Posts by Richard Jones

Sky network downed in London

Service Outage

I think that it may have affected more than you were told. My Orange ADSL service was very flaky this morning.

Wacky Jacqui's £12bn gIMP could be unleashed by 2012

Purpose of GIMP

Look on the bright side we might find out where those spam messages are coming from. They might give wacky jakie something else to think about, especially those medical enhancement ones, anyone for a sponsored brain implant so she can find out why everyone hates and does not trust her.

Richard

Euro guidelines will allow Bluetooth spam

JunkMailers

Clearly not everyone loves the marketing junk mailers. Adverts may sometimes be of some use or interest, unwanted junk is never of value. I tired to read the MMAGLOBAL stuff and reply to their consultation, the mail link is wrongly formed and does not work, posting a reply does not work, hopefully their bluetooth crapmail will be just as successful.

Michael, interestingly I hardly ever go to the cinema, could that be down to the marketing?, I rarely watch TV, though the remote, aka the crap zapper is of some value.

They do read their mail

I am pleased to advise that the MMAGlobal site say that they have corrected the error in their email response address and that they should now be able to receive mailed in feed back. I should praise them for their near instant response.

Richard

Vendors form alliance to fix DNS poisoning flaw

Not All Smooth Sailing

While the action is welcome and overdue, the MS update (KB951748) for this problem brought its own issues to users who emply the popular Zone Alarm Firewall. A conflict between the two stops all internet access unless ZA is reset or a further update comes along.

Government told to ditch biofuel targets

Bio fuel

Am I the only one who is getting hacked off by the special interests groups who try to shut out anything except their own choice? Last week an 'wind farm promoter' slagged off the idea of fuel from bio waste, saying the industry estimates based on currently known waste details suggest it could only supply 1% of our needs. Yet it would also cut down on methane discharge. By giving bio waste a value, and yes it includes all THAT sort of bio waste... there is little doubt that more raw, (some very raw!) material would be found. Even at 1% of present demand it would be 5~10% of the target reduction in fossil fuel usage and need no shipping, water, (it comes with its own) or crop space.

Richard