Net2 News on tonight, 11.10

ekehoe

Yep, just got the text. The piece is on tonight at 11.10pm. Anyone have any way to record it digitally? I'm going to try to get it on VHS, but we all know how crappy that is :-).

And I have no idea how this piece is going to turn out. I'll either look like the most brilliant person on the planet, or the biggest luser.

E

kmurph

If no-one else will, I can record it on my dvd recorder. Won't be from a digital signal though, just the normal ariel.

mike65

Who cares about the fidelity, just tape it!

Mike.

Superman

ok I hate to sound like an eejit but what's on the news tonight?

It's not another war in Iraq is it?

kmurph

Okey dokey. Hope Sharon is presenting.

byte

/me makes note. 15 mins to go...

[Core]

Who's on?

egan007

so you either...won a gold medal / are a crazy priest / Are having a moan about BB / Live in cork ...just seen headlines b4 break

[Core]

My bet's on mad priest.

kmurph

Mmmmmm... Sharon in a low cut black top.

[Core]

Phwoar!

maxheadroom

Nicely done - although the screenshot said www.irelandoffline.com (and McRedmond carefully skirted the issue again...)

mike65

Well it was only three mins but it made the main point well enough.

Mike.

egan007

SHE ..you mean...if im right?

[Core]

She made her point. I was lost in Sharon's eyes...

CombatCow

verry good piece i thought, have it recorded in realmedia format if you want it.


CC

Superman

Yeah those janjaweed militia should of got the slot before Ireland, alittle bit more important than broadband.
Don't woory tho, i'm sure in acouple of years we bandwith coming out our ears!

[Core]

I'm sure. I think that the old person who gets attacked all the time was also slightly more important.

Plasmoid

just caught it... great piece i thought... finnaly no bs reply that is taken at face value from Eircom.

Johnny_the_fox

ekehoe wrote:

Yep, just got the text. The piece is on tonight at 11.10pm. Anyone have any way to record it digitally? I'm going to try to get it on VHS, but we all know how crappy that is :-).

And I have no idea how this piece is going to turn out. I'll either look like the most brilliant person on the planet, or the biggest luser.

E

i have it on mpeg.. :eek:

kmurph

[Core] wrote:

She made her point. I was lost in Sharon's eyes...

Sorry to go off topic, but Sharon really is the finest thing from fine town on planet fine things who's just won Miss Fine Thing.



Oh, have it recorded on dvd. As soon as Elana replies to my private message, I'll get it off to her.

damien

I got a bad mpg too. Its 50mb in size !

If you guys need space to upload the vid files talk to Adam. (Dahamsta)

Elana, you were great. RTE, well done for not being biased.

Damien.

mike65

damien.m wrote:

Elana, you were great.

Damien.

I thought she looked curvy!

Mike.

Dr. Dre

damien.m wrote:

I got a bad mpg too. Its 50mb in size !

Damien.

And my mpeg is 21Mb

Johnny_the_fox

Dr. Dre wrote:

And my mpeg is 21Mb

mine is 21.7 ... ohhh

Tom Dunne

Dr. Dre wrote:

And my mpeg is 21Mb

Well don't just sit there, put it somewhere we can download it!

damien

Anyone want to do a transcript of what McRedmond said.

They are replacing lines and fixing the quality or something ? Really ?

maxheadroom

damien.m wrote:

Anyone want to do a transcript of what McRedmond said.

They are replacing lines and fixing the quality or something ? Really ?

It was something about balancing investment in the network with getting a low price for DSL.

Completely ignoring the fact that line rental is suppossed to cover maintaining the network and we pay the highest in Europe...

jwt

maxheadroom wrote:

It was something about balancing investment in the network with getting a low price for DSL.

Completely ignoring the fact that line rental is suppossed to cover maintaining the network and we pay the highest in Europe...

just to play devils advocate for a moment, the line rent is to cover the cost of network maintenace from a voice perspective.
Given the wonderfull USO we have at the moment Eircom are justified (well, capable of justifying) the comment. Any investment required to exceed 0k internet access balanced against DSL price.


right I'm off to wash my mouth with soap and water now.

John

exiztone

I missed it, is there a digital encode online to download yet? G'wan DivX

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www.chaek.org/RTE_NEWS.mpg

Courtesy of our good firend johnny the fox who sent me the file.


If it starts streaming in windows media player ightclick on it and save as to d/l it then watch it.

