Yeah, people using mobile phones to contact businesses wasn’t really a thing, partly because mobile usage was still taking off when I was in the biz, but mainly because calls to freephone numbers weren’t actually free (or included in package minutes) at the time.
The chances of it being the filter were stupidly low, and I don’t think I ever had a case of the filter being at fault - but it was one of those potential issues that would make a customer look stupid (and £120 lighter) if BT tipped up and declared it a customer equipment fault.
In newer homes (at the time), there were NTE faceplates that had a filter built it, with individual ports for telephone and for data telephony cables. They didn’t last long though. Maybe they were stupidly expensive in comparison, maybe BT could see the fibre future and stopped producing them.
When I did tech support for a UK telecoms firm, that was the easy way to fuck off an awkward customer with any kind of connectivity problem - stability, speed, whatever. Generally, people’s routers were connected to the same NTE as the landline.
“So what we’re going to do, is replace the ADSL filter, see if it’s a gubbed filter, it’s a nice cheap and easy fix. Can you remove the filter from the wall socket please?”
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Beautiful.
A shame really, because Ferrari have been really strong so far.
Man, using FrontPage and PhotoDraw formed my introduction to web design.
That’s one hell of a list though.
It was a crude way to express an “era” for when it was released, because I couldn’t be arsed googling for a release date.
It appears as though Fallout is an early 1997 game. Windows 3.x seemed to still be the dominant OS (or at least MS-DOS) at 52% of the market with Win95 accounting for 32%, so I would imagine that the game would still be built with 16-bit architectures in mind.
2009 just called and Armani Code is still a banger.
Jean Paul Gaultier is subjectively top quality too. His Fleur de Male is perhaps the best fragrance I’ve ever had.
That said, I’m still happy with Davidoff Cool Water so I’m hardly a modern fragrance critic.
It looks like a dialogue tree from the 16bit Fallout games.
brb, off to get a GECK from Poland.
nae bad min, ya ken fit like.
How are yous?
Shame. I liked him as a character, thought he spoke a fair bit of shit on times, but the real beauty was getting an unfiltered answer every single time - a rarity these days.
Satisfying. I’ve been scarred by that GIF loop of that truck perpetually approaching the post, and to see the impact is like pulling the screen protector off a new TV. Bliss.
Absolute unit, well done friend! Here’s to the quest for twenty!
No, but I suspect the last line qualifies it’s inclusion, where her"status" and presence in the media field gave her an opportunity to amplify her story and provide the visibility it needed to get her freed.
It’s like the SQL creators designed the syntax to achieve maximum fuckery for those where “test” and “live” are different words for the same thing.
I bet they were pissing themselves laughing when implementing the finicky ROLLBACK command, knowing it that it would be only ever be used in anger as a “hail Mary” from a dev halfway through writing his own resignation letter.
It’s not real deployment if it isn’t pushed straight to prod.
Test boxes are for communists and the French.
Haven’t read the article because of that bullshit cookie-hostage stuff, but…
I think it’s a multitude of things. Williams (or whatever it actually is these days) hooking up a pretty decent car, some good leadership in the squad, fantastic strat calls today, and the standard Albon throwing that car about like a stripper’s bra and putting the car in rankings that it really has no business being.
Albon has been the standout guy for the past two years in the bottom half of the field, he’s punching well above his weight. It’s just a shame he sunk in a team with a notorious allergy to giving drivers time, alongside arguably the team favourite in Max.
I loved the Williams team as a boy and I have to keep telling myself they’re a Williams in name only now, but I hope they “do a McLaren” and haul themselves up the grid again.
I’m not a frequent train user, though I do try and use the train where possible in place of flying. The First Class service with Virgin used to be brilliant - decent lounges, endless Virgin Cola (which is either a blessing or a curse depending on your tastes) and decent staff.
Shame they pulled out really. When I think of good train travel experiences, I think of the Virgin services, rather than sitting on a Southern service freezing my titties off at Clapham Jcn twenty years ago!
Thank fuck it’s an ex best friend now.
Thanks for being here, and thanks for being you. I hope you find a decent friend next time around.
Every day’s a school day.
In fairness, it’s nothing short of sheer voodoo what they managed to do with the simple copper loop. As usual though, it was the rural communities that felt the pinch (and the gains) more than most though.