Bt - How much they suck - Daily Ip Changes (5 Comments)

I have had BT broadband now for over a year, Every 24 hours my IP would be forcibly changed, disconnecting every TCP connection i had currently going. And then i would have to wait for ping timeouts on remote servers before i could connect up again. It got so annoying i decided to e-mail BT, Because i simply could not get through to them on the phone, and you always got some fast talking Indian when you did get through.

I have noticed I’m not alone tho, a quick Google search brought up the blog of Justin Mason, and in a post, Jason describes having the same problem.

I was going to quote some stuff bt have told me from their technical support, but its just too annoying, i simply cant look at them any more. I am now actively searching for a more competent service provider. And the sooner i get away from these buffoons the better!

If Anyone can suggest a good provider please let me know!!

Just as an afterthought, i decided to make a petition!

http://www.petitiononline.com/btip/petition.html

Please sign it!

Quad - Nearly there! (No Comments)

After another bit of work, the electrics are fully functioning and the wagon is nearly ready to go. I just need to collect my front shocks on Saturday, and wait until a local engineering works has bodged together a set of handlebar brackets! i soon will have it operating!

Heres some pics of how im gettin on

yfm225 nearly done
Yfm225

Time for a new rig! (No Comments)

My sommerkamp ft767 (yaesu ft-707) has seen better days. And its starting to get very annoying. Someone has modded it for the cb bands, and hence i cant do 10m on it  :(  It also takes notions of losing its sensitivity completly. And sometimes the frequency readout decides to go walkabouts.  These are probably all fixable things, but i just want a new reliable radio!

I’ve been thinking of the Yaseu Ft-857. And if i can get one for fairly cheap i will be investing!

The Ft-857D

Catching up on old friends (2 Comments)

Its been a while now, almost a year to the date. But the last time i upgraded my sites looks to what they are today, using only my own photography to furnish it, a friendly fellow - John, from Bizzweb.net left me a wonderful comment. And its only now iv decided to think about it.

  John June 22nd, 2007 at 4:46 pm

Why put up a website with no content?

Why say the graphics are your own when the only graphics are ugly clouds ?

Why critise Mircosoft products when the only product you seem to be able to use is a prebuilt blog system ?

Oh, and learn to spell too, thats if you are not too busy updating this wonderful website

Wonderful lad, isn’t he?

A few things can be noticed about his post.

Firstly: Why NOT put up a website with no content? is it illegal? am i killing thousands of bunny rabbits by putting up a website with no content? no. i am not.

Secondly: “Ugly clouds” ??????? I have a simple answer to this. A few years ago john was walking down the road, on his way to the post office to collect his dole money. When a small white fluffy cloud swooped from the sky, ripping Johns cloths off. The cloud then took out a towel and repeatedly towel whipped John, in front of all his friends, who were out to get their dole money also.  The Cloud then whipped out its Polaroid camera, and started snapping away, posting the pictures on every shop window in the county. John was left to walk home in his birthday suit, with towel whip marks all over his body.

For gods sake, just take a look at the website i mentioned above, its awful, a good contender for the webs worst websites!

This is why John has such a hatred for clouds,  and i wouldn’t blame him, those white clouds even look menacing. one word John:

NO! 

Thirdly: I have searched and searched and searched, but i just cant find anything about criticising Microsoft.  And isn’t it shameful that i went and installed a world class blogging system that it so generously provided by the open source community. I should be ashamed that i didn’t go and re-invent the wheel, and spend the thousands of man hours that have been spent on the wonderful word-press blog system.

Fourthly and finally: John, i made a spelling mistake. Cry me a river. Please, comfort me, I’m so emotionally distressed that i made a spelling mistake i think ill take my website offline. But don’t worry John, ill comfort you when you realise you spelt criticise wrong. “critise” as you call it. And ill be there to hold your hand when your misspelling of Microsoft becomes apparent. “Mircosoft”. Or is that a business your trying to start? best of luck with that.  one last thing

The apostrophe has three uses:

1) to form possessives of nouns
2) to show the omission of letters
3) to indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters.

