Mystery()

what does the method mystery() do?

it is delegated to by the enigma() method, which is delegated to by the riddle() method -
it's a mystery, wrapped in a an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, you see.
Me, I'm a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in bacon.

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Why do I have mysterious cellular data usage (Verizon) every 6 hours on all 3 of my iphone 5's?

I have recently uncovered mysterious cellular usage on three different iPhones. I am a Verizon customer and discovered this by examining the cellular data use logs. What I found are a long series of mysterious data usage logs. I have visited the Genius Bar at my local Apple Store 3 times now to log notes and discuss the issue. It is being escalated.
The characterstics are as follows:
All my family phones have the appropriate IOS and hardware updates (verified by the GeniusBar at my local Apple Store).
This is occuring across three phones, which happen to all be iphone 5. Two are 5 and the other a new 5s. We do have one iphone 4 in the family but the issue (so far as I can tell), is not happening on it.
One iphone 5 has IOS 7, the other IOS 6. The new 5s has of course IOS 7.
Mysterious data use happens even while connected to wifi.
Each mysterious data use log entry is exactly 6 hours apart. For example: 2:18 AM, 8:18 AM, 2:18 PM, 8:18 PM, 2:18 AM ... etc. It cycles AM and PM, same times, for a day to many days until some condition causes it to change (evolve).
The times evolve. One day it could be cycling through at one time series, then it changes to another time sequence and continues until the next condition.
The data usage is anywhere from a few K to many MB. The largest I've seen is over 100 MB.
The logs clearly show these usages are not due to human interaction. It is a program.
If cellular connection is used frequently (by the owner), the pattern is hard to pick out. Luckily, my family member is very good about only using wifi whenever possible, so these mysterious use patterns are easy to pick out.
Verizon allows access to 90 days worth of data logs, so I downloaded and analyzed them. This has been happening for at least 90 days. I have found 298 instances of mysterious use out of 500 total connections to cellular. A total of 3.5 GB of mysterious cellular data has been recorded as used in that 90 days by this phone alone. Only .6 GB of the total cellular data use is legitimate, meaning by the person.
This issue is occuring across three different phones. Two are iPhone 5, and the third is a recently purchased iPhone 5s. The 5s I have not touched beyone the basic startup. I have left it alone on a desk for 3 days, and looking at the logs, the mysterious data use in the same pattern is occuring.
So ... I am speaking to both sides, Verizon and Apple to get answers. Verizon puts their wall up at data usage. It doesn't matter how it is being used, you simply need to pay for it. Yes, the evidence I have gathered is getting closer to someting on Verizon's end.
Before pressing in that direction, I am hoping someone reading this may recognize this issue as a possible iPhone 5 issue ... OR ... you, right now, go look at your data usage logs available through your carrier's web account, and see if you can pick out a pattern of mysterious use. Look especially at the early morning instances when you are most likely sleeping.
I am hoping this is a simple issue that has a quick resolution. I'm looking for the "ooohhh, I see that now ..." But I am starting to think this might be much bigger, but the fact is, most customers rarely or never look at their data usage details, much less discover mysterious use patterns.
The final interesting (maybe frightening part) thing about all this is that I discovered while talking to Verizon ... they do not divulge which direction the data is going. This goes for any use, mysterious or legitimate. Is cellular data coming to your phone, or leaving it? Is something pulling data from your phone? We know that it is possible to build malware apps, but the catch with my issue is that it is also happening on a brand new iphone 5s with nothing downloaded to it.
Thanks for your time

