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281 posts • joined Thursday 6th September 2007 22:58 GMT

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s. pam
WTF?

Hey MSFT, we don't care!!!

Windows 8 is what is lining the waste treatment plant near the M40 in Slough.

It is brown, yucky, smells/looks bad and is devoid of use.

Get a real O/S -- no one wants your fondleslabs w/o one -- even Android rocks vs. Windows 8.

s. pam
Mushroom

The funts are still loose in the asylum!!

Almost all of you reading this who work in banks, insurance companies and other large institutions have an even bigger time bomb you need to sort than XP.

That is continued use of Windows NT and Windows 2000, still evident on your networks when we run network scans. That combined with a high number of cash points running OS/2 are a bigger scandal coming than the press is aware of.

There was a song, I can't recall the band "One, two three lock band" and it appears many are members.

PS> Why the nuclear cloud icon -- because this is going to explode badly in folks' faces soon as the HW dies.

s. pam
FAIL

I had a ruby last night

and my iRing is burning like mad as it was a vindaloo…..

s. pam
FAIL

Re: Why not...

OpenDNS only showcases more VM problems and adds more delays into a flaky service. Been there, drank the bong water trying to get around perhaps the worst ISP DNS ever delivered.

s. pam
Childcatcher

"BBC Vision is a good start, the next step is to abolish….

The BBC as a whole needs to go away and be the commercial provider they are in all but the truest sense of the word.

It is nothing more than a fascist conspiracy to continue to rip off us with yet another stealth tax, and if we all just quit paying, they'll have to reduce the gazillions of idiots back down to a manageable number of useful staff.

Reducing the number of repeats, and imports and just produce basic TV & Radio.

s. pam
Pint

Is is DOUBLE your PLEASURE day

Abode also released a slew of updates for Air, Flash etc….so in total hundreds of MB's of patches to install.

Time to go to the pub me thinks...

s. pam
Thumb Down

YUCK -- I had to use Windows 8 and I didn't like it!

We visited our son last weekend and I had to help him with his new computer win 8.

Never has an OS made me swear more, more loudly, made me more want to vomit than this ebola virus on a machine. I also had violent spells of diarrhoea afterwards and will be seeking compensation for counselling.

What a /dev/fucked OS it is..

s. pam
FAIL

Re: Not the only filtering offender

O2 personal mobile blocks any site with alcohol on it, so I can't get to CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) without paying & getting a £2 charge/refund to verify my identity even though I have a monthly direct-debit account on my personal phone.

Yet with my work O2 mobile, I can go to the same site.

So the filtering is far more widespread than anyone wants to own up to.

s. pam
Facepalm

The two channels should be, since we're paying for them

Film4 HD

Five HD

Followed by Discovery Channel (since they rake it in like mad, you'd think they'd show repeats to get folks to Pay-TV to get mroe)

s. pam
Thumb Down

Fook me, you mean there's NOT Zombies already deployed?

You've obviously never been to Hillingdon Hospital or High Wycombe Hospital.

Their Zombie count is almost 100%

s. pam
Flame

I rather fucking drink my Java than use it!

Turned it off last week a day before the press got a clue on everything in our house. Not a problem reported at all, thus validating the extreme uselessness of even having it installed anymore!

Goodbye Java!

s. pam
FAIL

Get over the Met Dear

The Met is no different that the Bullshit Blasting Corp and their so-called forecasts can be replaced in seconds and save us gazillions:

1) Rock on string dry, it's dry outside

2) Rock on string wet, it's raining outside

3) Rock on string white, it's snowing outside

4) Rock on string @ 90 degrees, it's breezy outside

Frankly, it's time to sack the lot and pass the savings back to more worthy causes, like feeding OAP's, heating OAP's homes, or buying crack -n- hookers for our MP's and their second homes!

s. pam
Thumb Up

Number 11

Format c:

Insert DVD

Boot NetBSD

Job well done!

s. pam
Holmes

It would be far easier for RIM...

