“We’re sorry, all of our operators are currently busy. You are at queue postition 13.” When you lose broadband access, operate lots of services and need the Internet to do your job, queue postition 13 clearly is not a good place to be, and I seem to have spent a lot of time in this… Continue reading Broadband Access
Month: July 2006
DLink DSL-G604T SNMP
I’ve been trying to use SNMP to monitor throughput on my DSL-G604T router. Since moving house I’m interested to know how much bandwidth the kids are eating with MS(bloody)N Messenger. The DSL-G604T supports SNMP, it says so in all the sales blurb. The reality is that whilst it has the functionality built in, it’s not… Continue reading DLink DSL-G604T SNMP
Offshoring
I’ve decided to try and support the UK companies that annouce they will not offshore services. This is tricky as no doubt some companies will lie in their advertising or at least withhold the whole truth. Statements like “We will not offshore our call centre staff” probably means they will offshore everything else. My first… Continue reading Offshoring
Blame it on the provider
The music industry today revealed its latest cunning plan to quash the evil music sharers. In this article a group calling themselves The Association of Independent Music annouced they are campaigning to make ISP’s middle men in delivering music to their users, whilst ensuring that the music industry gets its cut. David Ferguson, chairman of… Continue reading Blame it on the provider
World Cup 2006
England just got knocked out of yet another World Cup following a penalty shoot-out. This time England only scored 1 out of 4 which is a poor result even for a team that are hopeless at penalties. Of the World Cup matches I’ve watched, the actual football and the footballers seem to only be partially… Continue reading World Cup 2006