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    Received a letter from Virgin Media.

    That might be the case for virgin deciding whether to cut someone off etc. But as for the actual law and prosecuting someone for downloading torrents there is no law that says the account holder is ultimately responsible and as far as I have been made aware no precedent or case law that backs up...
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    Whats my marital status?

    Common law or single. Civil partnership is with official ceremony same for marrage.
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    Can you mention client names on your CV?

    As others have said it really depends on what you are doing etc. I wouldnt mention specific clients I would only say what I had done for them which is all that a prospective employer would be interested in. I might mention the type of industrty, ie I worked for several years on a large public...
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    Time off after having my wisdom teeth out: annual leave or sick leave?

    Ultimately if the doctor says you are not fit to work after an operation then that would be classed as sick leave there is nothing stopping you from taking it as holiday but you would be legally entitled to sick leave(holidays might be better for you if you dont get full pay for sick leave). The...
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    Sold the wrong TV, what would you do?

    The shop is legally obliged to get your details to pass onto the TV licensing people, this also includes second hand shops too.
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    Sold the wrong TV, what would you do?

    I wouldnt agree with that. He bought a TV set at a price that he wanted why should he pay for there mistake? Given that they couldnt resell the set as brand new it would cost them more to give you what you paid for. As to the original question I am fairly sure that they dont have a leg to stand...
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    What can a IT admin see on a network?

    Actually its stupidly simple and many products do it off the box. The SSL from your client is terminated on the firewall and the firewall establishes a connection to the SSL site directly and proxies the traffic. You can even get around certificate errors by setting up a CA of your own and...
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    VPN Options

    How technically literate are your users? Have you maybe considered using something like openSSH if these files are stored on a windows server and allowing people to access them remotely using SSH? Its not the most hi tech or most secure method but for only 10 users a seperate hardware solution...
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    Blocking internet access for remote IPs only.

    An easy way if the PC only needs access to a limited number of PCs is to leave out the default gateway and setup static routes on windows for access only to the hosts networks that the PC needs access too. So long as the PC is suitably locked down to prevent users and power users from adjusting...
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    Broadcasting SSCID

    Not all network cards work correctly with the SSID disabled the drivers on my work laptop will not pickup my wireless connection unless SSID is disabled. Generally if you can turn it off I would as it will stop opportunistic types who arent technically competant from finding your connection...
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    Is gmail anymore unsafe than an ISP email account?

    I really dont think from a banking point of view that your email provider would be an issue. Banks never send confidential details or passwords to your email address directly anyways. And gmail is more likely to filter out phising spam from people trying to trick you into inputting your banking...
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    o2 pings & packet loss

    It depends and whose word do you take. Without detailed information that no ISP is going to give to a home user you can never tell. As for commericial ISPs that have a backup that has the same capacity as the primary route my employer has that for every customer that pays for a resilient service.
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    VPN Options

    As others have said it comes down entirely to what you want for the "VPN", your budget and what constraints are imposed on you. For example if you just want access to your exchange email then maybe outlook web access is all you need. If you want to access windows servers than citrix is also a...
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    o2 pings & packet loss

    On o2 here normally its very fast but tonight speeds are very poor and ping times >100ms, It doesnt exactly impress that the backup failover infrastructure cannot cope with what the primary route can cope with.
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    o2 pings & packet loss

    Well just because 90% of people would say something doesnt make it right although I doubt your statistics. BT is fibre to the exchange and cable is fibre to a local delivery point, the final part of the connection for both apart from very limited circumstances is copper. From a technical...
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    should I install 32 or 64 bit vista ultimate?

    I wouldnt bother with either one of them. The worst thing I ever did was install vista.
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    New limited edition Coke with orange

    Thats pretty much what it tastes like. Its foul.
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    Internet Explorer 7/Vista Problem…

    Copy all the data out of the malfunctioning profile, delete and recreate and put the data back into the profile?
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    Best free ati virus

    Another vote for AVAST here I had legit copies of Mcafee on one PC and norton on another and I took them off in favour of AVAST.
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    Are my ports blocked or something?

    Assuming this has all worked OK in the past and its just recently started with you making no major changes on your PV or network, the most likely cause is a dodgy DNS server within your ISP in my experience. Try looking round for alternative public DNS servers you can use and see if that helps...
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