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6 months ago

in Smartphones are shit; I’m going back to a real phone on Mobile Industry Review
The Nokia 5310 - the best phone in the universe. Battery lasts forever (over a week) and has a reasonable camera, it's sooooo slim. Looks great and is on pay as you go!
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Ewan Good point...

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7 months ago

in When is ‘unlimited internet’ not. on Bladewatch
We follow the Advertising Standards Authority guidelines for all our unlimited services. Basically this means that we can call a service unlimited”where a fair use policy applies, provided that we tell customers that a fair use policy exists for the service, and that we can demonstrate the threshold of the fair use policy is so high that it would only exclude “atypical users” ie people who have an unusually high rate of data consumption. This is industry practice and because the limits operators set for fair usage policies are so high, most customers will enjoy what feels like unlimited usage. Sadly there are a very few customers who do abuse the services, and having a fair use policy in place gives Vodafone, and all operators, and indeed our customers protection against this. Our research with customers shows that 500MB for mobile internet is rarely exceeded and we regularly review the way the internet and email is used to ensure the 500MB is still adequate. We train our retail advisors to explain this to you when you buy a phone for internet or email use. Also all of our adverts do have a note on them to detail what is included in the price plan and full terms and conditions are given to you when you buy and are also available online or on request. If you have trouble reading these terms and conditions we can of course send you them in another form such as large print, for more information just click here.

1 year ago

in Configuring the HP p-Class enclosure on Bladewatch
If you have problems, email me and I'll send you a few config scripts.

1 year ago

in In April, I used 275mb of my 120mb Vodafone allowance = 220 quid on Mobile Industry Review
Sim only on tmobile with data, use vodafone for calls only, that's what i'm doing, waiting to see if iphone comes out on tmobile, and will switch to it - wont the new iphone force vodafone to switch their data requriements?
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Ewan Ah who knows... I'm beginning to lose patience entirely with Big Red. It
didn't take me that long..

1 year ago

in Have I made a massive mistake signing up with Vodafone? on Mobile Industry Review
I am beginning to think the same! I'm on vodafone sim only - it seems like I'm stuck in limbo - i'm not a pay monthly customer or a pay as you go customer so i'm not eligible for either plans offers!

More to the point i don't use data on vodafone because it's too expensive, I've just talked myself into it, right time to leave vodafone - maybe o2?
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Ewan I wonder about o2. I really do. I'm tempted. Same spectrum, good data
rates....

1 year ago

in The Blade.org Technology Symposium on Bladewatch
More on the event:

Data Center Deployments: End user insights on data center best practices.
Close-coupled™ Cooling: A new concept for data center heat rejection.
I/O Virtualization: Advances in hypervisors that significantly reduce virtualization overhead.
Desktop Consolidation: Architecture, scalability, power savings and multimedia delivery using blade servers to consolidate desktops.
Embedded Virtualization: The radical miniaturization of virtualization platforms for high density, enhanced security and increased reliability.
Data Center Concerns: Reducing data center complexity by leveraging new blade server architectures and I/O connectivity for improved access to data storage.
10 Gigabit Ethernet: Server I/O fabric convergence for lossless, low- latency, low-power, and low-cost data networking, storage and clustering with a focus on Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
Converged Data Center Infrastructures: Drivers for a new age of data center fabrics.
Processor and Memory Trends: Demand for new data center efficiencies and virtualization drives the need for lower-power, more dense servers.

1 year ago

in Vodafone Bloody Passport doesn’t recognise the USA on Mobile Industry Review
Add the roaming costs to the fact that vodafone wouldn't let me call the US from my mobile and they're becoming an annoying network to use - I never had any of this with tmobile.

1 year ago

in Vodafone Bloody Passport doesn’t recognise the USA on Mobile Industry Review
It's £1.30 on O2 pay as you go, £1.30 on orange pay as you go, I happen to have three O2 pay as you go sims and two pay as you go sims from when I've bought handsets, but none from tmobile, how rubbish! Also why so expensive?

1 year ago

in The confessions of a secret MacBook Air fan (and reluctant Windows powered blogger) on Bladewatch
Very very cool, hope you're pleased with the MacBook Air, do let me know how you get on!

1 year ago

in The Compaq Proliant 1600 - Windows NT on Bladewatch
Hi Henry,

The drivers for the Compaq Proliant 1600R are here: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSuppor...

You want the one which is named Compaq Drive Array Driver for Windows NT 4.0, which I believe is CPQ1586.exe on the smartstart 5.5 cd.

The array controller driver is here:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSuppor...

1 year ago

in Talking about Green Business with Cisco on Bladewatch
I wonder if Cisco will allow people to download the event as a podcast? Or get a transcript? Will need to take a look.

1 year ago

in My new Nokia on Bladewatch
In the interests of being open, I pay for voicemail on Vodafone - paying for voicemail something that really shouldn't be the case in 2008.

1 year ago

in Announcing the HP DL785 G5! on Bladewatch
Yes I've actually built one of the Sun 8 way servers, it was very cool and very fast, it'll be very cool to see how it performs. I'll need to keep an eye out for the next derivative with the new AMD chip.

1 year ago

in Sun and the TACC announce ‘Ranger’ on Bladewatch
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/ - contains some more comments from Jonathan's blog.

1 year ago

in How to robocopy on Bladewatch
Thanks ST2 - that's great!

1 year ago

in How to reboot the HP ILO/kick off a hung session on Bladewatch
Thanks Ken, great points!

1 year ago

in The need for “Green IT” continues on Bladewatch
Thanks for that Ken, very cool!

1 year ago

in I’ve got a Prosignia 300 what is it? How do I get started? on Bladewatch
Good luck Laszlo, if you have any trouble don't hesitate to email me!

The driver disks should be everything you need to get going again.

Regards

Martin

1 year ago

in About on Bladewatch
Hi Paul, I don't know that information of the top of my head, have you tried the IBM quicklinks site? http://www.ibmquicklinks.com/ I'll have a dig around the IBM site and if I find anything will do a post about it! Thanks for your comments!

1 year ago

in Apple launches ultra portable notebook on Bladewatch
Check it out, the tech specs features the laptop design in terms of recycling and energy efficiency, very very cool!

1 year ago

in The Data center in a box continues its evolution on Bladewatch
Sounds very cool! Reading up on it as we speak!

1 year ago

in Has anyone seen my Nokia communicator? on Bladewatch
I'm still building myself up to it, I want one off-line you see.

1 year ago

in Fujitsu brings new entry level mainframes to the market on Bladewatch
I'm for whatever technology works as a business enabler, there are a lot of people that get benefits from main frame technology which continues to drive that market and long may it continue.

1 year ago

in Engaging with the blogging community - a risk or an enabler? on Bladewatch
Your right Eric! We'll see maybe some day!
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