Tag Archive for 'technical'

Oh computer…

June 19th, 2008 by Dave

An extra post for today, based completely on my main PC taking a dive into the depths of hades.  This is my take (read butcher job) on O Captain! my Captain, by…whoever wrote it originally.
 
 
 
 
O computer! my computer! our fearful trip is done,
The case has weather’d every download, the prize we sought is won,
The RIA is [...]

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German Customer Service…

April 16th, 2008 by Dave

Seems to be a bit of an oxymoron to me. I do not have the internet as arranged. I now have to wait an additional week to get it sorted, as the engineer that was supposed to be at my apartment between 08:00 and 16:00 did not show up.
He did however find the [...]

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No internet….aaaargh

April 13th, 2008 by Dave

So right now (according to my ISP), I have until Wednesday to wait until my net gets reconnected.
Quite frankly it is killing me at the moment. No blog to bore you senseless with, no pr0n to surf for (just kidding mum)..
No updates to my (perfectly legally acquired) TV show collection. I am [...]

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Users…pah!

March 23rd, 2008 by Dave

I don’t recall the source, but someone is quoted as saying :
There are only two industries that call their customers users…think about that.
It’s a good point, and one that leads me to think that our users are, in fact, on drugs of some description..
Now, I run a Service Desk. It’s a relatively small team, [...]

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Back once again..

March 21st, 2008 by Dave

So on Friday 14th all hell broke loose due to my server being attacked.  This in turn took down every site attached to it (around 15-20), a couple gameservers and a voice chat server.
At 21:03, I recieve this email
Hello!
Please stop this or your server will be disconnected.
“List of attacks to other server.”
I probably don’t need [...]

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