Thanks for the replies. It took a while not hearing anything so thought I was alone. I have done many of the suggestions already. The key here is that it occurs on both phones with apps, and phones still packaged in a box.
A Genius Bar supervisor also checked his Verizon data usage log and found the same 6 hour incremental use. Suprisingly, he did not express much intrigue over that. Maybe he did, but did not show it.
I think the 6 hour incremental usage is the main issue here. I spoke with Verizon (again) and they confirmed that all they do is log exactly when the phone connected to the tower and used data. The time it records is when the usage started. I also found out that the time recorded is GMT.
What is using data, unsolicited, every 6 hours?
Why does it change?
Why does it only happen on the iPhone 5 series and not the 4?
Since no one from Apple seems to be chiming in on this, and I have not received the promised calls from Apple tech support that the Genius Bar staff said I was suppose to receive, it is starting to feel like something is being swept under the rug.
I woke up the other day with another thought ... What application would use such large amounts of data? Well ... music, video, sound and pictures of course. Well ... what would someone set automatically that is of any use to them? hmmm ... video, pictures, sound. Is the iPhone 5 succeptible to snooping? Can an app be buried in the IOS that automatically turns on video and sound recording, and send it somewhere ... every 6 hours? Chilling. I noted that the smallest data usage is during the night when nothing is going on, then it peaks during the day. The Genius Bar tech and I looked at each other when I drew this sine wave graph on the log print outs during an appointment ...

USB 6009 - mysterious problem

Have mysterious problems with my new USB 6009.
I'm using LabView 7 on MacOS-X 10.3.8.
All vi's of DAQmx show "ERROR 15 - Ressource not found".
Then I tested:
- "lsdaq" shows the device
- "nidatalogger" works
- "mxbaseconfig" doesn't recocgnize it!
I realy have no idea know what to do now?
Thank you for helping.
Greetings,
Stephan

I happend to stumble over the same issue and found a solution.
The problem really seems to be the firmware in the USB-device. There is
only one way (I think) to make USB600x devices work with linux:
You have to start MAX (on a Windows-box) , go to tools - NI-DAQmx configuration - NI-DAQmx USB Driver Selector.
Press "Switch" and select the BASE-Driver for your USB-Device. This
seems to write something into the device's flash memory. After this
procedure you can use the device with linux and DAQmxBase
Funny thing is, mxbaseconfig still can't see it, but nidatalogger finds it.
Hope that helps, even though this thread seems to be rather old...
-DB

Random (mysterious) start-ups from shutdown on MBP 17" (Hi-Res)

Hi,
lately, my MBP has started to turn itself on at night. I always shut it down completely after a days' work (NOT making it sleep or standby, also NOT closing the lid before the shutdown is done). Actually, I tried waiting 5-10 minutes before closing the lid after the shutdown just to make sure I wasn't interrupting anything.
Now, in the morning, my MBP sits there sleeping (the light on the front is in "breathing" mode), and after opening the lid it is completely booted up.
Syslog shows me it randomly started at some time in the night (between 1h and 5h hours after the shutdown.
Of course I made sure that I have not set a startup time in the power setting's scheduler.
What could be the reason for this?

My MBP 15in also mysteriously self-starts. I have determined that this occurs every evening at 7:00 pm sharp when the AC power is attached. This is despite the fact that I have no scheduled start-up time configured. I have yet to have it happen on battery. It has been happening regularly when nothing else is plugged in, not USB, FW, nothing. Sharing and remote management may be turned on or off as otherwise needed and have no noticed influence.

Mysterious Teardown Problem with NIO

I have an NIO proxy server which relays state information from a number of servers to a number of clients. A requirement for this system is that we can restart the proxy server (together with a couple of other components) from a web app.
I tear down the proxy server by
- interrupting out of the read loop
- cancelling all keys associated with the channel
- closing the socket on the channel
- closing the channel.
I do this for for both the input (server side) channel and the output (client side) channel.
I then discard the proxy server, create a new one and start it up.
Now here's the mysterious bit. The new server operates just fine for a minute or two. And then it stops seeing any input.
The thread responsible for input reading freezes on the call to -
myKeysAdded = myAcceptKey.selector().select();and the stack looks something like this:
WindowsSelectorImpl$SubSelector.poll0(long, int, int[], int[], int[], long)
WindowsSelectorImpl$SubSelector.poll() line: 270
WindowsSelectorImpl$SubSelector.access$400(WindowsSelectorImpl$SubSelector) line: 252
WindowsSelectorImpl.doSelect(long) line: 133
WindowsSelectorImpl(SelectorImpl).lockAndDoSelect(long) line: 69
WindowsSelectorImpl(SelectorImpl).select(long) line: 80
WindowsSelectorImpl(SelectorImpl).select() line: 84
ProxyServer$BrowserSelector.run() line: 123If I completely destroy the process (and the jvm) and start a new one everything goes back to working normally.
Has anyone got any suggestions? I'm in hair-tearing mode on this one.
Thx TOTW.

