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  #41  
Old March 21st 09, 12:44 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Shane[_8_]
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Interestingly, Mike, tonight its been okay!

Rather as if *they* realize I'm on to them and they've stopped blocking my
newsgroup access! :-)


"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I think what you are seeing is probably due to excessive lag caused by
contention. This is exacerbated by using string supplied by the Sardinian
mafia for your connection which can't cope with any sort of load.
--
Mike


Shane wrote:

Do you have any trouble getting newsgroups of an evening lately,
Mike? Every night (that I've tried it) for a week or two now neither
msnews.microsoft - nor news.tiscali - connects, from, say, 9pm
through 11pm. I suspect it's only Tiscali, maybe to do with their
ongoing 'to the wall' process (well-deserved - though I daresay it'll
add to the unemployment in India)? Or just their shoddy service
anyway, which has been getting slower and slower at peak times here
over the past couple of years.



  #42  
Old March 21st 09, 01:03 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mike M
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Shane wrote:

Interestingly, Mike, tonight its been okay!

Rather as if *they* realize I'm on to them and they've stopped
blocking my newsgroup access! :-)


I'd totally overlooked the nntp side of things. It's a pretty reasonable
assumption that Tiscali throttle nntp and p2p traffic the moment their
system gets even slightly congested on the grounds that they don't want
their users downloading freebie copies of CSI or Elvis Costello. I dread
to think what it might be like when more than one or two of their
customers use iplayer or the ITV and Channel 4 equivalents.
--
Mike

  #43  
Old March 21st 09, 03:39 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Shane[_8_]
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Mike M wrote:
Shane wrote:

Interestingly, Mike, tonight its been okay!

Rather as if *they* realize I'm on to them and they've stopped
blocking my newsgroup access! :-)


I'd totally overlooked the nntp side of things. It's a pretty
reasonable assumption that Tiscali throttle nntp and p2p traffic the
moment their system gets even slightly congested on the grounds that
they don't want their users downloading freebie copies of CSI or
Elvis Costello. I dread to think what it might be like when more
than one or two of their customers use iplayer or the ITV and Channel
4 equivalents.


On the subject of CSI, I saw an ad during it tonight, for some company doing
online scanning and promising to remove adware, fix the registry, remove
unnecessary files, etc. With the possibility of paid registration being
required to remove problems found. You have to figure people watching telly
rather than being on the computer are statistically less likely to know IT
flim-flam when it's dressed up as a godsend.


Shane


  #44  
Old March 21st 09, 01:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mike M
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Shane wrote:

On the subject of CSI, I saw an ad during it tonight, for some
company doing online scanning and promising to remove adware, fix the
registry, remove unnecessary files, etc. With the possibility of paid
registration being required to remove problems found. You have to
figure people watching telly rather than being on the computer are
statistically less likely to know IT flim-flam when it's dressed up
as a godsend.


And therefore sitting ducks just ripe to be ripped off, just as they used
to be when Money From Idiots was still in business.
--
Mike

  #45  
Old March 21st 09, 06:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Joan Archer[_2_]
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Which one was it Shane, Living or FiveUSA, don't remember seeing anything
like that, mind you it could have been when I went to make coffee during the
ads g


--
Joan Archer
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http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

"Shane" wrote in message
...

On the subject of CSI, I saw an ad during it tonight, for some company
doing online scanning and promising to remove adware, fix the registry,
remove unnecessary files, etc. With the possibility of paid registration
being required to remove problems found. You have to figure people
watching telly rather than being on the computer are statistically less
likely to know IT flim-flam when it's dressed up as a godsend.


Shane

  #46  
Old March 21st 09, 07:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Shane[_8_]
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Five USA, Joan. Unless it was during NCIS on Five. But I remember it as the
first ad break in the CSI Sherlock Holmes episode. Doubtless it'll be on
over and over now.

Joan Archer wrote:
Which one was it Shane, Living or FiveUSA, don't remember seeing
anything like that, mind you it could have been when I went to make
coffee during the ads g



"Shane" wrote in message
...

