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The Most Unreliable Piece Of Equipment I Have Ever Bought
Member Review Loses connection at random intervals. Constantly needs restarting. Crap. I am alreay on my second unit. The first just died after a firmware update.
[November 24, 2005, 9:17]
Skype Roundup
Blog I have said, and documented, many times that the Skype "presence engine" is ridiculously unreliable, and as a result contact requests and chat messages can be delayed by anywhere from a few minutes to days or weeks.
[September 30, 2008, 12:03]
Don't Buy It If You Actually Want To Be Able To Use It.
Talkback This really has to be the most unreliable machine I have had to manage for quite some time. They brought it out as a big laptop then found that laptop meant it had to follow certain guidelines so relabelled it as a portable PC!
[July 23, 2007, 12:49]
Bulldog Users Bite Back Over Poor Service
Talkback Bulldog is the most unreliable and incompetent company i have ever had to deal with. I had my phone transferred to Bulldog on the 14th July. Ever since i have not been able to receive any phone calls on our home phone.
[August 10, 2005, 8:28]
Concern Grows About Bulldog's Broadband Service
Talkback I feel the most worst broadband and unreliable broadband in UK is "BULLDOG".I have lost so many pounds to call them on a query but no solution.They cheated me alot.They sent their sales agent to my house.I have signed a contract.In that,he said we...
[June 9, 2006, 14:09]
Buyer Beware
Member Review I have found that NIS 2003 and 2004 tend to be an unreliable source for protection. If anyone is looking for some security for their high-speed Internet, I would suggest in investing in a DSL router/gateway this will provide you with better...
[March 25, 2004, 7:38]
School To Trial Biometric Testing
Talkback As a parent I have never been consulted as to my feelings on the subject, my son tells me the system is unreliable as he is often being mistaken for other children ( not the same one every time). My childrens school has been using this system for a...
[July 19, 2006, 13:06]
Macromedia's Flagship Fails To Fire
Talkback I purchased MX2004 - and after two weeks dropped the package from our studio - its unreliable and buggy - this product wasn't worth the upgrade from a previous version - Macromedia have also reduced the long term support relying on 3rd party help...
[October 24, 2003, 11:13]
Sony Reveals VAIO Makeover
Talkback This kind of new stuff it bound to go wrong, you ask any Japanese person and they will tell you that sony equipment is unreliable - what about their customer service? Big deal, sony are trying to claw back sales.
[May 10, 2004, 18:47]
Italian Carrier Blocks Vodafone Text Messages
Talkback well you can repay these companies by sending them a letter when its time for contract renuwal - thanks but no thanks, your unreliable service can get stuffed. Have a nice day, have a nice day! That would show them who is boss, its the customers.
[June 25, 2004, 23:25]
Testing Times For Open Source
Talkback I'm sure one day it's possible that Linux and OSX will be as unreliable as Win-IE, but for now I will keep using Firefox, Konquorer, Mozilla, running on Linux/GNU. I work daily with computers using various OS's and Browsers.
[October 22, 2004, 3:37]
Microsoft On Trial: Sharp At Comdex, Forgetful On Tape
News Transcripts like this which come off in audio tape are somewhat unreliable," Gates said. The testimony presented in the ongoing state-federal antitrust case against Microsoft once again showed a forgetful and combative Microsoft chairman and CEO...
[November 17, 1998, 10:55]
Google's Transition Trauma
News I'd rather have something that's reliable and (that) I pay for than something that's unreliable and free. Google's move to offer free Web analytics software left some customers in the lurch. The search giant launched a free Web analytics service on...
[November 17, 2005, 9:00]
Hotmail Users Out In The Cold Again
News But he has largely used a paid email account from a Brazilian ISP, Universo Online, because he said his Hotmail account was too unreliable. Inconvenienced, yet again. That was a prevailing attitude Wednesday among users of Hotmail, Microsoft's Web...
[January 25, 2001, 14:56]
New IM Application "Nimbuzz"
Blog Of course, through all of this the Skype that I had running on my test laptop here was showing that contact as being offline, but I am well used to Skype presence being so unreliable as to be useless.
[May 14, 2008, 15:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This is clearly unreliable info from a disgruntled source, and is easy to dismiss. Tuesday 18/10/2005 Oh dear," says BT. We don't want to outsource, but we have to. Just can't get the staff over here, you know.
[October 24, 2005, 13:05]
Windows Vista - Here I Go Again!
Blog Their "Presence Reporting" has been known to be "unreliable" (to be charitable) for a long time. But I've said it before - I want Vista to work. I want it to be better, faster, more secure, or whatever, than Windows XP - or at least as good.
[February 19, 2008, 13:02]
Dell Dips In Support Ratings
Talkback THEY ARE TERRIBLE, THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU AT ALL AND THEIR COMPUTERS ARE UNRELIABLE” THIE TECHNICAL SUPPORT LINES ARE A NICE MONEY SPINNER FOR THEM! I am furious with Dell(! I am so totally appalled with their terrible of service.
[January 21, 2005, 16:14]
The Goodwins Perspective: Living With ADSL
News BT provided a cumbersome and impenetrable front end to a selection of mediocre content and unreliable services that illustrated only quite how good the unadorned Web is for delivering exactly what you want with the minimum of fuss.
[July 29, 1999, 8:52]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Despite every attempt to layer on more security, patch more holes, educate more people not to open attachments and so on, the world of email gets more cumbersome and unreliable by the day. Wednesday 21/08/2003And talking of messy -- RE: Your details.
[August 22, 2003, 18:10]
