Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category

Power cut near Port Dickson from midnight 12th July 2010

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

I was in the shower, covered in soap! It wasn't so bad without the heater, but the lack of a pump meant that there was only a dribble coming out of the upstairs shower head. It was pitch black in the small wash room so that I struggled to find ...

TM Streamyx and phone down Port Dickson area

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Sometime between 10:30 and 10:45am, still down at time of writing (10:55). I'm just going out for a short walk. Not like Captain Oates - I'm getting used to Malaysian Internet access now - just to see my friends at the local switchbox. Update - 11:15 how disappointing, there's not a ...

Streamyx down 15th April 2010 17:30

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

So... in the middle of editing a configuration file on one of my servers and Streamyx is down. Interesting differences this time are that my router still claims to have an IP address, there's an ADSL carrier, phone has a dialtone, TM's support line at 1300 88 9515 is permanently ...

TM Streamyx down Port Dickson 1st/2nd April

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Just putting the finishing touches to my URL shortening service and *BOOM* everything dead: no Streamyx, no DiGi EDGE, can't even browse from our handphones. Just a quick note (thank you DiGi!) to keep track of it: Streamyx is dead from 11pm Thursday April 2nd 2010. I noticed soon after (when ...

The ‘One’ theme again: 1Malaysia, Unifi, Monopoly

Friday, March 26th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_868" align="alignright" width="136" caption="TM's high-speed internet service"][/caption] TM has announced its new 'High Speed Broadband' products, called Unifi, with the Prime Minister making the announcement. TM is Telekom Malaysia, the telecommunications monopoly in Malaysia. There is an alleged telecommunications regulator called the MCMC (Multimed... Commission, or something) but it doesn't ...