* Posts by Adrian Parker

4 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2007

Plastic that SELF-REPAIRS using light unleashed by prof

Adrian Parker

Could do with this for my glasses.. always getting scratched.

Should your system offer Mr, Ms ... and Mx?

Adrian Parker
Unhappy

eGov requirements

When submitting data to the government gateway such as P14 / P45 etc, you are required to send a person's gender and it can only be one of two values "make" or "female". Even the new RTI stuff that's coming has the same restriction.

Windows XP SP3 leaps into the tubes

Adrian Parker
Unhappy

problems, problems, problems

Too many errors to mention trying to install this garbage.. have had to reinstall machine to get back to sp2.. I won't be installing sp3 again anytime soon.

Premium rate Virgin Media cuts tech support jobs

Adrian Parker

Bloody annoying

As I've had to phone their bloody tech support quite a lot recently due to the broadband being down, I can't help but wish for the days of a scouser on the end of the phone.. the outsourced service is a joke, the indian call centre seems to be staffed with robots who can't seem to understand that someone might have a clue about about computers and comms in general. "Can you please unplug your modem" gets to be tedious after several repetitions.

I really don't see why companies are going down the foreign outsourcing route still even though it's now known that it just creates huge amounds of bad feelings towards the company.

Come on Mr Branson, your company's support is currently virgin on the ridiculous.