Oh I've had my fair share of stupid customers who have actually handed over anything from about £90 to £200 for a years worth of "protection" and "support". They just don't get anything for their money at all.

I've even known people who don't own a computer get calls from the scammers.

I've yet to see any evidence of this. Most of our customers have been savvy enough to just terminate the call and end the remote desktop session when they start asking for money. Not saying it doesn't happen, but I've never seen it.

That's not the scam at all. The software they get you to download is some remote control software, usually legitimate. Something like Teamviewer or Logmein. They then proceed to show you all the "problems" in the event viewer and offer to sell you software and remote support (which you don't need).

I've had quite a few computers come through my workshop where a customer has fallen for this scam. Never found any viruses. The scam is them taking money off you for absolutely nothing. Whether or not they then resell the credit card details, I don't know. But I know that they take payments of anything upwards of £90.

If the property has at some point had cable then it's terminated in a brown box on an outside wall with a standard F-Connector. I recently did away with all the original cabling installed by the provider and ran my own. Cable up the outside of the house, into the loft (attic) split to my modem and back down the cavity wall to the TV downstairs. Considerably better than it was. Less cabling on show.

Considering you've been doing this shit for money since 1995, you've not learnt much have you? An untethered jailbreak in the IOS world has ALWAYS meant that it doesn't require a USB connection to a computer to work when you restart the phone. How the initial jailbreak is carried out is irrelevant.

Hope this clears things up for you.

I refer you to my original post.

Not in the slightest. I actually do own 2 Apple TV 2's, but they're jailbroken running XBMC. My step kids both own an iPod touch. I just think the way that Apples interfaces and the way they do things sucks. If I really wanted to I could afford to buy their stuff, but it just sucks, so I don't.

I dislike Apples products. That's all.

fuck was given...

I have a Debian box dedicated to the job with hot swap drive bays and loads of storage for imaging too. Massive UPS could keep it all going for a good few hours before it gave up. :) ddrescue truly is a fantastic tool. Just mounted the partition image and pulled all the files out. Never thought it would work at all but when its going for the first month and not getting in the way its impossible to give up on it :)

Had to do a recovery for a customer once. Used ddrescue as I always do. Took literally 9 months of solid recovery but it worked, got 100% back.

I power mine off the USB "service" socket on the back of the TV. Runs Wifi and a 16gb pen drive perfectly.

Yup. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1928731

Latest update has it. Some places have it OTA, I just grabbed the zip and flashed it from CWM.

Can't say I miss the start menu at all, haven't really noticed Metro being in the way or even there. Got 3 monitors, pinned my apps to the task bar, productivity is exactly the same as when I was on Win7 yesterday.

Time will tell I guess, but so far so good. I have no choice in running it as I own a computer shop and the general public are going to start coming in with problems at some point and I need to know how it all works!

I'll be leaving my home machines on Win7 for the foreseeable future. Kids n girlfriend don't need the change.