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ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Saturnalian wrote:

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

I used myfax about 15 years ago I think. So long ago that the registration info isn't in my 10 year old Gmail account.

Was it alright though? Simple, straightforward, cheap etc?

I think I used it once then realised I had no need for it. I got a free gift though, sent by post. You should ask for one.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

What are you actually trying to do? Anything involving bloody faxes means there's likely a better easier way to do it now.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14359

Solicitors still use faxes so I was thinking I'd like a dedicated fax number but I don't want the hassle of arranging a second telephone line. I was thinking that this would be the cheaper option initially: I don't pay for a second line installation, line rental or even a fax machine vs. paying £8 a month through myfax.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

https://www.freefaxtoemail.net/

Or even £0 a month?

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14359

Cor, I'll definitely check those people out some more. Cheers, duck.

GazChap · **Posted:** Sat Aug 02, 2014 22:50

My immersion heater appears to have packed up

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Aug 03, 2014 19:53

After the nth time the sky box didn't turn on the first time, I gave them a call to ask about notice periods on the contract. The person asked why, so I said the box was a bit knackered and virgin would send me a hd box and stuff so I was considering this. The person is now sending me a sky hd+ box and i have half price line rental and broadband for a few months. Which was an unexpected result, as it works out as costing the same with the new HD packages after the half price stuff runs out, but I'm considering it a win as only had to make one call. Their customer service is pretty good with regards to waiting times and resolution. YAY, shiny. SO we're basically paying £600 a year to watch the walking dead and Game of Thrones. Something's wrong there.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:03

On Saturday morning I awoke with a jolt and tried to roll over. The huge amount of pain I felt in my neck made this tricky. I lay there and moaned a bit until the wife brought me some tea. I couldn't move my head at all without my neck hurting. Powering through the pain with ibruprofen, paracetomol and ale I've made it into work. What the hell has happened? Why does it hurt? I've done nothing strenuous with it. My neck, right shoulder and upper arm really hurt (note the expert avoidance of comma splicing there, folks). Wosson wit dat?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

It sounds like a trapped nerve. It will probably just get better on its own.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2014 11:00

markg wrote:

It sounds like a trapped nerve. It will probably just get better on its own.

Or take a homeopathic remedy and confuse reversion to the mean with actual healing!

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14359

What a lovely personal email I've just had from some kind fellow when signing up to some business crap that I need to sort out ASAP.

"If you have any problems in the future please contact me.

Yours sincerely

Unassigned"

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2014 11:54

Make sure to get in touch if you lose your TV remote, or something

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

Trailer for about the only thing that Microsofts TV division will ever actually get to put out (and a very apt subject)

http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/wat ... er#!bvlhcr

Quote:

Microsoft has shared the first trailer for Atari: Game Over, the Xbox-exclusive documentary about Atari, the 1983 video game industry crash, and the New Mexico desert mass burial of the famously terrible E.T. game. In April 2014, Microsoft funded an excavation of the New Mexico landfill where Atari dumped thousands of unsold copies of the terrible E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial adaptation that nearly sank the entire emerging video games industry. The documentary, directed by Zak Penn, interviews everyone from the game’s creator and Atari’s executives to residents of Alamogordo, NM, where the unsold games were buried for decades. Atari: Game Over is one of the few projects to escape from the collapse of Xbox Entertainment Studios, which fell as collateral damage to Microsoft’s recent restructuring. The documentary comes out this fall on Xbox Live and xboxvideo.com.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2014 17:25

First day at my new job went well. Only took IT two hours to reactivate my network account. Apparently they know me as 'Civil War guy'. Could be worse, I suppose.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2014 20:54

Trooper: will drop you a text to let you know if I am free tomorrow lunchtime. Train back is at two.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

MaliA wrote:

Trooper: will drop you a text to let you know if I am free tomorrow lunchtime. Train back is at two.

Cool, I should be free

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Is anyone else finding that sometimes posts are taking a while to, well, post? Pages are loading as quickly as usual in general but whenever I click to actually submit a post I'm often waiting up to ten seconds for it to go through. I started noticing it at the tail end of last week but I've only really been posting from work so I don't know if I'm seeing it outside work or not. And I only mention it to give Grim a head-up in case there's something happening he should know about, I can put up with it as is no bother like.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 10:44

:post:

[edit]Nah, well quick for me.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Grim... wrote:

:post:

[edit]Nah, well quick for me.

