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BT changing business customer contracts

Watch out…. on Thursday BT are planning to change business contracts to a 12 month repeating contract unless you opt out.
Apparently a letter has gone out to affected users, and you can make contact on their special number - 0800 587 1984.
If you’re happy with BT and unlikely to do anything major to your comms […]

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19Feb2008 | Dan | 1 comment | Continued
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Free calls and txt’s each month for 6 months?

While I was looking just how much a N95 8gb would cost me if I either bought it outright (no network subsidy)  or setup a new contract (to get the subsidy) I came across this offer over at e2save…
This is a 6 month sim only contract… (note sim only - no phone) with 200 minutes and 200 […]

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18Feb2008 | Dan | 0 comments | Continued
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The £99 laptop, the Elonex One

I’ve had a Asus eeepc for a couple of months now, it’s great, small, cheap and it’s a good spec now for it’s size (and price!). I’ll write a review in another post… I just wanted to post a quick note about this…
Enter The Elonex One, it’s not as high spec’d as the Asus eeepc (the […]

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18Feb2008 | Dan | 3 comments | Continued
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Structured Cabling Systems - CAT5e vs CAT6

When specifying a new cabling system for a building, we need to make the decision as to whether we install Category 5e or Category 6 cabling. It’s sometimes a difficult decision as you need to take into consideration what you think will happen in the future.
CAT5e can support 1gb and CAT6 can support 1gb and […]

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18Feb2008 | Dan | 0 comments | Continued
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Dell - What a bargain!

I’ve had experience with most of the main hardware vendors over the years, starting with Dell in 1999 a touch of Unisys in 2000, some Sun (although Unix is not my strong point!), Compaq around 2001 just before the Compaq - HP merger leading on to HP for a few years…. a brief spell with IBM, […]

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14Jan2008 | Dan | 2 comments | Continued
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Making money by blogging?

I’ve been around on the internet for a long time, I remember first dialing up with my 28k8 modem, then I moved to ISDN (BT’s Home Highway) before broadband finally arrived!
I think my first awareness of blogging was around 2001 / 2002, someone I worked with at the time used to post about sites of interest […]

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13Jan2008 | Dan | 2 comments | Continued
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Blogging with Wordpress

After being on the internet for over 10 years and having setup many web sites for myself, clients and in partnership wth friends I think it’s about time I set up a blog - after all, everyone else seems to be doing it!
In the past I have taken a look at Blogger, it works well, and […]

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12Jan2008 | Dan | 0 comments | Continued