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Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

Witch1da — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:01:42 -0000

erm I was wondering if anyone could clear this up for me please ... doesnt a company have to prove that you owe them the dept and there for if the debt is to a third party creditor then they have to actually be working on behalf of the creditor and not just chasing you for payment becauuse they have brought the debt, if this is the case you have no responsibility to the debt company but only to the original creditor?

Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

Witch1da — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:50:16 -0000

umm I think that by agreeing to a payment plan and making payments that you have agreed that you owe that money, you may be able to get help from the CAB if you feel that you were somehow forced into doing this, hope you manage to get some help

Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

Witch1da — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:46:24 -0000

erm im not sure if the statue of limitation applys to a debt that you say is not yours? i think it only applys if a debt that you accept and have made payments on has for some reason been in default and not collected on in 6 years and that you have not been in correspondance about the debt to your crediter in that time?

Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

Witch1da — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:41:42 -0000

surley this is only to be sent if the debt is actually yours ? and no agreement should be entered into if any or all of the debt is in dipute?

Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

Witch1da — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:37:25 -0000

I too am been hounded by lowell I have responded to them by letter stating that i do not aknowledge the debt to them or any subsidary company, this was back in oct last year (which is the first time i had had anybody contact me regarding this matter and according to them the date of the debt was 1998!) It took them untill April this year to reply to me with their so called evidance which was a copy of a bank account , a bank account that was a basic current account with no over draft facility and no credit card no cheque book or gauranty card but just a cash point card! I have never had a bank loan or over draft nor could i with this type of account, I promptly sent them another letter stating that I did not acknowledge the debt to them or any subsidary company. One month later I recieved another letter from lowell stating that while i dispute the dept I am still responsible for the charges? and they asked me to contact them regarding a payment plan?????
these people are trying to get me to make a payment plan for a debt of over £10,000 a debt that is not mine and that they havent been able to show me any proof of at all. I have never signed any credit agreement regarding this or in fact anything and the only thing they have shown me is a photocopy of the paperwork i signed to open the account!
This came out of nowhere and is a complete shock to me not to mention very worrying to think that I could be held responsible for this I am disabled and unable to work after an accident and this is causing a great deal of anxiety to me.

Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

oneiroi — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:37:39 -0000

Note: Sending this form of letter is an admission of debt, and can be used to enforce collection of said debt, a lot of people are reporting either fake debts (as in my case) or statute barred debts, in which case sending this letter template will legally oblige you to pay the said debt.

Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

Barryskelhorn — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:20:58 -0000

A debt collectio agency cannot threaten or intimidate. They cannot send letters that are designed to look as though they are legal documents issued by a court. They can only take what you can reasonably afford and cannot refuse any reasonable offer (reasonable to you after all normal living costs have been taken into account) Advices and a debt consolidation calculator are available simply by visiting the website of the consumer credit councilling service, operated by the Office of Fair Trading. Send a copy of the debt consilliation compiled by the CCCS online, and with it send the following letter with your offer of repayment. if you can pay more then they can ask for more, but would need a court to enforce it. If all you can afford is a token payment of £1.00 per month, then they must accept.

From:
Name: …………………….……..
Address: ………………….…….
Postcode: ……………………….
Date: 01/01/2000

To:
Creditor's Name: ………………….…………………..
Reference Number: …………………………………..
Account/Agreement No: ……………………………
Client: ………………………………………………………..
Current balance: £XX.XX

Dear Sir/Madam
I have received advice from Consumer Credit Counselling Service to help solve my debt problem.

I am in financial difficulties and not able to meet my normal monthly payments. I will make a monthly payment of whatever I can afford until more money is available.

I have enclosed my monthly budget and a list of creditors. After paying my household bills, I can pay you £1.00.

I will pay this each month and tell you when my circumstances change.

Please consider reducing or stopping interest or any other charges on my account to help me during my financial difficulties.

Yours faithfully

A N Other

Re: mySQL forcing utf-8 compliance for all connections.

oneiroi — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:50:27 -0000

Hi Oliver, if you are logging in as root or another user with SUPER privileges then the configs are ignored for system defaults, if you are seeing this on other users, then I would look to setting them in your my.cnf.

Re: mySQL forcing utf-8 compliance for all connections.

oneiroi — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:47:01 -0000

Judging by your use of \ I assume you are using windows, in which case you are looking for your my.ini file.

Re: mySQL forcing utf-8 compliance for all connections.

oneiroi — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:44:57 -0000

Don't login as root or any users with "SUPER" privileges as this option is ignored.

Re: mySQL forcing utf-8 compliance for all connections.

