You mean like the one in the meter at the perimeter of the house? My understanding is that the meter blocks the RF. I can understand the hating against long-distance BPL, but the little home devices are -very- convenient.
Thankyou for demonstrating you know fuck all about RF. Yes, it stops at the meter but that means that it doesn't use the mains wiring in the street as an antenna. It still uses the ring mains in your house, moron.
It's not just Ham/CB radio it affects. It also affects baby monitors and, for the Slashdot crowd, wireless mice and keyboard sets.
I have a long story but basically, someone who lived 100 yards away from me had a BT Vision PVR box. These come supplied with Comtrend PLT adapters. They wiped out pretty much everything I used, giving a constant +7 - +9dB of rapid pulse noise to my TRx, thus rendering it useless except for local contacts which, when you live in a town of 11,000 people, isn't a lot.
Basically, I reported it to Ofcom. They sent out a field engineer who confirmed the source and then forced the installer, BT, to remove and replace them. This has happened two weeks ago. Only problem is there's another in the opposite direction that's started recently but at the moment, it's low level so I'm letting it be until it gets worse.
They are a big problem in the UK. Ofcom has set up a dedicated investigation team because of the level of complaints. BT has spent so much time and money replacing them, as a result of being ordered to by Ofcom because of a complaint, that they're trialling a Wifi version of the BT Vision boxes.
It makes me sick to my stomach to think that I put on the uniform of my country, fought terrorism and their war in the early 90's just to have the country turn into a Stalinist State. I tell you this; the USSR was nothing compared to what this country has become. The difference is that in the USSR they were aggressive whereas our KGB use a quasi politically correct and "rights aware" approach but seem to forget that people have a right to privacy in their own homes.
Fuck em. Fuck the Police. Fuck the government. Only a year to go and we can fire the whole lot of them.
An excellent example of the failures of Open Source. You can't even guarantee that a major project isn't just going to stop without notice. OK, so I know they've not shut it and its situation fairly normal for now as long as nothing goes wrong but its a good example of what grief it can cause when someone just decides to walk away because they've no obligation to the project or its users.
Also, all the money from the sale is going for a non-profit organization. So much for "all about the money", eh?
Or so they say. They also said that TPB wasn't for profit and selling for $7.7m sure sounds like one hell of a lot of profit to me, regardless of where it ends up.
With a millionaire involved, you can bet your bottom dollar that it was all about the money at least in the eyes of one of the four. People who are rich from business tend to want to find more ways to make more money they don't need.
Enter Carl Lundstrom. Had the money to put up for badly needed servers. Has seen the rise of TPB and sees the $$$. Sinks in some cash for a few servers, sits back and waits then sells out for a whopping profit.
While it may have originally been done for the spirit that they CLAIMED they had in the trial, it certainly wasn't that in the last couple of years. The lying fuckers even went to court knowing that they were going to sell out not long after and stood there and perjured themselves saying it wasn't about the money. Yeah right.
In a way, IE8 was included. It failed to compete due to lack of necessary features.
I'm sorry but like the author, you're talking out your fucking arse. The bit you need you'll find in Tools, Internet Options, Tabs where near the bottom you're given the option of how to open links from other programs.
IE 8 was not included "because the author could not find a way to prevent it from opening a new window on each invocation of the command."
Really? So the "Open links from other programs in" and then choosing either a new tab in the same window or the same tab doesn't exist then? Oh that's right, it does - right under Tools, Internet Options, Tabs.
So either the author is fucking useless or he's lying as he knows the result shows IE winning.
There is nothing wrong with the tax but what they're using it for is flawed. It will lead to monopolies in most areas, or at best two options to pick from that both charge similar rates and provide similar services.
There speaks someone who knows fuck all about the UK market. The network suppliers are merely carriers for ISPs. My phone line is provided by BT. My broadband travels over BT's network. I can choose from over 100 ISPs. I suggest you take a look at how broadband works in the UK before you continue to make yourself look like a clown. Hint: It's completely different to the USA.
