Dave Foster

For fax sake: NHS to be banned from buying archaic copy-flingers

Tuesday 11th December 2018 08:47 GMT Dave Foster

The government has claimed the NHS will be paperless by 2020

So there will be no bulky files of patient notes?

No patient notes at the bottom of the bed?

No post it notes on the wall?

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Telco forgot to renew its web domain, broke deaf folks' video calls – now gets a $3m paddlin'

Sunday 1st October 2017 14:32 GMT Dave Foster

So the FCC and the regulator get a payout, what about the poor sods who were really inconvenienced ie the customers?

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HMS Queen Lizzie impugned by cheeky Scot's drone landing

Saturday 12th August 2017 08:29 GMT Dave Foster

Seeing someone has mentioned shotguns, how about using a few AA-12s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchisson_Assault_Shotgun

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Revealed: The naughty tricks used by web ads to bypass blockers

Saturday 12th August 2017 08:08 GMT Dave Foster

Re: It never used to be about money

everyone under the age of 50? Us oldies get our news off the internet too!

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Saturday 12th August 2017 08:07 GMT Dave Foster

I don't mind a few discrete adverts on websites I visit. What I do dislike are banners flashing away making it hard to see the main page. Even worst when they are something I have no interest in.

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Dixons whacked by profit warning

Wednesday 30th March 2011 09:05 GMT Dave Foster

Second rate shop

This of course has nothing to do with the fact that their goods are top price and salespeople are totally clueless?

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AOL waves goodbye to 900 staffers

Monday 14th March 2011 09:54 GMT Dave Foster

Internet dinosaur

I dumped AOL when they merged with Time Warner and achieved the difficult task of making their website even more bloated. I'm amazed they still exist.

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Virgin tempts Brits with fee-free TiVo

Wednesday 16th February 2011 16:18 GMT Dave Foster

Is it such a good deal?

I got my invite to enter today, I started to register, then got suspicious. If I registered and didn't get a free TiVo box did that mean I'd signed up to pay for one anyway? So I cancelled, not that I don't trust Branson....

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US woman sues again over XP 'downgrade', seeks class action

Monday 3rd January 2011 14:54 GMT Dave Foster

Suport your local store

My local computer store will build me whatever I want with any OS I want at a competitive price. Plus I can chat to the technician and see if he has any suggestions or thoughts.

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PC World website went titsup on Boxing Day

Monday 3rd January 2011 14:48 GMT Dave Foster

Vista in control?

Their website was probably running on one of those Vista machines with 500 meg of ram that they used to stuff across unsuspecting punters a while back.

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iPad to lead netbook and Kindle market munch

Saturday 16th October 2010 12:31 GMT Dave Foster

easy choice

Hmmm, £429 for the cheapest iPad or £149 for the Kindle. Difficult choice if you just want to read books!

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Apple in 873-page legal claim to word 'Pod'

Sunday 26th September 2010 00:25 GMT Dave Foster

BBC Game

Don't forget the old BBC computer game 'Pod'.

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Mobile Broadband

Tuesday 11th May 2010 15:55 GMT Dave Foster

A lot of people (myself included) will want these mobile dongles for holiday use. They all seem to need topping up each month which makes them expensive for occasional use.

I'm using one of the older Vodafone dongles which was a genuine PAYG. It doesn't run out after a month so is ideal for my purposes. It is slower than the latest models at 1 gig download speed but that isn't a real problem. It's a great pity that the mobile companies don't offer a PAYG mobile dongle that lasts longer than one month before topping up.

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Lloyds TSB's online banking system shows no love for Firefox

Thursday 15th October 2009 13:54 GMT Dave Foster

Kaspersky issue

Firefox 3.5.3 is OK with TSB site, the only issue I have is that the virtual keyboard in Kaspersky has stopped working with Firefox. It still works with IE though. Kaspesky claim to be aware of the problem but aren't doing a fat lot to sort it.

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ITV 'could dump' Friends Reunited

Monday 16th February 2009 21:18 GMT Dave Foster

Lemon Time

ITV really did achieve a difficult thing, they turned a potential moneymaker into an overstuffed lemon. Time for some big bonuses?

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Dump IE 6 campaign runs afoul of dump IE 6 campaign

Thursday 27th March 2008 10:30 GMT Dave Foster

I'm a dinosaur

Still running Windows ME and IE 5.5 on a Pentium 3. It works so why fix it!

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Sysadmin jailed for 30 months over failed logic bomb

Wednesday 9th January 2008 19:45 GMT Dave Foster

darkside

So he made a mess of the programming. Sounds like he is ideal for an IT job working for the British Government.

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Yahoo! assists! searches!

Thursday 25th October 2007 23:02 GMT Dave Foster

Totally crap

Until today I used Yahoo as my front page because I could check my emails quickly and get on with some work. Now they've hidden the email page inside so I have to negotiate menus to perform an everyday task. Great improvement Yahoo, what stupidity will you come up with next?

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