I tear down the proxy server by
- interrupting out of the read loopDon't you mean the select() loop?
- cancelling all keys associated with the channelUnnecessary.
- closing the socket on the channel
- closing the channel.Only one of these is necessary. Closing the socket closes the channel and vice versa.
When you have closed all the channels, you then need to call selector.selectNow() (search this forum for why), and then close the selector.

Mysterious Data Usage

Hello,
My wife owns an HTC Thunderbolt. We are experiencing mysterious data usage.
The data log shows data usage during hours and at times when the phone is not being used. We have tried closing all apps and resetting the phone.
Still, these nickel and dime data used entries are adding up fast and bring us to the brink of our our plan which we have already extended.
We do not stream video, we do not listen to Pandora.... The phone is used strictly for texts, emails, and phone calls.
Any advice? Thank you for your help.

Same here - very similar.Times are close but not like yours.
I've deleted the email accounts and re-added them to see if there was a looping email send issue that I've read about.
Funny though, when I review the data use on the phone, "photo" is the app indicating using the most data. So I've turned off and uninstalled everything I can think is tied to that.

Mysterious forces changing backlight brightness

Some mysterious forces are changing my laptop's brightness and I can't seem to figure it out what it is.
For example, if my battery gets below 10% (also, why 10%?), it automatically changes brightness to something very low.
Similarly, if battery gets fully charged, it changes brightness. It also happens when I plug it into the AC or remove the adapter.
I've looked everywhere, tried changing settings (I really don't remember which ones anymore), but nothing seems to work.
Also, I've xfce4-power-manager installed, but closing it doesn't seem to effect this backlight changing.
Laptop-mode-tools is also set up, but backlight control is disabled.
My only idea is that it's changed by the driver, but how can I control it?
edit:
[soz@arch ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
Also, changing backlight to vendor doesn't fix this. Instead it messes up xfce4-power-manager's backlight control.
Forgot to mention, I'm running a simple Openbox installation.
Last edited by socials (2013-11-15 20:47:44)

Alright, an update.
The same thing happens even without running X at all. Even the brightness control keyboard hotkeys work without an X server running.
So it seems that they interact directly with hardware and it's not related to software at all. I think it's safe to say that the brightness change events happening on charger plug/unplug are related to this as well.
So if there's nothing in BIOS (I checked) I guess it's not fixable. I could set up an dirty hack using acpi handler scripts although it seems like an awful solution.
Or have you guys any other ideas?

Why does a mystery application try to open when I login?

I wonder if anyone can help me with an issue I'm having with a mystery application trying to open.
Every time I wake my iBook G4 from sleep, or I start it from shutdown (I am the only user), I see an application is trying to open at the right side of the dock. It shows as the generic application "A" starting to open, but then it suddenly vanishes. On the advice of a Mac-user friend, I went to System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items and removed everything there, then rebooted my machine, but I still have the same problem.
From my unfortunate experiences with PCs, I remember this type of login behavior usually indicates the machine is infected with a virus. Is that what is causing my iBook problem? I have the Firewall turned on, and I'm running Norton Antivirus for Mac (which has found nothing in repeated scans). What should I try next? Any help with this would be really appreciated.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

