Jump to content
Print your own personalised forum logo

MauriceMynah

Full Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    8,751

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    150

 Content Type 

Posts posted by MauriceMynah

    3mph limit at BA moorings?

    in Broads Chat

    Posted

    I know this is going to sound stupid BUT

    Would it be possible to have a "Wash height restriction"

    Now, before you all wee yourselves laughing, we know that all boats are different but that each boat has it's own constants.

    For this example we will say that boat "A" puts up a four inch wash at 1200 revs, a 6" wash at 1400 revs and an 8" wash at 1600 revs.

    These "wash sizes" would be marked off on ther rev counter or on a plaque next to it.

    BA ranger is already skillfull at telling a big wash from a small one, and after all, it's only the wash that matters.

    Just returned from a nightmare broads visit, help!

    in Hire Boat Discussion

    Posted

    I don't see how any business can expect to receive plaudits if it can't accept raspberries.

    Yes I completely agre, and that's the whole problem.

    If you praise a company for going that extra mile, then no harm can be done. Yes it's possible that the company changes something and no longer gives good service, but no real harm is done.

    If you say on open forum that a company has provided diabolical service, Given the ease of finding such posts via Google, massive damage can be done and not just to the guilty parties. A company on the edge could fail, and take it's employees with it.

    There needs to be some way whereby negative publicity towards businesses is controlled. If it's going public then such comments need toi be verified, irrespective of the regard in which the original source is held. Such comments need to be deleted from the site after

    a. A period of time or

    b. somebody placing a good review of that same company. or

    c. the original poster has been in some way discredited. or

    d. the business changes hands/management or

    e. it has been established that the situation/practice has been resolved or

    ..... well you see my point, I could quite possibly go all the way to "z"

    Perhaps a star rating system could be employed, I don't know. I do fully accept your point, but I cannot think the solution is as easy as just allowing negative comments.

    Just returned from a nightmare broads visit, help!

    in Hire Boat Discussion

    Posted

    I have said elswhere that I am againt giving businesses negative comments on the world wide web, It's over tough on that business especially if the problem has been resolved down the line, but the original complaint is still accessable on the web.

    Having said all that, it's also tricky to help someone to avoid such problems when we know neither what the problems were or who caused them.

    Perhaps if the original poster could give more information as to what happened, we may be better able to advise.

    Not sure if I sould ask but....

    in The Broadscot Lounge

    Posted

    No Lozibear, that's not quite how it works. You should be perfectly safe as long as all your "anti nasties" software is up to date.

    The reason the NBF was hit by several sources at once can be explained by the method of those attacks.

    Rather like the phishing spam mails we all suffer from, they use certain scams at certain times. We will receive a batch all claiming to be from a bank, then after a pause we get a batch from a solicitor in the middle east, and again after a while we find we are beneficiaries of a will in the USA. Then its back to the banks.

    Hackers work in the same general way. they try to find a way in. A weakness in the sites coding. it fails so they try another. Each time they try, they are tweeking their programs. They are all working on the same principles and they are all doing this all the time. It's not surprising then that several people try the same thing in fairly quick succession.

    So why do they do it? Well as Alexander Meercat would say, "Simples" they get paid to do it.

    The original hacker would have found the weakness in the coding, probably on many sites, and sold the list of vulnarable sites ( or the program used to get in) to any number of criminal groups for whatever sum of money. Those groups then get into the site and glean whatever information they can.

    It is then necessary for them to vandalise the site to stop other criminal groups getting the same information and taking a cut of anything going. Not a lot of "Honour amungst theives" here !

    Now! The NBF sites, don't hold the sorts of information these guys really want. Bank account details etc. but there is an interest in phone numbers if they can be linked to interests, so beware of anybody phoning out of the blue offering some amazing boat cleaning service which can be paid by direct debit of just £2 per month. They might, for example, say that your name was given to them by John the fish (JTF) and that might, just might, be enough to get you to trust them.

    Anyway, that's how it works and that's why they do it, or at least one example, there are more!

    Dead Pike? Whats New?

    in Fishing on The Broads

    Posted

    I have eaten Pike many times. The best fish for eating is about 5 or 6 pounds. The trick is to skin it as soon as you can after catching it. Ideally, catch it, kill it and skin it. That gets rid of the muddiness. the flesh is pink and like cod in texture. Hmmm YUM YUM

    I hasten to add I used to catck the ones I ate in trout streams, where normally pike were just killed and left. Also this was many years ago... well back in the 70s and 80s

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

For details of our Guidelines, please take a look at the Terms of Use here.

  I accept