To rename themselves $tarbuck$, Gargle or Yodafone and just avoid taxes altogether.

I'll get me coat..

s. pam
FAIL

Enjoy the rampant rule breaking this will allow

So there will be no compliance archiving on the network, IM, etc and all dodgy dealings will simply move to this communications channel.

Enjoy the resulting clusterfuck of financial misuse, fraud and criminal activity this will cause.

s. pam
Alert

Just run iOS 6.0.1

And you'll have NO battery at all, and no data allowance left either.

Damn you iPhone, you've sucked horribly badly at both this time!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4310494?start=1635&tstart=0 110 glorious pages of Epic Apple Fail.

s. pam
FAIL

Cruddy place to work, what else are the inbreeds to do?

Just go onto Gawker and search for "Life-at-Walmart" to see what a soul-sucking company they really are.

The PR folks would have sued to get the stories down if they were untrue, so grab a bottle of absinthe and have a read!

s. pam
FAIL

Customers have a bigger worry than this

All the crappy adverts with Inane Dolt in them do nothing for their image. Our PS has always done that, I don't really care - but I'm seriously fucked off with no broadband upgrade even though they're selling 100mbps on my road (and can't deliver it)!.

Their network engineers are laughing behind the scenes as the real debacle is which cost centre will pay for upgrading all the remote cabinets. Turns out the take up rate on their HD cable has been so high that 1st and 2nd generation remote cabinets is more than a year behind.

What you as the punter, ahem mug, ahem customer see is that Broadband AND Video are on the same local switch. This is why we've just received out FIFTH in 10 months delay to 100Mbs letter & email. Virgin has to upgrade to latest generation cabinets so that video can buffer and 100Mbps can be delivered.

Until then, committee by committee and team meeting by team beating is happening on many levels one would suspect. "Flubber Hub Crap Sub-Committee" and "Home Less not-so-Broadband Sub-Committee" meetings with plenty of tea and biscuits but no action will continue.

I'm at the end of my 18 month contract on Virgin, and seriously considering my next move. Our problem is where we live in Area 31 (usually known to their engineers as Area 51) is right on the edge of BT's POTS and we're unclear if they've upgraded FTTC or not.

s. pam
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But Stiffs.com is still alive!!!

Kurt Cobain -- still dead.

Michael Hutchence -- still dead.

Idiod ruInning Aussie Broadband, still alive.

s. pam
Flame

SCAM, RIpoff, Useless idea, Twits!

As a member of the wider community commenting on this FARCE of abject stupidity in the Nominet game, this is a SCAM, will NOT secure anything, but will RAISE money for the registrar.

Country codes, E.G. .co. .fr .ie are the area international standards bodies. Internet naming is built from direction of ICANN and why the heck Nominet has come up with this idiotic idea we do not know.

We DO know you should comment against it, or chaos will ensue.

s. pam
Thumb Down

Oh FFS!

Just STFU and go back into whatever cave you came from. The world is not India, nor the US, but if something has worked for 40+ years, just STFU and live with it.

Damnit I hate crap like this.

s. pam
FAIL

would it work on parliamentary people?

if we tag all MP's could we put some of them in the bin?

s. pam
Devil

I rectum

He really felt the heat for the crime the next AM!

I'll get me coat….

s. pam
FAIL

Tell the Aussie to Go Fuck Himself

They can't even deliver broadband, or Medal winning athletes thus they can GFTS.

s. pam
Mushroom

Useless shte SW Udate

The bloody thing has been crashing, locking up, acting like a prostitute in Amsterdam giving BJ's on a Friday night it's so up & down.

We're in Area that fscked last week with te upgrade, and nothing's fucking worked right since. Calling their Tandoori Helpless Desk the home phone over their network keeps dropping the line.

I guess the fucktards are real proud of the new UI it's got. I coud care less, they've taken our 2 year old reliable line and screwed it up.