Tradewind77 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:43:23 -0000

A big thanks for this info; it works like a charm. I've been banging my head against the wall with this for months. It's nice not to have to use a hack anymore.

Re: RHEL 6 Openstack via EPEL Nova and Glance on KVM - Saiweb

oneiroi — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:44:51 -0000

Hi Robert, I do not have a VMWare ESXi deployment to use and write documentation for unfortunately, this may help: http://nova.openstack.org/vmwa... but I can't be 100% sure, let me know if I can help in anyway.

Re: RHEL 6 Openstack via EPEL Nova and Glance on KVM - Saiweb

Robert Shiflet — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:36:06 -0000

Is there any postings on using VMware ESXi rather than KVM?

Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

Denashman — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:41:39 -0000

Excellent advice, Thank you

Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

Mary Houghton — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:16:01 -0000

Learning somthing new, fantastic

Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

oneiroi — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:16:23 -0000

*facepalm* Did you even read the blog post?

Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

Jones_sharon16 — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 07:03:40 -0000

hi i was woundering if i can make payments of £20 month please thanks jeanette

Re: Gluster resolving a split brain in a replicated setup

oneiroi — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:17:10 -0000

From IRC: http://hekafs.org/index.php/20... gives a good overview of AFR's and the data within.

Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

Sp5 — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:35:34 -0000

Hello is this template still good to send? this debt sent in my name?? has been passed to many different scumbag debt collectors over the last 6 years one being lowell and more recently buchanan clark & wells do i send to template to most recent collector? thank you

Re: Sysadmin

oneiroi — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:21:35 -0000

@Dan oh yeh ... https://github.com/Oneiroi/sys...

This script is here: https://github.com/Oneiroi/sys...

Re: Gluster resolving a split brain in a replicated setup

Buzz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:19:13 -0000

In this case the lack of distributed locking was the cause due to multiple subversion metafiles all being updated on each node independently, leading to the split-brain.

I'm in no way blaming Gluster here, for one I loathe the fact SVN does this, but for legacy deploys I have to use it.

The rsync method is ment for when you know you have a "known good copy", sort of the same scenario you have in a DRBD split brain, self heal was not working and nor was rsync with glusterd off (the xattrs persisted).

Now this post is a late write up, this ironically occurred during the transition to red hat meaning ... ALL the docs were offline as per my tweets, and I only came across the xattrs after experimenting reading xattrs for another project.
Also I did drop by IRC under the handel: Oneiroi to no avail, could of been due to the red hat transition or timezone but this was the one and only solution the the issue I was having.

Thanks for the script link, could you elaborate a bit on what identified the trusted.afr as "dirty" ?

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lltdl

g3n1k — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:18:43 -0000

yes thanks, this work for install QT
my problem is

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXrender

and it solved with

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 /usr/lib/libXrender.so

thanks you saved my days

Re: Gluster resolving a split brain in a replicated setup

Joe Julian — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:59:31 -0000

The lack of nfs locking support did not cause your split-brain situation. It would have equally corrupted all replica. If it happens again, check your logs for disconnections, then come see us in #gluster we'll see if we can help you diagnose it.

Btw, I wouldn't recommend the rsync method. You'll get unpredictable results, especially with a distributed replica. If you really want to just resync the entire brick, make sure glusterfsd isn't running for that brick and wipe it. Then start the brick again (gluster volume start {volname} force) then perform the normal self-heal process.

Really, though, you only need to remove one copy of an offending split-brained file. To help identify files with pending self-heals, this tool can be handy: http://joejulian.name/blog/qui...

Re: Lowell Portfolio 1 Ltd

darren — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:56:45 -0000

hi there all, i need abit of help, i have recieved letters from lowell portfolio 1 ltd, they are saying i owe £702 for a three mobile i ended in december 2005 as i moved abroad, but the phone continued to april/may and the line rental was charged, in december and january bill it was over £200 each month, i have phoned them for a statement for them months and they sent me a statement of the months i owe eg, nov £216 dec £312 jan £48 etc etc, but i phoned them again saying i want a break down for the months, month by month, and thasy are saying they dont need to send that and i have told them it wont be paid as i dont owe that and i want a break down but keep sending me the same letter, what is the best thing to do, please help

Re: dissecting the hack – psychz.net

antiscam — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:29:50 -0000

At the risk of turning this into a Psychz discussion; Psychz is renown for bad netizen hosting. More problematic is their failure to curb this abuse. They actually hold the record of allowing the same abusive website to appear on their servers: http://forum.aa419.org/viewtop...