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Yet I thought they invented/pioneered the digital camera.

Talk about right place, right time, wrong decision!

Thats why Brits are always late Or at least thats the excuse I'm sticking to...

I thought this was a wind up!

Its confusing enough as it is... At least the clock in my car is correct for 6 months of the year

Leave our clocks alone!

Dont ya just love those kind of problems! Fix themselves and you never get the root cause

How bizarre, obviously a local problem, next question is can he access any other website? Or can he only not access his own?

If his mails aren't getting through, then sounds like no Internet traffic full stop, then as you say, factory reset the router, that fails, throw it in the bin and get a new one.

My netgear router failed before Xmas, was only just over a year old, all lights working as normal, allegedly adsl connected, but got nothing. Opened firewall, lifted all security, nothing. Plugged in a new router, back up and running again in minutes. Marked it down as one of those things.

Years ago had similar issue with NTL, they swore blind issue was my end, I could NS Lookup and resolve websites from command line, proving DNS was ok, but couldn't get any http traffic from a browser. Issue turned out to be NTL, they reset my IP address, and voila. They claimed I had been incorrectly assigned an engineers IP which was the issue, but sounded like cobblers.

If for some odd reason he has Internet, just not his site, then try an NS Lookup from command line and see if he can get dns resolution, if so, must be something blocking website. Rogue AV or security app?

Another heavyweight name tumbles into bankruptcy

"Eastman Kodak, the company that invented the hand-held camera, has filed for bankruptcy protection.

The move gives the company time to reorganise itself without facing its creditors"
BBC News - Kodak files for bankruptcy protection

Such a long and rich history, littered with milestones and innovation. I really hope it manages to pull it off, but with effectively a $1bn overdraft and a shrinking business, I wouldn't be like to place a bet

Hiya Linda

Good advice from Sam, but here's our rule of thumb when buying office machines.

Can't offer any tips on PC's as the price on laptops is now so cheap, for us, it doesn't make any sense buying fixed workstations for the office, when you have the flexibility of a laptop (work from home, meetings, presentations etc).

Laptop wise, we go for bigger machines, so desktop replacements, wide screens, assuming you go for Windows, as much RAM as you can afford, (minimum 4GB), decent processor, dual core is fine (steer clear of any celerons, has cut down cache, so cheaper, but a lot slower).

Budget wise, we look around

From our experience, actually directly attributing a sale to social media, prob very few, maybe count on one hand. But definitely a good source of traffic, of which a proportion will be monetized.

But aside from revenue, as an overall blend of online reputation, general marketing, visibility, means for people to communicate with us, as well as bonus's such as link generation, then I think Social Media has now become invaluable.

For anyone that hasn't heard or noticed, Wikipedia (English Language Version) has blocked its home page in a 24 hour protest, and Google.com is displaying a "please don't censor the web" link on it's home page.





All the fuss is about the proposed bills going through the American Congress to try and stop online piracy and protect intellectual property.

All very worthwhile causes, but Wikipedia and Google amongst plenty others say the Congress are going about it the wrong way and this will actually have a huge impact for everybody.

To read the full in's and outs of of this, both wikipedia and google have respective pages dedicated to this:
SOPA and PIPA - Learn more - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/sopa-pipa/

So what does anyone else think? Is this a US issue, or is their a real fear this could be rolled out by governments across the world?

Just shows how hard it is to legislate and police something that doesn't really have any real geographic boundaries!

You're right, definitely a big problem, see it with UK based agencies all the time. Shiny office, front line professional sales force to secure the work, then all the leg work is outsourced.

I know of one near us that claims on their literature that all staff are UK based and they don't outsource... but I know for a fact they bulk buy outsourced links so whats the difference?

Guess as always, regardless of location, it's down to actual results and are you happy.