* Posts by firu toddo

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First smut site erected on .xxx address

firu toddo
Big Brother

What site!

Couldn't even get to the Reg article. Our firewall said NO! in big shouty letters and said why the article was blocked, PORN! and said it would tell tales on me to the computer men.

Good job I am the computer men.

Virgin Media sees 36,000 cable customers scarper in Q2

firu toddo
Mushroom

Your Point?

Bullshit? Where?

Two minor points.

First up, "Even my 50MB was never managed - the upload was throttled when the moved me upto the 5MB upload back in March (brough back down to 1.75Mb/sec)" means what?

Throttling your upload speed is NOT traffic management? And BTW, this is the same policy Virgin apply to 100MB. So that would be managed too. Exactly as I said before.

Taken from Virgins website. http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management.html

Point two, in true VM style, they are not telling you what 'high' usage will trigger this (non) management. Bear in mind 100meg is only todays headline grabber. Remember unlimited broadband? Became unlimited to a Gig a day. Just like 10Meg became the tightarse tariff not worth supporting.

When I look into your future I see you bending over, grasping your ankles while Virgin explain the latest 'upgrade' to your T&Cs

And I see beardy is on the VM website oozing beardy love to anyone who will listen.

Until Virgin get their act together and support anyone who buys their services and not just the £50 a month peeps they can keep their wonder products.

firu toddo
Holmes

Lower Value Punters?

I had phone and BB from Virgin. They jacked up the price twice this year, That'll gets the ARPU up a bit. But only if the tight wads stay.

Did they stay? No, 36000 punters say sod it and Virgin reckon they are better off without these lower value punters. Even if these cheapskates had just BB/Phone like me that is 990000 quids every month! Nearly a million quids a month?

Might have been better to get them on board and sell more to them. But you can't do that by shafting your customers with higher bills and providing shit service to the skinflints. This will not entice these tight sods to shell out more money for a 'better'/faster service.

Just for info, the difference between 10 meg and 30 meg on Virgin is 5 quids. (Or 37%) And you need a Virgin phone to get this rate. 7.50 quids difference if you don't want the phone. But the phone is 13 quids a month. And the call connection costs are higher than the competition. Traffic management applies to all packages up to 30 meg, (see Virgins T&Cs) 50 meg is unmanaged downstream, managed upstream and excludes file sharing which is managed separately. On 100meg you get unrestricted up and down data, apart from the file sharing. Yup this is managed.

All recovered from the convoluted serpentine mess that is the VM website, today.

I don't use Virgin any more.

Apple admits scareware problem, at last

firu toddo
Alert

Teacup Storm

Chill out guys, non story in the making!

Apple issue a memo (Sez the bloke from M$) telling support not to tell users they have malware on the machine. So what, they don't, the problem is a scam site. You need to reassurance and help and the Genius Bar staff happily tell you how to avoid the issue.

End of the Apple story.

You want to blame somebody? OK, Did you sign up to the scam, give em money or install software? YOU did?

Well YOU did it, not the computer, not the manufacturer of the computer or the OS or the fairies at the bottom of your garden. But YOU.

If you believe giving money to some random twat you've never heard of from the interwebs who took control your computer, scanned it and now tells you how to fix a problem you didn't know you had then that is YOUR problem.

YOU, OK?

Memo gives full details of Nokia staff cull and closures

firu toddo
FAIL

Efficiency? Yeah right!

Comparing Apples and Nokias?

Apple goes from nothing to iOS 4 in the same time Nokia takes to put a nice dress on Symbian. And does it with less Developers and R&D cash too. Gotta say that looks pretty efficient to me.

Nokia trashing their own OS and buying into Windoze mobile don't strike me as being more efficient. They have become just another box maker with the same software as the rest of the Windoze crowd.

Nokia handset design might save the day? Even if the box looks as sexy as a sexy thing I can' see anyone paying a premium price for it when it fires up into the same Windoze interface you can get elsewhere for a lot less. (If Nokia have any good box designers left?)

Reskin the interface? Now you have a sexy box with a polished turd inside.

Bad move all round.

Sex abuse fax leak costs council £100k

firu toddo
Happy

Because....

Faxes are more secure than e-mail?

ViewSonic tablet defies death by Steve Jobs

firu toddo
Jobs Halo

But..

But you need to be able to up-spec the Gen 2 device. In Apple Land iPad2 will have a camera. (And a price hike).

And will be new and improved ;o)

App Store II: Steve Jobs sucks Mac's soul

firu toddo
Big Brother

Professionals.

"It remains to be seen just how iOS-y Mac OS 10.7 Lion turns out to be, and how much Apple values its relationship with its devoted professional base."

Making Lion iOS-y is not beyond the bounds of credibility. Apple don't care about any one but Apple. The bottom line is god and if worshiping this god means locking the OS down, so be it.

As for Apple's devoted professional base, ask the professional Java Developers using Macs how loved they feel right now.

If, (when) the OS lock down happens, the pro users will have to go where the pro app developer goes.

And the pro developers will move on. But I guess that won't be to a fragmented Linux market. So get used to working with Windows.

The rest of the professional IT world that uses Macs use small but essential apps that will probably fall foul of the Apple App Inquisition. We will move to something else just to get those tools and apps without having to waste our time hacking about with the system. So Linux for me.

And none of this will bother Apple. There will be many more consumers drawn into the Apple world than pros leaving it. The profit god will be happy and so will Apple.

Steve Jobs looks more like the Big Brother Apple warned us against all those years ago.

Anyone got a hammer?

Conficker left Manchester unable to issue traffic tickets

firu toddo

@ Iain Thomas

'S Not really an issue. You can specify the device type to block, or at least we do.

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