Posts by jeffrey

do it in reverse

wonder why they don't try running it in reverse, i.e put a motor where the fan is and turn it into a stirling cryocooler (heat pump), that way it should "pump" the heat off the chip and into the air.

I hope they start making/selling one as it would look good on my northbridge

GRRR hotmail is rubbish now

I kind of use gmail to read my hotmail. I left hotmail plus for the worst service and customer service ever (explained below)

The reason I still use hotmail is because I don't want to change my email address, as it is used for everything and everyone knows it, however all my email from hotmail gets automatically forwarded to my gmail account. So I never need to sign into hotmail (and it doesn't lapse as I use MSN messenger most days). All this came about because..

I used to have a hotmail plus account, but one day hotmail decided that they would delete 9 years of my emails with the exception of the ones from the week before they deleted them. This was whilst using the web interface to hotmail in safari, I marked one email as "mark as read" and it deleted most of them across multiple pages,Anyway 15 emails to customer services later (the first 14 of which said

"Hi my name is <insert random generated name here> , your customer services representitive....

I am sorry you pay for our service and we have deleted all you emails. we are unable to retrieve them, having looked into your account details we can see that you access our systems using Norton Internet Security Suite (an achievement indeed from OSX, that has no Antivirus or similar programs installed on it, and is the only computer I access it from). Microsoft cannot be held responsible for the actions of 3rd party antivirus vendors like Norton, we are therefore unable to help"

After the same response from 14 customer service reps , and some angry emails from me, they finally refunded my subscription and gave me a years free hotmail plus access.

Ebay

Hmm how long till,

US Spy Satellite: Condition: Used: Starting Bid:99p appears up on ebay?

Sellers should be able to leave neutral comments

I both buy and sell, have a 100% record even after leaving 4 negative feedbacks for buyer not paying/ seller not sending. Sellers should be allowed to leave neutral feedback under the normal course of things (in case the buyer is very slow or unreasonable), or negative feedback if they win an unpaid item dispute. I think it might have been better if a seller leaving negative feedback won't show up in the buyers feedback score, (or number list at the top) but would still have the red button and comment in the list of their feedbacks. I have lost count of the times I have wanted to put negative feedback but didn't to protect my feedback score.

Outsourcing

I didn't know HMRC been contracted out to lose nato/swedish data as well.

I'll get my long brown coat (and go sit on a bench muttering "red squirrel looks east in October")

ammendment

Perhaps we should invent a shorthand unit for dissapation (instead of milliwats per nano wales) we should have the HMRC as they are so good at loosing things, 1 HMRC would be the details of 1 million people) so this I guess this little mishap with the nasal funky flour would be about a milliHMRC.

BE

I'm with BE, i have ADSL 2+ (24Mbps max theoretical) I get 2.9 Mbps on a good day - roughly 10% of the advertised speed.

Time

@Stein Tore Dale

With regards to ticketing these days and the rediculously short time it takes to sell out events (3 minutes) . perhaps they should have a time based lottery over a period of several weeks. tickets get divided up into 1000 lots, computer does a secret lottery to randomly decide the date and time an individual lot will go on sale, then people can buy those tickets until all the tickets in the lot are sold and then you have to wait for the next one. yes it might be anannoying to log on several times to see if they are available, but at least it gives everyone more of a chance of getting tickets, and would reduce the burden on telephone lines and internet sites.

Hmm

Damn those evasive Mysterons