Customer Service plus a fun link [spiny]

I usually like to pimp companies when I get good service as for me it's the only thing differentiating bewteen competitors these days. Especially when prices are so competetive everywhere.

The memory on my radeon 8500 gave out - ouch. I had great after sales service from overclockers uk who RMAd my card. They recieved the old one Monday & I had the replacement in my hands yesterday (Thursday). Top stuff, especially compared to dabs, who, a friend of mine had a bit of stress RMAing a DOA IBM hard drive recently.

This really makes the difference for me, which is why they'll get my business next time, not dabs. Whom to be fair are probably a victim of their own success to some extent. Get some staff dabspe0ns :)< BR>
While you're at it, check out this thread at the uk2k3 forums. I was in stitches looking at some of the pictures in this thread.

GIVE UZ TEH DEMO!!!11

Fucking ISP Pe0ns [vagga]

I've been with Eclipse for my ADSL ever since I got over here. One of the great things about the UK is that there are loads of places you can get high quality Internet services. Why did I pick Eclipse, well at the time I was looking Lurks had just done some tests and said that it was the best around! Adslguide.org.uk also agreed that it was very good so I signed up.

Every single person in our office now uses eclipse for ADSL at home. Most find them great to deal with, and the service is amazing. There is never really anything to moan about! At my last address I had an outage for a few days, but that was BT pulling the plug on my building to upgrade something. So I had to actually go out and do stuff that weekend, which cant be a bad thing I suppose!

Now I have just moved house, and they said they could move my account, which was great. I thought, in my innocence, I would move and just plug in the router and bingo, we would be ready. Now, as we all know, life is not that easy. I had to reorder for the new address, and wait for BT to do their tests and then Eclipse would transfer my account details. It took 8 days from BT saying they would have to look at the line and it would take 24 hours (via eclipse's cool web tracking system) to them doing the work. But that happens I did not loose much sleep over it. I was using my modem, and realising how shit life was in the olden days of modems!

Eventually things got ready, and I was confirmed and ready to go. I reconfigured the router with the new information on Wednesday night and it was working. I set a few things to download to give it a test, we really seemed sorted.

The next night though I got home late from work and went to check things, and see if the downloads worked. I had no connection. I said to myself 'fuckit, its prolly a short term outage'. I logged the issue with Eclipse via their online issue logging and I just turned the PC off and went to bed.

The next night, Friday, I was home late again after going to a work thing, and was not home until 11. I powered it up expecting things to be fixed, but alas it was not working. I had no external connection. I checked the phone and it worked, and it had the crackling sound you get when you have ADSL on the line. I went into the web config of the router and I could see that it saw the internet. But I could not. I was baffled, but I left it alone and said to myself that I would have a look at it on Saturday morning.

On Saturday morning I checked all my settings, and that I did not have something stupid like the wrong internal IP or something. All seemed fine. I dialled up on the slllooooowwwww modem and went to the eclipse's web support, and updated my call. I had to laugh; they had updated it to say that they had rang and left a message asking me to ring them on Monday so they could do some tests on the line, to see if the phone line is at fault. I laugh because I don't have the BT answer phone system on the phone line. So they could not have left any message anywhere. Fucking Pe0ns.=20

I just decided to double check on the settings one last time. Don't know way, as I had them printed out. As soon as the page opened I could not believe it. The fuckers had changed the IP's allocated to me. I could not believe that they had changed the IP's after telling me I was live and ready to go and not told me they were changing them. If they had told me 'we are changing your IP's, here they are' that would not be an issue at all. But they just changed them and never told anyone.

The word 'incompetent' springs to mind!

de simpsons [spiro]

We've all seen our fair share of custom maps for Counter-strike. But I can honestly say that i've never come across anything as silly as de_Simpsons. This new counter strike map tries to recreate the world of Springfield, and I fairness it does. This bright cartoon style map can and will only ever be fun.

