Posts by PG2255

This is not just any 'cyber incident' … this is an M&S 'cyber incident'

I get the gift card at a discounted price. Circa £44 I think gets a £50 card. So it's better than cash, saves me money.

But I agree on the not being able to spend them.

According to the BBC, reports of gift cards not working too. Which is great as I have one to spend.

How do you explain what magnetic fields do to monitors to people wearing bowling shoes?

See also...

My emails are arriving 24 hours late

Fix, remove the filter the user added which only shows email that is older than a day...

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

Re: Maccas closed?

Wimpy still lives on in UK too.

Switch to hit the fan as BT begins prep ahead of analog phone sunset

I don’t have a landline, so if I need to make an emergency call during a long power outage, I guess I’ll have to email them.

(bit like the IT Crowd?)

Hoping email will be fine:

* FTTP - exchange hopefully has power (generator if need be)

* Openreach modem has a battery backup

* UPS for the router (and the modem)

* Home battery system has an emergency socket next to it - so if the UPS is drained, I can power the router from that instead.

Fingers crossed ehh!

Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams

I'm happy to forgo Teams

Although not sure my employer would agree!

Future imperfect: A UK broadband retrospective

Re: Code Powers

It is complicated!

The council owned the land, the developers built the road/pavement.

There's a guarantee between the developers and council I think for two years.

VM could install their services IF they did a full width pavement re-instatement, but thatis too expensive for their in-fill budgets.

2 Mbps on a new build estate here.

Or 40 Mbps from Vodafone 4G.

Trouble is, 4G is just too expensive for large amounts of data - e.g. Netflix, Now TV etc. Therefore I still have my BT broadband and the landline phone I hardly ever use.

Almost got Virgin Media installed down the road (it is on both the main roads) but the council refused as they didn't want their neat and tidy pavements dug up.

Lollipop licked: KitKat still king in Android land

Not just Nexus

I'm running Lollipop on an LG G3, upgrade delivered over the air on the Vodafone network.

Plusnet goes titsup for spectacular hour-long wobble

A one hour outage aint bad. With VM it'd probably be half a day!

As long as the comms are good and they seem to be acting quick to resolve (eg have competent engineers) then what more can you want?

If you want a 100% reliable service, either pay a fortune or have an ADSL line, a cable line and a mobile service plumbed into a fancy router (or two)!

Yahoo! Mail users see crying baby who says firm is 'over capacity'

Don't worry. As soon as a few more people leave, the chance of it going over capacity will reduce!!!