Re: Simple approach
You can dispute marks on your credit file in the UK as well, but these show up when a search is run against your file and can delay access to credit.
Posts by Evil Harry
55 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jul 2019
Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain
China may have to reassess chip strategy in face of US sanctions
Cisco quits Moscow
Pressure builds on Nominet as members demand to know leadership's contingency plans for when they’re fired
NurseryCam hacked, company shuts down IoT camera service
Cisco intros desktop switches, one with USB-C to power your laptop
On the 11th day of Christmas TalkTalk took from me... the email address of my company
Monday 30th November 2020 14:39 GMT
"A business with a gmail, hotmail or whatever address rather than its own domain raises a flag with me"
A lot of the ones I see like this are usually one man bands like window cleaners, builders or holiday lets, basically non-tech small businesses who set their email addresses up years ago and either don't have the knowledge or will to change it.
HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink
The Huawei Mate 40 Pro would be the best Android flagship on the market – were it not for the US-China trade war
Cisco penta-gone from Pentagon as Aruba rolls in a new net
Wednesday 28th October 2020 07:58 GMT
Heard recently about a particularly large company tossing out a Cisco solution because they couldn't make it work despite a large Cisco trained staff including several CCIE's.
Cisco offered to come in and "fix" it for a large sum of cash and were promptly given their marching orders by C-level executives.
If they aren't careful, Cisco risk becoming irrelevant as the other vendors are pretty much caught up and breathing them on price.
Brit accused of spying on 772 people via webcam CCTV software tells court he'd end his life if extradited to US
Tuesday 27th October 2020 21:35 GMT
Re: Team America: World Police
She promised cooperation with Northants police and then legged it when someone (presumably working for Uncle Sam) thought better of it so legality doesn't come into it. She got away with without facing justice because of some piss poor loophole about diplomatic immunity which has now thankfully been closed.
I have the utmost and genuine respect for our friends across the Atlantic but on this one, they seriously dropped the ball and so did we by not making an issue of it. A family is now without their son while she lives the American dream. Simply put, it sucks.
Tuesday 27th October 2020 18:56 GMT
Re: Team America: World Police
"Sacoolas isn't a good example, really. It's not like she actually faced jail time here, she fled for no reason. The tabloids blew it up into a big deal, but the only thing she really did wrong* was running away instead of answering questions."
What a crappy comment. She killed someone's son and then ran for the border without going through due process. It doesn't get much lower
Microsoft to Cortana: You’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!
Data-stealing, password-harvesting, backdoor-opening QNAP NAS malware cruises along at 62,000 infections
BT and Serco among bidders competing to run Britain's unfortunately named Skynet military satellite system
Netgear was told in January its routers can be hacked and hijacked. This week, first patches released – after exploits, details made public
Huawei's latest smartphone for the UK market costs £1,299. And yes, that's without Google apps
Huawei launches UK charm offensive: We've provided 2G, 3G and 4G for 20 years, and you're worried about 5G?
Tuesday 9th June 2020 07:21 GMT
Re: Fun fact
The Americans certainly seem to be having their problems at the moment but I think there are a few fine folks over there that retain some vestige of sanity away from the Trump regime.
The fact Trump is regularly contradicted by civil servants (albeit quietly) and his own intelligence services gives me hope that once he's out of office, things will improve.
Far-right leader walks free from court after conviction for refusing to hand his phone passcode over to police
Thursday 21st May 2020 14:59 GMT
Re: And the moral of this story is ...
I bet you wouldn't call them "filth" if they turned up to tell you about the death of a loved one with compassion and professionalism as we've experienced recently.
Sure, there are bad apples in any organisation but the vast majority are doing the best they can under difficult circumstances.
Broken your new Surface Go 2 already? Looks like it's a bit more repairable this time
Tuesday 19th May 2020 07:29 GMT
Re: Wifi died on my 2015 HP laptop last week. Broadcom Dual 5GHz/2.4GHz BCM94322MC...
I think the comment relates to the thought that broken stuff can easily be replaced on a device from 2015 rather than one from 2020 because somewhere in-between, someone let Apple and Microsoft loose with industrial grade Prittstick.