It's difficult to say what the application may be if you can't see its name, but in the Dock, the name won't show unless you are pointing at the icon. If you can get your mouse there fast enough (maybe put it in the right place, sleep, then wake your Mac?) you might see the app name before it closes. Then you'll have a better idea what it is.
You might also try the Activity Monitor application, which is in the /Applications/Utilities folder. It shows all the running processes, so you might be able to catch the app name before it closes.
When you know what the application is called, you may decide it's not a problem at all. If it's still unclear, come back and post it, and maybe someone will be able to tell you what it is. Lots of applications use little "helper apps," and it's possible it could be something like that. It's best to know what it is, but it's probably harmless.
G4 400 AGP Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Mysterious sound appears in my movie after burning

I originally posted this in the iDVD forum, since it seems to be an iDVD issue, but since no one answered I thought I would try here:
I made a 10-minute video in iMovie '09 and burned it to a disc using iDVD 7.0.4.
The movie itself is completely silent with the exception of music I added. To achieve the silence, I brought the volume level down to zero on all the clips. I then added the music tracks.
When I preview the movie in iMovie, it looks and sounds great. But after I burn the disc using iDVD and watch it, I notice that at a few sections lasting a few seconds near the end, you hear what sounds like camera noise. It's as if the muted volume became unmuted for a few seconds here and there, and you hear what sounds like the camera humming or other unidentifiable white noise.
This only happens on the finished DVD. In iMovie (before burning), the sounds are not there. I checked all the volume levels on all the affected clips, and they are all at zero.
Note that I am only describing it as camera noise because that's what it sounds like. I have no evidence that it is camera noise.
Can anyone help me get rid of this noise that's ruining my movie? Thanks.

John,
In a late-night stupor I decided to double-check those altered clip speeds. Sure enough, a few of them were not kosher! Err, I mean, not presets. I tweaked them to preset levels, and voila! No more mysterious noise!
This was quite unlike the problem I had last year that you helped me with--in that case, the manifestation of using non-presets was that at a certain point in the video, the audio tracks became completely disengaged from the video. So you'd have people moving their lips silently and then you'd hear their words 10 seconds later.
Makes you wonder if they fixed this particularly annoying glitch for iMovie '11?!

Mystery- how has my old nano been updated with my new playlists in iTunes when I haven't synced it?

I got given a 2gb nano in 2005, which I filled up with imported cd music, not wanting an Apple account and not wanting to pay for music that I already have on cd (was in music industry for years, and like to own the physical product rather than a download that then needs backing up). Anway, lovely bf has bought me a 7th gen 160gb pod for Xmas, so I was merrily organising playlists and preparing to load the whole 45gb of music onto my new shiny ipod. Got my old nano out yesterday, and found that all the playlists that were there have been replaced by the first few new playlists I've made in iTunes. I am not using Match, or thieving Cloud, and I haven't had the nano anywhere near the computer for the last 3 or 4 years! I don't remember registering the nano with Apple, but the new one has definitely been registered (several conversations with Apple because Amazon sent us a "new" iPod that had already been opened, language and clock set to Australian time (the London clock said 9.47pm YESTERDAY), and replaced it with another "new" one with the same issues (replacement hadn't even been shrinkwrapped, just the bare and slightly battered box).
Is this something that the cloud has done? And if so, how come it's done it to my baby nano, and not to the new Classic 160gb? It means it ran out of space, so effectively it's wiped off all the music that has been on there for years, and replaced it with as much as it could fit on, working from the top of the playlist list........
Having read about how the cloud nicks things and won't let you access them if you disconnect from cloud (not that I'm aware of having connected to the **** thing anyway), I'm now going to have to do a back up so that when I tell cloud to bog off, I can still copy any missing music back into iTunes.
Has anyone got an explanation for how my nano's content has been changed without me doing anything except changing my playlists in iTunes, and has it happened to anyone else?
Also, why did nobody at Apple stop to thing that "pushing" data to all your Apple devices is bound to cause problems when each device's capacity is so different from the others? My iPad is the first and small one (32gb I think), the nano is 2gb, my new Pod is 160gb, and what's in iTunes is 35gb. It's also tried to put my music library onto the iPad, announced there wasn't room (I had already selectively downloaded some music on to it when I got it 2 years ago), and wiped off all the music that was on that. It currently says there's nothing on it BUT also says it's full. I'm not very happy with Apple at the moment!
The only device listed in iTunes is the iPad, dated as Xmas 2010. Should I remove that from there?
iTunes is ALWAYS set to "prevent automatic sync" because until now, I haven't had a device with sufficient capacity to put the whole library on to, so even if I had plugged the nano in, I would have had to have selected the whole library in order for this mysterious over-writing to have happened.
Answers, anyone?
Thanks in advance :-)
Nikki

