Re: The etsting is getting worse
To be fair, that issue is related to Windows 8 which is why it hasn't been picked up by any news sites.
Posts by Mattjimf
145 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Aug 2012
Botch Tuesday: Redmond frags video codec
Chrome and Firefox are planet-wreckers, IE cuddles dolphins
Hey, O2 punters: Kiss goodbye to 4 MEELLION* Openzone hotspots
Thursday 30th May 2013 11:08 GMT
Re: Change of terms???
Not really. I was kind of curious when you mentioned this so went onto the O2 website and found the following in their T&C under Services Agreement :
2.10 Unless specified otherwise in a Related Agreement, we can add to, change, substitute, or discontinue any Additional Services we provide at any time. We don’t guarantee any particular Additional Services will continue to be available.
http://www.o2.co.uk/termsandconditions/mobile/our-latest-pay-monthly-mobile-agreement
And no I don't work for the company.
The bunker at the end of the world - in Essex
Microsoft conceals job ad in Bing homepage
BSkyB punters drown in MASSIVE MYSTERY Yahoo! mail! migration!
Monday 8th April 2013 14:09 GMT
Re: I guess they should read some of the deleted emails
Nope, work for a housing association in Edinburgh.
The bit in between the quotation marks are... quotations, the first from the article, the second from the only email in my Sky email account dated the 27th March, the last sentence is me stating my belief that the email points out in precise detail what is happening with the switch. Whether the lay person understands it, I don't know, I haven't actually read through it all, but from a quick glance could work out what was happening.
Friday 5th April 2013 12:52 GMT 
I guess they should read some of the deleted emails
"The migration to Yahoo!'s servers, which happened without warning to Sky's subscribers, has been branded a total cock-up by Register readers."
I have had about three emails to my sky account telling me the switch was going to happen and having just checked, the following email was sent to me on the 27th:
"The change to Sky Yahoo! Mail is just around the corner – 4 April to be exact. We thought it'd be helpful to remind you of the important things you need to know, to make sure you're ready for the change.
We'll start switching over to Sky Yahoo! Mail late in the evening on 3 April and your webmail will be unavailable for a few hours during the night. As there is a lot of information being carefully transferred, it may take up to 24 hours for everything to appear for you, so here's when you can expect to see things in your new mailbox:
Emails – we aim to have all your emails copied across within 24 hours of the launch. This means you may not see your most recent emails right away, so if there are any important emails you'll need on 4 April itself (for example flight tickets), please make sure you've printed them off beforehand
Contacts – To ensure your contacts are available for you to use immediately on 4 April, we will transfer a copy from 31 March. We would suggest that you avoid adding, modifying or deleting any contacts between these dates as the changes may not be replicated in your new account.
Calendar – Your calendar will be copied across as soon as we have finished copying your emails and contacts
If you usually access Sky Email using an email client, for example Outlook, don't forget you may need to change your connection settings to see your emails coming through on 4 April. Just visit our help page for more info.
Finally, as part of the switch we will transfer your mail, calendar and contacts, but there may be some information that you'll need to back up, such as your filter settings. This is because some Sky Email features will work a little differently in Sky Yahoo! Mail, but please visit our help page for more information."
So I'm not sure what isn't clear in there about the switch.
Scottish SF master Iain M Banks reveals he has less than a year to live
Thursday 4th April 2013 08:06 GMT
Re: Not a good day!
I got that t-shirt as well, although I think my wife consigned it to charity as I had too many shirts. A lot of people commented on it as it was unusual to see t-shirts for books.
I met him at a book signing for The Business when it was released, nice guy to talk to and will be sadly missed.
It was The Crow Road tv series that got me into him, although I haven't read his sci-fi stuff.
Stephen Fry explains… Alan Turing's amazing computer
Friday 22nd March 2013 09:51 GMT 
God I'm getting sick of Fry
I'm getting a bit sick of Fry and also that Cox guy that was in D:Ream, spouting gibberish over things they don't really know about just because they can put it into words the plebs (people who get angry over someone being voted out of a talent show, but admit they don't vote) can understand.
