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A book from Microsoft. Sad customer story.

I hope this this post will reach someone at Microsoft and someone will finally read this post from start to finish. I only want to get decent customer support. @Microsoft, hope you care! In short: I have ordered a book almost 2 months ago and since then I have been fighting to: 1.        Get my money back 2.        Ask Microsoft to fix their mistake so I can pay correct taxes and avoid collector services. 2018-06-21 I have ordered a book from Microsoft Press. Original book price was 44.99 USD but as a Microsoft Certified Professional I was told that there is 18 USD discount, so the book should cost only 26.99 USD. On the same check-out page I was informed that shipment cost is 9 USD for an international shipment. 2018-06-30 I have received package with the book. Inside of the package there was only book and nothing else. I have no complains about the book. 2018-07-01 I have received a letter from Danish company Svea Finance. In the letter I was informed that due to my
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Recover old Li-on battery

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I got a mobile phone with what seems to be a dead battery: the phone would not power on the battery was approximately at 2.4 V so sign of charging after plugging into USB charger. The battery might have reached disrargelevel that is below acceptable level so phone would not regognize it as safe to operate (charge) I used my new imax b6 charger at first but it showed a broken connection. On the second measurement battery voltage was 0. So I suspect imax B6 caused some internal battery locking. HTC Desire C Next step was to try to supply a power source to check and identify if the phone still operational. I used step-down module (see on the picture)  with adjustable V and A values. On the first attempt (approximately 4V and 0.1 amps ) to power it on I got a short blue blink from step-down module. I looked like 0.1 is not enough to boot up. So I have increased to current to 1 amp and phone successfuly boot up. Next I tried to improvise and contstruct battery dock to try to c
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Must have after Ubuntu 13.04 installation

Return execution of scripts from Nautilus http://askubuntu.com/questions/286621/how-do-i-run-executable-bash-scripts-in-nautilus
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Goo movie: Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdomhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1748122/
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Good movie: Looper

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/ Some good ideas about time travel and consequences of it.
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Good movie: Standing Up

Standing Up http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1905042/ Nice family movie.
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Google music manager for Linux

You can download it here: https://play.google.com/music/listen#manager It allows you to upload up t o20 000 songs to Google Music service and listen to them online or offline from browser of from corresponding app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.music).
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