Recent content by hazfiend

There was enough money to investigate and prosecute postmasters, which should have included some basic checking to see if the supposed fraud matched up to the reality of what the post office had actually done that day. If it was under some sort of maintenance contract, the contractee does that...

Not watched. Not much point when I was there, particularly when it seems at least one of the non-fictional revelations is meaningless in the first place (Fujitsu having access to the server they are contracted to maintain).

As a spooky coincidence, having done much the same thing back when "first class" became a stamp price, and it being obvious that the price increases would exceed inflation, I have used the last two of my barcoded replacements just today, to post a couple of letters which are waiting to go to the...

All that would be internal to POCL. As I hope I indicated, I see the problem as being essentially within POCL but have no insight into what they would have been getting up to. From the POV of ICL/Fujitsu, it's quite possible POCL asked about whether there could be bugs, anyone with any sense...

Obviously any significant computer sytem contains bugs, but it's not usually a good idea to simply discard all the data. The system was designed to detect frauds that were currently going unobserved so this could be seen as beneficial. This is the part that I have a bit of a problem with...

All these people agreeing that newcomers are liars. Nice. I have decided not to post again in your forum. Well done. Another successful rejection of outside influence. I repeat that my description was correct and didn't take 40 years to study, it was tested fairly thoroughly and was intended to...

I didn't say the motherboard can't handle the drive it ships with. I said my motherboard has reached a point where it can't handle the drive it shipped with. Plus I didn't post to make a point about this but offer a solution to anyone else who has encountered the same issue that I did. I didn't...

Spare PSUs in working boxes. I bought 3 machines, well, I got one originally, bought two more SH once I discovered the joys of networking them and then a cheap fourth as a "broken" machine that turned out just to have a drive problem. Seemed physical so I guess the seller dropped it. So swapping...

Quoting MartinLiddle: "Do you believe it?" I'm in Lincolnshire, lemme know when you're coming and I'll arrange a demonstration. I can even show different drives, different cables and different power supply boards demonstrating the same fault. Will you believe me then? If you prefer to retain...

I looked but didn't find this on the forum so just a tip for power issues that I discovered and might be useful for others. Sometimes the power required by the desktop hard disk the HDR-T2 ships with is too much for the motherboard or something and the unit enters a loop where it reboots...