Last Friday afternoon was interesting: a shedload of BT business ADSL customers and almost all of their dial-up users lost their connectivity. Oh, when I say BT ADSL customers, I mean “ADSL customers who happen to have a BT Wholesale provided line”, i.e. potentially a massive proportion of all business ADSL customers who aren’t necessarily […]
As usual, it takes me a few days to get through each Sunday’s Observer — which is handy as I usually only buy a daily paper on Saturdays (the Guardian, natch) and it gives me stuff to read at lunchtime at work during the week. So there I am at lunchtime, chicken soup in one […]
Crap. I love blogging, but sometimes I just zone out and forget all about it. So it’s time for another CramBlogEntryDuNeuro™ … november > new car > dj’ed (!) at john and sabrina‘s wedding > videoisland died > december > firefox 1.0 > rediscovered celestia > blagged myself a free iPod mini (a gold one, […]
El Reg reports: “The latest [local loop unbundling (LLU)] cuts – on top of the reductions announced in May – should make it far more easier for rival telcos to install their kit in BT exchanges and provide services direct to punters.” That’s great news, especially since I work for an ISP who is investing […]
Quick entry before I head off to work. Yeah, to work, I’m no longer working from home. Most people who know me know this already, but I left SmoothWall Ltd. last month to work in sysadmin at Lumison, formerly edNET, an Edinburgh-based ISP. As my post to the SmoothWall community says, it was just a […]
If you’re in Edinburgh right now, you should tune your radio to 106.9 FM to listen to Festival FM, featuring such luminaries as the mighty John Handelaar! If you’re not in Edinburgh, or can’t pick it up (the reception down in Leith is a bit gash), fire up a web browser and listen online with […]
BBC News: Extent of child net porn revealed — BT proactively block sites identified by the Internet Watch Foundation assessed as “illegal to view” under the 1978 Child Protection Act, presumably blocking such sites at the IP level, as they don’t use transparent proxies any more. However, an interesting comment in the article is: BT […]
According to the BBC, BT is planning to ditch the existing PSTN network and have us all using our phones over a wholly IP-based network by 2009. El Reg has further details of the last mile fibre optic trials that will take place in selected exchanges later this year as part of the initial work […]
Nigritude Ultramarine — because Anil told me to. Clearly Nigritude Ultramarine has a lot to offer the world, but I’m sure it won’t be long before George Bush bans it! Ah, playing with SEO, gotta love it. However … as much as I hate to indulge SEO tactics … Nigritude Ultramarine is clearly something we […]