In a previous post, I related a tale of woe of getting RMA support on a Seagate hard disk drive which I had purchased from Scan Computers International Limited. I implied in reply to comments (from mrben and others) that it wasn’t a simple catalogue error on Seagate’s part. Here’s why. On 13th October Seagate [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Sodding Scan
November 29, 2006Builders and phones
November 28, 2006Our builders managed to cut the telephone cable at home, yesterday. This is a bad thing. Hopefully it will be repaired today, but I have my concerns as to how the ADSL will be affected. E-mail is queuing up on the backup MX, but if you need to get hold of me more urgently, please [...]
Your society
November 18, 2006A new service from mysociety.org is a web-based petition system, hosted by the Prime Minister’s office. Some of the petitions submitted are clearly from loonies and the socially maladjusted, but some are of genuine interest and importance. One of the top five most popular petitions is: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to create [...]
Force9 / Plus.net SPF
November 18, 2006Recently this domain has started to be used by e-mail spammers. (No, I do not run an open mail relay, they are simply spoofing random addresses with my domain as the extension.) As a result I’m getting delivery failure messages bouncing back to me from mail servers that are configured to return such things. So, [...]
Cause for minor celebration.
November 15, 2006I knew it was worth going to the Expo. Pin It
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