Was launched on O2 only at £42 a month, totally bombed. Now down to £27 a month and a frankly insane £399 on PAYG still locked to O2. I pop in now and again to see if the price has dropped anymore and last time I was there the chap who knows me by now said they had sold one since Christmas.
https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/phones/amazon/fire-phone/
Turns out they didn't have standing to sue for the actual music as they were basically DJ mixtapes which they had licensed the music for, so they where suing over the copyright of the tracklistings..
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I'm the sysadmin for a cluster of 3 VAXserver 4000's, they haven't been switched off since 1994. They once supported over 1000 users doing various stuff but now sadly all they do is some legacy COBOL stuff and print jobs.
Yes, I still use my Rocketmail address that I got in 1996 as my primary email. As I got it so early it's my surname/first intial so easy to remember and to tell people.
Had the same ptroblem with my wife's Nokia Lumina and her work. Turned out the certificate had a domain name in it, but they used an ip address to access OWA and it had no A-Record.
When I picked up my Samsung Omnia 7 this morning it gleefully had on my main screens Calender App that I was on Holiday today. Luckily my wife was on hand to shout at me to get out of bed and get the kids up as she has a Palm Pre.
Posted this on the Guardian site but no reply so thought I'd ask here. As far as I know this ruling is only applicable in England and Wales as Scotland and Northern Ireland, while part of the UK has their own legal system. So therefore the block should not apply to customers in Scotland and Northern Ireland? I'm sure it would be easier for the ISPs to attempt a blanket block for a technical point of view but if so could their Scottish and Northern Irish customers have grounds to complain?
However, using TOR, third party VPN or what I plan to do, use my phone's 3G tethering to get a torrent file then switch back to BT once I have it should all work fine I imagine.
Having worked in the City Of London, I can tell you that all they are good for is helping drunk Bankers find the way back to Liverpool Street Station for the last train home.
Seems quite common, I work in IT and now and again I get asked do you know why my wiresless network is so crap and a lot of the times they've just had a baby.
I've had an Samsung Omnia 7 since mid-November on 3, I'm delighted with the phone, I was one of the original UK guys who queued for an iPhone on launch, then went to a iPhone 3G, I just fancied a change and it was cheaper to get the Omnia 7 than an iPhone 4 & I have no regrets. And the Zune software I feel is far better than buggy iTunes. I tried a few Android phones as well, did like them but I felt the Windows 7 Phone's Metro was easier to navigate around. Saying that, I'll give andriod another go when my contact is up next November to see if it's got better.
Saying that, the wife's Palm Pre's OS is fantastic as well, but stuck with flimsy and outdated hardware in my opinion. Web OS running on the Omnia 7's form factor with the AMOLED screen would be pretty cool.
Pizza Hut in Northern Ireland, and probably in the rest of the UK used SCO based cash registers about a year or two ago, don't know if they still do. I saw one booting up when I was in getting a coffee when a Pizza Hut was just opening for business that day.
And my Vet uses a SCO system that runs off an old 486 in the reception and has WYSE terminals in each of the consulting rooms.
If assuming like me your PDA is provided by your firm, if you gave to one of these drop off points and it got nicked, you would probably be in a heap of trouble at work and their insurance wouldn't pay out. Even if it didn't get nicked, you can have confidentional emails and documents available for any bored security guard to read. Which could backfire if you work for MI5 and the security guard has a mate who is a journalist.
Since Toshiba pulled the plug I have bought another 7 HD DVD titles at an average price of about £6 each, plus I am a customer of http://www.lovefilm.com/ so I can still rent HD DVD's from them. In the UK, the firesale seems not to have started yet, so I'm currently buying most of my stuff from Australia
While it had a 19" Monitor which was cool, it was Monochrome so looking at pictures was a bit disapointing;)
I think I next used Enhanced Mosaic from Spyglass for VMS which then correct me if I'm wrong turned into IE1.
First Netscape I used was on a DEC Alpha running NT4, I think it was version Netscape 3.01, was a hell of a lot better than the IE bundled with the OS which was IE2 I think.
I work in an organisation who has a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement license so on Vista's launch I installed Vista Enterprise on a pretty crappy work PC (Dell GX240) and Vista Ultimate on my home PC (self made Athlon XP 2000+) to see what it was like and I still use them daily.
And I have had no problems with instability and apart from an obscure Belkin USB IrDa device I have had no problems getting other devices to work, either with Vista drivers or XP Drivers and I find it stable and fast, apart for copying files which is a dog.
At this point you may be thinking "Ah, he thinks Vista is great", but you'd be wrong.
I quite like Aero, I love the way Vista Ultimate talks to my XBOX 360, but I'm left thinking "Is that it?" There is nothing there worth the £350 Microsoft is asking for the full version, asking that is taking the piss. The basic version I think is £100.. is it worth that.. even then probably not.
While we have no plans to roll out Vista at work at the moment, we said to any of the IT support staff they could install it if they liked on their PCs/Laptops and only 2 of us (including me) did it out of 120 people.
