Learning how to Linux has been on my "to do" list since 2003. You know, one day...
BT Openreach staff gather together and put on their festive costumes for the traditional Halloween 'trick or treat' tour of our local cable ductingShortly after I took that picture an eleventh van turned up. Some sort of football-themed tribute to Nobby Stiles, perhaps?
When I came back a few hours later there were cable drum dispensers near some of the manhole covers: looks like they were putting in new ducting, dare I hope for blowing in fibre in the near future? FTTP = Fibre To The PromisesTook 3 years after they did that here. Don't hold your breath.
Sadly, I don't think YT has a voice option for reporting channels. If nobody does anything, he could get mobs to start attacking 5G towers, destroying them and possibly leave some people without any phone coverage which could result in a life and death situation?
It doesn't, unless you know a Googler, and the only one I know quit last month.Oh nothing regrettable. Just a metaphorical PEEK and a POKE in the right places...
Peek through a Predator UAV and Poke a Hellfire through his chimney ?
Nah much more insidious. I'm trying to get his credit file zero rated. Reference agencies take evidence for craziness and reckless behaviour. Use the gears of the machine rather than smash them.
If that isn't the subject of a BOFH column,it should be.
BOFH is that
...Word Has Gone Out (and presumably, taxpayer's money has changed hands) and rural areas like ours are getting FTTP rolled out pronto. The PSTN will be switched off and the copper wire taken down. The fibre network should be going live in 'a few months'.
A pity, really, as the copper wires in the picture are only 3 weeks old. A 300+ year old oak tree came down and clobbered the previous pole, which is why the green is in such a mess. The tree was almost completely hollow inside.
BT Openreach staff gather together and put on their festive costumes for the traditional Halloween 'trick or treat' tour of our local cable ductingShortly after I took that picture an eleventh van turned up. Some sort of football-themed tribute to Nobby Stiles, perhaps?
When I came back a few hours later there were cable drum dispensers near some of the manhole covers: looks like they were putting in new ducting, dare I hope for blowing in fibre in the near future? FTTP = Fibre To The PromisesTook 3 years after they did that here. Don't hold your breath.Just along the road today, what do I see?
Talked to some of the workers. Word Has Gone Out (and presumably, taxpayer's money has changed hands) and rural areas like ours are getting FTTP rolled out pronto. The PSTN will be switched off and the copper wire taken down. The fibre network should be going live in 'a few months'.
A pity, really, as the copper wires in the picture are only 3 weeks old. A 300+ year old oak tree came down and clobbered the previous pole, which is why the green is in such a mess. The tree was almost completely hollow inside.
...Word Has Gone Out (and presumably, taxpayer's money has changed hands) and rural areas like ours are getting FTTP rolled out pronto. The PSTN will be switched off and the copper wire taken down. The fibre network should be going live in 'a few months'.
A pity, really, as the copper wires in the picture are only 3 weeks old. A 300+ year old oak tree came down and clobbered the previous pole, which is why the green is in such a mess. The tree was almost completely hollow inside.
Major jealousy!!! I went and looked at your flag ... not North America, which explains everything. Our government here make a big announcement after the last election to roll out high-speed internet to rural areas throughout the country. Our neighbours just got DSL at 0.57 Mbps (same as us for the last 8 years); somehow that counts as high-speed. How to we even count as rural here? I pretty much drive past our national Parliament on my commute to work.... [/rant]
...Word Has Gone Out (and presumably, taxpayer's money has changed hands) and rural areas like ours are getting FTTP rolled out pronto. The PSTN will be switched off and the copper wire taken down. The fibre network should be going live in 'a few months'.
A pity, really, as the copper wires in the picture are only 3 weeks old. A 300+ year old oak tree came down and clobbered the previous pole, which is why the green is in such a mess. The tree was almost completely hollow inside.
Major jealousy!!! I went and looked at your flag ... not North America, which explains everything. Our government here make a big announcement after the last election to roll out high-speed internet to rural areas throughout the country. Our neighbours just got DSL at 0.57 Mbps (same as us for the last 8 years); somehow that counts as high-speed. How to we even count as rural here? I pretty much drive past our national Parliament on my commute to work.... [/rant]What only .57Mbbs, thats no good to man or beast, hell I'm getting 966.7 times that and that is even considered slow by some people. How long would it take you to download Windows 10 for christs sake?
Doesn't surprise me. Compared to here, the issue is that infrastructure is more expensive, the places are significantly more spread out and people expect prices to be low thanks to years of race to the bottom economics. The outcome is that you get shitty infrastructure and little motivation to invest in it. Eventually someone crazy turns up, throws thousands of chunks of debris into space as a solution because it makes more sense than running fibre on paper.
If it's any consolation I was stuck on 12mbits here until only a couple of years back due to some old nag complaining about them putting an "unsightly green box" on the side of the street. Had to wait until the flu season took her out
If it's any consolation I was stuck on 12mbits here until only a couple of years back due to some old nag complaining about them putting an "unsightly green box" on the side of the street. Had to wait until the flu season took her out
Learning how to Linux has been on my "to do" list since 2003. You know, one day...
Learning Linux has been on my list since 1997. Somewhere around the office, I have a shiny disk from back then with a Redhat distribution .... never used.
Edit: Incidentally I discovered Mr Steele has already wrecked his own credit rating so not much to do on that front
I pay ~40€ per month, and have 100Mbit over fibre. The link is at 1Gbit. I'm just too cheap to upgrade, but when I switch providers I will probably change that.
Edit: Incidentally I discovered Mr Steele has already wrecked his own credit rating so not much to do on that front
How did you discover that?
Shame there's less opportunity to cause him pain.
yes, I had a desktop Ethernet Internet connection back in '91/'92.
Edit: Incidentally I discovered Mr Steele has already wrecked his own credit rating so not much to do on that front
How did you discover that?
Shame there's less opportunity to cause him pain.
Surely your toaster should be running NetBSD