Posts by Scarborough Dave 110 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jun 2009
With alledged savings of also £50K, I think £30K of it was one tech guys job.
Costing £160 each year for 3 years with a data bundle on top of around £15 per month.
Still unsure how the locations services function, and the other fun bits will get on etc..
Sounds like a security and privacy nightmare, mind you might be fun using a FindMyMP app and see if your MP is actually at work.
In the old days Dabs had great prices and great service, the RMA system was sweet all done online.
Then BT came along and the prices were no longer great, customer service slowly went downhill and the RMA system was challenging.
Real shame for the team there as there were some really good people I dealt with, but just shows you how quickly BT can take a good business and drive it into the buffers!
Re: Coventry Pie #
No Raspberry pi to be made in UK, unless the UK government changes import duty rules.
Currently the Pi would require duty being paid on each and every individual component in the unit.
If you import the unit as whole, the duty is less as it is classed as one import component (as such)
The is more on the issue here http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509
Then I got real and thought "Oh well $#!+ happens"
Their FB page now has 53.5K likes, so overall the campaign probably worked for them, then with the PR they have had over the failure - I think if I was Dave Wood I would be happen with the result overall.
I have used Ebuyer in the past and had no issues, though I was unaware of the £1 campaign, until I went to the site and found it not working - then Googled the issue.
I think the Kindle release is a brave move considering the recent HP fondle slab experience.
I have tinkered with moving to Andriod myself, but the Apple phone and fondle slab being from the same stable just makes life easier.
My problem is I don't know enough about cross hardware integration with the various Andriod device manufactures and app stores?
Will I be able to have unto 5 devices use the same game license (per apple) or will each hardware device have to buy a fresh game license?
I don't think I am alone.
Though the price is unbelievable, I think this device will be the one device to entice me over to try Andriod, with Amazon's cloud I expect good content and reliability. If Amazon ever brought a decent phone out too, then Apple has a competitor.
Nostalgia try again!
Remember my mum has a brand new Renault 5 Gordini way back with tinted windows (very cool back then).
Was really quick and held the road like “something stuck to the road”, after 6 months the poor thing was rusty and the passenger door fell off!
Oh! Well, better luck this time Renault!
Still preferred my old Maxi though.
Anyone seem this in any T's & C's on a website?
Just wondering on the wording, I am expecting lots of junk mail on this issue, and lots of discussion, so if we could recover this potential to loose time (and money) on this issue with a change to some T's & C's now, then I am up for it!
I'm with you on this one "DEAD4EVER", hope microsoft brings out only one flavour, or at the worst 2, one for business and one for home (ie. no domain logon).
Though since we only recently upgraded to W764, and I cannot see us upgrading until Windows 9 or 10.
Windows 7 is very good in our system, users prefer it to XP, also since money is tight our motto in our business is "if it ain't bust don't fix it!"
My MD is very keen on Cloud having been an MD's only "the future of business" type meeting.
Though he was reminded this week when two of the BB lines went down and we were left with my "final fall over solution" a WIMAX connection to my home BB line to maintain internet access.
Then one of the managers got "fraped" down the pub, on his own mobile, and sent a rather obscene message on the company email system to the management team. :)
So we will have to adapt to this new future.
We fitted the system ourselves, but got it certified by a professional and took images of each stage of the works (for him and the insurer).
Save us around £1500, as the "Arrestor guy", was fully booked for the next 6 months.
In our area we get a lot of lightning strikes and have seen several on buildings in the area while I was working on our roof. I did immediately leave the roof after I saw the strikes, didn't even look like a thunder storm was about to happen, i just did. The air was all tingly (and my spanner), which I think should have told me something. So yes, lightning strikes are common in the UK.
If you directly earth the transmitter pole you are more likely to suffer a strike on that pole.
So might be best to trust to luck and “fire box” the kit directly connected to the transmitter unit.
Though you could always place a second pole taller by around 6ft and directly earth this to the ground to a depth of around 4ft, thereby providing a route of lower resistance, favoured by the elastictrickery gods!
This is what I did after discussing our existing pole with our insurers, there are plenty on professional online guides to the recommended way to do this.
Keep us all posted on your exploits!
I am no fan of Apple due to the "lock-in" and generally because it is Apple. (Sorry fanbois, probably get some down votes on that comment alone!)
But as a 3GS user since 2009, I do like the OS, simple does what you need it to do.
The aftercare is good too, I recently "water damaged" my iPhone and got a replacement from the Apple Store (long drive away) for £55. Try doing that with a HTC!
So eagerly awaiting the new phone as our contract is due for renewal at work.
