Virgin Media in the UK have an option when to allow you to install kit yourself when you upgrade. One of the delivery options is Click And Collect from a local grocery store. I chose this option to make life easier for me. Big mistake. The store requires a reference number to release the parcel and neither Virgin Media nor their couriers provide one. It took me four visits to convince the store owner to hand over my new cable modem and Tivo box. Never again.
Posts by Julifriend
12 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Nov 2016
Can you download it to me – in an envelope with a stamp?
It's official. You can get FUCT, US Supremes tell scandalized bureaucrats in rude trademark spat
We went to Nadella's launch of Hit Refresh so you didn't have to
Migrating to Microsoft's cloud: What they won't tell you, what you need to know
Tuesday 20th June 2017 08:22 GMT
One thing I don't see mentioned in the article is firewalls and proxies. If you run either (and you almost certainly should) then migrating to O365 is likely to be a nightmare. Microsoft seems to assume that everyone has unfettered access to the internet these days and I suspect this will cause many companies more issues than Microsoft would like to admit. We trialled O365 and quickly canned the test as re-engineering a significant element of our network was not what we expected to have to do and could not be cost justified.
Also, if you run a thin client environment then the problems are likely to be many. In our case 90% of our installed client devices were thin terminals without a local browser therefore moving to the Cloud without replacing client devices or keeping our existing XenApp installation was not an option.
I still haven't found what I'm malloc()ing for: U2 tops poll of music today's devs code to
'At least I can walk away with my dignity' – Streetmap founder after Google lawsuit loss
Tuesday 21st February 2017 14:06 GMT
Re: You rate Here?
"HERE? Are you joking. They wanted £160+ per year for SatNav updates. I can buy a TomTom or Garmin for less than that. For less than two years HERE subs I can buy a TomTom with updates for the life of the device."
That's a very expensive Sat Nav! My Garmin with lifetime updates cost £79.
New Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters can't transmit vital data
Apple nabs smartphone top spot from Samsung, but for how long?
Unlucky WD Ultrastar drives are knackered, need replacing ASAP
Forget aircraft – now cretins are laser-blinding ferry boat crewmen
Friday 6th January 2017 11:53 GMT 
A moron in an Impreza flashed a green laser at my car windscreen one night a couple of weeks ago after I had the audacity to flash my lights after he cut me up and forced me to brake sharply to avoid an accident. Regrettably his rear number plate was so filthy his registration plate could not be read.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