There are 2 bomb sites, the first is in Mr Burns Office and the second is in the main street near CT spawn. One of the nice touches to this map are the sound effects, as you run around killing you'll hear conversations and comments from Simpsons characters. Now if that is bad enough during one of the rounds played last night by myself and Homer 'Slim' Simpson (to be joined later by Marge 'suit' Simpson) the characters started singing !! yes thats right, full chorus singing. You may think god what a nightmare but it didn't stop me from filling Homer 'Slim' Simpson full of lead all night :-)

Lets not forget the tree house, Fantastic CT sniper point all entrances from T spawn to bomb site 2 are covered by this. But if you don't like the idea of being stuck in a little box then climb out on to the branches and hide in the foliage. Homer 'Slim' Simpson and Marge 'suit' Simpson were unaware of the vantage point and quickly discovered their fatal error.

My big disappointment came when finding that Moe's was shut, i've always wanted to try a Duff beer.

I can't see this map being on general rotation, but as a once in a while map it rocks. Its really nice to see something original, the last time I saw something like this was the halflife map 'ratz'. Links to the download site and some screenshot links are below.

Isle of teh Mongs - country???!! [muz]

There is some debate in the channel as to the correct term to describe the Isle of Man. Definitions range from "WE'RE OUR OWN COUNTRY, DAMMIT!" to "It's part of the UK." to "It's a rock in the Irish Sea that no-one wants, who gives a fuck?"

We now submit the issue to the commentary of the collected wisdom that is Clan Eat Electric Death - though in our traditions of slackness it is expected that only Lurker, Am and Slim will actually respond.

Vagga gets issued a P30n [lurks]

This is a sad and sorry tale I have to tell my friends. It all started innocently enough;


Lurks I sent a blog to the webbie via the email system and it never appeared? Im wondering could it be the nickname? Does it matter if I out the nick as vagga or what?


After a lengthy diagnostic process, during which time I continued to suspect this was an SRI, we confirmed that Vagga had been sending e-mail to the wrong e-mail address.


thanks, and I am a pe0n. I think admiting it is the first step to sorting it out :)
totally my fault, as per always
wrong address? :)
* Vagga hides under table


Unfortunately this leaves us no alternative other than to issue a clan P30-n form immediately. Sad days.

Eat what your given you scroungers! [lurks]

Howdy, get this. According to the BBC some big wig church in Gloucester has told people not to donate baked beans for asylum seekers. Apparently the asylum seekers don't like them. That's right;


'They've got used to the other great British dishes like fish and chips and chicken tikka masala but baked beans haven't really hit the mark for them.'


Let me get this straight. This asylum seekers, you know the ones that had to cross Germany and France to get here, are quite taken with fish and chips and chicken tikka masala. However the feckers don't like baked beans. Well boo fucking hoo!

That's outrageous! I know I'll have the political correctness police down my throat but for fuck sake what's going on here! They shouldn't be fecking given fish and fecking chips and chicken fecking tikka fecking masala, it should be beans and ONLY beans. Sounds like they're eating a heck of a lot better than our homeless people so they can pick and choose?!

Then maybe the feckers will stay in France to avoid a staple diet of baked beans. Let's start dropping leaflets in Azerbaijan which say 'No more fish and chips in England! Only baked beans! Stay home!'

Sujoy on the box [spiro]

Just as I was wondering what to watch on TV tonight!

Sujoy: 'I've just returned from filming another WCG news piece for the BBC. This one is going to be shown on BBC 1 News at 6 GMT, so it's prime-time television. I have no idea how the piece will turn out, but if you're in the UK you can tune in at 6pm today and watch with the rest of us to find out!'

I didn't see the broadcast item so I can't comment on the content. A post to esreality from an anonymous said '7 lines on wcg? A few words by Sujoy and some dude of joystick junkies'.

Thats about it, Beej saw the item so maybe he can add a bit to this very short blog.