The grumpy thread

[RedSparrow]

Try a proxy.

Daveproxy.co.uk or daveproxy.com

Slow to load but once the streaming starts its fine. Might help.

[Cheggers]

I don't know what's more annoying, spambots or folks whose first and only post is to reply to the fugger!!

[ashmicro]

Cobblers - check how far away you are from the nearest BT fibreoptic cabinet. I'm miles from a telephone exchange, but there's a fibre cab about 400 yards from my house, and I'm pushing 78 megabit.

 

Bung in your postcode on this page, about a third of the way down:

 

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/c ... icId=29017

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

What's the upload speed like on them fibres?

[ashmicro]

^ mine's usually around 4m/bit, Luxo.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Sounds good. 7.5mbps down is plenty fast for me, but I sometimes drop below 0.5mbps up and may even struggle to make a VOIP call!

[retrogeezer]

That BT checker thing says I can get 36 mb on BT infinity and 3 to 6 on total broadband. I get 3mb with sky currently and I guess that will never improve unless I pay more for fibre optic.

[ashmicro]

That BT checker thing says I can get 36 mb on BT infinity and 3 to 6 on total broadband. I get 3mb with sky currently and I guess that will never improve unless I pay more for fibre optic.

 

That's correct. Broadly speaking, the way BT fibre op works is via a system called FTTC, or fibre to the cabinet, so the only copper bit is from the cab to your house. With ADSL, you're likely to be on copper all the way from the exchange (or a good part of that distance). I use the internet for work, so it's defo worth it for me - I modify and re-upload AutoCAD drawings for Ansaldo Energia and Thales, and it used to be a teeth-extractingly slow process.

 

I guess you just gotta work out if it's worth the outlay to you.

[Craig the Princess]

Thanks to modern technology it is possible to download a film in less time than it takes to watch the unskippable warnings about piracy.

 

This from the grin thread.

 

My moan is If I have bought the DVD it means I haven't downloaded it. Just let me watch what I have paid £15 to watch.

[ashmicro]

I remastered a load of the Disney ones for my nieces. Not only is the anti-piracy thing unskippable, but the 5 or so minutes of trailers at the start are too. Rip to pc, chop out the first ~6 minutes on the timeline, burn with Nero.

[Pillock]

Agree totally. I can see the point of adverts on Youtube, because that's a free service that has to make money somewhere.

But a £15 Bluray, they're raking it in already. Being forced to watch all that "You wouldn't steal a granny's undies, why would you steal a DVD?" crap makes me want to upload the fugger to a torrent site.

 

My understanding is that to "format shift" is still illegal in this country, but is not in America. Time we caught up! We can still technically go to prison for putting a CD onto an iPod.

[cobblers]

I'd describe it as ironic but I'm afraid to use that word since Alanis Morissette got all that flac for using it to describe cutlery and I don't want to end up in similar hot water.

[ashmicro]

We can still technically go to prison for putting a CD onto an iPod.

 

Put it this way, a record company would get laughed out of court (or found in contempt!) for taking someone to court for that. Bunging a CD on your iPod would fall under the test of "reasonableness" under common law. But technically, Pillock is correct.

[Danblez]

Arrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhh something wrong with the work network only affecting certain websites and media servers. AS and a selection of my other favorite websites affected wheras all work websites fine.

 

Phone up to complain and get asked for examples...... errrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[ashmicro]

When I was network admin at a firm a few years ago, one of the suits called me and said "Hey Andy mate, havin a few probs with my pc, nothing major though. When you get a minute, could you pop round to my office?". I did. His complaint? He couldn't get on to playboy.com. I then explained to him what a blocked list was, and why the Head Shed in England had asked me to implement it at router level. He fairly shit himself when I further explained Audit Trails, and the logs that the Head Shed had asked for!

[Guest]

Letter 5/7 in the parking scam cavalcade. Half of it isn't even punctuated properly. They're saying they might take me to court! O NOES!

Why would a debt collection agency be a member of the British Parking Association? Would that be because their 'legal team' is two desks down in a rented Bruntwood PO Box?

 

The DVLA are rats as well, I know they handed my details over because the first name on the V5 for my C4 was spelled wrong by the garage when it was new.

[Guest]

And it appears Coupondropdown has installed itself on my browser. Went to extensions in Chrome, it isn't there.

[warren t claim]

Employment agencies (again).