Don't use natwest.co.uk for online banking, Natwest bank tells baffled customer
Windows takes a tumble in the land of the Big Mac and Bacon Double Cheeseburger
Monday 27th January 2020 13:20 GMT
Re: To be fair
I'm prepared to be down-voted to hell and back and I will caveat this with by saying it could be the way the my other half cooks, it but I find bacon to be the most disappointing meat going. It smells really nice when cooking but such a bland taste unless you douse it in gallons of ketchup which seems to defeat the object.
Whirlybird-driving infosec boss fined after ranty Blackpool Airport air traffic control antics
Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal details sitting on the open internet using a Chinese IP address? Seriously, why?
Cisco slips on a Tolkien ring: One chip design to rule them all, one design to find them. One design to bring them all...
After four years, Rust-based Redox OS is nearly self-hosting
Christmas in tatters for Nottinghamshire tots after mayor tells them Santa's too busy
Irish eyes aren't smiling after govt blows €1m on mega-printer too big for parliament's doors
Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much
Getronics confirms – finally – that CEO has quit following HMRC VAT payment debacle
Huygens if true: Dutch police break up bulletproof hosting outfit and kill Mirai botnet
Pizza prankster's prisoner plea plot perturbs police, Norks invading and Uber woes
That time Windows got blindsided by a ball of plasma, 150 million kilometres away
Friday 20th September 2019 11:36 GMT 
Balls
Back in the early 2000's, I was fortunate to spend some time aboard a brand new, state of the art cruise liner. Before the maiden voyage, the IT manager took great pride in showing us around the ship paying special attention to the modern IT facilities including some PC's in the (get rid of your) kids club area. These PC's were installed in special cupboards that locked the base unit away, recessed the monitors so only the keyboards and mice were exposed and had kiosk mode like software to stop them being messed with.
When the ship was back in port, we were asked to go onboard and address a couple of issues and we asked the IT manager how things had gone. Apparently everything was great up until the kids discovered they could remove the balls from the mice and then throw them overboard ....
How long is a lifetime? If you’re Comcast, it’s until a rival quits a city: ISP 'broke' price promise
Thursday 19th September 2019 07:37 GMT
Re: Lifetime warranty
My understanding (which may well be wrong) was that a limited lifetime warranty was valid from the time of purchase until the date the vendor declared end of sale/end of life dates for the item in question. In otherwords, the lifetime of the product, not the lifetime of the individual who bought it :)
Vulns out of the box: 12 in 13 small biz network devices terribly insecure by default – research
Eco-activists arrested by Brit cops after threatening to close Heathrow with drones
Thursday 12th September 2019 20:13 GMT
There's protesting and causing disruption and then protesting and endangering life. While I don't necessarily disagree with their concerns about climate change, by threatening to deliberately fly drones in congested airspace, these idiots deserve to have the book thrown at them. And then the book shelf And then the library.
First water world exoplanet spotted – and thankfully no sign of Kevin Costner, rejoice!
D-Link, Comba network gear leave passwords open for potentially whole world to see
Psst. Wanna brush up your supervillain creds? Get a load of this mini submarine
Handcranked HTML and JPEG japes. What could possibly go wrong?
In Hemel Hempstead, cycling is as bad as taking a leak in the middle of the street
I just love your accent – please, have a new password
Friday 30th August 2019 08:18 GMT
My last place introduced one of those automated password reset systems where you phoned up and spoke to a robot rather than a real person in order to save some cash. Before you used the facility, you had to calibrate it to your voice so for a few weeks, the office was full of people shouting "1 2 3 4 5 6" into their phones.
The amusing thing was that the company had a large Scottish contingent with very heavy accents. The poor robot didn't really have much of chance of understanding them in the first place and even less so when the Scots got frustrated and started shouting at it.
I wonder if there is a therapy centre somewhere for stressed out IVRs :D
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament
Dixons hits back at McAfee's £30m antivirus sueball: Your AV didn't work on Windows 10S
Wednesday 28th August 2019 13:43 GMT
Re: install a vanilla copy of Windows
"Because after a day/week dealing with IT headaches at work IT staff tend towards installing what they are most familiar with in a bulletproof configuration so they never ever have to do any support work on their own home equipment. Ever."
I know Cisco CCIE's who run crappy, ISP provided routers at home for this exact reason!
Have an upvote sir.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
