Casually glancing over the General Chat forum, I noticed a strange post, which just seemed to be out of character.

Now a couple of members had replied with useful links and then there was...

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Today we have ordered 2 brand spanking new servers for use on the SkyUser websites.

Specifications are:

PE860 - Xeon Quad Core 2.40Ghz 2x4MB Cache
2.0GB DDR2-533 Memory
Primary Drive: 160GB Western Digital SATA

Compared to the older specifications on the 2 servers we are replacing these are far more powerful and the end user experience should far exceed what we offer at the moment.

Work starts to transfer all the data and...

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I don't easily get wound up, but Play.com managed to do it this morning....

I ordered Crysis on the 13th November 2007 from them at a cost of £26.99.

Having placed the order I rang them to make sure everything was OK and that it would be despatched asap. As the game is released on 16th November and me being an avid gamer I wanted to make sure that I would have it in time.

Yes, Sir, everything is fine, your order has been accepted and it should be posted...

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For those of you who have not already realised, Sky have migrated 1.1 million email accounts to Google Mail, now known as Skoogle on SkyUser.

Obviously things were not fully thought through, or something has gone dreadfully wrong. We had broken all records on 7th November for our visitor statistics. At one point we had to reboot our server as it had completely locked up.

Thursday 8th was even busier for us and we now have a record of 803 visitors online at one time,...

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Well I am either very drunk, or getting old, but Shayne's new single, is just great.

One of those tunes, you could just press repeat.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YKxg4oXlHXs

My only reservation now, how can X-Factor get better artists than Shayne and Leona? Watching it this year has just not been compulsive whatsoever.

In fact I was gutted Sharon was back on tonight.

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