It seems no-one is really interested or cares about Vista.
We are a Microsoft Enterprise site with about 1000 PC's & I'm testing Vista at the moment. My test machine is an old Dell GX240 with a 1.5GHZ P4 so we didn't expect blinding speeds, but most of our hardware is that age so I used that. Had to upgrade to 1GB of RAM and it had a 16MB Graphics Card so that had to go too but apart from that it's the same as it came out of the factory.
I was expecting a lot of hassle installing it but it was very straight forward apart from the 3Com 905 card didn't have drivers, which suprised me as it's a pretty common card. Loaded the XP drivers and it was fine, then it updated to Vista drivers on the Windows Update.
So far it's been stable, fast enough, we have had no issues which anything apart from an old Lexmark Z33 printer which refuses to print.
So far so good for Microsoft eh? Well no... we have no plans to upgrade it because everyone who has seen it has basically said "is that it?" and have walked away disapointed. OK, when people see Aero for the first time they usually go "Wow!" but after 5 minutes playing with it, they get bored.
After my initial testing I said anyone else in the office here can install it if they like, out of 20 people only 2 have bothered, no-one else is interested.
I got my parents to buy me a ZX Spectrum for Christmas 1983 to "help with my homework" but all I did was play games. But I work in IT now because of the wee bugger.
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Was launched on O2 only at £42 a month, totally bombed. Now down to £27 a month and a frankly insane £399 on PAYG still locked to O2. I pop in now and again to see if the price has dropped anymore and last time I was there the chap who knows me by now said they had sold one since Christmas. https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/phones/amazon/fire-phone/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101103/14362311708/ministry-of-sound-ditches-file-sharing-lawsuits-after-it-finds-out-that-bt-actually-protects-user-privacy.shtml
Turns out they didn't have standing to sue for the actual music as they were basically DJ mixtapes which they had licensed the music for, so they where suing over the copyright of the tracklistings..
I'm the sysadmin for a cluster of 3 VAXserver 4000's, they haven't been switched off since 1994. They once supported over 1000 users doing various stuff but now sadly all they do is some legacy COBOL stuff and print jobs.
Yes, I still use my Rocketmail address that I got in 1996 as my primary email. As I got it so early it's my surname/first intial so easy to remember and to tell people.
Had the same ptroblem with my wife's Nokia Lumina and her work. Turned out the certificate had a domain name in it, but they used an ip address to access OWA and it had no A-Record.
When I picked up my Samsung Omnia 7 this morning it gleefully had on my main screens Calender App that I was on Holiday today. Luckily my wife was on hand to shout at me to get out of bed and get the kids up as she has a Palm Pre.
Sky, Talk Talk, Virgin Media and O2 have already blocked access and the UK's biggest provider, BT, are currently reviewing their legal position.
At the moment Sky, Talk Talk and O2 can access the Pirate Bay fine, although I have no doubt this won't last for long.
Thanks Epimer, I assumed this was a private civil case where the Copyright and Designs Act wasn't involved but happy to stand corrected.
Posted this on the Guardian site but no reply so thought I'd ask here. As far as I know this ruling is only applicable in England and Wales as Scotland and Northern Ireland, while part of the UK has their own legal system. So therefore the block should not apply to customers in Scotland and Northern Ireland? I'm sure it would be easier for the ISPs to attempt a blanket block for a technical point of view but if so could their Scottish and Northern Irish customers have grounds to complain?
It only apples to ISP's with over 400000 customers of which there are 5 at the moment http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jul/08/bt-talktalk-challenge-digital-economy-act
Just change to one of the many other ISP's out there http://www.ispreview.co.uk/list.shtml
Apparently they'll be using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(content_blocking_system) so alternative DNS won't work.
However, using TOR, third party VPN or what I plan to do, use my phone's 3G tethering to get a torrent file then switch back to BT once I have it should all work fine I imagine.
This is the force that harassed Ian Puddick http://www.ianpuddick.com/?p=492 and withheld evidence from IPCC over the death of Ian Tomlinson http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/09/ian-tomlinson-evidence-held-back
Having worked in the City Of London, I can tell you that all they are good for is helping drunk Bankers find the way back to Liverpool Street Station for the last train home.
Once my daughter goes to sleep and my wife turns this bad boy on, my wireless network totally falls apart.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110693416818&clk_rvr_id=236365054762
Seems quite common, I work in IT and now and again I get asked do you know why my wiresless network is so crap and a lot of the times they've just had a baby.
http://michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=336
I've had an Samsung Omnia 7 since mid-November on 3, I'm delighted with the phone, I was one of the original UK guys who queued for an iPhone on launch, then went to a iPhone 3G, I just fancied a change and it was cheaper to get the Omnia 7 than an iPhone 4 & I have no regrets. And the Zune software I feel is far better than buggy iTunes. I tried a few Android phones as well, did like them but I felt the Windows 7 Phone's Metro was easier to navigate around. Saying that, I'll give andriod another go when my contact is up next November to see if it's got better. Saying that, the wife's Palm Pre's OS is fantastic as well, but stuck with flimsy and outdated hardware in my opinion. Web OS running on the Omnia 7's form factor with the AMOLED screen would be pretty cool.
