Sharma Family Journal

Motorola H15 is a headset with not so bad reviews – so I decided to get a “New OEM in bulk” piece from buy.com. It looks like motorola is dumping a bunch of refurbished headsets as “OEM in bulk” and “new”.

These things arrive in a plastic pouch, with bare minimum stuff. But they don’t really work. I’m pretty certain that these are products returned by other customers as non-working.

Motorola customer support: 1-800-331-6456 takes you to a eastern european country and the customer service rep disconnects the phone line after taking down my name and phone number.

Buy.com: Won’t return money, but is willing to send more broken bluetooth headsets.

If you’re curious about the problems:

First one: the mic would work only with the headset near my mouth. Didn’t pick up sound when it’s on my ear.

Second one: continuous beeps every second when paired. Motorola doesn’t document what this means.

I kinda like ರಾಮಾಚಾರಿ.

–Chirag after watching ನಾಗರಹಾವು

I liked the part where he breaks the pots and messes up the garden of the girl who teased him!

A Chinese official today said:

“effective guidance of public opinion on the Internet is an important way of protecting the security of online information”

I think this quote has the potential to be remembered for a long time to come.

My 1080p capable LCD monitor was not playing nicely with a netbook (Acer 1410) HDMI output when running Ubuntu 9.10.

Turns out that I had to run

xrandr --prop

Apart from telling me what X thinks about the hardware, it also gets my monitor to start working properly. Thought I’d blog it, before I forget about these useful little things.

If only I can teach my macbook to do this via the monoprice mini display port to HDMI adapter.