Fry is only revered due to QI and having a air of pomposity about him, which is why he always played characters in Blackadder that now just seem to be a natural extension of himself, making me wonder if he was actually acting.
In a survey 8% of people wanted Fry to be Chancellor and 3% wanted Cox, no idea why as neither have anything to do with economics.
Microsoft issues manual on Brits to Cambridge exports
Monday 18th March 2013 15:43 GMT
Re: Classic Yanklish
An Edinburgh taxi driver told me that when he got fed up of people asking if "THAT" was the castle, pointing to the great big castle looking thing on the hill, he would reply "No, that's a housing estate for poor people, the castle can't be seen in the city centre".
Pint because one will always keep you sane.
Microsoft backs law banning Google Apps from schools
Official: Sky to buy O2 and BE's home broadband product in £200m deal
Friday 1st March 2013 13:01 GMT
Re: Where to go then?
Talk Talk?
I was looking at changing from Sky to O2 due to the cheaper package with phone discount and free 0845 calls (not available with Sky), Sky cut line rental in half for the year, cancelling out saving and saving having to get another new number (something about not being able to do an active line takeover).
Love in the time of the internet: A personal memoir
Wednesday 13th February 2013 11:37 GMT
I met my wife on Uniform Dating. We exchanged messages/emails for about 3 months before we finally met up (me being an hour late).
I travelled to visit her a couple of times, then she came to visit me, I was looking for a job in two cities, decided it would be easier to look in one and moved in with her.
I have used various different dating/meeting sites, most for short term dalliances.
A friend of mine was due to meet a girl in a club while we were out, I went with him, he met her, and then ran out saying that she was nothing like she had described and her photo had suggested.
Jammy b*stards: Admen flog chocolate bars with 'Wi-Fi-free' zones
Tuesday 5th February 2013 09:31 GMT
Re: Yes it is totally legal - just read and look!
But it's not in the street, it's in a shopping centre.
You can see the floor plan with the list of shops behind the seats, the floor is the standard white tiles you usually find in shopping centres.
So it may be that the centre has wifi throughout the building, meaning that regardless of where you are (outside of being in stores) there is wifi.
Tick-tock, TalkTalk: Users face fourth day of titsup broadband
Monday 4th February 2013 18:05 GMT
Re: ahead of the wave
"If you get a problem with your line, hope there is some (any) crackle on the line, they seem to always prioritise this higher than a pure broadband issue."
That'll be due to BT making voice a higher priority than broadband. I used to work for a company doing helpdesk support for a reseller, if there was a broadband issue, it would sit for days, even after calling the Indian drones they employ, as soon as it was an issue with voice they were all over it.
Stricken giant 2e2 may be sold off in one by Monday - sources
Ofcom anoints broadcaster: Local TV is nearly here
Tuesday 29th January 2013 09:53 GMT
Seem to remember something like this before
Didn't we have this before, when ITV were separate regions and broadcast local programs as well as the national fare?
Didn't they all get swallowed up by a few regions so that ultimately we now only have 3-4 ITV companies.
So how is this not going to end up the same?
UK malls use Google in desperate stab at luring shoppers off the web
BT's 'six-month free broadband' offer is a big fat FIB - ads watchdog
5,000 UK pubs get free Wi-Fi... and they're not even all in London
Wikipedia doesn't need your money - so why does it keep pestering you?
Thursday 20th December 2012 12:25 GMT
Probably by hiring people who quit three days later, having people who spend more time off sick than actually working, organising meetings to discuss organising meetings, sending people to vocational courses that you can't fail because the tutors actively help you pass and paying for private transport when public transport is available and cheaper.
Thursday 20th December 2012 11:14 GMT
Re: I'm shocked, SHOCKED
"> Wikimedia Foundation UK, admitted to racking up a bill of £1,335 for business cards, calling it "a failure to make the most effective procurement choices"
Indeed - it says in the minutes that this was a screw-up and asks for details about how procedures and polices have changed."
