Posts by tin 2

Re: The personal touch as only Amazon knows how

also @AmazonHelp Social Media Representative 21 is sorry for *your* issues. Not theirs.

Re: Don't diss skype until you've tried skype for business

Christ yes.

My current favourite is my client showing (what turns out to be) an old presence status for the other party, acting accordingly when I IM, the back-end throwing a wobbler (presumably because my client is the only gatekeeper to what I'm allowed to attempt to send the other party), then the other party's presence status updates to what it actually is, which is usually offline.

Not to mention the times I send someone something, the system errors and says it was not sent, then said someone replies.

s4b is fundamentally broken.

Re: Back now

Approval to back out? Is this some kind of new change control hell I haven't been exposed to? I back out if I think it needs backing out, end of. That's why there's a backout plan and why it's filed in advance.

Not at all, because the end user is paying the ISP for the internet connection. That's been the model since whenever and I don't think there's a better one.

What the ISPs are trying to do is charge the end user for the connection, then charge someone else again for delivering the data to that internet connection.

and on the recieving end...

(1) walk into office, jobs are on the printer tray of the fax, in a pile, no matter what time of day they were sent, take the next one, go do.

(2) walk into office, boot computer, sign in to any number of systems, open email, identify job emails, print each one via whatever convoluted how to find the printer system, then start from above.

Re: "no redundancy in the internet link"

"It seems to me that any traveler who was inconvenienced by this outage for more than a minute has failed to understand the potential of the smartphone they are holding."

Seems that information was not making it out of the airport to whatever cloudy goodness was updating the website and app either.

Re: Test systems better

they're also clearly following the lead of TSB by not backing out when they evidently should (a lot more critically in TSB's case, I suppose)

Re: Another false claim...

came here to post the same. So true

If you join a football club, and pay fees, and the club purchases a ball with some of those fees, and then you leave the club, the club owns the ball. Surely.

"However, I would like to know, in detail, IT guy level detail, what happened."

I imagine, being as it's clearly such a fuckup, that nobody who could tell you knows, and the people that do know are too stupid to both realise it, nor explain it.

Re: "Windows is not - and never has been - a gaming platform"

My point is it's no fucking good at it. Not that its what a hell of a lot of people use.

Not sure about this. 123-reg's crusty old scripts were a damn sight better than the new(-er) ones they put in. Every now and again some obscure function will drop you back into an old crusty script and everything works great.

Just came on here to say exactly that. Need to get me a job in software it seems.

"Yup, cutting off support for one of your products is a real encouragement to trust them with your money for another."

I upvoted this but it's so on point, it's worth repeating. This. 1000x this. Wake up Fitbit.

I have beef with the people that ran Pebble for the way they ran success into the floor and abandoned ship with smiles all over their faces, but I have more beef with Fitbit for dressing up a shutdown as some kind of service we should be glad of.

You know of course that having socket protectors is more dangerous than not? You bloody great pansy.

Re: Finally, an argument for...

Yeahhhs! Let us rejoice in our refusenik-ness!

Re: Official info?

definitely put them on eBay, they still go for really good money - radios for example pretty much the same I paid for mine new!

Re: Squeezebox

Indeed :) The synchronised sound is AWESOME!

That's a lie, I've never tried it on all 11.

I might have a problem.

the games it came with did NOT need a keyboard to operate! You're misremembering.

There were already much better interfaces on "PCs". Windows - and therefore the IBM flavour of PC - was "popularised" by outright market distortion that pervades to this day.

Frankly that's why pretty much everyone in the world sits down to work at a buggy slow POS that people perceive to be great purely because it's way better than it was. But apparently the Apple users are the sheep (no I'm not a fan of MacOS either).

Interesting point here. 123-reg support have been genuinely utterly fabulous throughout my many years with them (latterly with far fewer domains). Including patiently explaining when I -or a customer I'm assisting - has royally ballsed up.

It's a real shame the company is run by idiots.

Re: I've made a few tweaks to the copy so the intended audience will understand

Yo?

Will not work, because the firms have figured that if you don't agree, you can do without the service. They're not interested in spending the time/effort to appease your issues, just sign it and get on, or go elsewhere.

What this needs is legislation, but I can't for the life of me work out quite what that would look like.