Archive for the ‘Fixed’ Category
Monday, March 30th, 2009
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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 ...
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
My brother-in-law had the worst Acer TravelMate laptop (a 528TE) in the world. It wasn't a bad set of hardware, it was just that the plastic case had so completely degraded that he had to carry the laptop around in a cardboard box to keep all the pieces together. The ...
Posted in Breaktime, Broken, Fixed, Google, hardware | 4 Comments »
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
It has only been 5 weeks or so since I cancelled TM's Streamyx ADSL broadband service and started using DiGi's cellular network, and I'm impressed. OK, ok, so TM could occasionally keep Streamyx working for 3 weeks at a time too. I promise I'll report in 3 to 6 months' ...
Posted in Broadband, Fixed | 1 Comment »
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
We popped into Port Dickson to buy a DiGi EDGE adapter in preparation for going all DiGi EDGE in a couple of weeks' time. The local DiGi centre sold us a no-name USB EDGE adapter for RM399. That seems expensive to me, but I'm so fed up with Internet Access ...
Posted in Broadband, Fixed | 10 Comments »
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
I broke the cardinal rule and updated to software that was only 1 day old. It seems I've been reasonably lucky and very little went wrong. I thought I'd better write some notes on what did go wrong just in case it happens to someone else and they lose a ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed, software | No Comments »