Almost all employment agencies I've given my CV to INSIST on word doc, and won't consider anything else. I've been bitten by the same problem as the other guy. I got a job, because some agencies were actually fixing the formatting in the doc without telling me it was broken.
I'm with Nildram (owned by Pipex, owned by Tiscali), 'cos it was the only free to setup broadband without a 12 month contract.
I get a clearly advertised 25Gb on-peak allowance, which is followed by a downstream throtle to 64k. I get a webpage where I can see my monthly usage (on and off peak), even split by day and up/down stream if I like. I think I'd get an email alert if I was close to using it up too, but I've yet to top 10Gb.
I wish all ISPs had to be this transparent about exactly what they're offering. It would make consumer's lives soo much easier.
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"Mr Slaatto plans to live in the house when it returns to Copenhagen."
How will it cross the north sea? Does it work underwater? That would be way cool.
The internet isn't totally free, never was, and never will be.
When corporations have a firewall, they are creating a "gated community" where they provide additional restrictions on acceptable behavior in order to create a more predictable environment. This is OK, this is normal, and this is the "Overnet" that the summary speaks of.
This is *always* the case. In my household, we follow additional rules of the household that aren't required on the street. My house is, therefore, a sort of "gated community" where not "anything goes". This is human nature, and will apply to virtually any product with wide acceptance.
Firewalls, NAT, differing connection speeds, and many other factors provide different Internet "neighborhoods" with different rules of acceptability and feasibility. You don't want youtube videos on a 19.2 Kbps modem. You don't play 1st person shooters over a satellite internet connection, no matter how "fast" it is. You don't do virus research at work. You don't host a bank of servers on your home DSL connection.
Providing the computers aren't too old (P2 300 is fine) and have enough ram (128Mb is fine), then running XP and hibernating has a pretty good balance between something that will work without too much effort and quick boot time. It's easy to set so that the power button hibernates.
I have successfully used the following protocol with my (UK) bank - explain your concern, then ask them for the last 2 digits of the account number (or whatever info they're asking for), then provide the rest. It's not foolproof, but it's pretty effective and I've never been refused it.
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Almost all employment agencies I've given my CV to INSIST on word doc, and won't consider anything else. I've been bitten by the same problem as the other guy. I got a job, because some agencies were actually fixing the formatting in the doc without telling me it was broken.
I'm with Nildram (owned by Pipex, owned by Tiscali), 'cos it was the only free to setup broadband without a 12 month contract. I get a clearly advertised 25Gb on-peak allowance, which is followed by a downstream throtle to 64k. I get a webpage where I can see my monthly usage (on and off peak), even split by day and up/down stream if I like. I think I'd get an email alert if I was close to using it up too, but I've yet to top 10Gb. I wish all ISPs had to be this transparent about exactly what they're offering. It would make consumer's lives soo much easier.
Unless you have two computers
"Mr Slaatto plans to live in the house when it returns to Copenhagen." How will it cross the north sea? Does it work underwater? That would be way cool.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
What we need is a GPG extension for gmail. Although will the UK government track my email if it's on gmail? Perhaps offshore webmail is the future?
The internet isn't totally free, never was, and never will be.
When corporations have a firewall, they are creating a "gated community" where they provide additional restrictions on acceptable behavior in order to create a more predictable environment. This is OK, this is normal, and this is the "Overnet" that the summary speaks of.
This is *always* the case. In my household, we follow additional rules of the household that aren't required on the street. My house is, therefore, a sort of "gated community" where not "anything goes". This is human nature, and will apply to virtually any product with wide acceptance.
Firewalls, NAT, differing connection speeds, and many other factors provide different Internet "neighborhoods" with different rules of acceptability and feasibility. You don't want youtube videos on a 19.2 Kbps modem. You don't play 1st person shooters over a satellite internet connection, no matter how "fast" it is. You don't do virus research at work. You don't host a bank of servers on your home DSL connection.
All of these are limitations. Get used to it.
Providing the computers aren't too old (P2 300 is fine) and have enough ram (128Mb is fine), then running XP and hibernating has a pretty good balance between something that will work without too much effort and quick boot time. It's easy to set so that the power button hibernates.
I have successfully used the following protocol with my (UK) bank - explain your concern, then ask them for the last 2 digits of the account number (or whatever info they're asking for), then provide the rest. It's not foolproof, but it's pretty effective and I've never been refused it.
Cut costs today, and let the next guy fix the mess they've made.
So, just like government then?