* Posts by JeremyP99

10 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Aug 2011

Pay up, Lincolnshire, or your data gets it. Systems still down after ransomware hits

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I'm not sure we'd notice any difference. Writing a letter is nowadays the fastest way to get a response. Remember "letters"?

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"then why phish a council?"

Because, as Edmund Hillary noted, "it's there".

Global Warming is real, argues sceptic mathematician - it just isn't Thermageddon

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And how do you know that an extra 2 degrees may not be beneficial?

Plusnet is working on a network-level filter to block pirate sites

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Re: So instead of "We'll do you proud."

VPn solves this. You can get it for less than a fiver a month these days

KEEP CALM and Carry On: PRISM itself is not a big deal

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VPN.

Trust the cloud with my PRECIOUS? You gotta be joking

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Who needs the "cloud" with 4TB drives available? Not I for sure.

SECRET 28 'scientific experts' who Greened the BBC - Revealed!

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Re: i wonder

"off message"? Believe me, no-one invited to that meeting would have been off-message. An nobody at the BBC is off message. CAGW is the in-house religion

Nobody knows what to call Microsoft's ex-Metro UI

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I know what to call it

Shit. Total fail.

Virgin Media wipes out websites with routing blackhole

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FAIL

Re: Mostly OK

"Like it had been written by someone who didn't understand the problem or had English as their second language."

i.e. Virgin's "Support". Viring screwed my email a while back, and I got three different and ludicrous responses from India. Only by threatening to close our account did I get to speak to someone who knew what they were talking about.

Our internet went on is a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was a temporary problem, as we were at time clearly connected, but no web or email etc. Modem lights suggested as much. Anyway, support say that our modem needs replacing, and we agree a date and time for the engineer to come.

He or she never arrived. There's no record of anyone being called out for us. And the net came back fine a couple of hours later.

I'd love to complain about this, but am damned if I can find a snail mail address.

Branson and Customer Services are concepts alien to each other. He always does this to companies. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Southwest One made overpayments of £4.6m

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Somerset CC

Still waiting to know who was responsible for pissing away £25 million of our money in the Iceland crash. I guess we are paying for that...