31 Jan 2005
… but I think that the fact that it has taken me longer to transfer a few ISOs from my laptop (10Mbit NIC) to another desktop than it did to download them from Telstra initially is kind of sad. Unfortunately, I had no other option, as I need to get the ISOs for my new server, and the laptop is the only computer with the BigPond client installed on it…
Ah well, under an hour for 1.2GB of files isn’t too bad ;) *chuckles at ADSL people who are awed by non-Telstra DSLAMs that do 2Mbit/s*
31 Jan 2005
Well, the Telstra guy came and handed me a modem, and I plugged it straight into this here laptop. But that’s okay, because I made him crimp some TV coax for us whilst he was here, too! *grins stupidly*
The office is starting to get there, here are a few pics for the sake of burning bandwidth…
No alt text, sorry; suffice to say there are four pictures from different angles portraying a mess!
30 Jan 2005
I’m moving into the new house in about 9 and a half hours time. Will hopefully get time to post in the near future, with post-moving-in photos, but we’ll see how things go. The Telstra guy is coming to plug something into the wall for us tomorrow, too, so hopefully the IT side of things will be live pretty quick.
29 Jan 2005
My blogger code: B5 d t+ k s+ u f+ i+ o+ x- e l- c– (decode it!)
I saw it on some blog (can’t remember where now!) and decided to fill it out…
29 Jan 2005
Those who have tried commenting recently probably would have noticed their comments weren’t showing up for a while — this was as a result of my filters having a common term in them which essentially forced me to moderate everything manually. The list of banned terms is quite extensive, so it took me a while to find exactly what I’d done wrong and correct it; long story short, you can now comment and mostly expect your comment to pop up straight away (unless of couse you’re talking about your wonderful job at a casino where you get to play poker whilst selling viagra and cialis and watching free porn, in which case probably not).
Sorry for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused recently – I’ve added a note above the comment posting area notifying people that moderation is in force and as such their comments may not appear straight away. If you have any further troubles, feel free to use the contact form (which, incidentally, also had problems with the “Confirm” page markup until around midnight — thanks Steve for pointing that out — I was still getting all messages sent via it, fortunately).