When iTunes removed the ping feature they replaced it with an internal check on feeds - based on the frequency of new episodes - so your feed may take a week or more to show up the changes.
http://www.nobodydanceshere.com/blog/feed/podcast/
Looking at your feed it is showing a last build date of 5/26/2012 - so the next time iTunes checks your feed it should update your info.
But since it has been since 2010 since your last update - you do need to wait a bit before iTunes checks your feed again.

"The Mystery of the Deck", or, "Is SAP a Nondeterministic Automaton?"

Please note:
1) There is a serious question embedded within this post;
2) The post is not meant as a criticism of the subscription stack - I know what I fool I am for trying to run it under VM on a 4-year old Dell 8200 with 1G overall RAM.
That being said ...
Some of you low-lifes out there (Chris S?) have probably played a hand or two of Hollywood Gin (Rummy) for money stakes such as "straight half", "quarter-nickel-quarter", "world, solarsystem, universe", etc. So you know that each hand starts with both players being dealt 10 cards, while the remaining 32 are placed between the two players in a face-down "stack" or "deck" (except for one that is placed face up next to the "deck".)
And therefore, it is safe to conclude that at least some of you low-lifes have probably asked the same question that generations of "gin" players have asked:
Does the order of the cards in the "deck" change after it is has been placed face-down on the table?
Since no one knows the answer to this "for sure", and in fact, cannot know the answer to this for sure, this mystery is known as "the mystery of the deck".
Why am I bothering to tell you this?
Well, I've spent the last seaveral days trying to get the NW7 subscription stack to run in 750M of a VM on my old Dell 8200 with just 1 gig of RAM overall.
And as you would expect, the WDA application DEMO_TABLE kept on timing out.
So I set timeout and proctimeout to -1 in the startup profile and changed max_wprun_time dynamically in RZ11 and chose a simpler demo application (DEMO_SIMPLE_MAIN).
Well, after a few minutes, the window for this app finally popped.
But here's the funny thing.
Since I knew everything was actually working as it should, I figured I'd try "DEMO_TABLE" one more time.
It popped in about 30 seconds.
So unless one of you "least-recently-used-page-gurus" knows why this happened, I will have to conclude that:
a) SAP, or at least the NW7 subscription stack, is really a non-deterministic automaton (intentionally or unintentionally);
b) yes, the order of the cards does change in the deck after the hand of gin has been dealt.
djh
Edited by: Rich Heilman on May 1, 2008 2:38 PM
Edited by: Rich Heilman on May 2, 2008 9:44 AM

Hey Rich -
Yeah - that sounds reasonable - thanks very much for taking the time to mention it.
But one puzzle - the Basis guy who was helping me out for the install says that for the regular ABAP stuff (not the WDA) stuff, the compiles "persist" across a server down/up. Meaning that when something compiles for the first time, it doesn't have to be recompiled after a server down/up.
Is this true for the regular stuff (non-WDA)?
And if so, why not for the WDA as well? Why would stuff have to recompile each time the server is brought up?
Also, the Basis guy thought it might also have something to do with SAP being smart enough not to keep swapping stuff in/out that's never used - so eventually, the amount of "thrashing" decreases and the machine gets to do some actual work.
Glad you're not too busy with your new responsibilities to post here occasionally.
Have your wife and kids told you yet that you gotta find a job that gets you out of the house?
Best
djh

Balance dropped, score dropped. FICO scores a mystery.

