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Posted: Mon 01 May, 2006 12.03
by peterrocket
Even better.
FREE FLIGHTS TO NEW YORK
If you collect 100 tokens, enter a draw for 10 seats and even then pay £200.00 tax and or overinflated accomodation you must take to make full use of this offer.
Posted: Mon 01 May, 2006 17.34
by DJGM
What the hell is the point of ... this adbanner on TVForum . . .
An ad for a service only available in the US, displayed on a predominantly, if not totally, UK based website.
:roll:
Posted: Mon 01 May, 2006 17.47
by rts
TV Forum, believe it or not, do have a lot of traffic from over the pond.
Posted: Mon 01 May, 2006 17.51
by Pete
still makes Asa money which is presumably the purpose of said banners.
Posted: Mon 01 May, 2006 17.56
by marksi
There's one of the ad banners on TVF which has been causing IE on the BBC desktop to freeze in the last few days. I don't know which one, cos my pc freezes when it tries to display it...
Posted: Mon 01 May, 2006 18.05
by Pete
marksi wrote:the BBC desktop
what exactly is the BBC desktop? I've heard a few mentions of this but no explanation to what it is. I've always presumed it to be a horrid restrictive system akin to the RM ones in schools.
Posted: Mon 01 May, 2006 18.50
by Chris
Hymagumba wrote:marksi wrote:the BBC desktop
what exactly is the BBC desktop? I've heard a few mentions of this but no explanation to what it is. I've always presumed it to be a horrid restrictive system akin to the RM ones in schools.
I think he's just referring to the desktop computers at the BBC. I doubt if they're as restrictive as the RM ones because you can change your wallpaper.
Posted: Mon 01 May, 2006 19.00
by marksi
Nah, it's just Windows XP Pro with some restrictions and loads of firewalling. Siemens run it now, and they have to approve any new software. Mind you, some machines let you install anything you like, and others nothing at all, for reasons that have never been explained to me. A fuck up, probably.
It's the firewalling and virus scanning on the machines which seems to slow quite well-specced machines down to a crawl, and every update makes them slower.
Posted: Mon 01 May, 2006 20.02
by tvmercia
marksi wrote:Mind you, some machines let you install anything you like, and others nothing at all, for reasons that have never been explained to me. A fuck up, probably.
when working in one bbc centre i noticed they were on an earlier version of office than my usual place of work. i presume the desktop updates are not universally applied? and as you say, i know of one person running all sorts of handy freeware applications, where as it wont let me install anything.
and is it a corporation wide phenomenon that the whole system slows down to a craw in the mid afternoon? or just at my place of work?
Posted: Mon 01 May, 2006 20.29
by Bail
peterrocket wrote:Even better.
FREE FLIGHTS TO NEW YORK
If you collect 100 tokens, enter a draw for 10 seats and even then pay £200.00 tax and or overinflated accomodation you must take to make full use of this offer.
If I didn't know better I'd say the new WHSmith Book's offer thing? Mainly because I found a shedload of leaflets in my chart pack (I work on entertainment at WH if you didn't know) One of my freinds commented on having to pay tax etc...
Posted: Mon 01 May, 2006 20.43
by Pete
Bail wrote:I found a shedload of leaflets in my chart pack
hmm? I didn't spy this in my one. It probably went missing with the velcro as usual.