Oh the Tandoori Helpless Desk tried to give me 3 days credit. That was last Friday and the damn thing is still acting like Paris.

s. pam
FAIL

Re: One helluva of a lot of pissed off customers

And N4, Croydon and plenty more.

Nationwide problem?

No worries, Inane Dolt will fix them!

s. pam
Trollface

Sex today on the network, dear?

Does the proliferation of Hetronets mean only Metrosexuals need be able to use them?

s. pam
FAIL

Bucks Chucks Up a Fuck-Up of Muck...

BCC are idiots, I live in this council. Their IT is worse than Beavis and Butthead when you try to use their pathetic websites.

Even Dale Farm residents could do better. I have a Hotmail account just for BCC as their so pathetically Dain Bread it isn't funny.

Entire council is an Epic Fail.

s. pam
FAIL

Thick as shit?

Is he related to Kenny the Port-a-Loo cleaner?

s. pam
Pint

Working just fine, just came home

I've been away a week, did what I normally do when back home and turned it off for 30 mins then turned it on.

Just downloaded a 28.5MB update to some SW or another on my Mac, as well as a Flash Update and both came down very fast and worked fine.

Must be a regional problem somewhere else.

s. pam
Flame

Here's the winning solution

Please award the contract for this work to G4S as they've done such a good job with security for the London2012 SCAMlympics we're all very confident that they will do a fantastic job.

s. pam
Childcatcher

Dear UK.Gov

Please award the contract for this work to G4S as they've done such a good job with security for the London2012 SCAMlympics we're all very confident that they will do a fantastic job.

s. pam
WTF?

Gee Whizz...

I figured Diamond had resigned from that Bank to take over the Beeb, or Bernie Madoff would win the job.

Guess my lottery ticket still didn't come in....

s. pam
Megaphone

Face before Arse?

Looks like an excellent opportunity to turn around, drop trousers and give the photographer a vertical smile.

Clearly they've already been done there, so there should be a corporate logo in evidence -- Mktg will be happy.

s. pam
Mushroom

What a bunch of hypocrites!

CSIRO, usually respected has done a NoTW with this publication IMNSHO.

They sit in a country BBQ'd by sunlight that has done SFA to use the power of the Sun.

Solar power is a complete and utter joke in Oz, in the years we lived there and did quite a bit of Bush travel, we never once saw any Solar arrays, etc and it's a right shocker that they now put forward this position.

Rock, Glass Houses, Pot-kettle-Black all spring to mind.

Oz should lead the 3rd world with use of Solar, instead then bury their heads in the sand.

s. pam
FAIL

How about he sods off?

And HIRES more fucking Border Agents, more morons to be at the stand when a plane presents itself.

FFS -- more technology not needed. Less Morons in charge needed!

s. pam
FAIL

Welcome to the Arse End of America

I bet she's really going to love the family-tree-is-vertical-only land known as Bentonville Arkansas. Completely teatottle, not a soul on the streets after 2000pm, a population that just looking at them can cause a Minerva-like experience awaits her. Don't forget the Hypocrisy-express that exists behind closed-doors, perhaps she can get into some fluid collection.

I went once to Wallyworld HQ, worst 32 hours of my life. Worse than marrying my Ex. Worse than a root canal via Uranus.

At least she'll have a map how to get to inbreed land!

s. pam
Joke

Fook Me

How on Earth did y'all find a picture of my ex-wife?

s. pam
FAIL

There's really NO NEWS HERE!

Folks if you had any modicum of a Clue Bag, you would know far more is already in practice.

Part 11 of the UK Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. Telephone operators and Internet Service Providers retain some data already and have been for quite some time.

Add in The EU Data Retention Directive, more formally "Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks.

To steal unashamedly from The Matrix:

Morpheus:" If you take the Red Pill, you open up the wormhole to what it truly is."

Morpheus:" If you take the Blue Pill, you wake up like nothing has happened this was just a dream."

Protesting to your MP might help, but to be really effective we as a society need out MP's to hammer the UK representatives to the EU.

