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Comment on Domain Renewal Group – Scam warning by cotsweb

cotsweb — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:59:11 +0000

I think someone who had actually paid them money would need to complain to the Office of Fair Trading when they didn’t get what they paid for. But you wouldn’t actually want them to do what they promise because that would mean hiring a bunch of crooks as your domain registrar.
Publicity is probably the best answer; people who own domain names need to be aware of this scam, if you know a friendly journalist pass the details on to them.

Comment on AVG Toolbar has become malware by cotsweb

cotsweb — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:47:30 +0000

Glad you found it useful.
Yes; I am still using Avira, pro version on this PC and free version on the family PC. I am very happy with it.

Comment on AVG Toolbar has become malware by katharine

katharine — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:30:54 +0000

just came across this looking for information about this avg tool bar, and thank you, your blog here was all the information i was looking for:) does avira still work well for you?
katharine-

Comment on Domain Renewal Group – Scam warning by Graham

Graham — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:44:32 +0000

Yes I have just recived one of the renewal scam letters from Domain Renewal Group and forwarded the content details to my Registra.
They have a website as official looking as their renewal notices, HOW CAN YOU GET THESE SCAMMERS CLOSED DOWN and stop them stealing money from the unsuspecting public.

Comment on Whirlpool No Frost freezer fails to maintain temperature by Oleg

Oleg — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:42:28 +0000

THANK YOU FOR THIS TOPIC.
MY freezer IS ALSO GAVE ME LAST NIGHT SOMETHINK TO THINK ABOUT (SAME SIMPTOMS AS YOURS), SO INFORMATION FROM THIS PAGE WAS useful TO ME.

P.S. SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH – IM FROM EASTERN EUROPE, AND I DONT HAVE MACH possibility TO practice IT.

Comment on Whirlpool No Frost freezer fails to maintain temperature by eric newbigin

eric newbigin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:25:20 +0000

we purchased an american style Whirlpool fridge freezer four years ago, V expensive, stupidly I did not take up the offer of a “parts” warranty as I had Whirlpool appliances in the middle east (freezers/washing machines/fridges) and in 20 years found them totally reliable. This appliance failed after 18 months (just out of warranty) has now cost me over £350.00 on parts and labour, new “mother board” etc and the ice maker is still not working. I wrote a letter to the customer centre in August, no reply. It seems that they have lost their reputation for reliability prehaps as they now are not made in america for the european market (Italy??)

Comment on PC Tools is ripping off British customers by Fermin Hersom

Fermin Hersom — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:57:47 +0000

I agree! Just marvellous! Your writing manner is pleasing and the way you treated the subject with grace is commendable. I am intrigued, I presume you are an master on this subject. I am signing up for your upcoming updates from now on.

Comment on Using Google Analytics to track click throughs from your website by cotsweb

cotsweb — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:28:13 +0000

An interesting question, and I’m afraid I don’t know the answer.

Of course you should be able to see the file access in old fashioned web server logs but that isn’t as convenient or as reliable as proper analytics. If the PDF file has been cached somewhere then you won’t see any hit on your own server.

What you really need to do is embed the javascript for Google Analytics within the PDF file, so when somebody opens the file it invokes GA to log it for you.
I think this might be possible using something like javascript for acrobat but I don’t know.

Also there may be security problems, it is one thing invoking javascript when browsing the web but quite another if a downloaded document does it to talk to a remote site every time you open a document.

If somebody has a proper solution to this problem I’d love to see it.

Comment on Whirlpool No Frost freezer fails to maintain temperature by cotsweb

cotsweb — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:07:28 +0000

Hi Brenda,
I am no expert but it sounds like a faulty refrigerator to me, hopefully your engineer will agree and you will be able to get it fixed under warranty.
Mark

Comment on Whirlpool No Frost freezer fails to maintain temperature by Brenda

Brenda — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:13:00 +0000

Hi,
I found your comments interesting. I found them while trying to find information on exactly how no-frost systems work.I live in Spain and bought a Teka fridge/freezer three weeks ago. Almost immediately the freezer temperature would increase to about -12º daily, then return to -18º and on one occasion the fridge increased to 15º (almost room temperature!) The engineer is calling on Tuesday, and no doubt will tell me it is normal! The freezer isn’t so bad, as the temperature is still well below freezing, but what about the fridge and items which ought to be kept at 5º? I think I might give your engineer a call -I hope he won’t mind. It is dificult to find any kind of knowledgable professionals over here – of any nationality!
Best regards,
Brenda