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Hi,
I am writing to inform you that I wish to cancel my subscription. I feel that the fees do not represent value for money, nor have I ever been asked about professional membership.
I tried to cancel my subscription online, but this one of the few membership services you do not provide. I also tried to phone, but your customer services is unavailable from the 23rd, until the day the membership money is taken from my account. Finally, after searching for an e-mail address to direct this message I found the best I can do is leave a "general enquiry" message here. In this day and age, this is all unacceptable in my view. I have requested that bank cancel this direct debit directly.
Yours sincerely,
Keith Barrow
I had to leave this on the general enquiries page, because there was nowhere else to send it, even then the title was a drop down, so I couldn't highlight as a membership closure. The customer services is on it's hollibobs 23rd Dec - 2nd Jan, the latter being the day the ~£100 fee is removed from my account. I pretty much don't get anything for this fee, a little legal cover, an e-mail address I don't use and the theoretical use of the WIFI in the office which is 280 miles away. Additionally, it seems to be more the British IT-Middle-Manager Society, rather than the the British Computer Society, more interested in business process than IT as discipline. The only thing I'll miss is swanking around with the the extra post-nominal letters.
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I already see their reply coming:
"We are sorry to inform you that this subscription has to be cancelled 3 months in advance. The subscription has automatically been extended for another year. The next possible cancellation date is the 01.01.2015" 
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I never quite understood what the BCS stood for apart from giving people an inflated sense of their own importance. Obviously the latter point does not apply to you. 
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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That's the Bloody-minded Curmudgeon Society in my case.
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I've always been a member there.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Didn't they amalgamate with the Belligerent Bad Tempered Old Fools Club that Nagy is a local chapter president of?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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There are those (SWMBO for one) who would contend that I founded that organisation. 
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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I used to have a coffee mug with "Old Fart" written on it in large letters.
Came down one morning to find Herself had added "Grumpy" in even larger characters!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I never quite understood what the BCS stood for apart from giving people an inflated sense of their own importance.
But isn't that what being "B" is all about? 
Marc
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Probably true. 
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Why not just cancel the direct debit?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Because when they try to take the money, the bank rejects it, but then charges you £25 for not telling the recipient it has been cancelled.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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My bank doesn't do that: it just rejects the request. There is no charge. Odd.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I've requested my bank online to stop the direct debit , in practice this means my bank will contact the BCS asking them to stop it. DDs in the UK are weird, you hand a lot of power to the counterparty and retain little yourself. At one point you couldn't cancel, don't know if this is still true. I'm confidently expecting no-one in the BCS to be around and for the money to come out.
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I know how the UK works. I go online, click Payments, find the DD and delete it. Job done. I can't get charged for a random request for payment the bank no longer has any knowledge of.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Hello all,
I've got Serviio installed into my home desktop.
It works wonderfully and it has extended our TV into a powerful entertainment center (that was supposed to be read with a fanfare in the background).
There are still days in which Missus wants to see some incredibly bad material that that box can throw at us.
When this is the case I'd love to be able to connect my laptop into the DLNA server to get the media contents of the desktop computer without having to navigate shared folders and so...
Those days Serviio have launched a new major revision and with each major revision they release as a trial (14 days) a web page which shares the contents for free with as many devices that get the right password in the same network.
Of course as my TV can reach serviio for free (it is a DLNA client) I expected to be able to get my laptop to work exactly in the same way, but I've got no luck with that.
I've tried to use:
- Windows Media Player (which has detected serviio but it seems not to be capable to get any shared media from it).
- VLC (last version) (which gets hanged just after trying to scan the network).
In the Wikipedia there is a list with the UPnP AV clients, but I would not like to start installing all of them and try if they work or not.
Any DLNA client recommendation that shows the extra information for the media files? (cover, length, ratings...)
Thank you all! and of course happy holidays! 
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For me both Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center works just fine. Also have you tried using 'Plex Home Theatre'? It's a dedicated client for consuming 'Plex Media Server', but I think it should work with any other DLNA / UPnP Servers.
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Plex theatre is not working for me... It seems it can read only from plex media server 
And I don't know why vlc and wmp are not working... But... No luck with them.
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Hello all,
In my inlaws they want to connect their TV to the network, to be able to use the internet capabilities and to use a DLNA server to reproduce photos and films.
It should be as easy to plug a PLC and connect the TV into it.
The problem comes with the plug.
There's something in the plug that prevents the PLC to work as expected.
I've tested it with a long Ethernet cable and the same PLC in another plug and it works. 
What should be checked once it is clear that the problem origin is the plug itself?
They prefer to use the PLC rather than the WIFI solution, but I truly don't know how to solve it unless they put an extension cable or an acces point and use wifi.
What could be the reason of the failure of a PLC in a specific plug?
Thank you all!
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I have no idea how Spanish houses are wired (rings, spurs, etc.) but fairly obviously the two PLCs have to be on the "same" bit of mains wire (or at least closely connected mains wires) and on the same side of any filters you might have on there. Quite probably, they also want the same earth (though I'm not too sure about that).
So start by looking at a fuse box: Are the PLC's trying to work on the same circuit? If so, then they should all be on the same piece of wire regardless of topology. If not, then try the PLC in another plug on the same circuit that it fails on - if it still doesn't work then it's likely there is a filter or other disconnect between the two.
If it works on that plug, then you need to look at the specific plug where it fails (carefully, mains bites) and possibly with an electrician involved.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Yep, that's what I thought, I looked into the main electrical cabinet of their house and the only thing I was able to see was that there was only one circuit for all the plugs... there must be anything into the network that is "disrupting" the signal...
What I can't imagine is what it is... probably the electrician will be the best option here... Last time I got a voltmeter it ended in tears... 
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Joan Murt wrote: Last time I got a voltmeter it ended in tears.
I know how hard that is to achieve. I made a voltmeter cry once ... ok, ok I'm bragging, it didn't actually cry. It sort of whimpered a bit and then it died.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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For my TV I plug it into a wireless extender which connects to my network by wifi, but has a couple of RJ45 sockets too. This also improves the range of my wifi network around th ehouse and garden.
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