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End of the Road for the T-mobile and Orange UK Brand.


This is showing my age but i was using Orange when they didn’t even have SMS enabled. It’s a shame to see two iconic brands disappear from the UK.  I’m entirely sure if the british public like the EE brand. Orange had a very strong brand awareness in the UK mainly down to the Orange wednesday cinema promotion and T-mobile with their good use of social media and revolutionary tariffs (anyone remember the Full monty of the Flext plans?).

 

“All current T-Mobile and Orange customers (around 19 million) will remain on their current deals – but will not be able to upgrade when the contract expires. EE will stop issuing T-Mobile and Orange prepay SIM’s from today. SIM’s will be deactivated permanently if unsold after a year.”

Source: http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/2015/02/02/orange-and-t-mobile-connections-to-be-scrapped/

 

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Windows 8: Windows Store isn’t available on Windows To Go workspaces


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Cant Get into the windows store? are you getting the error “Windows Store isn’t available on Windows To Go workspaces”

 

Here’s hoe to fix it.

 

Press Windows Key + R combination, type put gpedit.msc in Run dialog box and hit Enter. This will  open the Local Group Policy Editor.

 

 

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Click:

Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates ->Windows Components -> Store

 

 

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Double Click on “Allow Store to install apps on Windows To Go workspaces”

 

Then Click ENABLE

 

Then Click Apply.

 

This should fix the issue. 

 

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Prevent LastPass being hacked.


I think LastPass is a great product. It helps remembering multiple passwords.

Besides the obvious such has giving Lastpass a very strong password, you should also restrict the countries that can log into your lastpass account. Not to stereo type but alot of hacks will originate from certain countries so restricting the countries that can log into your account will enhance your security. Also prevent access via Tor  and use multi factor authentication like google authenticator.

 

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Moved my website to another host.


I’ve been with my current webhost 123reg for more than 5 years (I was with supanames) and it hasn’t been to bad. I recently re did my site with WordPress and a few plugins and noticed that the performance was awful. Searching the web i found i wasnt the only one, i suspect they squeeze as many  accounts on to one server. I decided to move to another UK webhost (vidahost).  Really good reviews and more of less the same price, so far it’s been really fast and responsive.

Comparison of the same wordpress install and mysql db loaded on the two webhost.

OLD Webhost 123reg – 8.22 sec

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New Webhost Vidahost – 2.49 sec
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Now you may think it’s only a few seconds but sometimes the site wouldn’t respond at all.

UPDATE:
I have had to use support a few times and they have responded within 30 min. Well impressed.

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Blue Fury USB Miner


As you can see they’re happily hashing away. They were really easy to set you with the provided drivers. Only issues was the size as i was to lazy to buy an usb hub, so ive got them running on the back of the computer.

so far it has been 48 hours and the hash rate is stable. Top quality product.

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Inputs.io site owner give interview to ABC News Radio


The owner of inputs.io (Tradefortress) has given an interview to ABC NEWS radio in Australia. He states that he will not report it to the police even though 4100 BTC have gone missing. Meanwhile some user have confirmed on the bicointalk forum that they are getting their BTC returned.

Tradefortress is little over 18 year of age. Would anyone in real life have trusted a 19 year old with £2000 of their cash? Personally i can only see this type of crime increasing as Bitcoins become increasingly main stream.

Radio clip below.

http://ww$w.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3886606.htm

 
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