I got an incredible email today from a Penny Arcade reader. Dave shared with me an email chain between him and Ocean Marketing (the folks behind the Avenger controller) Trust me when I tell you that this is one wild ride. I’m serious, Mr. Toad would look at this ride and just give a slow clap while shaking his head. I have tried to arrange this as best I can in chronological order. I’ve also removed email addresses and other private information. So let’s just jump right in, here is Dave’s first mail to Ocean Marketing:

Wow.. just wow.  Via Leo.

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And it continues.  Also on Twitter.

People interested in Traveler may remember this post a month ago.  Prevent copying is “acting as designed” and preventing messages from being visible on mobile devices.

Well, it can be bypassed.  While getting ready for my Lotusphere session on Traveler (will blog my speaking stuff later this week) I noticed this option in the ntsconfig.xml file.

<PROPERTY NAME=”RemoveContentWhenPreventCopying” VALUE=”1″/>

Change the value to “0″ and content is no longer removed after you restart Traveler.

You have 2 choices.

1. Start a new backup, which means wait while the old backups are purged from the NAS, then wait while the 400GB of data is backed up over the LAN to my ReadyNAS
2. “Back up later”.  Ignore the problem and hope it fixes itself over the next day.  And while you wait, you have no backup

Thank you apple, for the choices.  Grumble grumble.

Have had a lot on for the past few weeks.  Not least of which, getting this.

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM-T18.810.432.34%) said on Friday that it has taken a $485-million (U.S.) hit because of recent discounting designed to drive sales of its weak-selling PlayBook tablet, that BlackBerry shipments were declining and that the company now expects to miss its financial targets for the year.

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