Apropos of nothing: broadband
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From: T i m on 23 May 2010 11:08 On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:48:28 +0100, Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: >> "Ok, it looks like the fault is with our equipment ... we'll send an >> engineer out asap ... ". > >I think this belongs in the "Things you seldom see" section of Private >Eye. Hehe. > >> So, the next time that happens to you and said 'engineer' turns up to >> fix your broken <whatever>, you make very sure you explain to him why >> he shouldn't be using such a title. Unless he fixes say washing >> machines when he's not designing skyscrapers or bridges etc. > >Do that and you'll mysteriously find you have another, more subtle, >fault. Like a broken nose? > Much better make the bloke a cup of tea. Used to work with / for me. ;-) Cheers, T i m
From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 May 2010 11:22 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: [snip] > >> So, the next time that happens to you and said 'engineer' turns up to > >> fix your broken <whatever>, you make very sure you explain to him why > >> he shouldn't be using such a title. Unless he fixes say washing > >> machines when he's not designing skyscrapers or bridges etc. > > > >Do that and you'll mysteriously find you have another, more subtle, > >fault. > > Like a broken nose? [snip] <sigh> Look, if *I* tell a visiting tech that he's a tech not an engineer - and I have done so - I do it in fashion which makes him feel /better/ about himself. I am in fact charming and charismatic in real life[1], when my head's on straight. I'm good at dealing with people[2] in real life. But that's easy, because no-one in real life dares be as nasty to my face as the shits here - by which I mean the obsessives like T i m and Jim and the Firth creature, and the other abusive shits suffering from the same sad morbid obsession with me. And I'm sure that none of them would dare speak to me face to face in the same terms they write to me here - people just don't do that face to face. They're cowards - they can get their pleasure from winding me up, knowing full well that they are protected by the anonymity of the 'net. Scum, the lot of you - scum. Rowland. [1] My mother tells me I'm good looking. I don't think this allegation about my looks explain how come I can charm techies in real life so I get my problems sorted even if the standard procedure's pants. [2] Medical professionals and NHS employees are not people. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: James Jolley on 23 May 2010 11:57 On 2010-05-23 16:44:54 +0100, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) said: > > James Jolley is a different matter: he's suffering a lot, and I have no > desire to cause him any futher problems. That's fair enough. > > I'd rather that he helped himself by recognizing that he too is > suffering from a morbid obsession with me, but I know I can't help him > see that. I just snapped that's all. > > All I can do is hope that he gets out of the hell he's put himself in. These things usually blow over. > > And James, that is not me sneering at you snidely (well, not only): I > mean it. You're making yourself suffer pointlessly. I've not taken it as snearing at all. > > Just let go of the idea of Rowland, put me in your killfile, ignore me. That's not the way though is it. We should get on, we both have experience to offer. > > I promise you, I'll do nothing bad to you, I'm not hounding you, I'm not > picking on you, I'm perfectly happy for you to live unmolested by me. Can see that and yes I should have not bothered to remark at all. > > But you're winding yourself up by reading my posts and replying to them > and I really don't like seeing someone like you - who's basically > innocent of real nastiness so I don't mind you - suffering like that. Fair enough. As I said, I snapped and dished back. I should have not bothered. > > Really, just killfile me James, please do it for *YOUR* sake. Thanks for the advice. I don't really believe in killfiling people generally.
From: T i m on 23 May 2010 12:27 On Sat, 22 May 2010 21:21:45 +0100, jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: >Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > >> Well, no deliberate changes but phone kit can start to break down and >> mess up the signal. I trust you have tried disconnecting everything and >> running the ADSL modem straight off the master socket to see what signal >> strength/throughput you get? > >Yep. > >Different filters. >Different routers. >Different phones. > >Test socket (faceplate off) > >Pretty sure the fault isn't within my walls. > Sounds like my mate in the computer shop. Barclaycard gave him a new credit card machine and it seems more intermittent than the old one (the one would fail 1 in 10 times, the new is 50:50). On top of that his ADSL BB line has started going down more often and he's not changed anything his end in years (apart from the CC machine etc). Neither BT nor his ISP seem able to do anything other than tell him 'their stuff is ok', similar with Barclays. Similar results with a different router. So I popped in the other day and rationalised his wiring a bit (that seemed to make a tiny improvement) and the only thing we haven't changed as yet is the V10 faceplate (I left him with instruction to try a straight filter in the test socket). Dad's BT BB has been ok for quite a while but recent has become less so [1]. I popped in to do a batch of jobs for them and apparently it was down again. I looked into the router and there was no password in the ADSL user authentication bit. I put one in there and lo and behold it connected? He went to test it with his Mac and said it still wasn't sending emails? A quick check showed one email with a comma in the address instead of a full stop and another a space instead of a full stop (although to be fair the latter was masked by a URL type underline thing but both had big question marks beside the address). Even the logic of changing the addresses and re submitting the mail for sending seemed to throw him (not closing the address change dialogue box). Oh well, he is 80 ... ;-) Cheers, T i m [1] Just thought, he probably comes off the same exchange as my mate .... and me if I didn't have a proper networking solution via cable. ;-)
From: Conor on 23 May 2010 16:57
On 22/05/2010 14:56, Rowland McDonnell wrote: > Jim<jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> Conor<conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: >> >>>> Of *course*. I'm absolutely sure that there could be no other >>>> explanation. >>>> >>>> Cretin. >>>> >>> Says the incompetent... >> >> Oh, this should be good. Go on then - what am I doing wrong? > > Failing to get your ISP/telecoms provider(s) to sort out the problem. > Indeed. With mine, even if you post on one of the many ISP review site forums the customer service staff get in contact with you if you've not got hold of them first. They then make sure the telco sorts the problem. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally. |