* Posts by Shadowslayer

7 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Dec 2007

Boss regrets pointing finger at chilled out techie who finished upgrade early

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Re: Rug Pulled by pissed off third party..

I worked for an outsourced IT company and a client didn't pay their bill for four months. We tried desperately to get ahold of them, but they claimed they wanted to switch providers. So we simply deleted their virtual servers, and the backups. When they called foul our lawyer mentioned that based on the contract we could have done it without notice after the first month. So they just had to deal.

Plans for half of Europeans to get 100Mbps by 2020 ain't gonna happen – report

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Super Fast Internet?

According to the article 24mbps is super fast? My mid tier 60mbps connection is laughing right now.

Deeming Facebook a 'publisher' of users' posts won't tackle paedo or terrorist content

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Overreach much?

Why pass a new law against this? It is already illegal! Just use the existing laws to fight it. Its the police's job to go after these people so have them do it. Facebook will happily provide user details so they can be arrested.

That said if this law is passed it would be funny if Facebook simply disabled posts, and comments in the UK. The only thing you could do is post moods.

Santa Fe man demands half a mill for being near iPhone

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Beware of the Neo-luddites

I wonder if i can start a business selling faraday cages to nutters like this.

US woman says Ubuntu can't access internet

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Figures

So sounds like shes not the type to be going to tech school to just get the piece of paper because she already knows whats up. shes a noob going to a tech school to become some leet haxor like the commercials say. Its a good thing she did drop out as her lack of knowledge about basic things like OS compatibilities would have done her in.

Red Hat scurries away from consumer desktop market

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Ubunto is great

I installed it on my compaq v2000 notebook and it autodetected all the hardware except the wifi card and installed drivers for them all. I plugged in my linksys pcmcia card and it installed automatically too. No script editiing at all. dare i say It just works. Hell it even downloaded codec on the fly when i tried playing divx files. So if anything dethrones microsft it'll be ubuntu. I mean after all you don't get much more properitary than big brandname notebooks.

Russian railways in robot repairman revue

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Japans monopoly

On robots isn't as tight as you may think. Figures the Russians would come up with something practical instead of just tech demonstrators that the japanese love so much. Whats next Putins own private battalion of personal Killbots at his command :-) Luddites beware!