User: bleughbleugh

wii, thats taking the pi$$ isn't it ;-)

On: Nintendo Revolution Renamed 'Wii'

also, may I say, i'm the proud owner of wii.org.uk blimmin web hosting is playing up tho mind you, wii should sell well in scotland, noo?

Re:interesting, though they need to fine themselve

On: Australian Rules to Crackdown on Spam

you're right, sorry, thats what i get for posting in work it was http://www.immi.gov.au/ that i'd contacted, i'd quickly looked up the URL and it 'seemed' right

interesting, though they need to fine themselves

On: Australian Rules to Crackdown on Spam

owning my own domain allows me an infinite number of email addresses, i use a unique one for every company i contact

I'm emigrating from UK to Oz in october

I recently contacted the http://www.immigration.com.au/ with the online form for details about meet and greet, the contact email addy I used was immigration@mydomain

less than two weeks later i'm being hammered with spam to that email address
worryingly though, at least one of the spams has addressed me by name, I can only assume that they could have all my postal details, and contact phone numbers, potentially worse.

so far, no response from the government :-(

tis all and well fining ISP's, but if their own depts can't even make secure websites.

Re:impressive benchmarks

On: Intel's Conroe Previewed and Benchmarked

http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/03/if-only-they- had-time-machine.html

some interesting points raised there

impressive benchmarks

On: Intel's Conroe Previewed and Benchmarked

yep, impressive, BUT, more important than benchmarks for most Bang per buck by that I mean, if the AMD processor is 50% less than the Intel one, but only 20% slower, AMD will win it for me :-)

DVR

On: A DVR Security System That Isn't Based on Windows?

Hi

I work for a company called Bewator, on their technical support
(www.bewator.co.uk)

we 'manufacture' 3 DVR's that are based on embedded Linux (we also do windows DVR's too!)

the Eventys Lite 4,8 and 16 way units
of the three, the 4 and 8 way are superior in terms of frame rate,
all however allow remote network access through internet explorer / activex

have a look, or call us on
0044 1633 821000

I'm dean on video technical, nothing to do with sales or anything, just trying to be helpful (and get some brownie points too!)

yaay, topple ebay/paypoo

On: Google vs. eBay/PayPal

well, I for one welcome our new overlords competition is a healthy thing, it'll stop ebay taking in excess of 10% of the auction total if someone pays you with paypal, AND, it'll finally stop someone getting your item for free when they decide to chargeback with paypal having suffered a £200 loss a few years ago when I was new to things (and also a few minor losses more recently, but i'm more wised up now), and also seeing the DAILY sob stories of people being scammed out of £100's due to paypal's "ignore them, they'll go away" policies, i'm glad don't get me wrong, I've made a lot of money with ebay, i'm also loosing money as I totally refuse to take paypal if A - the person hasn't got a verified address (believe it or not, 60%+ DONT have) B - the person is new to ebay (ALL of the scams have been low feedback users) and finally, i've set a cap on my paypal transactions of around £30, that way if I get screwed it's not for much unfortunatley, even seasoned ebayers don't seem to understand that Paypal can and WILL screw them at any time, a good friend has just had his account and nearly £1000 frozen because some noobie idiot claimed non delivery of several cheap items. paypal didn't take the word of someone with nearly 1000 feedback (just 2 negs), they listened to 'noobie registered yesterday with no history' please everyone, read up on www.aboutpaypal.org www.paypalsucks.com www.paypalwarning.com Wise up!