They only reason to pay for the service of credit monitoring here on myFICO is so you have some idea of where you stand when you apply for any type of credit or loan. All the information about understanding FICO scoring is all cookie cutter garbage that you can read on any other "credit monitoring" service. And the people that work for myFICO have no idea what they are talking about either. They just repeat the same cookie cutter garbage I was just mentioning. I really hope they are providing their "services" for free, because if they receive any kind of compensation, it is undeserved. My statement balance on my American Express Everyday card went from $50 to $0 and my scores dropped by 11, 12, and 17 points (Equifax, TransUnion and Experian.) I brought the statement balance back up to $50 the VERY next month. Did my scores recover the lost points I just lost a month ago? No. And I am sure all these "credit experts" will say, "something else in your report must have changed." That is code for, "I have no idea what happened, I am just as clueless as you why your score changed the way it did." The precise formula for generating your FICO score is a well guarded secret. It is the same formula used in determining battle damage to your characters in the old Sega Master System game Phantasy Star. Sometimes when attacked, your character would lose 6 health points, other times 80 health points, and even other times 3/4ths of your total health, and so on and so on. This is how FICO scoring works. The formula basically goes, OOGA BOOGA, OOGA BOOGA, this is your updated score. The only advice on this site (again which you can find on EVERY other credit monitoring service) that is worth anything is what responsible credit habits you should be practicing. Other than that, just hope for the best. Your score is a mystery, and it always will be.

Beavakos wrote:
What difference does it make if there are any negatives on my report? I lost points for doing something negative, which is bringing my balance to zero, than returning it back to its previous balance. THAT IS ALL I DID. I thought time heals all wounds when it comes to credit. Any credit missteps I might have had taken should be corrected with time. I really don't know how to make this any clearer. Nothing in my report changed except TIME. If I have two dollars in my bank account, and spend one dollar, then deposit one dollar, I should have now have TWO dollars AGAIN. ?????????????????I understand what Beavakos is saying here and we all get it. Most of us love analyzing data which is why we are here after we've already cleaned up our reports and greatly increased our scores. Again, I understand how Beavakos feels - it is said time and again that UTIL has no memory and what is lost due to UTIL will be regained - well, not always true. Looking strictly at the data two things changed on Beavakos' report: 30 days were added to age and UTIL went from something above 0% to 0%, then back again and yet Beavakos' score did not fully recoup the loss. The reason for this, I think, is very clear - we do not know as much as we think we know about FICO or any other scoring algorithm. If I lost 10 points for going from 5% UTIL down to 0% UTIL but then gained those 5 points back by raising my UTIL to 5% again then scoring algorithm's are not as complicated as they are made out to be and are thus not worth paying for. The previous scenario is simple math and if indeed it was only that I should be able to retest that hypothesis time and again and get the same exact results - not happening. That said, I do not believe that scoring is a crap shoot or something only a witch doctor can understand. It is a complicated mathematical equation that has 100's, if not 1000's, of factors all having a different weight at a different time and I believe there is no one that can determine with 100% accuracy the effect any one factor, forget about multiple factors, will have on your score. Not even the people who wrote the code would know as no one person wrote the whole code. We should probably stop getting so frustrated with how our scores react to the different changes in our reports. The reason we get upset is that we think this is some simple black and white game and it's not. It is very complicated and we will never know what we want to know to the accuracy level we want to know it. What's important is we know what hurts our score to a high degree and what helps our score to a high degree. Take care of all those things we know about and your score will go up; don't take care of those things and your score will go down. After that it is just a game we play to see how we can get to 800...

Several Apps seem to just mysteriously shut down after using for a while. Same with Safari, I will be using Safari and it shuts down. Face book too. I've reset and shut down my iPad 3 and restart it, but it stills shuts down. What to do?

