Posts by Richy Freeway

Frog

Or a TV and a stand that attaches to the VESA mount on the TV? That's the path I took to rid myself of the stupid side feet!

Back when I got on board, it was nothing but email and calendaring. There was no Android, no app store, no google drive, none of the other stuff that was later tacked on. Had I envisaged a future mobile operating system with apps I could buy and ad free video service that I wouldn't be able to use to their fullest I'd probably have chosen differently.

Never had any restrictions on what Google services I could use, it's only recently that they've started offering other services like YouTube premium, Google Home/Assistant etc that the problem of not being able to use the account fully has popped up.

I pay for Google Drive, I pay for YouTube Premium. I am a paying customer that is unable to use some of their products together for some arbitrary reason.

Re: Expiry Date Never

You should have received an email telling you that your service is going to continue as is. There's a few people in the Slashdot comments who were on the lifetime membership that did.

It reads as follows.

Dear Customer,

Since Oracle acquired Dyn in 2016 and subsequently acquired Zenedge. The engineering teams have been working diligently to integrate Dyn’s products and network into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. A majority of Dyn products have now been integrated and upgraded on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Accordingly, DynDNS Pro/Remote Access is decoupling from the Dyn brand and business unit this summer, and will remain a business unit within Oracle.

Your organization has the right to access and use DynDNS Pro/Remote Access. This product will continue to be available from Oracle without any disruption of service and no action is required on your part at this time.

Additional Resources

Blog Post

We look forward to supporting you on our new platform.

Hairnett BBS

I still remember my Fidonet address!

2:251/56.10

Haven't tried dialing in to Hairnett BBS to check my main in a LONG time! It's just dawned on me that I still know the phone number too!!!

Re: Modem ISP

Apparently there is

https://freeola.com/dial-up-internet/

Frog

If you own an older out of date Android device you won't be able to play it anyway...

Re: Flip Flop Flip Flop

What has MS got to do with it?

Re: Let's mention Microsoft's Policy of hoarding patches unless you pay up.

Turn off automatic updates and reboot the machine.

Install these two updates manually in this order, no need to reboot in between.

KB3020369

KB3172605

Re-enable automatic updates and reboot the machine again.

Sorted

Re: there is another way... governmental recall of the devices

Number of people that will return a £500 brand new mobile device because it might burn their face off?

Nearly all of them.

Number of people that will return a £40 IP camera because it makes some websites fall over?

Close enough to zero for it not to make any difference.

All very well having a massive recall, but you've got to get the device owner to climb up a ladder, take down the camera, wait for a replacement yadda yadda yadda. There's too much effort required by the end user for what appears to them to be zero benefit.

The only way to make the device owners take notice would be to make the devices stop working, or curtail their internet connection in someway.

Re: Main Website is Down.

Due diligence is someone else's problem.

It's the address I have bookmarked for Lloyds, just sharing the wealth. (no pun intended)

Re: Back in my day...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

No, you don't. You can even use your TV to listen to the radio over Freeview and still not require a license.

Why do people install it?

Minecraft.

Re: Let's hope police forces around the world go after these criminals.

So because there are rapists and murderers we should stop arresting people who steal cars?

Re: Just goes to show....

Microsoft do.

Windows 7 : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery

Windows 8 : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media

There are other links available for office, all direct from Microsoft, just provide them with your legit key and away you go.

To get your Windows 8 key (as they're usually stored in the bios/uefi) you can use pkeyui.

Re: What about pre-payment?

They don't charge it straight to your card, they invoice you monthly. So a limited credit card would just result in an unpaid bill.

I'm not talking a few months, this is going back about 4 years maybe. New cards have been issued during that period and since that first time of setting it up I've never once been asked to enter my password again.

Same with our cards at work, mixture of Visa and Mastercard, never asks for the password.

Re: Give rhe devil his due .,,

CTRL + C works for copying error messages from MOST dialogue boxes in Windows. Just make sure the window has focus, hit CTRL + C then paste into Notepad so you can extract the bit you want.

I emphasise most, because sometimes it doesn't work, which is frustrating.