 

A company I subbie for has offered me a well paid, full time job that is local enough to make fuel economy irrelevant. I'd be working on site with a small team of about four others who are all great lads and we really work well together. The wages are excellent, the hours are 7-8am start and finish between 4-6pm and home every night and I'd get 28 days PAID leave a year, this is unheard of as a subbie and I'd also get to have a decent Xmas break (paid) and I'd be earning in the new year which is notoriously slack in the haulage industry.

 

Sadly, because I've worked there previously on behalf of the agency my agent is getting snotty and litigious and demanding a £2500 "introduction fee" if that company employ me or face the consequences. Whether the company will cough up the finders fee or just take on someone else who doesn't have the baggage of his agency/pimp is still to be decided.

[Cavcraft]

Anyone else having problems with Halford's website? The last few times I've logged on it 'Rick Rolls' me and takes forever to shut down.

[Rocket88]

Employment agencies (again).

 

A company I subbie for has offered me a well paid, full time job that is local enough to make fuel economy irrelevant. I'd be working on site with a small team of about four others who are all great lads and we really work well together. The wages are excellent, the hours are 7-8am start and finish between 4-6pm and home every night and I'd get 28 days PAID leave a year, this is unheard of as a subbie and I'd also get to have a decent Xmas break (paid) and I'd be earning in the new year which is notoriously slack in the haulage industry.

 

Sadly, because I've worked there previously on behalf of the agency my agent is getting snotty and litigious and demanding a £2500 "introduction fee" if that company employ me or face the consequences. Whether the company will cough up the finders fee or just take on someone else who doesn't have the baggage of his agency/pimp is still to be decided.

 

Tell the company that want to take you on that you'll be responsible for the £2500 demanded by the employment agency. If the agency pursue it, threaten to splatter their name all over t'internet, and threaten to counter-sue them for restraint of trade . Of course, it's quite possible you be black balled from every employment agency in the known universe, but your new employers will be impressed with the lengths you are prepared to go to secure a job............

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Isn't there any way of making it appear like you're working for "another" company, either your own or somebody else's?

[warren t claim]

Isn't there any way of making it appear like you're working for "another" company, either your own or somebody else's?

 

The agency have other staff working on site and make regular visits. I wouldn't get away with it for long.

[warren t claim]

And The United Road Transport Union have been less than helpful as well.

[Caffiend]

IANAL, but I'd say that there's not much the agency can do to enforce the finder's fee - especially if they got more than about 3 months commission from you subbing there through them. Might be worth having a chat to ACAS or even - if you can find someone who knows what they're talking about - someone at whatever the Jobcentre is calling itself these days as they're presumably quite keen to get you into work ...

 

My grump: I seem to recall someone recently complaining about being in a shite car in front of someone who feels emasculated by a shite car being in front of them. Well, yeah - try being in a shite car AND being a woman AND being blonde. It's a turbo, I know how to drive it, I will pull in when I have enough space not to get blocked in behind the giffer 200 yards in front in the inside line because you will almost certainly decide to behave like a wanker and slow down so you're *just* in front as soon as you've overtaken me. So I'm in front of you. Doing 80. Grow up and fucking get over it.

[Lankytim]

I thought that if you had worked at a different place for a few weeks and then go back on your own accord the "finders fee" becomes irrelevant. I did exactly the same thing with a container firm who I ended up working directly for. After a few happy months they stole my wages and sacked me for gross misconduct (which was bollocks) They still owe me about £500.

[Guest]

OK, how do I remove CouponDropDown? It's not in Google Extensions or in my list of programs to add \ remove. It's beginning to grate on me.

[scaryoldcortina]

OK, how do I remove CouponDropDown? It's not in Google Extensions or in my list of programs to add \ remove. It's beginning to grate on me.

 

I don't know. I DO know that google has lots of results from other people with the same problem, and none of them can get rid of it either.

[Guest]

OK, how do I remove CouponDropDown? It's not in Google Extensions or in my list of programs to add \ remove. It's beginning to grate on me.

 

I don't know. I DO know that google has lots of results from other people with the same problem, and none of them can get rid of it either.

 

I might send them a badly punctuated invoice for £145.23. Perhaps that'll sort it.

[cobblers]

Any idea how you got it in the first place? What OS are you using? If I can get an installer I'll infect a virtual machine and see where it hides itself.

 

edit: don't suppose you have FbPhotozoom installed as well do you? it comes in that.

[Guest]

Any idea how you got it in the first place? What OS are you using? If I can get an installer I'll infect a virtual machine and see where it hides itself.

 

edit: don't suppose you have FbPhotozoom installed as well do you? it comes in that.

 

Windows 7 32bit, on the world's most jiggered 1.4Ghz Pentium something or other.

Haven't installed Fbphotozoom, no.