1. August 4, 2008

      Yahoo sucks again!

      I have a domain. Big surprise. What may come as a surprise to some people though is that up until a month ago I used Yahoo Domains, and until today, I had no complaints.

      A month ago I noticed Yahoo was increasing their renewal price to $34.95. I had already planned to move to Godaddy this year due to their sponsorship of Diggnation (go Diggnation!), so while being a little more motivated because of the price difference, I thought little of it. I switched, and have had no problems. I clicked all the buttons I could find in Yahoo, and thought it was all done, as I had no more correspondence from them.

      Until I check my credit card bill today, and notice a nice $50 NZD charge attributed to my domain. WTF!?!?!?! Yahoo still wants money for a service I’m not using!!!

      Yahoo has really screwed up this past year, and I can only hope the next .com burst will finally pop the bubble on the company that really doesn’t care about customers.

    2. July 21, 2008

      Sorry Nexus readers

      If you’re coming here to watch me dance… Sorry, but you’re about to be disappointed. I’ll upload it to YouTube hopefully tonight.

    3. July 12, 2008

      @World Cyber Games NZ, part 2

      Ok, I have a little more time and brain function to type now…

      For those not in the know, I’m the network admin for the biggest LAN party in NZ, The World Cyber Games NZ Qualifier. It’s a big job that involves lots of sleep depravation, but it’s fun in a sick way. It started at 12:30 on Friday (today), and will go till Sunday. Here are a bunch of photos, and maybe tomorrow I’ll post some more…

      It’s been a hectic few days. To start of this picture trail of some of my experience, I think the most fitting is an image of how my flat looked the night before setup day. In this picture you should see a switch, my laptop, my server, my HP 90/700 terminal, 4x Cisco switches resting on a firewall, 1 massive switch, another terminal, and Jono (aka Sheep) on my laptop configuring the switch.

      My living room

      Next up is two photos of the WCG banner and TelstraClear Pacific banner. Just to prove we made it.

      TelstraClear Pacific roadside sign

      WCG NZ roadside sign

      And the communications room at TelstraClear Pacific stadium, the place where we ran our 100m ethernet internet link out of, as well as patch to the rest of the building…

      Patch room

      My laptops and Jono…

      Laptops and Jonathan

      My 42″ plasma, which displays a graph of the internet usage, as well as a warning to n00bs…

      Plasma screen

      The lights of a switch.

      Network switch

      Endless rows of people… (760 total really)

      Rows of people

      So ya, thats what I’m up to this weekend. Don’t blame me if I don’t text back, I’m busy blocking network ports.

    4. July 11, 2008

      @World Cyber Games NZ…

      Finished. 2:30am (30 mins better than last year), I’m done. Much more complex setup too. Pictures after I get some sleep, I’ve been up for nearly 24 hours now…

    5. July 8, 2008

      Vodafone + iPhone == Fail

      I know, I’m probably the last kiwi to blog about this. Hell even the mainstream news had a go at Vodafone after today’s announcement. But what did people really expect? The fact that they wouldn’t use their standard plans should’ve tipped everyone off to what was going to happen. That’s not to say that Vodafone’s pricing is in any way understandable or acceptable. After all, who in their right mind would need that many call minutes and that small of data allowance with a device that’s obviously going to be heavily data-oriented? To quote Beverley;

      Regular phone calls to the butler to get him to check on the sports car collection? … And to call people to get them to Google stuff for you cause you blew your cap in the first hour.

      That said, it doesn’t bother me at all. I’m happy with my mac laptop and Windows Mobile phone, and who knows, in a few months when Telecom rolls out their GSM network (and I know for a fact they’re keeping to schedule), they’ll lay the smackdown on Vodafone, and all will be happy.

      Back to networking… Pictures coming soon.

    6. June 12, 2008

      Always the simple things…

      So for the last hour, I’ve been trying to get Microsoft Messenger:mac working with the Office Communications Server. I try using my credentials, and the only error I was getting back was “sign in to Microsoft Messenger failed because the service is not available”.

      So I busted open WireShark and had a look. It was constantly getting a 200 (OK) back, right before Messenger threw the error. I tried turning off my firewall (10.5 has it’s issues…), and it still won’t work. I try manually setting the server settings, nothing. So I head over to the Microsoft page, to see if I had an outdated version. And that’s where I saw it…

      Turns out, Microsoft Messenger:mac won’t work with Office Communications Server 2005, only 2007. WTF!?!?! C’mon Microsoft, why won’t you let your client connect to your own server, just because it’s a little outdated!!!! Anyway, the moral of the story: If you get this error, just downgrade to version 6. It works as expected

    7. June 9, 2008

      Another one bites the dust.

      Alrighty, so another uni semester is almost done and gone. Two more exams, neither of which I’m looking forward to, and i’m done. Looking back, it was one really great semester.

      So, in lieu of a Nerdery post this week, here is a list of things I’ll be up to during the break “break” (if you can really call it that)

      • Beverley. Gotta start with the best item, of course.
      • xLAN; Gotta keep fine-tuning the port-blockings!
      • A totally awesome but totally disturbing Nexus article. Just wait.
      • Alca-Lu; Gotta build me some server system now.
      • Codename Zapper; Secret plan to get students collaborating.
      • Codename f0rce; Don’t you just hate not having a decent notes-taker for PocketPC?
      • Coming up with proper names for these codenames.
      • My site’s photo gallery. Yes, it’s coming. Yes, it’ll be AAJAX. The extra A is for Awesome.
      • And last but not least, the person who I most want to spend time with, Beverley.

      And on that bombshell, I’ll leave you with a quote about my idea for an ordered linked-list for the final 203 project (of which 1/11 test cases had to deal with 100,000 nodes). Yes, still got an A+ on it.

      Given the horrible performance on big sets (yours was slowest of all submissions!) some more justification required as to why a Linked List is still a good choice (as opposed to another option)

      Woohoo, I’m #1!

    8. May 29, 2008

      Plaxo + Mac == Fail

      I love Plaxo. Mainly because there is no other decent way to sync contacts and calendars between a Mac, Windows Mobile and Vista box. But it seems as though Plaxo, while keeping the Windows and Plaxo site correct, made my mac contact’s with a birthday get a day younger. (it shifted to a day later)

      This actually happened a while ago, but I’ve been too lazy to post about it till now. Has anyone else had this problem? This started around the time of moving from NZDT to NZST, could this do it?

    9. May 22, 2008

      And there was cake.

      Now that my head has stopped spinning and I can’t sleep, I have an apology to make. My 19th was the best birthday I’ve had. Beverley is an absolutely amazing girl, and I had the best 36 hours I can ever recall (apart from a slight snag called a COMP219 test). Not to mention, she really went to a lot of effort with this incredible cake!

      Ok… Peppermint tea gone, let’s try sleeping again…

    10. May 20, 2008

      19 eh…

      (I cheated. I’m falling asleep, so I posted this when I was still 18 and just added 3600 to the epoch)

      19 is just such an unimportant year. Think about it; 15, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 21 are all landmark years, while 19 is just kinda… there. Well, thats enough database/algebra test study for one night.

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