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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher 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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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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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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