Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category

Streamyx DNS problems – Address Not Found

Friday, June 12th, 2009

I see other people posting complaints about TM's DNS servers from time to time but had never suffered a problem specifically with DNS before this week. Since the weekend, browsing the Internet via Streamyx has been painful. Lots of websites simply don't load. [caption id="attachment_342" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Streamyx: Address Not Found"][/caption] I ...

Pos Malaysia Parcel Tracking and Online feedback both broken

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

A couple of customers of Lolyco.com have been asking this weekend when their orders will be delivered to Australia. When an order is shipped from Lolyco.com, an email is sent to the customer with a link to Pos Malaysia's Parcel Tracking System and the Parcel Tracking Reference. First things first, ...

TM Net’s Streamyx. The productivity killer par excellence.

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

I have never clicked on a link to slashdot.org and been impressed with the speed it loads at in Malaysia, it is usually more than five minutes before even a single page will display in my browser. Some days though, the pages never load at all. Today is one of ...

A problem on DiGi EDGE at last!

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Just a quick note so I don't forget all this stuff. I used DiGi OCS and D'Chat today to ask why I couldn't access www.w3.org from my DiGi USB EDGE adapter. See the ping output below: root@box0045:/home/sean# ping www.w3.org PING www.w3.org (128.30.52.166) 56(84) bytes of data. From crusher.w3.org (128.30.52.166) icmp_seq=1 Dest Unreachable, Bad ...

Maybank2u Agent M with Pidgin on Ubuntu

Monday, March 30th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_270" align="alignright" width="234" caption="Maybank2u Agent M"][/caption] The Malaysian web can be a frustrating experience if you're not using any Microsoft products. Maybank2u have an 'online banking buddy' to help their customers ask questions and avoid giving them answers. We were recently wondering about changing online merchant payment processors, and considered ...