if I did receive it, since it wouldn't have been a replacment of same. And not receiving it would, well, put me behind the curve, and the curve was the whole point.

TMobile looks to be being decently timely with their update for the Cliq, which is what I have now. Since they don't support the Droid/Milestone, don't know where that would come from. Googling wasn't suggesting much useful.

That puts a distinct kibosh on the idea of getting a Milestone.