For some unknown reason the 365online account seems to hate you when you hit the enter button instead of clicking on Enter and refuse you a login and claim you entered your details wrong. Needless to say I was trying to login at a late hour and I was tired tried several times before I remembered the fact you have to click enter.
Then I was presented with a error page saying call them. So I just did and who knew for “added security” I have to actually give them my full bank account number instead of my 365online login id. So not having any statements to hand they transferred me to my branch to get that account number.
Then I asked for my account number and had to provide my ATM number and several security questions. Then they gave me my account number and I called back 365online with this number and told me that my account was blocked since I entered my pin in wrong three times! Shock horror! And they now have to send me out a new pin instead of just unblocking my old one and before they could do that, I’d have to answer some security questions (of which some overlapped) and then call them back to confirm my new pin before I can login again. Does anyone else consider this to be a little excessive or am I just getting cranky with old age.
And I’m heading off to the Microsoft Vista launch thing for the B seminar so maybe I’ll see you there!
So here I am in my kitchen blogging direct while I make myself dinner. At this hour I hear you say? Well to cut a long story very short, everyone else in the house is somewhere else so I get some peace and quiet for a while. And since I’m a very lazy eater I’ve only gotten around to cooking something now.
Although I don’t know if I would consider some rashers and sausages dinner. Then again I’m a lazy eater so the other choice would of been to order a pizza. (Which was done yesterday)
And in the backround I have my Xbox 360 streaming music from my PC via Tversity and I can say there is nothing quite like the sound of The Dandy Warhols - We used to be friends blasting out via the surround sound setup down in the sitting room.
I try to keep up with most things techy since I’m a geek at heart. And recently Blueface launched their SIP proxy register option which means you can now automatically provide them with the login details to each of your SIP services and they’ll register those accounts and forward them on to a IP destination of choice (Mine go to my Blueface account) but then not content with having my Smart076 and Blueface account calling my VoIP phone, I decided to seek out more.
First stop was Outlook where I did a quick search and it turns out, I have a SIPGate account, so registering that as well has now given me a 0845 UK number but still I was not happy and signed up for a Stanaphone account which has now given me a US number as well (For the NY area)
So I now have the following:
- 2x 076 Numbers
- 1x Extension based line
- 1x UK 0845 number
- 1x US New York number
Not too bad for a few hours work eh? So I’ve moved my primary VoIP option to Blueface for the time being while Smart076 has been a rock solid service for me, its been sluggish on the development side. A shame really, it could built up from its solid base. And if they do get going again they’ll have some catching up to do first.
I’ve finally managed to get around to installing Vista on this laptop (I would of sooner, but the DVD burner in my PC died again! Looks like I’m going to get my third one soon enough)
For a beta its fairly well polished and works out of the box! The only issue I’ve had so far is that I’ve had to change the audio drivers I was using since it didn’t recognise the headphone jack. I’d call that pretty good going.
I haven’t got around to mucking much under the hood but one thing I have noticed is that its much much much faster to boot and shutdown.
If Microsoft this could be the very OS I’ll actually go out and buy and not wait till I can score it through a new pc. Or maybe it’s time I make use of schools academic license…
As some of you may or may not know, I’m involved in EcwHost a very small web hosting company and disaster struck!
We have a server in the US in The Planet which until now were a very decent DC and when the chips were down, in became the biggest pain in the ass to fix. Needless to say myself and Nick were talking about a new server as our old one was getting a bit sluggish to find one morning our current one wouldn’t boot. Oh dear, submitting a ticket to them it was several days and phone call later before we got this resolved. Even then our server was still down, I had managed to convince them to boot Knoppix and turn on SSH so we could move our files.
Now compare this to SoftLayer who after talking to Amanda in sales had my server deployed and ready for my use in 3 or 4 hours and even threw in a free CPU upgrade! (Everyone should do automated image building for servers, its so much faster) and then cPanel fun started.
Doing account transfers manually using cPanel is no easy task at all. For the last few days, I’ve been going to bed at 3 or 4am working on stuff and getting up at 8am to go to school and then come back and do some more work. But this morning I was able to get up at 11am and it was wonderful considering I got most of the issues sorted the night before. Of course there is a few small things to resolve first but otherwise life is good.