Several Apps seem to mysteriously shut down after using them for a while. Face Book shuts down , netflix, Safari, and other Apps. They work fine for a short while, or a long while, and then shut down and it brings me to my regular desktop screen. I've tried restarting by completely shutting down the IPad until I see the apple pic and turned it back on, but the shutdowns of apps continue. Anyone else have this issue? It generally started shortly after downloading and installing IOS 7......

Hi jennyoutwest,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The following articles will provide some troubleshooting steps for your iPhone.
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430
If that does not resolve the issue, refer to page 146 in the iPhone User Guide to Reset All Settings:
iPhone User Guide for iOS 7
manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
The final troubleshooting step would be to restore your device:
iTunes: Restoring iOS software
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414
Restoring your device will delete all data and content, including songs, videos, contacts, photos, and calendar information, and will restore all settings to their factory condition. Before restoring:
Verify that you are using the latest version of iTunes.
Back up your device.
Transfer and sync content to your computer.
Cheers,
- Judy

Iphone 6 was mysteriously cancelled, reordered, and cancelled again all by the system

I am a new verizon wireless customer nearing the end of my at&t billing cycle. I haven't even received my phones yet but I have already had the worse experience ever.
I ordered two iphones on 9/13 when the delievery date was still set at 9/19 in stores and I also ordered a samsung s5 which was shipped to my brother within days. The 9/19 delivery date was crucial since my brother's account would start earlier and we are supposed to be sharing 10 gigs of data. The sales associate was able to credit us $30 to compensate for the preorder delivery date not aligning with our plan's start date.
However when 9/19 came along and no phones were delivered to my house, I checked online and my order was now set to be delivered by 10/7. I went to the verizon store immediately and the manager apologized and said he couldn't do anything and that it was just very backordered. Everything was still okay with me at this point since I understood the iphone being in high demand.
Then the crazy things happened. On 9/23, I received email saying that my preorders were cancelled. I NEVER cancelled them. An hour later, I was emailed receipts saying that I had gone into the verizon store and ordered two new iphones that day BUT I never did this either. Than, another hour passes and I receive emails saying the two phones I had 'supposedly' ordered that day were also cancelled. Lastly, I get an email saying one of my phones has shipped and is supposed to come on 9/19 but at this point, it was already 9/23.
After a stream of all these emails, I headed into the store the next day to figure out what the heck had happened. According the manager, the sales people whose names were on the receipts of our 'supposed' orders did not even work at that store. He also suspected hackers had somehow done this. After numerous phone calls to customer service and hours sitting at the store, we were able to reorder the iphones..but with a later delivery date of course.
* I would like to mention that the manager and sales person were extremely kind and helpful but they could only do so much.
Now, my mom and I are looking at either days with no cell phones (while we wait for our iphone 6's to arrive) or paying an additional month for at&t WHILE paying for verizon already since my brother's contract has already started.
I really hope verizon will actually look into my situation because this was definitely an internal issue. While I know other people's phones have been mysteriously cancelled, I do not know of anyone who's account has gone through so much strange activity as mine.

I also pre-ordrered on 9/12 a 128GB Gold 6 Plus. When ordering, it gave me the option to Bill to Account, which I did for about 1/2 the price of the phone. Little did I know that when Verizon tried to ship the phone, it attempted to charge my bank act the ENTIRE AMOUNT of the phone!! Well, there wasn't enough money in my checking acct for that, only what I had originally planned on paying outright, $250. So because of that, the order didn't go through and Verizon CANCELLED MY PRE-ORDER! I never got an email or anything. I was SUPPOSED to get my phone by 10/3 or something like that.
On 10/1, I called Verizon and asked them where my phone was in the queue. The Rep tells me that my order was cancelled and why (I didn't know any of the above information when I first called). and didn't I get an email alerting me to such? NO!!! Boy was I mad!! Still am very upset with how this whole pre-order thing was handled. My Sister-in-law walked INTO a Verizon Store (or maybe Best Buy) ON LAUNCH DAY and got a new iPhone 6! Here I am almost 2 months later, a Verizon Customer since 2008 and I am STILL WAITING!! I was so very angry but didn't lose my cool. The Rep offered me a $25 inconvenience credit on my bill, which I gladly accepted!
I ended up ordering again on 10/1....I JUST got shipment notice today that my IPhone 6 Plus 128GB in Gold is shipping out so hopefully it'll be in my hands on Monday!!!! I'd call Verizon and ask them why your order was cancelled, they'll be able to help you faster than waiting for a Rep to answer you here and ask about getting an inconvenience credit

