csmithuk

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by csmithuk 13y ago
If it's unusable, tell them and say you will stop paying for it as it doesn't live up to their advertising. Your rights are protected outside the contract. Threaten to complain to Ofcom if they resist. They'll let you leave a
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Sounds like my win phone. 4.5Gb free and it wont install a 200Mb app because it is apparently "out of space". WTF.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
It wont sync with your windows phone either. And half the time ot wont play off SkyDrive. Every ecosystem has a pain in the ass step somewhere either by design (Apple/iTunes) or questionable integration (windows live or whatever it is
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I'm actually using my line for home working 100% of the time. However I have a backup (3G card in my laptop and friendly neighbours with different ISPs including different mode Cable and WiFi). I think that is a better investment than
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by csmithuk 13y ago
a) I know a lot of parents. Not one actually cares about this. They care more than some nasty piece of work will nick their child's phone on the way home, which is far more realistic and common. I reckon the 1% are noisier than the 9
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I can't see any ADSL offerings on their site. Do you have a link?
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Perhaps the parents should spend some time with their children and show them what is appropriate and what is not? I have three children, all of whom use the Internet regularly and bar some passive monitoring, I've done nothing. They ha
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Well I was an O2 customer. Sky bought O2 last year and in the effort to maintain their customer-base they will give you silly offers if you argue with them for long enough. It's usually £20.50/month including line rental but I arg
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Sky user here[1]. Turn it off then! This is entirely optional. It asks you when you first install and connect the router via the WiFi landing page if you want to use any blocking. If you don't answer the question or select no, there is
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by csmithuk 13y ago
My host machine was MSDOS and this was before I was aware of things like VCS'. I still have the ROM and board so I could possibly disassemble it. The actual loss was caused by a disk failure and an untested backup system (my bad)
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I did this. I built the hardware (Z80 SBC), wrote the OS (tiny single tasking Unix like UZI180), started to write an editor (like ed). Then I got distracted with something shiny and abandoned it. Think I blew 200 hours on that and don'
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Not necessarily. It may only have power control function. If you pull a USB device out it's the same as turning it off in theory and vice versa. It's probably just turning the device off or setting it into standby mode. edit to ad
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by csmithuk 13y ago
As per my other post, the keyboard is most likely a PS2 keyboard interface (physical or emulated) connected to a simple PS2/LPC(ISA) bus interface inside the EC. It will literally deliver an IRQ to that bus (IRQ 1) at which point the E
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Actually no. The keyboard is still an old fashioned PS2 device on the majority of laptops. It connects to the LPC bus (low pin count - similar to ISA) via a PS2/ISA bridge in the embedded controller. It's just like in an oooooold
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by csmithuk 13y ago
This happens a lot, especially in the SaaS sector. However your purchasing people or IT people (or yourself) need to consider this up front as due diligence. If you don't do it, you're a wally not a license martyr. Portable, open
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Very. Multiple updates, public contact addresses, good reviews.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Well I haven't disabled any filters, haven't been asked about filters and I'm a new customer as of last week.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Yes last week.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Stallman is infamous for this tactic to the point it's getting tiresome for me. Take a look at the thread on openbsd-misc "real men don't attack straw men" (his title) which was used to attack the OpenBSD project. They d
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by csmithuk 13y ago
This seems like bollocks because I'm on one of the "big four" ISPs and I can quite happily request anything I like other than a few sites listed here: http://help.sky.com/security/privacy/our-approac
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Most of them are abandoned and have restrictive licenses so you're SOL then.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
And we're still stuck on 1.4.2! Surprisingly difficult getting rid of older versions if your plugins all depend on an old version... we've got to rewrite 4 plugins due to API breaks to get anywhere near this version. Will never im
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by csmithuk 13y ago
No. OS X is a bastardisation of Mach, FreeBSD and OpenStep. A completely new Frankenstein's monster.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
This has to be the first time that Comic Sans hasn't offended me in some way. On a more serious note, I will be donating to this.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Fair point although it was 1971 running a nroff typesetter at Bell Labs. First external to Bell Labs deployment was in 1972 though.
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by csmithuk 13y ago
This is normal. They are the poster boy for a corporation despite having screwed up incredibly so many times over the years, nearly fallen off a cliff and treating their customers like crap ( "you're holding it wrong" for ex
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by csmithuk 13y ago
Actually 45 years...
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by csmithuk 13y ago
I had a 2010 MBP and the magsafe stopped power cord tripping. That wasn't what killed it though. There ate numerous millions of other ways to kill a notebook. Buying a machine that can survive relatively extreme drops and liquid incurs
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by csmithuk 13y ago
To be fair windows 8.1 isn't that bad. I'm writing something at the moment which returns it to a usable state through group and security policies and registry tweaks. By definition it doesn't add anything to the OS like start
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by csmithuk 13y ago
That's crazy. After 25 years, all I have is a 32Gb USB stick.

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