Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Streamyx died between 17:30 and 19:30 yesterday (Monday) evening. I sent an email to help@tm.net.my. We decided it wasn't fair to phone Fairil outside of office hours. We have DiGi EDGE - which appears to be 100% reliable - so we no longer have to lie on the floor screaming ...
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
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I'm a lot more cheerful this time. Got my desk organised so that the network with our home machines on is easier to swap from Streamyx to DiGi when TM do their frequent best to stop me getting any work done.
Also, a major time-saver, I've found ...
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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So you're happily upgrading from Jaunty Jackalope to Karmic Kipper and there's a network problem. A brief, normally completely recoverable network hiccup. Update-manager complains that it was interrupted, and quits. Thinking nothing of it, you ...
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
I'm enjoying 'slowly loading pages' at the moment. Streamyx has been completely dead since midnight yesterday night. It's the usual thing - the DSL light is on on my router, so there's a carrier signal, but the router's log says:
Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Jan 1 18:14:42> Unable to complete ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Saw this on YouTube, liked it a lot. No more to say on the subject right now, than: watch it, experience an emotion, keep it to yourself. OK, you can tell me, as long as you don't want an argument. I'm posting this purely for 'liked it'. A lot.
To save ...
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