We also use around 20 iPods, for managers email and comms, great for a manager on site whom you do not want to be desk bound and is not IT literate, as most people can get there heads around the emails system after first use.
So can't wait for my new one! :)
Presumably, there will still be Windows Home Premium, Pro and Ultimate, for each environment.
Hopefully MS will move to one flavour for the everything.
Can imagine the fun in a medium sized businesses where the MD buys a cheap phone and laptop, but can't login to the domain.
Not forgetting that the voicemail remote access vulnerability (I also wouldn't call it hacking) falls at the feet of the mobile providers using default codes.
They could have simply used a random code and text the code to the user once the phone was activated asking the user to change the code after input.
Chop the infected limb off.
The troops who know what was done when and sanctioned by whom scattered in a star burst.
By the time the inquiry starts, no one can locate the troops as they have left to who knows where, inquiry closes.
Mr. Mudoch sits back smokes cigar and chuckles, as he is driven up to Sky HQ saying (in an Aussy voice "was like driving a stick up a greasy dogs arse!" Takes another puff.
According to the customer relations man (sales man to you and me) it can do 0-60 in under 4 seconds, if all restrictions on the engine etc.. are lifted, though the batteries might on last a couple of minutes (or explode??).
I have been looking for a citation for this, but still haven't found one, though might be fun to watch on "Pimp my Ride"
Cheers!
PS Hello Jude and welcome! :)
So now I may end up in the situation of having less information which helps me manage our website.
We have no adds and flash!
But the thought of having to have a popup at the front of the site, makes me think “forget third-party analytics!”
Until you realise that stats from your server are generally "polluted" with robot spider visits.
Personally, if only the EU people would get a proper job, then maybe the rest of us can get on with ours!
Yes my arms were much stronger in those days, the best experience was on the M1 and the gear stick came off in my hand while changing gear.
Remember people saying, "what this has 5 gears!" and "what's front wheel drive!"
With snow tryes on I could go up the hill at the back of Olivers Mount in Scarborough!
Bring back the Maxi! That's what I say!
Are still proudly in their shiny cellophane covered boxes!
I asked for our BT business Broadband connections without ADSL modems ( I have a collection going back some years), however, the perplexed sales person at the other end said that I couldn't have the lines without the "free" BT Business hubs.
So in the store box they went, just in case they ask for them back one day, or someone I know needs a replacement.
I have never and would never use a proprietory ADSL modem, unless it had my own firewall behind it and NAT'ed; this is what I recommend to all my friends.
I am though a little concerned about the implications with IPV6, might be an idea for the Reg to run an article on percieved IPV6 issues and concerns of fellow Reg forum members?
Suprised that the employees are not all using Chrome generally, with other browsers being used for testing.
Reminds me of a job I did at the Rover Plant, I drove up to the employee car park and nearly all the cars were Ford's or some other make; with barely a Rover to be seen.
I am more concerned with the data being inaccurate but "plod" thinking it is accurate, I have met a few very educationally challenged "plods" in my time.
Secondly, we need greater transparency with regard to the data stored on these types of device which often connect to a PC and on third party systems. This needs to have some form of legislation regarding it, from democratically elected officials.
Finally, from an employment perspective and the use of devices owned by a company that track the movements of employees during work time is one thing, but when the employee uses these devices outside work (as many do), then I expect some lawyers will have fun with defining, who owns the data who has access to it.
Was expecting some indecent video, instead I got a weather balloon and a view obscured by a yellow ball with what looks like glasses on (or was that Paris?).
Anyway well-done!
I eagerly await the V2.
Though would have though as a technology website your budget (or ability to "tap up" a supplier) would have allowed for a small camera onboard the brick err..... I mean plane.
Mine's the one with the small camera purloined in the pocket.
Thanks TeeCee!
Nice to know not all of us have complied and bent over and accepted being "rodgerd" long and hard over the political correct indoctrination barrel.
Just a though having just been sent my "Equality Act compliance" from our very nice HR lady (she is a babe!).
I think if I was caught playing this on my own laptop, in my own time, but within the workplace I think I would be liable to some further rodgering over the discplinary barrel.
Crazy world we live in.
As a long time Duke Nukem fan from the platform days.
After 15 years of being drilled in saying Chairperson not Chariman and Blocklist not Blacklist, I think I would feel a bit uncomfortable playing game this in todays modern politically correct world.
Also, unless the game designers bring out more inventive play and humour than the already "done to death" Duke having a wee, Duke saying " shake'em baby", then I think it will struggle in sales against the "modern warefare" themes.
Still love the old game the use of mirrors and crouching was miles ahead of Quake at the time.
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