The DSL Debacle of 2010
by poedgirl on 10/03/10 at 4:59 pm
I have recently moved house. Still within the same city, just to a different suburb. Of course, when you move house, you need to get services relocated with you. Most of these were easy to do. The internet, however, was not. I called up iiNet (my ISP) on the 3rd of February, told them that [...]
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Well, it looks like someone from Microsoft actually reads my blog. If you read the earlier post entitled Microsoft, you are retarded, you would see that I was extremely unhappy with Microsoft’s method of suspending users when they don’t want to pay for additional months of XBox Live Gold memberships. I just received an email [...]
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This is one thing that really annoys me, blogs that have their comments backwards. I really don’t understand what kind of sense it makes having the comments in reverse chronological order, i.e. latest to earliest. Most comments on blog posts are either replies to another comment or reference something said in an earlier one. For [...]
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Today, I decided to test out a new feature of Mozilla Firefox 3.5, the Geolocation system. Now, I have to say, using a mobile phone with Google’s Location Services is actually pretty accurate – within a few hundred metres. But it would appear it is not the same for fixed connections. Even when connected via [...]
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About 6 months ago, I upgraded my Xbox Live account to a Gold account as I wanted to play some games online – something I don’t do often. I was under the impression that I could just play online for a month, then downgrade my account back to Silver when I was done. I was [...]
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Today, I bought the game Saints Row 2 on PC. I had played it before on PC, yes, a pirated copy, and thought it was good enough to buy. However, as soon as I got it home, my mind was completely changed.
The problem all stems from the fact that this specific game uses the Steam [...]
iPhone Tethering
As many Australians may already know, some unscrupulous carriers are daring to charge their customers to allow tethering on their iPhones. This is just pathetic on their part and to combat this, I have made some carrier files that you can import into your iPhone and enable tethering and MMS without paying their exorbitant fees.
To [...]
smarthouse.com.au against free speech?
When I posted a comment on a smarthouse.com.au article criticising the writer’s views. I expected it to be accepted and the writer would comment on it. However, instead of doing the right thing and accepting it, they quite simply blocked it. Therefore stifling any attempt at adding any sort of criticism to the article. At [...]
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I just have one thing to say about Live Mesh Remote Desktop. It’s retarded. What kind of an idiot developer would make screen updates a higher priority than click events? I’m at work right as I write this post and I’m trying to access my home PC. I just happened to have a website open [...]
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On my way to work this morning, I was caught behind a complete moron. Not only did he constantly break at random times (with no-one in front of him and going 10km/h below the speed limit), but he completely failed to navigate two roundabouts.
Roundabouts are one of my biggest pet peeves with driving in Perth. [...]
Idiot Clients
For those of you who know me, you’d know I work as an Application Development Manager for a software company. We recently released a new update that allowed email functionality from directly within the application. In order for users to take advantage of this functionality, they need to set up their From email address in [...]
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