* Posts by Rustywarrior

8 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Apr 2012

Plusnet shunts blame for dodgy DNS traffic onto customers' routers

Rustywarrior

You can do it... you just need to know your way around a telnet and command line interface.

Still not something that your average punter is willing or capable of doing though.

The Tomorrow People jaunt back to the airwaves

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I'm on a nostalgia trip...

...and I'm quite looking forward to it.

OK so CW aims itself squarely at the "young adult" market but Arrow was actually quite good and if it matches up to that then I'll be happy.

Tracy brothers are back: Thunderbirds Are Go! again in 5... 4... 3...

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Go

Future plots

Sam Fisher (aka Michael White) has already written the screenplays (errr "novels") for a successful franchise reboot. Part Thunderbirds, part Alpha's, and all gung ho, State Of Emergency and it's follow ups (2 so far) have it all for the post 9/11 generation. Bring it on please

Taxpayers to cough for Comet staff redundo

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A sad day for me...

...in as much as I feel for all my ex colleagues still waiting to find out if they've got a job to go to after tomorrow (I worked in the warranty repair centre that hasn't as yet gone into Admin) .

However I have to take issue with the idea that Deloitte are a competent business who know what they're doing. I am one of the lucky ones with transferable skills - my time working in a workshop was a "time-out" for me and a chance t get my hands dirty again. So the moment that the bombshell was dropped (about 12 hours after it became common knowledge via Facebook) I hit the job market hard and got myself a new position and resigned from Comet in November. Fast forward to Friday last week and I get a letter from Deloitte commiserating with me having lost my job via redundancy and please fill in these forms to see what you can get from HM Gov.

I had very little respect fr the Admin teams capabilities before this (especially the way that redundancies and closures were announced on the 'net before the staff were informed) but that just takes the biscuit.

OpCapita = bunch of fly by night shysters who employed a similar group to run the company into the ground and then a bigger bunch to oversee the carve up and ensure that Mr Jackson and his cronies get their money back.

Cawing retail vultures circle dying Comet, might rip some chunks off

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Unhappy

@K 08:40

I'm sure that when the decision is made that we definitely are closing the stores and the staff are all going to be out of work you'll be able to get your sweaty paws on a knock down deal. Until then the Administrators are doing their level best to keep everything going. Personally all we care about at the moment is ensuring we get a wage packet before Xmas.

Seasons Greetings

Comet administrator Deloitte triggers ejector seats under 330 staff

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FAIL

duh!

Except those that we are still repairing obviously!

Casablanca to screen for free on Facebook

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Re: It's not freedom, it's greedom

Que?