Hacked?

[nigelb]

... Sorry just a program i really like

the other is "my Name Is Earl" which is the first funny American show since the Three Stooges

sorry sidetracking

thanks guys
Regards
Rick

Oh, come on Rick M*A*S*H and Cheers were great funny shows and anything with Tina Fey is good (30 Rock, SNL). All In The Family was both funny and groundbreaking - although I know the Colonials stole that idea from the British show Till Death Us Do Part. I never found the Three Stooges that funny anyway - boring after 5 minutes. That said, when my little sister was 5 she loved them so I think it was a case of me not quite fitting the demographic for that show. .

Ah, what about The Office, Fawlty Towers, The Vicar of Dibley, Coupling, Monty Python and so on? Oh wait, they are all British!

BBC America has a new tagline promotion:
"We lost our empire ......
we suck at tennis........
our food is lousy.......
but our television kicks arse!"

Ya gotta love that even though I know the food comment is not true.

Nigel²

[gordon-in-aberdeen]

Yes Rick, the IT Crowd it is

The biggest laugh the audience gave it on the opening show just happened to be when one of them on the phone to a needy customer "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" and hung up on them. I thought the bit later in the show when they set fire to the desk and got away with it by putting an old TV case in front of it was great.

The episode with the Bomb disposal team was one of the better ones so far... though I've missed a lot of them so there may be others..

Is it just me, or is this thread's rudder fallen off and we're rapidly drifting off topic?

[AndyG]

Believe it or not, If I had a quid for the number of times I've had to ask the question "have you tried switching it off andf on again?" I'be, well, a bit less skint than I'm normally...

It's got to the point now that our IT Helpdesk at work won't even begin to talk to you unless you've turned it off and on again!

They reckon it's saved a fortune in wasted man-hours.

So how much fun do you think I had, when discussing with one of our IT guys (who is actually scarily like Moss, albeit a camper version) why a particular datafile wasn't running correctly; he admitted he didn't know why it wasn't working, so I asked him if......

And yes, that sorted out the problem!!!

[DarrenL]

"Hello, IT? Yah-hah? Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot? You see the driver hooks the function by patching the system call table, so it's not safe to unload it unless another thread's about to jump in there and do its stuff, and you don't want to end up in the middle of invalid memory............................................hello?"

[J0hn]

Well, the tech 'help' at my ISP was busy last week - but one particular 'helper' there is a right little fascist.

Every time I speak to him, he gets this really aggressive and sceptical attitude on. Twice after I'd hung up, I found myself staring at the phone in disbelief, wondering why I'd allowed him to speak to me in the manner he did.

What makes it worse is that firstly, I'm a class one telecomm op - since 1986 - and secondly, I worked as a PC tech for years after becoming a civvy. So I don't appreciate being treated like an uneducated baffoon by some smart-alec shineya*se.

Talking of hacking, though - got a nasty shock last night, when I found someone had 'hacked' into my ebay account, changed the password, entered an address in Israel and was making bids on items for sale.

Lucky ebay let you know when an account email address change has been requested.

Cheeky beggar - but ebay have a very good 24 hour security team and they sorted the issue inside of half an hour (at 22:00hrs on a Friday!). A quick trip to the cop shop this morning was the only way I was inconvenienced by this joker.

Sergey Pomelinkov
Yitzhak-Sade 39
Alev
Haifa
35027 Israel

That's the delivery address he substituted for mine on the account. It may not be valid, but please feel free to copy & paste it anywhere you go

JD

[DarrenL]

Currently displaying "Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL"

Hope that's administration offline work rather than Bin Laden's cousins again.

Edited to add now working (14.29pm)

[Garry Russell]

Hi Darren

The Pond is up at the moment if thats'what you mean