Posts by Bill Alsbury

Solar storm rips tail from comet

re: CMEs and comets

But of course could happen, candle in hurricane springs to mind?

Egg.com server cracks

Fancy that

Looks like it isn't just the server not responding.

WHOIS failed to respond several times on internic and nslookup times out, appears that it could be a DNS issues or ... dare I say it... a domain name renewal issue!!

British customers miffed at email response times

Hardley surprising

The majority of email enquiries seem to be dealt with by the telecentre staff who only reply when they have no calls.

If you email after waiting for hours on a phone line for an operator you can bet the email response is going to be even worse.

Olympic planners left IT out of the budget

Now there's a surprise

isn't it.

Another major success then?

BBC Trust to hear open sourcers' iPlayer gripes

Re: Title

I'm with you Cris, when the Internet is totally unusable because of all the video, TV and other crap on it everyone will be bitching as to how the new extra bandwidth will be funded.

Westminster blows £29m to save £20k

Re: The maths .......

Well done Tim

I go with the no street light solution.

Go to rural France - No street lights - See the stars - No 'YUFFS' hanging about on the streets, wonder what the additional savings would be in reduced policing, property insurance and NHS costs?