So when your giving out about someones spelling, the least you could do is run an eye over your own text to see your spelling mistakes.

Don’t worry, i made some spelling mistakes in my post too, just to make you feel at home john :)

The Internet is laced with people like John. People that are very fast to condemn, and criticise others. Quick to point out their flaws and errors. If the Internet was rid of these people, i think it could be a better place for all of us. You just have to browse you-tube for more than five minutes to see the countless stupid arguments people are having. These people are cowards, they use the Internet as a proxy, so they don’t ever have to face the people  they are so easily deploring. These kind of people are creating the online bullying scene that is now coming into fashion. These people need to get a life, get off their fat arses and get out into the real world.

So now that that’s off my chest, i’m gonna get of my fat arse, and get my quad going fully!!

Peace out all, and thanks for reading.

 

Quad Finished, well, not really, but nearly!! (1 Comment)

The quad

Just a set of handlebars and we will be flying. Yesterday it randomly started running really well. And has been running good since. First turn over this morning and it sat and idled perfectly!! dont know what i done, but it was the right thing. I was running it for quite some time while setting somthing on the gear box, so mabye the running just settled it in. Lets hope.

Quad looking better!! (No Comments)

After alot of work, and some money, the quads engine is running. And its installed in the frame. The electrics are seemingly working. Although the regulator packed in. But another one of those is on the way from america!! along with a front right brake cable.

I just need a fresh set of front shoicks now and im pretty much there.

Heres a few pics:

Nearly there!

a spot of cleaning wouldnt go amiss!

APRS Gateway Finally Taking Shape (2 Comments)

After dissapearing off the face of the aprs server for over 36 days, and having spent 50 blank cds trying every distro imaginable, i finally added more ram and got the aprs machine working. Turns out it just needed some ram it was comfortable with! A few niggly problems attaching the tnc to a device were solvedby John Ronan EI7IG. Turns out i was telling the computer the packet speed where i should have been telling it the com port speed.

Lets not go into that now. Here it is in all its glory:

the server in its place

Its the black box second from the bottom in the rack.

I just have to add some maps and attach an antenna to the back of it. The device is running Xastir, with an opentracker+ running in kissmode. It has a built in 25w fm rig. The computyer is an 800mhz with 256mb ram. Seems to be going good so far.

More as it happens. Heres how my shack is looking now:

The Shack

Logbook Almost on my site (No Comments)

I finally have my logbook intergrated with my website to some extent. On my front page you can now see the last 10 worked stations, and you can view my entire logbook from:

Here

Although its still in the development stage as we speak, well, as i type. Soon i hope to have a full online log system, where i can ammend my log, and do lots of fancy things on it. And overall just keep it intergrated with my website, which might keep it updated a bit better.

I recently worked a big pileup on 10m, and havnt processed the logbook entries as of yet. But ill soon get em up.

Untill then, have fun, and watch this space!!

73!

Some pics (1 Comment)

Its time i was taking some pictures again, so i went out with a 50mm manual lens and done some REAL (manual) photography heres some of the pics

Im gonna go out and take more now. So hope to see another post sopon :)

Yet another day in barnes! (No Comments)

Well, we spent another day in Barnes yesterday. Once again there was no skip. This time we tried out my kitenna. It worked fairly well. Although i only managed to work span, i was happy it got out at all. Some designs will have to be looked at, to do the antenna right!

The Kitenna

My High tech kitenna! The actual line was made from electric fence ribbon.

Jason, with feedpoint hovering above

I accidentally let go of the feed point, Jason wasn’t too pleased… Thats his angry face!

even tho there was no skip, the day was good fun all the same! we also got yet another pole for the yagi. So its now roughly 7 meters off the ground!