For a number of years now I have used my old desktop computers to act as firewalls for my home network – when my desktop is upgraded the old firewall is freecycled and the old desktop becomes the new firewall.
A powerful desktop computer in a large tower case has a number of disadvantages however, both [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2009
Building a Low Power Firewall
BT really are clinically insane
Yesterday, as mentioned in my previous post, I (eventually) sent BT a message via their web site asking them to stop making marketing calls to me.
Today, rather than just replying by email to say they would stop, they decided to phone me up. Not once. Not twice. No, they phoned me THREE times. Twice to [...]
Contacting British Telecom…
So I get an annoying telesales call from some (for once reasonably comprehensible) guy in India on behalf of our dearly beloved national telco trying, somewhat bizarrely, to offer me a Visa card. After explaining that I prefer to obtain financial services from financial institutions and to stick to purchasing telephone service from a telco [...]
…into the LOVEFiLM fire
So to continue where my previous post left off, on Monday morning I signed up for my free trial with LOVEFiLM and added some films to my queue (actually I just copied over my BlockBuster queue) and sat back and waited for something to be allocated and sent out.
At the end of the working day [...]
Out of the BlockBuster frying pan…
So for about the last eighteen months I’ve been using BlockBuster’s DVD by post service and, aside from them never paying my QuidCo cashback, things have generally been working fine.
Lately however they have started to annoy me – things at the top of my list for months on end with no sign of them being [...]