The mystery of the double headers : one overtakes the other and i dont have two headers in my code

This is a total mystery to me and I have tried to resolve the issue for ages and I don't undestand what is going on!
When I look at my website www.genevievegilbert.com, the top of the browser window from my index page shows me the title 'ARTISTE DES NOUVEAUX...'etc.
When you look at the source code from the browser, the page shows ONE title, which is 'ARTISTE DES NOUVEAU...'etc
When I download that original file from the server itself (index.htm) and open the page in Dreamweaver, it shows me a normal header with the title that I want there, named above.
On my website I have a few links such as 'News'. When you clic on 'News', the top of the browser window from the 'news' page shows me the title
Kfi :: Digital Media creation for your business
Now, this is the title of my corporate website, which I DONT WANT to appear in my creative practice website.
I have no idea why is is part of the title of the other pages in my artist's site. The reason it is a mystery that this title appears there is that when I download to my desktop the actual page (news.htm), IT DOES NOT SHOW TWO TITLES in its header, just one! I open the file in Dreamweaver and the code is written normally, with one title in the header, which contains 'ARTISTE DES NOUVEAU...'etc (which is the title i want on all of this site's pages)
How come does the one on my server displays TWO titles in its sources code then? What is going on? This is SO strange.
The first of the two titles in the header TAKES OVER the second one and it is this one that display when anyone visits the site.
I tested it on explorer, Opera, Safari and Firefox: all the same.
I have created this site with templates and I gave up on using the template system when updating my pages as I don't quite fully understand the power of this system. Would that possibly have to do with my problem? How can I solve that problem?
I am applying for grants and I can't have my creative website talking about me wanting to do business! HELP!
Thanks, Geneviève

Would it be a matter of 'CLOAKING' my files?
I found this on the Powweb forums:
PowWeb Community Forums > The PowWeb Platform > Domain Names / DNS > How to make subdirectorys visible?
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Kommercial
2-12-02, 05:35 AM
Hello,
I want my visitors to be able to see the full directory they are in, in the address bar like, ie; http://microsoft.com/whatever/faq.html
(for example)
As it is currently, they see http://microsoft.com (for example) no matter where they go on my site, it never changes. I can type out http://microsoft.com/whatever/ in the adress bar and it will then display that page and show http://microsoft.com/whatever/ at the top, but once i click on anything to go to another page on my site, it doesn't change to show the new directory , I want it to change as people move thru my site. Seems almost like a URL cloaking feature is turned on, like the ones offered on other domain hosts.
IS this even the right section of the forumn to post this message? Figured it must be "domain name" related.
is this some feature not offered by powweb?
Or is there some simple button to hit in the OPS console?
(btw- i only have one domain name. And my site is all hosted on powweb)
can someone please help
thanks
Dragon
2-12-02, 07:02 AM
having the address not change is most often due to frames ... if you want it to change just get rid of the frames and you should be fine.
VBman
2-12-02, 10:22 AM
Yes, its must be frames that you are using, because my addresses are not 'cloaked' as you described, but rather it shows the current location of each page I go to.
SBGlasby
2-18-02, 09:03 PM
Yes.... THIS IS... one of the many drawbacks of using frames... otherwise the Full URL... of the page... shows in the address bar...

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