On the subject of CSI, I saw an ad during it tonight, for some
company doing online scanning and promising to remove adware, fix
the registry, remove unnecessary files, etc. With the possibility of
paid registration being required to remove problems found. You have
to figure people watching telly rather than being on the computer
are statistically less likely to know IT flim-flam when it's dressed
up as a godsend. Shane



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Old March 21st 09, 10:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Joan Archer[_2_]
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I remember the one you mean but it must have been when I went for
refreshment as I didn't see the ad you referred to. I watched Gil's last
episode this afternoon as well as Thursday's Bones, John was at a show so
had the house to myself g
John likes NCIS, I like them all now I've started to watch them on a regular
basis, mind you I'm up to date with the current series of CSI but still
catching up with it from the beginning at 11pm on Living g

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

"Shane" wrote in message
...
Five USA, Joan. Unless it was during NCIS on Five. But I remember it as
the first ad break in the CSI Sherlock Holmes episode. Doubtless it'll be
on over and over now.

Joan Archer wrote:
Which one was it Shane, Living or FiveUSA, don't remember seeing
anything like that, mind you it could have been when I went to make
coffee during the ads g



"Shane" wrote in message
...

On the subject of CSI, I saw an ad during it tonight, for some
company doing online scanning and promising to remove adware, fix
the registry, remove unnecessary files, etc. With the possibility of
paid registration being required to remove problems found. You have
to figure people watching telly rather than being on the computer
are statistically less likely to know IT flim-flam when it's dressed
up as a godsend. Shane



  #48  
Old March 22nd 09, 11:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Shane[_8_]
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Don't care for Bones. 'Angel' is typecast as far as I'm concerned, and I
only liked Buffy for Sarah Michelle Gellar anyway (so didn't watch it
religiously). I kind of like NCIS because Mark Harmon is always good, but
also I sort of like the Israeli bit, and funny old Pauly Pellet or whatever
her name is (the only soap I was ever interested in - apart from 'Soap',
that is - was 'Flamingo Road' which, naturally, got dropped after 2 seasons.
Morgan Fairchild was 'interesting'). But NCIS seems a little too gung-ho.

Crime Scene Investigation is the only one of the CSI franchise I like. Never
could get into the New York one and the Miami one just makes me cringe! But
the William Peterson one has been generally high quality (though I can't
watch when her from Chancer and House of Elliot is in it playing an
American. I can't suspend my disbelief when she's on, so I don't watch those
episodes).

When Warwick was shot I was so surprised I looked it up online as it would
have been too unbelievable for him to be shot in the head at close range and
back on the job in a week or two. Well, Gary Dourdan is a bit of a lad,
isn't he. A bit of a boy. But then Jorja Fox leaves (slowly) and now
Peterson has, almost as though there were some disillusion arisen. Or it
just made them think and they realised it's time to get out if they don't
want to be typecast?

I keep missing the current series. I've seen three episodes so far! Even
though they're shown so many times, I've missed the first one, which is
presumably the resolution of the Warwick murder, I've missed the 2nd part of
the Miniture Killer (as I believe it was called) though seen the one where
Grissom goes to see her in chokey and talks at her trial. A long time ago I
lost track of which season I was watching. I'm glad I don't have Sky
anymore, as it eliminates about half the channels showing it!

But I did see Peterson bowing out.

I can *just* watch Jorja Fox and not see her as a surgeon in a Chicago
hospital. I stopped watching ER a couple of seasons back, but I'm sure the
one they brought in to replace her was also an ER doctor? Guess I stopped
watching ER when Kristen Johnston from 3rd Rock turned up in it.


Joan Archer wrote:
I remember the one you mean but it must have been when I went for
refreshment as I didn't see the ad you referred to. I watched Gil's
last episode this afternoon as well as Thursday's Bones, John was at
a show so had the house to myself g
John likes NCIS, I like them all now I've started to watch them on a
regular basis, mind you I'm up to date with the current series of CSI
but still catching up with it from the beginning at 11pm on Living g


"Shane" wrote in message
...
Five USA, Joan. Unless it was during NCIS on Five. But I remember it
as the first ad break in the CSI Sherlock Holmes episode. Doubtless
it'll be on over and over now.

