* Posts by Alex Horrocks

3 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Sep 2012

Enraged by lengthy Sky broadband outage? Blame BT Openreach cable thieves

Alex Horrocks

They won't read it...

We've had fibre put in at work the other year, everything they put in the ground was covered with writing and symbols advertising it as being fibre every metre or so (although doesn't help that the external tubing they lay to blow the fibre down looks like a bit of beefy SWA mains cable).

Wouldn't be surprised if even if they could read they nicked it "just incase" BT were lying in some sort of attempt to put them off...

Sky support dubs Germany 'Hitler's country'

Alex Horrocks

"No, we can't run fibre to your house, against elf-n-safety sir"

"But all your adverts say it's fibre and not 'copper like nasty old BT'"

"Er... *click*"

Pisses me off more than anything about VM is how they tell everyone it's fibre when it's coax.

Microsoft issues IE 10 Flash flaw fix for Windows 8

Alex Horrocks
WTF?

Great...

I can understand them combining IE and Flash on Win8 but why the hell would anyone want flash sitting on a server? Yes you can probably disable it/remove IE but you can put any money on it being there by default.