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Comment on DIY 8Tb NAS for under 360 pounds by zooz

zooz — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:07:41 +0000

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Comment on OGG to MP3 streaming howto – icecast and shoutcast by Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 05 May 2012 01:47:57 +0000

I’m trying to download the oggtoshout.tar.gz to look over the sh files, but i’m getting a archive corrupted error

Comment on Easy cpanel WHM or linux remote backup – SSH pull rsync backups for security and integrity using incremental by Yaniv

Yaniv — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 12:23:14 +0000

Hi,
Great article.
Can you please send the script ?

Comment on Reducing your Virgin media bill without losing HD – Virgin Retentions by steptoe

steptoe — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:53:10 +0000

The wife has had enough of prices being increased, yet justifying the increase by claiming to offer better services like more HD channels. We don’t get any HD channels due to not having a HD box and refusing to pay yet more for this priveledge so still have an ancient 6 year old box that locks up on occasion and also frequent blocking and drop-outs on the signal due to HD taking more bandwidth off non-HD broadcasts. I can’t speak to ‘customer services’ about reducing the package as I am ‘only’ the 2nd account holder. I can increase the package but I am blocked from reducing it without the main account holder sat there and saying its OK to customer services for me to reduce the package. I can see everything being cancelled and losing everything as the wife has zero patience when ‘customer services’ tries to ‘help’ and keep customers without Virgin losing too much money as she does not have the patience or time to waste being on hold for 15-20 minutes with constant sales pitches and ‘offers’ when all we now want is nothing but broadband ONLY . At the end of the day we can get basically the same TV package (or the channels we watch) from FreeSAT which would pay for itself in 3 months with what we will save and have nothing to pay ever again, and as a plus get a host of HD channels where currently we get none at all, if we choose to eventually get FreeSAT which at the moment is not something considered essential

Comment on Reducing your Virgin media bill without losing HD – Virgin Retentions by vxboimle

vxboimle — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:42:27 +0000

Ok ok ok, I work for Virgin Media retentions and all I can say to is that this post is not how it works. We arent incentivised to retain customers we dont get anything per customer staying, any incentives are run on an average, not per individual customer and tend to be on statistics such as hold and wrap up time than customers staying. Whether we can take £1 or £10 off your bill has no impact on us in terms of an incentive, we can only offer the packages that are available. Being on the phone for twenty minutes wont magically allow us to know extra money off your bill, but rearranging the package to suit you better sometimes will. Some people are on standard bundles and some are on mix and match and there are different offers for each combination. The person you speak to has no control over what is offered.
What I will say though is that the deals now are MUCH better for exsisting customers than they are for new customers as the discounts are continuous rather than lasting 3 months or so.
My best advise for customers calling for better deals is to be totally honest with why you are calling, if you ring and say ‘I need to make my bill as cheap as possible’ then thats what we’ll aim to do, if you arent honest, we cant help you quickly which appears to be what you want. Its also good to realise that if you do take a deal with a maximum discount then it will recontract you, the same as if you were a new customer with us or another company. It makes business sense to retain a customer in a 12 month contract if you are offering hefty discounts! Its as simple as that!

Comment on ant video downloader firefox addon tracking my browsing by Hans

Hans — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:37:33 +0000

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Comment on Reducing your Virgin media bill without losing HD – Virgin Retentions by Jack

Jack — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:22:36 +0000

I’ve had not a lot of luck with Virgin, I’ve been a loyal customer of theirs for the last 10 years. After being on call with them, they did not offer me any incentives, saying that I was already on the best deal possible, and then went on a rant about their competitors! Quite unprofessional really!

As for race and being forwarded to a call centre in another country, I’ll have to agree with you. Yes, I understand that English might not be the primary language, and they are using a script, I do think it is frustrating when things do not go according to their script and they cannot provide you with an answer! It’s not a question of race, it’s about customer service!

Comment on OGG to MP3 streaming howto – icecast and shoutcast by Dave

Dave — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:29:23 +0000

Hi There,

I am very intrested in your bash script ? Can you share it with me ?

Greets
Dave

Comment on OGG to MP3 streaming howto – icecast and shoutcast by djscsi

djscsi — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:27:44 +0000

I wanted to update the people here who have been asking about sending metadata (current song) between icecast and shoutcast. We couldn’t get that to work after a bunch of messing with the 2 servers, and didn’t see a good place in the perl script to include it, so my solution was to write a bash script that pulls song data from icecast and sends it to shoutcast via the admin web interface. This script is just a loop that periodically gets the current song from icecast, encodes it into a URL friendly format (urlencode), and sends it to shoutcast using curl. The script is added to the start.sh and stop.sh scripts that are called when the icecast mount is activated (where the oggtoshout perl script is called). It is not a clean or pretty solution – but it works, and solves the problem of the metadata getting eaten by the transcoding.

Also I would like to thank the author for writing this guide, as it was instrumental in me getting this all working. I’m now successfully streaming directly from Traktor to Shoutcast-only stations and sending song IDs, and couldn’t be happier! Cheers- djscsi

Comment on Reducing your Virgin media bill without losing HD – Virgin Retentions by gris

gris — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:45:23 +0000

“Reader wrote You’re a racist piece of shit.”

where on earth does racism come into this – can you read ?

and furthermore you’re Shittest