What the fuck are you on about? I live in a small town in the North East, 28 miles from the nearest city and 250 miles from London, with a population of 11,000 in one of the most rural counties in England. I am currently sat here on 20Mbit ADSL2+. My parents live in a house in the middle of nowhere 6 miles away from us and 2 miles from the nearest hamlet. They get 2Mbit and it's people like them that the 2Mbit minimum is aimed at.
On the other hand, always-on internet access is real for some people already.
And as people who use Gmail and Google Apps for business have found out, just because you can connect to the internet doesn't mean that the cloud service is going to be up.
Being an "Ubuntu user" doesn't make you a GNU user, it makes you a Windows user temporarily using something different either because you thought it would make you cool or because you got mad at your beloved Microsoft and threw a hissy fit.
And people wonder why Linux's desktop share is as small as it is....
Thank fuck the Ubuntu community forums aren't full of arseholes like you. Maybe that's why its market share of Linux pisses over other distros.
So PC World have just found out what just about every single review site said when BETA1 Build 7000 was released for public consumption, that it doesn't really benchmark faster but in use "feels quicker". Way to go.
PC World - consistently behind the times since 1999
They should find the people who emailed him and shoot the fuckers. They've obviously got serious mental issues so society would be a far better place without them.
The difference is, dumb cunt, that you go to those sites voluntarily. It's about as far opposite as it is possible to go to having the picture of your dying daughter emailed to you.
Yeah..I downloaded in the same week both versions of Win7 BETA 7000, Ubuntu 8.10 and did a couple of system builds.
If you're streaming 10hrs a day of music 7 days a week at home, you need to go get a job.
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You mean like the one in the meter at the perimeter of the house? My understanding is that the meter blocks the RF. I can understand the hating against long-distance BPL, but the little home devices are -very- convenient.
Thankyou for demonstrating you know fuck all about RF. Yes, it stops at the meter but that means that it doesn't use the mains wiring in the street as an antenna. It still uses the ring mains in your house, moron.
It's not just Ham/CB radio it affects. It also affects baby monitors and, for the Slashdot crowd, wireless mice and keyboard sets.
I have a long story but basically, someone who lived 100 yards away from me had a BT Vision PVR box. These come supplied with Comtrend PLT adapters. They wiped out pretty much everything I used, giving a constant +7 - +9dB of rapid pulse noise to my TRx, thus rendering it useless except for local contacts which, when you live in a town of 11,000 people, isn't a lot.
Basically, I reported it to Ofcom. They sent out a field engineer who confirmed the source and then forced the installer, BT, to remove and replace them. This has happened two weeks ago. Only problem is there's another in the opposite direction that's started recently but at the moment, it's low level so I'm letting it be until it gets worse.
They are a big problem in the UK. Ofcom has set up a dedicated investigation team because of the level of complaints. BT has spent so much time and money replacing them, as a result of being ordered to by Ofcom because of a complaint, that they're trialling a Wifi version of the BT Vision boxes.
Err, you are aware that this scheme is already in existence?
Fuck em. Fuck the Police. Fuck the government. Only a year to go and we can fire the whole lot of them.
An excellent example of the failures of Open Source. You can't even guarantee that a major project isn't just going to stop without notice. OK, so I know they've not shut it and its situation fairly normal for now as long as nothing goes wrong but its a good example of what grief it can cause when someone just decides to walk away because they've no obligation to the project or its users.
Also, all the money from the sale is going for a non-profit organization. So much for "all about the money", eh?
Or so they say. They also said that TPB wasn't for profit and selling for $7.7m sure sounds like one hell of a lot of profit to me, regardless of where it ends up.
Enter Carl Lundstrom. Had the money to put up for badly needed servers. Has seen the rise of TPB and sees the $$$. Sinks in some cash for a few servers, sits back and waits then sells out for a whopping profit.
