[Gloucs] Work experience

matt robbins mrrobbins1 at live.co.uk
Sat Mar 9 12:04:53 UTC 2013


Hi everyone,

I began studying towards a BSc honours degree in IT & Computing in february this year, I've decided to try and get some work experience on my CV for each year throughout the degree so I'm wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction with regards to any particular businesses that may be able to provide a suitable placement for me? Area's I am interested in are networking, software development, Web development, databasing and general PC maintenance.

Thanks in advance,

Matt R

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>    1. Re: Extra ISP accounts. (GEOFF BAGLEY)
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> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 12:12:11 +0000 (GMT)
> From: GEOFF BAGLEY <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com>
> To: Gloucestershire LUG <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Extra ISP accounts.
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> (see beneath) 
> > Am I right in thinking that you want to switch your ISP to
> > Plusnet but want
> > to keep your old bt yahoo email addresses for your family?
> > 
> > Sam
> 
> Hello Sam,  and thanks.
> Yes, that sums it up,
> I have heard lots of favourable reports about Plus net.  The trouble
> is that my wife and one of my sons
> use the BT  connection,  and I am
> not certain whether it is possible.
> My son has a Galaxy,  and uses the
> various BT mobile sites in Shropshire. He would not wish me to
> quit BT.
> Incidentally, I think that BT own both systems !
> Thanks for your interest.
> 
> Geoff
> 
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> From: "Barry Nelson" <barry.nelson at clara.co.uk>
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> Subject: [Gloucs] Extra ISP accounts
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> I don't know whether Yahoo would do what Clara net did for me, but it is
> worth investigating.  I became a ClaraNet customer in the early 1990s in the
> days of dial-up internet accounts.  Later, when home highway (ISDN) became
> available in my village, I bough internet access from BT and terminated the
> ClaraNet dial-up account.  However, ClaraNet were (and still are) prepared
> to continue to provide me with an email (and usenet) account which I access
> through the internet.  The annual charge for that is something like ?9.  It
> does mean that you have to set up your email client to authenticate to the
> SMTP server since otherwise the server would treat your email as spam.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Barry
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> From: Sam Culley <yelluc at gmail.com>
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> Hi,
> 
> I have had Plusnet broadband and now I have Plusnet Fibre Broadband.
> 
> Am I right in thinking that you want to switch your ISP to Plusnet but want
> to keep your old bt yahoo email addresses for your family?
> 
> Sam
> 
> On Friday, 8 March 2013, Tom Llewelyn wrote:
> 
> > Hi Geoff
> >
> > If advert pollution is an issue for you, have you looked at Adblock Plus?
> >  It's a browser add-on which removes the ads from a page.  I've been 
> > using it for a while on both Firefox and Chrome and it does a pretty good
> job.
> >
> > You can get it from http://adblockplus.org
> >
> > With regard to your ISP question, as far as I know you can't have two 
> > ISPs providing service on the same physical connection.  And in this 
> > area, the only other network offering separate physical connections is
> Virgin Media.
> >
> > Hope that helps
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On 8 March 2013 09:30, GEOFF BAGLEY 
> > <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com<javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi David.
> > >
> > > What I really want is an additional
> > > interconnection via Plusnet but to
> > > keep BTinternet which is used by
> > > other members of the family.
> > > I already have Google gmail as a
> > > standby.
> > > I have one phone line, normal broadband ( i.e.  not the new fancy 
> > > one which is unacceptable) with a NETGEAR router whih I am allowed 
> > > to program myself. I also use the SIP phone service called sipgate.
> > >
> > > If I just ditch BT-Yahoo other family users are affected.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your interest, and also to Ernie whose remarks tally with 
> > > a friend who already used Plusnet.
> > >
> > > Geoff
> > >
> > > --- On Thu, 7/3/13, David Corking <lists at dcorking.com 
> > > <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
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> > > > From: David Corking <lists at dcorking.com <javascript:;>>
> > > > Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Extra ISP accounts.
> > > > To: "Gloucestershire LUG" <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk 
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> > > > Date: Thursday, 7 March, 2013, 20:57 GEOFF BAGLEY  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Does anyone have experience of this ?
> > > >
> > > > Not me but you have aroused my curiosity. What is a separate 
> > > > additional ISP? Do you want two pipes into the house or office - 
> > > > on two phone lines, or phone and 4G, or ADSL and dialup for 
> > > > example?
> > > >
> > > > I am no expert, but I don't think the technology at the telephone 
> > > > exchange allows two ADSL ISPs to service a single phone line.
> > > >
> > > > David
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> It sounds like the actual business of getting an Internet connection
> (the ADSL part) and ancillary services such as web-based email are
> entangled here.
> 
> The two things are *entirely* separate from a technical perspective, but
> often intertwined from a business perspective, for one reason composed
> of two facts:
> 
>  * Companies make money on the ADSL side of things, they can't really
> charge for an email address
> 
>  * People can change their ADSL provider relatively easily, switching to
> the cheapest provider with no visible worsening in service unless they
> opt for a lower bandwidth cap or whatnot; but email accounts are harder
> for people to change.
> 
> So, by throwing in "FREE EMAIL!!" with an ADSL line, companies get to
> make it harder for you to move to a cheaper ADSL provider, thereby
> allowing them to offer you worse service for the same money.
> 
> Now, the adverts are going to be coming from the webmail system; an ADSL
> provider can't force more adverts on you. Some have tried, but it's
> generally caused an uproar and court battles.
> 
> So you can stick with the BT ADSL and just not use their webmail and you
> should see the same level of adverts as anyone else on the Internet (and
> the cure to it is AdBlock, as has been suggested).
> 
> And if you switched ADSL providers but still used BT's yahoo-based
> webmail system (if they'll let you, perhaps for a fee), then you'd still
> be seeing the same ads.
> 
> So I suspect your options are:
> 
>  * Stick with the current setup, let the family use the horrid BT/yahoo
> webmail thing, and find an email provider that doesn't bombard you with
> ads. Generally because you pay them a small fee from the service so they
> don't need to try and sell you to advertisers.
> 
>  * Change ADSL provider, and then HAVE to change email address. Again,
> you get the choice of a free provider which will make you suffer with a
> combination of ads or being tied to the new ADSL account so you lose it
> if you switch, or paying for one without ads.
> 
>  * Get an extra phone line put in, then get a second ADSL on it, if you
> really do want to get one and keep BT. The webmail-with-ads issue is
> still orthogonal, however.
> 
> Running two lines from different ISPs has certain advantages - if one
> goes down the other will still be up unless the problem is near to your
> end, you'll be able to use both at once for twice the bandwidth in some
> circumstances, and you'll be able to try viewing the same web pages on
> both to see if they are being personalised to your IP address! But it
> costs you twice.
> 
> ABS
> 
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