I keep getting crap from Vistaprint offering free business cards, someone should sign them up to their mailing list.
Microsoft 'surprised' by Google Gmail 'winter cleaning'
Dutch army digs in on spare spectrum rest of Europe could use
Ten technology FAILS
Tuesday 27th November 2012 15:50 GMT 
Second Life
I had the "joys" of working in a call centre, where they also did Second Life support, one of the guys going through training to support fruit flavoured phones had worked on that part of the business and said that the amount of calls they would get from kids who hadn't been fed, washed or taken care of by they're parents because they were sucked into this "reality" was shocking.
Facebook tries to stop its staff using iPhones in 'dogfood' push
Monday 26th November 2012 17:38 GMT
Re: Ummmm
Have you installed the newest version of Facebook for iOS?
I was gobsmacked with how poor the last update was, I haven't dared and I'm worried that it's going to go down the same route as the Android one (again refusing to update it).
When you have a timeline that doesn't show the stories in the right order when you select Most Recent there is something fundamentally wrong with the coding (never mind only showing 4-5 posts).
I've never managed to successfully post an update, check-in or upload a photo successfully on Android despite having stock Jelly Bean on a Nexus S
I use Facebook to keep in contact with people, but as I previously stated, the way things are going, people will start looking for something else when every second post is a sponsored ad (that may be the case already, adblocker stops them on everything bar the fondleslab).
Monday 26th November 2012 14:29 GMT 
It's a slow slide to oblivion
Maybe with this new push to actually use the POS apps they have been downdating*, they might just start to see why pretty much all the reviews on the facebook apps are slating them for not doing the basics you'd expect to be able to do, ie post a status and reply to other people's statuses.
Facebook are on the slippy slope down to oblivion, and the sooner the next great social network comes along the better everyone will be, until that goes the same way.
*downdating as updating implies that things have been fixed/actually work better than before the update.
Judge drops TV ad-block block: So how will anyone pay for TV now?
Friday 9th November 2012 11:23 GMT
Or they could just latch on to the markers the channels put on the programs to highlight an ad break to the regional stations (little black/black and white boxes in top corners just before a break). I realise this is probably only good for ITV/Channel 4/Channel 5 channels, but if the markers are already there, why not use them.
Apple screen maker preps 'retina' iPad Mini panel, pants reporter
Virgin launches TV Anywhere streaming
Publicity Stunt of the Week: Ten bizarre phone insurance claims
WTF is... NFC
McFlurry McMisdemeanour costs Welsh lass McJob
Thursday 27th September 2012 09:39 GMT 
If that's the case, thank god the stores I worked in during the formative years of my employment career didn't have this policy.
It was not uncommon for staff, from lowly paid oiks to store managers to give extra burgers, fries, drinks and desserts to staff and friends of staff on a regular basis.
As to the flurrys, the chocolate is all Cadburys stuff and as most will be aware the boxes are 1 1/2 kg (from memory, may have changed in the last 10 years) and cost about £3 a box. If the employee had put extra ice-cream (or the frozen sundae mix they use) I can see them having a point, but the extra topping is akin to getting extra sauce in your burger.
Fans rap Apple's 'crap' Map app
Nintendo Wii U launch and pricing disclosed
Ding dong, the Ping is dead! Apple brings in Facebook for iTunes
iPad no flight risk says Federal Aviation Authority
Ten movies inspired by video games
Mars rover will.i.am 'cast: A depressing day for space and technology
Three extends data use with Sim-only tariff tweak
Thursday 16th August 2012 11:10 GMT
Re: Limitations?
Oddly I've just been looking at the Three web page and the AYCE data doesn't include tethering, unless on The One plan.
My question is how would they know if your tethering, as long as your not downloading torrents or the like, which I'm guessing you wouldn't be on a mobile phone.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