Joan Archer wrote:
Which one was it Shane, Living or FiveUSA, don't remember seeing
anything like that, mind you it could have been when I went to make
coffee during the ads g



"Shane" wrote in message
...

On the subject of CSI, I saw an ad during it tonight, for some
company doing online scanning and promising to remove adware, fix
the registry, remove unnecessary files, etc. With the possibility
of paid registration being required to remove problems found. You
have to figure people watching telly rather than being on the
computer are statistically less likely to know IT flim-flam when
it's dressed up as a godsend. Shane



  #49  
Old March 22nd 09, 11:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Noel Paton[_3_]
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I never realised that Tiscali was headquartered in Sardinia! (Anybody need
anything doing over there, slip me a large bunch of green ones - my
brother-in-law's father was chief of police there! )

--
Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"Mike M" wrote in message
...
UK "funny"! I was being serious! g

Tiscali, the ISP used by Shane, has its head office in Cagliari, Sardinia.
The one part of my reply that is probably false, is that it is run my the
mafia since I was under the impression that the mafia are to a degree
reasonably competent at what they do whereas those who run Tiscali, at
least in the UK, are probably some of the most incompetent individuals
around.
Where the mafia comes in is that Tiscali provide little more capacity to
their users than one would get if one was to use string to connect users
to their system. Similarly they hate to see their customers leave.

My first ADSL connection was with a company (WorldOnline) that was taken
over by Tiscali. I left them in 2003 only in 2005 to receive an invoice
for two years service, two years during which I had been with another ISP
to whose equipment my line was physically connected thus a physical
impossibility that I had been with Tiscali. Tiscali denied this and
continued to claim ever increasing sums for a further 15 months until
eventually I sent them a letter stating that I was going to start legal
proceedings against them at which point they decided to give up on me and
turn instead on their latest victim, Shane. :-)

Cheers,

Mike


Heather wrote:

ROFL!!! I am not to bright until noon so started to read this as a
serious reply to a slightly deranged Shane.......until I hit the word
*string*.......bwa ha ha.

Mike, you are so *UK funny*.....lol. (meaning dry humour)



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Old March 22nd 09, 11:59 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Shane[_8_]
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You mean 'cabbage', don't you?

Would cauliflower do?

Shane


Noel Paton wrote:
I never realised that Tiscali was headquartered in Sardinia! (Anybody
need anything doing over there, slip me a large bunch of green ones -
my brother-in-law's father was chief of police there! )


Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"Mike M" wrote in message
...
UK "funny"! I was being serious! g

Tiscali, the ISP used by Shane, has its head office in Cagliari,
Sardinia. The one part of my reply that is probably false, is that
it is run my the mafia since I was under the impression that the
mafia are to a degree reasonably competent at what they do whereas
those who run Tiscali, at least in the UK, are probably some of the
most incompetent individuals around.
Where the mafia comes in is that Tiscali provide little more
capacity to their users than one would get if one was to use string
to connect users to their system. Similarly they hate to see their
customers leave. My first ADSL connection was with a company
(WorldOnline) that was
taken over by Tiscali. I left them in 2003 only in 2005 to receive
an invoice for two years service, two years during which I had been
with another ISP to whose equipment my line was physically connected
thus a physical impossibility that I had been with Tiscali. Tiscali
denied this and continued to claim ever increasing sums for a
further 15 months until eventually I sent them a letter stating that
I was going to start legal proceedings against them at which point
they decided to give up on me and turn instead on their latest
victim, Shane. :-) Cheers,

Mike


Heather wrote:

ROFL!!! I am not to bright until noon so started to read this as a
serious reply to a slightly deranged Shane.......until I hit the
word *string*.......bwa ha ha.

Mike, you are so *UK funny*.....lol. (meaning dry humour)



 




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