Using open source, and collaborated source is great. It’s a group effort, supporting a group cause.
There’s a downside though. What happens when a function in a module or application changes names in a version? Why change name? Well, unfortunately, it happened to me tonight, and it took a good bit of time to trace the [...]
Entries from February 2007
Updates – gone wrong
February 28th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Programming
Happy Birthday to me!!
February 27th, 2007 · No Comments
It was my birthday today, and it was great.
I got spoiled .
The presents consisted of many new additions:
2x 17″ LCD monitors!
I’m happy with that It’s fan-bloody-tastic.
I’ve changed resolution to 1280×1024, and its great. I did run that before on 17″ CRT’s, however, it became more of an eye sore rather than enhancement, [...]
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Telstra: Now we are talking trash (continued)..
February 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments
I recently wrote an entry about Telstra’s now we are talking website.
The website is filled mostly with corporate propaganda, and deceitful information. The goal of the website is to lure shareholders and consumers to fight the government to relax regulation on Telstra.
On the website, a passage on the discussion forums reads:
We want to hear what [...]
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Now We Are Talking Trash
February 24th, 2007 · No Comments
There are numerous websites on the internet, most contain information on a specific subject, others are just blogs with someone’s views on them, others retail sites, and you have many more to add to that list.
One site that shows itself as somewhat unique is Telstra’s very own, “Now We Are Talking” website.
The website features:
1. A [...]
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ADSL2+ in Gosford, other exchanges to follow
February 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Some while ago, Exetel Communications published an ADSL2+ DSLAM list, from upstream supplier Optus.
That list showed some local exchanges on it (to my amazement!!):
Gosford / Saratoga Jan-07 SRTA NSW
Gosford / Woy Woy Jan-07 WOYY NSW
Gosford/Avoca Beach Dec-06 ABCH NSW
Gosford/Long Jetty Feb-07 LJTY NSW
Gosford/Terrigal Jan-07 TRGL NSW
That was published by a Exetel Forum Staff [...]
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Telstra double dipping (again)
February 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
Firstly, Yesterday’s article about Netspace, and the nightmare move has attracted negative responses from Netspace staff member(s). They are advised to certainly grow up, act their age, and accept that they made a mistake, and to move on. As for the issue reflected in that article, it is most certainly sorted, and I am very [...]
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The Netspace Moving Saga continues
February 21st, 2007 · 4 Comments
I don’t like sequels, because in a lot of cases, they overdo it, or do something different that makes the original look that MUCH better.
Sometimes sequels are good, and the results turn to be better then expected. Anyway, here is a continuing dilemma that I am having with Netspace right now (see previous post on [...]
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OzVoIPStatus: Provider Status Logo
February 20th, 2007 · 8 Comments
I got a designer I know (maty, you legend), to design a logo for users to display on websites about their providers VoIP uptime statistics on OzVoIPStatus.
The logos, pictured below, aren’t the finals, however, we are interested in criticism for them.
Feel free to post away any criticism on the suggested logos. I personally think they [...]
Tags: VoIP
Wild IT holding on tight?
February 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Wild Internet and Telecom are a young ISP / junior telco, offering services at cost + a small few dollars.
Some pointers that have kept me away from Wild Telecom are as follows:
Timothy Bolot, the Manager / Creator of Wild Internet and Telecom has very poor conduct on a public forum (Whirlpool), examples below:
Encouraging all users [...]
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HOWTO: Dynamic Image Generation with PHP
February 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I came across a little issue lately. I wanted to be able to generate images, dynamically. I needed it to be done with PHP, and I needed it to be able to accept differing data (hence dynamic).
Where to turn? I had no way of automatically drawing an image with Fireworks, and certainly not from a [...]
Tags: Programming
Powering the planet
February 18th, 2007 · No Comments
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the planet, global warming, and greenhouse gases, so on about the damage power plants alone are doing to our planet.
What damage exactly do current power operations do to the planet?