Pizza Hut in Northern Ireland, and probably in the rest of the UK used SCO based cash registers about a year or two ago, don't know if they still do. I saw one booting up when I was in getting a coffee when a Pizza Hut was just opening for business that day. And my Vet uses a SCO system that runs off an old 486 in the reception and has WYSE terminals in each of the consulting rooms.
If assuming like me your PDA is provided by your firm, if you gave to one of these drop off points and it got nicked, you would probably be in a heap of trouble at work and their insurance wouldn't pay out. Even if it didn't get nicked, you can have confidentional emails and documents available for any bored security guard to read. Which could backfire if you work for MI5 and the security guard has a mate who is a journalist.
Jonathan
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/struggles-frances-three-strikes-law
Canada is mentioned at the bottom
Jonathan
I bought the XBOX add on drive for £90 in January, while it's down to about £35 I got 5 Free HD DVD's thrown in - http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/hd-dvd/default.htm
;)
Since Toshiba pulled the plug I have bought another 7 HD DVD titles at an average price of about £6 each, plus I am a customer of http://www.lovefilm.com/ so I can still rent HD DVD's from them. In the UK, the firesale seems not to have started yet, so I'm currently buying most of my stuff from Australia
I also own one of these - http://www.palsite.com/9300ovi.html so I have a history of backing failed technology
Jonathan
It's a cracking wee car, even with only 28BHP it's fun to drive and does 55MPG.
;)
:D
I have the later BIS model which because it has a flat twin engine has actually 2 boots (trunks for our American friends) so it's practical as well
I even did some motorsport once in it - http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2854796
Jonathan
I first surfed the net on a VaxStation VLC http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/computers/vaxen/vax4000-vlc.html using NCSA Mosaic for VMS http://vaxa.wvnet.edu/vmswww/vms_mosaic.html back I think in 1994.
;)
;)
While it had a 19" Monitor which was cool, it was Monochrome so looking at pictures was a bit disapointing
I think I next used Enhanced Mosaic from Spyglass for VMS which then correct me if I'm wrong turned into IE1.
First Netscape I used was on a DEC Alpha running NT4, I think it was version Netscape 3.01, was a hell of a lot better than the IE bundled with the OS which was IE2 I think.
Now get off my lawn
Jonathan
http://www.irvtheswerve.net/
I work in an organisation who has a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement license so on Vista's launch I installed Vista Enterprise on a pretty crappy work PC (Dell GX240) and Vista Ultimate on my home PC (self made Athlon XP 2000+) to see what it was like and I still use them daily.
And I have had no problems with instability and apart from an obscure Belkin USB IrDa device I have had no problems getting other devices to work, either with Vista drivers or XP Drivers and I find it stable and fast, apart for copying files which is a dog.
At this point you may be thinking "Ah, he thinks Vista is great", but you'd be wrong. I quite like Aero, I love the way Vista Ultimate talks to my XBOX 360, but I'm left thinking "Is that it?" There is nothing there worth the £350 Microsoft is asking for the full version, asking that is taking the piss. The basic version I think is £100.. is it worth that.. even then probably not.
While we have no plans to roll out Vista at work at the moment, we said to any of the IT support staff they could install it if they liked on their PCs/Laptops and only 2 of us (including me) did it out of 120 people.
It seems no-one is really interested or cares about Vista.
Jonathan
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http://www.irvtheswerve.net/
We are a Microsoft Enterprise site with about 1000 PC's & I'm testing Vista at the moment. My test machine is an old Dell GX240 with a 1.5GHZ P4 so we didn't expect blinding speeds, but most of our hardware is that age so I used that. Had to upgrade to 1GB of RAM and it had a 16MB Graphics Card so that had to go too but apart from that it's the same as it came out of the factory.
I was expecting a lot of hassle installing it but it was very straight forward apart from the 3Com 905 card didn't have drivers, which suprised me as it's a pretty common card. Loaded the XP drivers and it was fine, then it updated to Vista drivers on the Windows Update.
So far it's been stable, fast enough, we have had no issues which anything apart from an old Lexmark Z33 printer which refuses to print.
So far so good for Microsoft eh? Well no... we have no plans to upgrade it because everyone who has seen it has basically said "is that it?" and have walked away disapointed. OK, when people see Aero for the first time they usually go "Wow!" but after 5 minutes playing with it, they get bored.
After my initial testing I said anyone else in the office here can install it if they like, out of 20 people only 2 have bothered, no-one else is interested.
Jonathan
Interview with him - http://www.redkeyreddoor.com/index.php?p=75
I got my parents to buy me a ZX Spectrum for Christmas 1983 to "help with my homework" but all I did was play games. But I work in IT now because of the wee bugger.
Jonathan
and do it youself.
http://www.ion-audio.com/
http://www.plusdeck.com/
Cheers,
Jonathan