Eck!

Theyre still at it. I finally received my letter today, quite a long time after I already knew about it from the plusnet leak! The asking price has gone down to £295 though. I particularly love this bit: Ive included the several misplaced commas verbatim because I think it adds to the childlike charm.

I once ordered a £4.99 36" telly from argos which should have been £499. They didnt honour it.

What exactly is it? Is it the live membershiop or the black ops game? Sorry for being thick but I just got an xbox for my boy.

Dont use AVG, its frying pan to fire!. Ive been called out 4 times this week after the latest AVG update froze everyones PCs. My solution? Uninstall AVG and install NOD32. Job done. Kaspersky is good too. Comodo is a great firewall but too annoying.

Do you mean the DNS control in cpanel or 123-reg?

Im accused of downloading the UK Top 40. ACS are relying on the assumption that their particular client had a track in the Top 40 at that time, and that I downloaded that track, which they have no way of knowing. Thats a pretty big assumption then, since most torrent clients allow you to select which parts of an archive you want. On top of all the other holes in this, they would need to prove that their clients track was in this archive, and that I shared (uploaded) that particular part (1/40th) as they dont have client permission to pursue the other 39. Even if I owned up to downloading the archive, they have a hell of a long way to go to get a successful civil court action.

Pay UP!... Just kidding, thats actually the worst thing you can do as that would be admitting liability. Just tell em you will not pursue the matter any further until they provide you with the MAC address of the actual computer that is alleged to have infringed, as its impossible for you to determine which PC was using the IP address at the time of the infringement. Since they cannot provide you with such detail, they will have no choice but to drop the case as this particular detail would have to be provided to a court. Also note that this is called an "infringement" rather than an "offence". It is NOT an offence, and they are threateneing a civil case, not a criminal case. This is an important distinction.

All older D-links have an easy crack too, just telnet straight in on port 23 with the username "admin" and the password "blank", regardless of the password the user has setup this works via telnet. Once in you can modify any part of the router settings as though you had logged in via the web console, including disabling/changing, or just reading the unencrypted WEP/WPA keys.

LOL. All this sounds very familiar. My master socket cover has been on and off more times than a prozzies knickers.

The bad: Ive been with plusnet and my service has been dreadful at times. Three times my connection has slowed to dialup rates that lasted for two weeks. Plusnet blamed my expensive router, which I swapped for a good quality cheaper router that had the same problem. Im on their own brand Thompson router now just to placate them, but its awful - no port forwarding or clever stuff. Just bog basic "what do you expect for 6.99" garbage. They swap my IP address frighteningly frequently meaning Im cut off for 10-15 minutes on a daily basis, which is a problem given that I rely on a decent connection for work. The ugly: To top it all off, they then leaked my personal details to that shyster law firm and the Internet at large without a fight. The good: Having said all that, their support for my crap connection was good, I even had a cup of tea with their receptionist while they found me a new router. My business partner is with plusnet on a static IP address, and he has had no problem at all, he cant recommenr them highly enough. Moral of the story, go for a static IP and one of their cheap routers and youll be OK.

On 1st Jan 1999 I woke up and reflected that "this is what youve done with the year 1998".

I like this idea, or at least I think I do. So: Person A shares file "UK Top 40" Person B shares file "UK MILF 2" Person A's client uses Person Bs IP address as a proxy and vice versa. It looks to the trackers as though person B is sharing file "UK Top 40", even though hes actually sharing file "UK MILF 2". Law firms have a client that owns file UK Top 40, but they cannot pursue person B because he didnt share their clients file, he shared someone elses, and they cannot pursue person A because they dont have his IP address. Genius. All they can say is that person B shared "a file", but they have no idea and no way of tracing what that file was! This is a fairly complex proxy setup though and users would have to enable their clients to share by proxy, which I would be uncomfortable with in case anyone used my IP for kiddie porn or something, but the theory works!

Im not familiar with .NET stuff, but used to write both C++ and Java with MySQL via the DSN MySQL driver in Windows. Theres plenty of PHP and Java stuff around on the net so you may be able to adapt something.

I use "family keylogger". Or if my daughters reading this, thats disgusting I would never disrespect the privacy of my teenage brat in such a way.

Put me down for Team Fortress 2 night. Or Wolfenstein ET. Or any of the old quakes.