Johnny_the_fox

Truckle is hosting it... <thanks>

www.chaek.org/RTE_NEWS.mpg

If it starts streaming in windows media player rightclick on it and save as to d/l it then watch it.

Superman

damien.m wrote:

Elana, you were great.

yes yes , truly an oscar winning performance. Are you making any more cameo appearences on TV, maybe a quick scene in neighbours or eastenders.

At the end of the day broad band seems to just be really in high demand by students (like me ) and people who are too lazy to rent videos.
I don't think its as neccesary to business as it's made out to be,link, also i think its really only big business that are arsed changing their whole way of doing thing and getting broadband, as they generally do it as part of cost cutting measures.

BTW that newsreader is far too stern looking , and a bit too thin as well!,
oh yes, i forgot i'm sure she has heaps of personality.!

Tom Dunne

Excellent.

I particularly like the line that lack of broadband was down to Eircon's stanglehold on the telephone infrastructure.

I think this is a pivotal moment for Ireland Offline, well done Elana!

Moriarty

Threads merged, grabbing the vid now.

ekehoe

mike65 wrote:

I thought she looked curvy!

My husband told me you said that. He looked quite happy :-).

Okay, lads, here we go...if you come to the EGM...I'll wear that top again.

Thanks to all who got it digitally for me. I'm grabbing it now.

E

daymobrew

Thanks to Johnny The Fox for capping the piece. I missed my (highly edited) tv appearance last night.
It seems that eircom will not be rewiring my street, even after a request from Esat's MD.
Thanks to Elena for organising this.

Damien C.

MarVeL

But sure didn't Mr McRedmond say that Eircom are upgrading and even replacing lines all the time?

Be interesting to get some numbers off him as to who exactly has had their line repaired to get DSL when the standard response seems to be that "You will never be able to get it if you're line fails". Of course that information is undoubtedly commercially sensitive, just imagine how fast the investors would run if they knew how tentative Eircoms hold on the market may yet prove to be

jor el

We're constantly having to ballance the ammount we invest, eh, with making sure that broadband's available at a reasonable price. Having said that, we are replacing lines, we are upgrading the quality of lines, eh, to ensure that as many as possible eh, can get broadband.

is what McRedmond said.
Has anyone taped their conversation with Eircom's reps over the phone when they say that if your line fails then hard poopies on you?
Someone else has mentioned here before that if your line fails the DSL test then you should ring 1901 and tell them that you have noise on your phone line. They'll investigat this and often fix the problem and then the DSL test will pass. Why can't they just investigate the DSL failures and fix them, without having us resort to lieing to them in order to get them to do their job?

LFCFan

Does anyone else feel like give McRedmond a dig in the head everytime you watch him spout another pile of Eircom lies?

cgarvey

maxheadroom wrote:

although the screenshot said www.irelandoffline.com

How come that doesn't go anywhere? Its registered to David Long, but seems to go nowhere within coop.net?

.cg

dahamsta

cgarvey wrote:

How come that doesn't go anywhere? Its registered to David Long, but seems to go nowhere within coop.net?

It's an old registration, points to god knows where. I've asked David to update it.

adam

DonegalMan

Well done, Elana.

Let's all work hard at and after the EGM to get even more coverage like this.

Martin

cgarvey

Sorry .. I should have conveyed my congrats earlier .. thanks for the effort Elana, it paid off extremely well.

.cg

Moriarty

What they ^^ said

ekehoe

DonegalMan wrote:

Well done, Elana.

Let's all work hard at and after the EGM to get even more coverage like this.

Thanks Martin, and everyone, really, who responded with horror stories.

And Damien, good on you, you did great :-).

And thanks also to the lads who got the video up. My mom is very happy :-).

OfflerCrocGod

I can't believe what I saw some of the footage they were showing (the student shots) were from ITCarlows Red Eye competition ( programming competion ) I thought they were going to show me again! I was right behind the Indian boy they showed ( that's why Suns Java pages were show in the Firefox tabs we were all cramming java info onto our browsers ) Nice recycling RTE

Superman

EGM stands for extaordinary General meeting!

I have a dictionary!

dahamsta

FYI, the video is available now from the IrelandOffline website here. Thanks very much to Johnny_the_fox for encoding it for us and Truckle for hosting it while I got around to actually posting it. Very much appreciated guys, thanks.

adam

Moriarty

Superman is banned for.. a while.. due to making multiple inane posts over the past while.

the_syco

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

they were showing (the student shots) were from ITCarlows Red Eye competition ( programming competion )

I knew the place looked fimilair!