And gave AICCU another chance.
C:\Documents and Settings\Conor>ping ftp.ipv6.heanet.ie
Pinging ftp.ipv6.heanet.ie [2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: time=15ms
Reply from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: time=14ms
Reply from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: time=15ms
Reply from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: time=15ms
Ping statistics for 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 15ms, Average = 14ms
Shame I can’t figure out why its not saying connected on my WRT54G and dishing out connectivity that way but this will do for the time being. So I’m gonna have to dig about and see if I can get v6 connectivity to my VPS at XenPlanet. So if anyone has any tips I’d be grateful.
Irish hosting companies and stupid crap. You may have noticed the fact this site was down for best part of a day in order to shut that mulley lad up. He’s been complaining he can’t access my site from home but he can from work. So in my vain attempt to get things back to speed again I decided a move to Blacknight (I have one of their free ruby on rails accounts) might be the order of the day (I do like Directadmin better then H-Sphere, take note Hosting365)
So I added the domain, changed the nameservers on my domain and went away for a while only to come back to nothing, “hrmm this is taking longer then usual” so I ignored it and worked on other things to come back to nothing again, so now I know something has gone wrong, have I set my nameservers wrong? Did I not do something in Directadmin? A quick trip to dnsreport.com tells me no DNS records are being served for my domains. So thats not right, and I take a quick look through Blacknights FAQ and get told “Contact support to get the domain added to our DNS.”
*sigh*
Why in this day and age do I have to deal with a person to do something as simple as add a DNS entries for a domain? So I send an email off asking for DNS to be setup for this domain and they ask me do I have a hosting package with them.
“…”
No, I’m doing this for a fucking laugh guys. I’ve just left the ticket open and not bothered to respond to it.
And whats with the anal package limits? Why do they feel its necessary to milk me for every penny I have? I’d say this applies to nearly every hosting company. Up to 2 domain supported! wow! You guys are just so kind. Maybe I’ve just become an elitest dedicated server whore and not used to having limits imposed on me but I didn’t think it took that much CPU time to serve an extra domain. If people abuse it then suspend them but don’t punish everyone else for what *might* happen.
root@edge:~# ping6 ftp.heanet.ie
PING ftp.heanet.ie (2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: icmp6_seq=0 ttl=62 time=16.7 ms
64 bytes from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: icmp6_seq=1 ttl=62 time=17.0 ms
64 bytes from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: icmp6_seq=2 ttl=62 time=15.8 ms
64 bytes from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: icmp6_seq=3 ttl=62 time=16.9 ms
This was taken from my new WRT54GL router about 30 seconds ago. Its nice to see the packet loss report on Sixxs to drop from 100% to 0%
I’ve gone to Sixxs and now requested a /48 now for my home network. Time will tell how this turns out, this is quite a learning experience for me, I never really got into IPv4 that much so might as well start fresh with IPv6!
I’ve found these two different tools while on my adventures around the internet. Gliffy the visio killer? While its nice, Visio has alot more images/items (whatever you want to call them). However it is a nice product for doing quick diagrams and one day I drew up a proposed network design for home. I’ll upload a copy (when I can get it off my laptop in work).
I’ve only discovered Imagination Cubed from GE now, and i’m not too sure what to make of it. The fact you can invite other people into your whiteboard seems promising and I think this is the only web-based application whiteboard I know of.
Yesterday I ordered a VPS from XenPlanet which arrived at 10:29am this morning. Unfournatly in the interests of security I choose a random password and forgot what it was, a quick email was sent and a few hours later I had the password on the server reset. At the moment I’m not sure what I’m going to exactly do with it. DNS Services for some sites alright and for connecting to in work to get around the pesky filters.
Of course I could always go down to the test lab and plug directly into the net there but that might look a bit odd until those servers arrive. More about those later when they are setup. Even then telling you exactly about them would reveal the company I’m working for which I don’t want to advertise, because I don’t want to be pestered like my boss.
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