Moans and Pet Hates - Part 8
21-08-2015, 02:05
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
OMG Backups. I've only just finished clients work and need to run system backups before going away.
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I Don't why but the PC has decided that all the files need backing up even though I set to freshen.
Looks like Brian Ferry's going to playing for a while longer. Can't be bad. Avalon
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I'm just so hyper I can't shut down. I'm going to be (that s word we can't use) Tomorrow.
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Oh no I've put Scooter on. Hyper or what?
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21-08-2015, 21:07
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
I picked my sister up from the airport, and got robbed at the car park.
£2.50 for 10 poxy minutes, and £2.50 per minute there after, and if you return within 30 minutes £20.
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21-08-2015, 21:12
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
......being tired and grumpy. In fact I've been asleep much of the day and am still tired. My creatinine has also risen 100 points in he last week. Pah!!!!!
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21-08-2015, 23:53
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Must have been a scare for you Marc, Take care , Nash
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22-08-2015, 05:50
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
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......being tired and grumpy. In fact I've been asleep much of the day and am still tired. My creatinine has also risen 100 points in he last week. Pah!!!!!
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My thoughts are with you so try to keep your spirits up dilli.
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24-08-2015, 16:55
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Compared to many people's problems on here, this might seem small, but it has made me apoplectic with rage.
My aunt (who is an older lady), has sky multiroom, and asked me to come over as the second box (an ancient Amstrad unit) had stopped working.
What I found when I got there was positively shocking. It seems that when the multiroom was installed, the sky "installer" decided rather than running a cable from the dish to the upstairs bedroom (it's a small house and the dish isn't overly far from the bedroom window) he decided to run a cable in to my aunt's living room, then splice in to some 30+ year old, thin as wet string, unshielded coax cable that was left over from the previous aerial installation.
He's even used bloody aerial plugs rather than F connectors to bodge the cable together, and he's then stuck a short length of proper shielded coax on the other end to try and hide what he's done.
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25-08-2015, 09:15
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
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Compared to many people's problems on here, this might seem small, but it has made me apoplectic with rage.
My aunt (who is an older lady), has sky multiroom, and asked me to come over as the second box (an ancient Amstrad unit) had stopped working.
What I found when I got there was positively shocking. It seems that when the multiroom was installed, the sky "installer" decided rather than running a cable from the dish to the upstairs bedroom (it's a small house and the dish isn't overly far from the bedroom window) he decided to run a cable in to my aunt's living room, then splice in to some 30+ year old, thin as wet string, unshielded coax cable that was left over from the previous aerial installation.
He's even used bloody aerial plugs rather than F connectors to bodge the cable together, and he's then stuck a short length of proper shielded coax on the other end to try and hide what he's done.
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That's the trouble with some installation companies. They give their installers a list of jobs as long as your arm, so a lot of installers bodge something that works rather than do a good job.
They don't even care if it works reliably, as if it's not, that's someone else's problem.
It's not right though, from a consumer or commercial point of view. How much money are Sky, Virgin, BT and all the other providers wasting because they are having to send technicians out to fix installs that were bodged in a hurry?
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25-08-2015, 09:38
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
I will say that in my experience VM are better regarding the technical standard of installs, as cable systems are interconnected and interference from one dodgy install could theoretically impact quite a few customers.
The basic problem is the piecework system the "installer" teams work under. As you mention the installers are required to do x amount of installs per day, and the system encourages corner cutting and rushing. I've heard of others being told by openreach installers that they could only have the master socket installed in a hallway (basically because the bloke didn't want the extra work of running some cable to where the customer actually wanted it)
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25-08-2015, 10:45
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Neighbours well one in partially.
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25-08-2015, 11:59
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Appalling bad weather. Bookies offering evens on the wettest August on record.
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25-08-2015, 12:07
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Happens every time I go and do a big shop when it rains..Everyone parks in the spaces outside my house and I have to lug everything half way up the road..That's it.The witchdoctor beads are coming out..
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Appalling bad weather. Bookies offering evens on the wettest August on record.
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Hope not. I'm supposed to be on a day trip to the Isle of Wight.
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25-08-2015, 12:34
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Well if its on Fri/Sat or Sunday Maggy you might be lucky with the weather.
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25-08-2015, 15:22
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Hope you get good weather Maggie. Dreadful work from whoever installed your aunts installation . rhyds
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25-08-2015, 20:30
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Tomorrow I've got four separate appointments at Addenbrooks - I wonder how well it'll all work out. I must admit it's nice to get it all in one day for a change
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25-08-2015, 20:32
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Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8
Christ that's is a fair amount to handle dilli so l hope all goes well..
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