While it may have originally been done for the spirit that they CLAIMED they had in the trial, it certainly wasn't that in the last couple of years. The lying fuckers even went to court knowing that they were going to sell out not long after and stood there and perjured themselves saying it wasn't about the money. Yeah right.
NOBODY BELIEVES YOU
In a way, IE8 was included. It failed to compete due to lack of necessary features.
I'm sorry but like the author, you're talking out your fucking arse. The bit you need you'll find in Tools, Internet Options, Tabs where near the bottom you're given the option of how to open links from other programs.
IE 8 was not included "because the author could not find a way to prevent it from opening a new window on each invocation of the command."
Really? So the "Open links from other programs in" and then choosing either a new tab in the same window or the same tab doesn't exist then? Oh that's right, it does - right under Tools, Internet Options, Tabs.
So either the author is fucking useless or he's lying as he knows the result shows IE winning.
There is nothing wrong with the tax but what they're using it for is flawed. It will lead to monopolies in most areas, or at best two options to pick from that both charge similar rates and provide similar services.
There speaks someone who knows fuck all about the UK market. The network suppliers are merely carriers for ISPs. My phone line is provided by BT. My broadband travels over BT's network. I can choose from over 100 ISPs. I suggest you take a look at how broadband works in the UK before you continue to make yourself look like a clown. Hint: It's completely different to the USA.
What the fuck are you on about? I live in a small town in the North East, 28 miles from the nearest city and 250 miles from London, with a population of 11,000 in one of the most rural counties in England. I am currently sat here on 20Mbit ADSL2+. My parents live in a house in the middle of nowhere 6 miles away from us and 2 miles from the nearest hamlet. They get 2Mbit and it's people like them that the 2Mbit minimum is aimed at.
On the other hand, always-on internet access is real for some people already.
And as people who use Gmail and Google Apps for business have found out, just because you can connect to the internet doesn't mean that the cloud service is going to be up.
Linux does not exist for Google's pleasure and ease.
I guess that explains why Linux managed to go from 100% of market share in netbooks to just 4% in 18 months, a sector it had all to itself.
Ah yes, because having to write something twice just to have it work is always better than doing it once, isn't it?
Being an "Ubuntu user" doesn't make you a GNU user, it makes you a Windows user temporarily using something different either because you thought it would make you cool or because you got mad at your beloved Microsoft and threw a hissy fit.
And people wonder why Linux's desktop share is as small as it is....
Thank fuck the Ubuntu community forums aren't full of arseholes like you. Maybe that's why its market share of Linux pisses over other distros.
OK my appologies - being Welsh myself I'm not exactly pro-uk either...
But like the rest of your countrymen, you're more than happy to accept money from Westminster to keep your country running.
Where by "new technologies", you mean mainly "DRM".
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Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to Mac OS X, Linux, and XP for the occasional gaming session, thank you very much.
So you'll play a DX10 game on a DX10 card in DX9? DX10 is one of those new technologies....
Yeah because
1) insert ubuntu live cd, 2) enter your name, 3) choose guided install, 4) wait,
Really is a bridge to far for average Joe...
It is when he then wants to connect to a shared folder on a Windows box or go play a game or use the DVB-T card in his computer.
PC World - consistently behind the times since 1999
It's about time spam and illegal P2P was brought to an end. I reckon there'd be a 25% drop in traffic just by killing illegal P2P traffic.
I thought Linux was supposed to be good at this? It does highlight the massive problem in Linux in so much that choice isn't always a good thing.
Your typical author doesn't spent $180 million to write a blockbuster book.
They should find the people who emailed him and shoot the fuckers. They've obviously got serious mental issues so society would be a far better place without them.
The difference is, dumb cunt, that you go to those sites voluntarily. It's about as far opposite as it is possible to go to having the picture of your dying daughter emailed to you.
Yeah..I downloaded in the same week both versions of Win7 BETA 7000, Ubuntu 8.10 and did a couple of system builds. If you're streaming 10hrs a day of music 7 days a week at home, you need to go get a job.