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I’ve reset all the stats on Oz VoIP Status, the reason being – we changed colocation provider, the statistics and monitoring since the change has been sooo much better, that it’s unfair to the providers to leave the existing outages in place.
So, I reset them all – everybody is back to 100%. Latency is reset, [...]

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I usually state the importance of backup, and reply to those who lose something ’should have backed up’.
Since the change from Windows to Ubuntu, my email backup has been pretty lax – as in, it’s not a job for cron. I’ll have to work on this soon.
I find the subject to be somewhat true. I’ll [...]

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For a while this afternoon, the wireless network was being used and the user was a victim of an MSN virus – this is easily identified by the links to ‘naked pics of me’ – as if they exist on the internet, I thought my servers were more secure than that (no, there are no [...]

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I was reading a slashdot article ’story’, and I am reminded that Stephen Conroy clearly shouldn’t be doing the job, as he has no idea what he is doing.
the government is said to be watching the case closely and along with attempts to introduce a three-strikes law in Australia, it appears the law will be [...]

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For some time, I was hosting ozvoipstatus.com with Servers Australia.
I moved recently, after they absolutely demonstrated their ignorance and incompetence of a routing issue within their network to the good people at MaxoTel, who also colocate with these idiots in Sydney.
Before the move, I would see intermittent increases in latency, random packet loss, and 8 [...]

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