Posts by SteveB

The Salford operation uses a piece of kit called Mosart which is a lot more automated than the systems they had at Oxford Road. So I think it's quite plausible that if somebody has screwed up and put the wrong caption reference into the running order that getting it off the screen quickly will be awkward to do.

Father's First Name

I had one of these sites ask for "Father's First Name" as a mandatory security question. With a 6 character minimum.

Shame he's called John (or at least was for the purposes of that site)

@Paw Bokenfohr

It's taking a while because things have to be done in a particular order because of the way frequencies are reused in different areas, so to avoid interference, and because many transmitter sites have required considerable re-engineering, including replacing the masts at many.

With the analogue services they could drop the power when they needed to do work on the mast. People further away from it got a reduced signal which may have been ghosty or had interference. In digital they'd get nothing. So many tx sites have received a second high power transmitting aerial, designed so that engineers can safely climb through it to get to the main aerial higher up the mast. This extra weight has meant the original masts weren't sufficient at many sites.

@Russ - Run box

Does Windows Key + R still work?

Christmas period

Erm... why not deliberately put the local derbies during the Christmas period so that the reduced public transport is less of an issue?

umm yeah

I'd be a lot more sympathetic to the conspiracy theories about Microsoft pulling the strings at the beeb if iPlayer actually worked in Vista. Surely if Bill was in charge he'd have made sure that was sorted before it was released?