Sadly, the following are now what happens:

Work for a Gov't department -- your email and web are logged.

Work for a public company -- ditto

Use the Internet in a number of EU countries, your email and web are logged

s. pam
Flame

Hot Hot Baby

Goodness gracious my balls are on fire

-- Shamelessly stolen from Jerry Lee Lewis :)

s. pam
Terminator

Reading is Zombie H.Q. all the time, everyday

Reading Centre is a non-stop Zombie occupation zone. Full of fly catching, mouth breathing mutants who drag their knuckles and spit on the floor. On a suckage scale of 0-100, Reading is a 125.

Oh shit, that reminds me, I have to go to Reading to pickup a suit. Better take adequate weaponry @ lunch time!

s. pam
FAIL

What a load of rubbish!

You still have to solve the last mile problem BT, your 40-50 year old POTS wiring plant is so antiquated and in many places boosted just to get dial tone you're not really delivering what you are promising.

Not that the truth should get in the way of your Marketing B.S. but you should tell consumers the truth. Speeds up-to @ the Cabinet only, instead of misleading them.

I will add I don't work for any network provider, just a home worker/user tired of the BT lies. At least I get what was possible on the Ginger headed bloke's network!

s. pam
FAIL

Oh happy fucking day...

Looks like I can expect to see yet ANOTHER rise in my home energy bill. They've already made it where we turn off every single light, run the heating at 1/2 temp, and generally feel like we live in a turd world country.

They've already figured out legally how to raise the bill even though you thought (damn, must start using airplane glue again) that your rate was fixed.

This is just marketing B.S. and nothing else for a way to not lower the rate, but "reinvest"....rubbish!

s. pam
Flame

Wahey!

Oh, Ah, People running amok with the SCAMlympics torch will be like last August in London all over again....!

s. pam
Megaphone

s/at least four years now/forever/

Flash is the Ebola virus on a hard disk and I rate it no higher than Solaris, another Ebola Virus on a hard disk.

Get a Flash blocker and make Satan, ahem, Adobe piss off your machine forever!

s. pam
WTF?

OMFG -- think of the children for one second won't you!

Fixing this will mean Mummy and Daddy won't be fighting in the front seat over "where did that stpuid Bitch-in-a-Box" just tell us where to drive to.

My God -- this means the passenger in the front will have to read again, for one fecking second won't you THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

s. pam
Paris Hilton

What a fucking scam the Gubmnt buying PC's is!

Take a currently £500 PC.

Add fucktard consultant £3,000

Add scumbag consulting overhead costs £10,000

WTF -- that PC use cost £13,500

Divide by 5 years depreciation, so £2,700 / year

Little wonder why the fucktard consulting companies are sucking us dry like a hooker in Amsterdam!

s. pam
Facepalm

Neil Young sounds like a bunch of glass in a blender with a live frog

and still sucks at whatever bit-rate you encode/decode him at.

s. pam
Mushroom

The website is crap

Try searching for High Wycombe, HP11 2PZ

That's close to where I work, and the website says "No Police or Constabulary cover this area".

That's probably a right surprise to the TVA police station located at HP11 1BE which mysteriously also doesn't exist in the gubmnt clusterfeck site.

s. pam
FAIL

New MetOffice gadgets and apps are pure SHIT

Why the fuck can't they just get the fucking weather report right and quit fucking around with other stuff?

They even have a iPad and Android app now, FFS!

Worst / Epic Fail is the latest version of the iPad app CRASHES, can lock up your iPad and is such an abortion of an app people are removing it en masse.

If you contact the Met's support email address, ipadapps@met.co.uk:

"We are sorry to learn you are experiencing difficulties with it and confirm we are aware that some users have experienced a service which has not met our usual high standards. The application is proving very popular, but there is a known "bug" which for some users is causing it to crash. Thank you for your patience whilst our developers are working hard in the background to resolve this issue. Full service should be restored without too much delay."

SCREW that, tell us accurately what the fucking weather will be!

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