I’m filing this under the “Things that suck” category. My two mac’s when connected directly to each other using a Cat 5e ethernet cable connect at 1 gigabit/second. Take the same cable and plug it directly into a Linksys N600 which is supposed to support Gigabit ethernet, and it’s stuck at 100 megabits per second. […]
December 14, 2013 | Rants | No comments
Update: HM’s Director of Comms was kind enough to post a response here (see below in comments), Elmarie responded in the comments, today the issue was resolved when the owner of the HM distributer in South Africa called Elmarie and apologized for the way things were handled and it sounds like they’ll be working together on […]
March 13, 2013 | Rants | 3 comments
Until January this year I lived in Elizabeth, Colorado for a year and a half which is 30 miles from where the shooting occurred 3 days ago. Many of my extended family still lives there. My brother called me in France from Cape Town to tell me it was going on in real-time, via Reddit, […]
The worlds largest blog host by a wide margin, Blogger (or Blogspot.com) has now actively started redirecting visitors to top level country domains (ccTLD’s) based on which country they are in. I run a real-time analytics service and we have roughly 700,000 Blogspot customers. At 1AM on January 30th (UTC time) we saw a huge […]
Does anyone else not care about Google plus? Hitwise released a report that says Google+ traffic had declined by 3% for the week ending July 23. Google are of course in damage control mode and claiming that Hitwise ignores Android, iPhone and traffic to the web app and only takes into account traffic to the site itself. […]
July 28, 2011 | Rants | No comments
[Update at end of post] I love Dell servers. In fact I even love their network hardware. I’ve spent 0000’s (yeah that’s four zeros) with them during the last 2 years and Mick my old sales guy rocked! As did his hardware team. I’m ready to spend more money. Yup, I’m going to take my […]
November 5, 2009 | Rants | 14 comments
Don’t ever leave a website that starts to get any kind of traffic on the joke that calls itself GoDaddy. As a registrar they’re not bad but their DNS tool is very broken. I won’t bore you with tales of my screaming match at a manager there at 2am when a simple A record IP […]
March 11, 2008 | Rants | 1 comment
If you’ve ever visited Nissan.com you’ll know the story of Uzi Nissan being sued by Nissan Motor Corp. Having been sued over trademark infringement before, I know how hard this must have been for Uzi – and how hard the decision to appeal must have been. Nissan.com is a descriptive name in the case of […]
October 1, 2007 | Rants | 1 comment
I rant, Tony rants, Alan ranted. With surprisingly similar space-time coordinates. Our love of Facebook is duly recanted. We’re no longer Zuckerberg’s subordinates.
July 30, 2007 | Randomness, Rants, Tech News, Technology | No comments
I’m not a copyright nazi and I’m all for sharing. But it really pisses me off when I see people plagiarize my blog entries verbatim without even giving a link back to the source and without adding so much as a single sentence of their own content. Add a couple of sentences of your own […]
July 22, 2007 | Rants | No comments