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Title: Talk Talk down.
Post by: Technical Ben on May 06, 2011, 12:03:08
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/06/talktalk_down/

Not a good sign.
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: Rik on May 06, 2011, 12:30:59
That's a lot of disruption.  :shake:
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: pctech on May 06, 2011, 13:03:16
I gather that Opal had quite a good record before talk talk got hold of them.

Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: Rik on May 06, 2011, 13:04:15
There are too many evil empires in the telco world.  ;)
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: pctech on May 06, 2011, 13:18:20
Yep good telcos seem to be a rare species.
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: Glenn on May 06, 2011, 13:32:04
Our telecomms manager pulls his hair out everytime he rings Opal.
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: pctech on May 06, 2011, 13:42:12
 ;D
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: Gary on May 06, 2011, 13:59:42
With Cnet saying yet more hackers are going after Sony this weekend as well its all fun and games online  :( Life was so much simpler at some point I'm sure, just not sure when that was.  ;D
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: pctech on May 06, 2011, 14:03:08
Back in the days of 56K dial-up?

Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: Gary on May 06, 2011, 14:04:37
Quote from: pctech on May 06, 2011, 14:03:08
Back in the days of 56K dial-up?


;D Was that good? Maybe the difference engine, Mitch.
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: pctech on May 06, 2011, 14:10:17
Few botnets then.

Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: Gary on May 06, 2011, 14:23:14
Quote from: pctech on May 06, 2011, 14:10:17
Few botnets then.


Just nets would be ok, fishing preferably, as for bots, leave that to Issac Asimov  ;D
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: pctech on May 06, 2011, 14:26:46
 ;D
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: pctech on May 06, 2011, 15:32:33
Sites look to be back now.
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: Technical Ben on May 06, 2011, 19:43:09
Quote from: pctech on May 06, 2011, 14:10:17
Few botnets then.


But lots of rouge diallers.  :bawl:
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: Bill on May 06, 2011, 19:55:34
Quote from: Technical Ben on May 06, 2011, 19:43:09
But lots of rouge diallers.  :bawl:

My modem was a sort of brown colour, not red :P
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: pctech on May 07, 2011, 18:06:04
first was a silver one that was taken out by a lightning strike and second (which I still have) was beige.
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: Bill on May 07, 2011, 21:36:46
I'd forgotten the silver ones... a couple of Hayes, one was 2400 baud, the other 9600 baud.

The brown one could equally have been called beige- a USR Courier, 19.2 kbaud when I bought it but updated to 56 kbaud iirc.

I've still got all three upstairs, goodness knows why I keep them as I haven't got a decent computer with a serial port!
Title: Re: Talk Talk down.
Post by: Technical Ben on May 07, 2011, 21:43:28
Sorry meant rogue dialers.