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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Mon Jun 05, 2017 7:24 pm |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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I had my first cyberattack today! We were receiving unwanted traffic from a single external IP address, so much data, that it completely blocked out connection. It took the Telekom a half the day to realise what I was telling them and to react to it. They have now blocked the address at their border. Our servers are slowly catching up with the email traffic blocked during the day. What is interesting is, that the IP address behind the "attack" purportedly belongs to Google Inc. http://ipinfo.io/172.217.4.147Trying to get hold of Google is like trying to boil water in a sieve! Their telephone support just tells you to go to their website and select the product you are having problems with (there is no Denial of Service product listed ). The website is useless. Their support email address gives an automatic reply, that they get too many emails and they are not read and will not be responded to! I tweeted Google and GoogleDE, but neither have responded... Edit: Still no response, not even an "it wasn't us". To Do: First job for tomorrow, change all browsers in the office to use Bing and block Google!
_________________ "Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes, which says hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea!" - Londo Molari
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Wed Jun 07, 2017 2:39 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-41291483I'd pay over the odds before I gave that [LIFTED] O'Leary any money.
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Sat Sep 16, 2017 8:47 am |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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The last time (and indeed only time) I used Ryan Air, was so long ago I flew on a 737-200.
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Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:11 pm |
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Paul1965
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:29 pm Posts: 5975
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Had an email from British Gas asking me to give them an electricity meter reading. I did this and duly filled in the details on their website. Now it was substantially lower than their previous estimate which I think is due to the previous tenants being a family with two teenage girls plus the mum ran a business from home. So the fact that we don't use anywhere near as much electricity as BG think we should has really unnerved them. They've asked me to send another meter reading which will be little different from the figure above. Maybe they should just send someone round to read the meter as they obviously think I'm lying.
_________________ "I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet." - Stanislaw Lem
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Tue Sep 19, 2017 8:51 pm |
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm Posts: 6355 Location: IoW
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Just tell them, not too politely that, if they insist on using an estimate for your bill, you'll make an estimate on how much you are prepared to pay.
_________________ Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes; after that, who cares?! He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
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Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:27 pm |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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I had that with my first house. A family moved out and I moved in with my brother, he left after about a year. I was on the road all the time and it was about 2 years of payments at the estimated level before they got around to finally correcting the bill. Turned out I had paid a couple of thousand more than I should have. It took them a couple of meter readings before they would believe it. They also refused to pay back the excess, on the other side, I didn't have to pay gas or electric for about 4 years afterwards.
_________________ "Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes, which says hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea!" - Londo Molari
Executive Producer No Agenda Show 246
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Wed Sep 20, 2017 4:52 am |
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davrosG5
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am Posts: 6954 Location: Peebo
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I've had that with SSE before when submitting readings on their website. It rejects it the first time then accepts it the second time. I have to say though, they are nowhere near as good at following customer supplied readings as I found Peterborough Energy (basically OVO) to be. I normally do a meter reading every month so they have no excuse for using estimated bills. PE/OVO were really good at dealing with this, SSE not so much.
_________________ When they put teeth in your mouth, they spoiled a perfectly good bum. -Billy Connolly (to a heckler)
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Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:01 am |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Budget Energy over here are hopeless in my favour
_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:32 am |
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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12143 Location: Belfast
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I left them due to endless empty promises of creating an app for customers. Mark
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Wed Sep 20, 2017 3:15 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Yeah, they've created it but never sent me ANYTHING. I'm getting on to them once I have a million other things sorted.
_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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Wed Sep 20, 2017 3:42 pm |
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Paul1965
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:29 pm Posts: 5975
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Oxford student Lavinia Woodward spared jail for knife attackFrom the BBC: Can't imagine a male student would have got away with this. I'm not sure she's cut out to be a surgeon either.
_________________ "I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet." - Stanislaw Lem
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Mon Sep 25, 2017 4:53 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Wtf has her career got anything to do with it. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
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Tue Sep 26, 2017 9:12 pm |
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davrosG5
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am Posts: 6954 Location: Peebo
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Quite. Sort of makes a mockery of the idea that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. She sounds unhinged, at least when drunk. "I was drunk when I did it" doesn't normally warrant special treatment and it shouldn't have here either.
_________________ When they put teeth in your mouth, they spoiled a perfectly good bum. -Billy Connolly (to a heckler)
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Wed Sep 27, 2017 6:20 am |
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Zippy
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:20 pm Posts: 3838 Location: Here Abouts
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_________________The Official "Saucy Minx" This above all: To Thine Own Self Be True "Red sky at night, Shepherds Delight"..Which is a bit like Shepherds Pie, but with whipped topping instead of mashed potato.
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