Fair enough, it's definitely taking noticeably longer than usual for me nine times out of ten but if it's only affecting me then it ain't no thing.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Yup, it's slow to post for me too.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Just testing if it is slower from the reply screen, rather than the quick reply box...

Edit: not noticeably. It's actually pretty quick to post at the moment, but is has definitely been a lot slower recently.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

POOOOOOST

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Seems alright.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:25

Odd. I'll restart Apache to see if that helps.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:26

Right, see if that's better.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Bloody php coders.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:32

Don't blame me, I didn't write it.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Testes.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

That seems a bit quicker, will report back if it goes into super slow mode again, when it is actually happening this time

edit: and that post just took a good 5 seconds to post! :DD

edit edit: but the edit took less than a second...

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

I have had some slowness in posting, too.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:40

Curious.

I'll optimise the database later and see if that helps (can't do it while Beex is busy, it'll lock it up for a while).

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

For those who don't know, 'optimise the database' means 'have a wank'.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:48

It's rare I lock Beex for that

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Beex is busy?

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:50

Shh, people will realise I'm talking about other sites.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14359

Another remake? Or a remake of a GameCube remake?

http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/ne ... um=twitter

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

Saturnalian wrote:

Another remake? Or a remake of a GameCube remake?

http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/ne ... um=twitter

A remake of a *great* remake , of a groundbreaking game :-)

If you never played the GC version it was really well done and added a lot to the game (if you want to be really picky with your remake stuff Resi 1 was remade shortly after it was first released with the 'directors cut' version)

I assume if it does well they may also re-make Resi0 which was another great game (that only had a GC release if i remember correctly)

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 13:22

Doesn't seem to be much in it, to be honest.

[edit]Also he's holding his knife, which is still sheathed.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

Grim... wrote:

Doesn't seem to be much in it, to be honest.

That's just cause the Gamecube was so ahead of its time :-)

The Remake and Resi0 were Gamecube exclusives so would be good to get them on something for people now and probably will be used to drum up enthusiasm for the inevitable Resi7

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

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MeatMarket now does monkey fingers!

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 13:37

You didn't get enough of them.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 13:38

WAIT THEY DELIVER TO MY OFFICE OH SHIT BOYIEE

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Oh dear, it would appear the National Lottery's website was designed by retarded monkeys.

I login and go to update my address with them, which involves a postcode lookup. My address is returned from that lookup with a flat number in the format '2/2', which is all fine and good. When I try to submit that it errors because the address line contains an invalid character i.e. the slash. If I change that slash to a dash and submit it the process fails because they can't validate the new address; because their address database has no trace of a flat number '2-2'. They've designed it such that the field validation isn't compatible with the address data they force you to use!

Congratulations, you fucking idiots!

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 14:04

Trooper wrote:

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MeatMarket now does monkey fingers!

What a superb place! Good to have seen you.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14359

zaphod79 wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Doesn't seem to be much in it, to be honest.

That's just cause the Gamecube was so ahead of its time :-)

The Remake and Resi0 were Gamecube exclusives so would be good to get them on something for people now and probably will be used to drum up enthusiasm for the inevitable Resi7

NO! Make new games Mr Developer! That's man power being used on stuff that isn't new stuff.

I almost wrote "IP" then, like a douche.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

MaliA wrote:

Trooper wrote:

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MeatMarket now does monkey fingers!

What a superb place! Good to have seen you.

It was a pleasure, I enjoyed our girly gossip

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 14:35

Fucking dicks.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2014 14:36

Bamba wrote:

I login and go to update my address with them, which involves a postcode lookup. My address is returned from that lookup with a flat number in the format '2/2', which is all fine and good. When I try to submit that it errors because the address line contains an invalid character i.e. the slash. If I change that slash to a dash and submit it the process fails because they can't validate the new address; because their address database has no trace of a flat number '2-2'. They've designed it such that the field validation isn't compatible with the address data they force you to use!

I used to live in a flat that thought it would be "trendy" to have a decimal place in your number. I was floor eighteen, flat six, so my flat number was "18.06".

I used to get that shit constantly. I couldn't get a mortgage (this came up on here recently), and had a hell of a time trying to get a mobile phone on contract or a credit card.

Dicks.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Grim... wrote:

Fucking dicks.

So.. the earlier posts MaliA made asking if anyone was free for lunch a while back, my response to that, then the couple of posts this week about me and MaliA meeting up, passed you by then?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Wtfff kleeek!

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