Posts by Steven Griffiths 30 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Aug 2007
We found six other planes while we were looking for him.
Can't be that fucking good then eh? Otherwise you'd have found the others when they went missing.
So it's more like "We're pretty good at what we do when it's someone famous we're looking for, otherwise we generally don't give a shit."
"Windows XP SP3 does not bring significant portions of Windows Vista functionality to Windows XP."
Well praise be to his noodly self, seeing as though Vista's (dis)functionality is the reason people are avoiding it like the plague, that's surely another reason to stick with XP?
Coming from someone who works for a much smaller hosting company (who encrypts customers passwords) they've been haemorrhaging customers all year, and everyone else benefits!
Between the ineptitude of the competition (we've benefited from Rackmount's past cockups too) & word of mouth between defectors we haven't had to advertise recently. We've even had a few doing a runner from PlusNet.
Beauty fasthosts, keep it going.
PCWorld in "right hand doesn't know what left hand is doing" shocker...
Well no, I used to work for what they used before the "Tech Guys", in their Sheffield call-centre, & we were always coming across instances where the shop staff, especially the management, didn't have a clue what was happening in the rest of the company(/world). You'd routinely get people in the call centre getting people coming through who'd been told absolute loads of bollocks by the shop staff, & getting set straight by us, we'd even had the odd manager phoning us from the store at national rate, & waiting 3/4 hour in the queue just to ask us what they were supposed to do!
What with the other crap, including but not limited to supplying re-conditioned kit as new, fobbing off customers with un-necessary re-installs (a company favourite), replacing parts with returned kit, & blatantly lying to customers about their rights, they are neither a good company to deal with or work for.
Oh & their payroll department's even absolute shite. When a friend of mine left, they worked out that they'd overpaid him by a grand & a half ish, & sent him an invoice!
Place I used to work at had a new digital laser copier, & used to do a lot of business from students getting certificates copied, which triggered the same kind of anti-copying gubbins & used to come out dark green.
Asked the nice engineer & he turned it off for us, bless. Cue hours of endless fun with single-sided £20 copy spray mounted to the pavement 2 metres away from the shop window.
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