Posts by daughterofdevil

You're legit and you know you are... Thanks to chanting racist footie fans, linking to dodgy stuff isn't necessarily illegal (well, in Europe)

Sing along

If you linked it and you don't know - it's okay!

If you linked it and you don't know - it's okay!

If you linked it and you don't know - even earned some money now,

if you linked it and you don't know - it's okay!

Ever wanted to strangle Microsoft? Now Outlook, Skype 'throttle' users amid storm cloud drama

VisualStudio and MSDN

For me VisualStudio (online licensing) and MSDN were also affected. Took about 2 hours to be able to work again.

Start VS, get coding - a popup message about invalid license appears.

Click 'search for an updated license' - nothing (apart from an error message) happens.

Try to login to MSDN to get a product key - MSDN barely loading and login.live.com not loading.

Try the login button on microsoft.com - it's just text and no longer 'clickable'.

Rinse and repeat for about 2 hours until VS could get an updated license.

Right now it seems to be working again but I am really happy that my company hasn't switched to O365 (yet).

PC rebooted every time user flushed the toilet

Similar story - different cause

Had a similar experience while living on school campus - every time someone used the bathroom the computer would restart. No carpets but the bathroom didn't have a window.

After about 3 months several possible causes were dismissed - only the bathroom light remained. A fluorescent tube paired with outdated wiring will do that. The solution was spending 70 bucks on a really fancy extension cort with interference supression filter and surge protector. Of course that didn't help with the frequent power outages because someone plugged a hair dryer in...

Euro Commish OKs €3bn German broadband aid scheme

Limited speed in a limited area

Yes, they are trying to get everybody broadband access. But in this case it is limited to 7 areas in one state (Saxony-Anhalt).

Surely citizens can report that their area needs some improvement but I read severeal german newspapers and tech magazines daily and this is the place I read about it...

Yay for The Register but how about some public information that a normal citizen will get (and not just the average geek).

FZI I live in a very very isolated area in Bavaria, telephone and powerlines are the only thing we get, because they are required to give it to us by law. Last year our region got VDSL (vectoring) and even a boost in LTE, so for the first time in 18 years we get internet without having to think about how much we use it (up to 75000 if the LTE would be working properly, right now about 25000). In 1997 we were one of the first german regions to get DSL, sadly my home wasn't one of them (about 2km cabeling was too much), so we got LTE as soon as we were able to. In the end we payed over 90€ a month to have 15GB LTE and 30GB via satelite (11pm to 7am unlimited).

That ment manual updates only, no video-streaming, no game-downloads, limited online gaming (LTE has awesome pings, but satelite is horrible).

So I am all for expanding broadband access and starting with so called "white zones" where access is very limited or not available at all. I know a lot of people that live in smaller villages and don't even get "DSL lite" or LTE. And don't even ask me about cell phone coverage.

So surely in most cities germay is looking good when it comes to broadband but most of the technology is outdated and rural regions who could also use the boost to attract new businesses and thus create new jobs are rarely mentioned.