1. The burning of coal produces smoke, and that smoke isn’t “cold”.
2. The smoke from coal power plants [...]
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A creative use for AJAX, no browser required.
February 17th, 2007 · No Comments
I’ve been developing for the web for a while now, and many technologies fly by.
First there was the ASP.NET craze. Some say it’s an improvement on ASP, others say its not worth the hassle. I couldn’t really care about ASP.NET, it’s there, but there are other languages just as, if not more capable, including the [...]
Tags: Programming
Getting it done ‘right’
February 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments
It seems lately (and last year), that there are some people in this world that can’t seem to do much right at all. I’m not about to hassle everyone on a single mistake, hey, they happen, I make mistakes, others do too. That’s all well and good. It’s when they are made continuously, from a [...]
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Moving – its not easy
February 9th, 2007 · No Comments
When you have a house load of stuff to move, and a short time frame (as in 24 hours), you generally get a lot more proactive.
I’m packing as I write this blog post (I wish). We change address tomorrow. We move from a flat that is in need (and finally getting) of renovations, to a [...]
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Telstra, High Court, and a Broadband Solution
February 8th, 2007 · No Comments
The telecommunications company that not so many people love and respect entered the court room today of the High Court.
Their case is simple, as per the movie The Castle, Telstra claim that they are hard done by the government (well the ACCC, the governments Competition Regulatory body).
Telstra claim that they are having access to sharing [...]
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Netspace, moving, and a contract?
February 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Ok, having Broadband for a while now and moving around this country a fair bit as well, I understand the processes involved with Telstra, Moving, and ADSL connections.
Since I was born, through to now, I’ve lived in many places, up and down the east coast of Australia. Cairns, blooody hot in summer. Townsville, not as [...]
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100% Free Money. Grab some today.
February 6th, 2007 · No Comments
You can earn some FREE CASH. All you have to do is visit this website, and read this message here: OzVoIPStatus VoIP Monitoring.
The offer is simply, send an email, or use the contact us page, and you could earn some cash. Read the message on the news page first for some pointers about what you [...]
Tags: VoIP
Moving, Mountain Climbing and Telstra
February 5th, 2007 · No Comments
How on earth did I put those three words in the title? Fux me.
Anyway, when you move and you have a Telstra Wholesale supplied ADSL service, doesn’t it make more sense to move every service the customer has at the same time?
It’s not like they don’t know they are moving, it’s right there in front [...]
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Dos and Don’ts of Linux
February 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I got myself a dedicated server recently. Was certainly good. However, since getting the server, we’ve had Hard Drive issues. The first drive, a SATA drive, wouldn’t install with the OS we planned to use. So we bailed on that idea, and a 20GB IDE was used temporarily, until we could solve the 80GB SATA [...]
Tags: Linux
Peaceful Sanity: Live above and below a bowling alley?
February 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
We live in a block of flats. We are the top most flat, in a 2 storey block.
We have the full top floor, below us, are 2 flats, one on the left, one on the right, split near the middle.
We moved into this flat some time ago, around May last year.
The previous flat had some [...]
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Southern Cross Cable Upgrades
February 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
Southern Cross Cables is implementing an idea Simon Hackett, MD of Internode, has been pushing Telstra to for years now. The method suggested takes one fibre optic cable, and changes the maximum wavelengths from 16 to 40 per cable. Which turns 240Gbps to 1.2Tbps. That’s a lot of data to be moving in just a [...]
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HOWTO: Wireless with the DD-WRT and Chillispot
February 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments
A problem came up recently.
A WDS network was being setup, and the idea was to network all hotspots, to the primary Access Point, and use Chillispot to authenticate access.
Whilst that was a good idea, and sure enough, it was all set to work, Chilli didn’t seem to want to play ball with the WDS [...]
Tags: Networking
My Blog
February 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
Welcome.
I did start this domain nearly a year ago, but never ended up finishing doing any of the several plans I had for it.
I decided that I needed a blog. But not one of those MySpace or MSN Spaces restricted blogs. Not another Blogger blog, but something I could host, and go about my own [...]
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