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	<title>King of the Potato People &#187; fail</title>
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		<title>DoS Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISP]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fail]]></category>
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		<title>Nvidia Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a system built with the still quite good Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS graphics card, and decide to upgrade by adding a second one and running SLI, beware the Nvidia Fail. Nvidia in their wisdom made an upgraded version of the card called the 8800GTS 512. It is not SLI compatible with the original [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have a system built with the still quite good Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS graphics card, and decide to upgrade by adding a second one and running SLI, beware the Nvidia Fail.</p>
<p>Nvidia in their wisdom made an upgraded version of the card called the 8800GTS 512. It is not SLI compatible with the original 8800GTS, and the odds are you won&#8217;t know it until you&#8217;ve bought one and spent an afternoon wondering why SLI won&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>God damn you Nvidia.</p>
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		<title>BT Fail :: Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.potato-people.com/blog/2010/01/bt-fail-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new level of fail from our friends at BT Wholesale. They have actually willingly provided proof that they do not read fault reports the first time around: Yes.. that is a grand total of 43 seconds from reporting the fault to BT Wholesale rejecting it. This was even reported via KBD, which lets you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new level of fail from our friends at BT Wholesale. They have actually willingly provided proof that they do not read fault reports the first time around:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.potato-people.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/btfail21.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-92" title="btfail2" src="http://www.potato-people.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/btfail21.png" alt="" width="571" height="276" /></a></p>
<p>Yes.. that is a grand total of 43 seconds from reporting the fault to BT Wholesale rejecting it. This was even reported via KBD, which lets you confirm that the user has already attempted to replace his router, cables, filters and even tried from the test socket. 43 seconds is not enough time for most people to type that long-winded reply about SFI appointments, let alone for BT to run the necessary diagnostics to determine if there is a fault or not.</p>
<p>At my place of work we have suspected that BT was doing this for a long time as all too often, and 9 times out of 10 blatently obvious faults are rejected with the message &#8220;not due to a network fault&#8221;. Now I have a handful of faults, some where it was customer some, but some where there was genuine faults such as the DSLAM being faulty where BT has denied anything being wrong and cleared the fault in less than a minute.</p>
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