Tags: Internet

Internet? We don’t need no Stinking Internet!

Apr11
Published on: April 11, 2013
Categories: Technology, Work
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So We have a slight issue here at the Insane Asylum. The ADSL Line that out VoIP server is on can not keep a sync, The second it connects up it then disconnects. It has been doing this for two days now.

This is bad enough, but not something we could not deal with since we have two internet lines coming into the building. But Our main line is behaving just a “Tad” better. It can stay connected for a whole FOUR minutes before dropping the connection.

Hey, The Internet in four minute segments is not that bad right? How about the speed of that line has dropped due to the constant disconnects and is now syncing up at a WHOPPING 0.5Meg.

This is no where near enough to supply the amount of people here trying to work. So even thought we were able to do a bit of creative patching and got an old style phone working (One phone for all the numbers coming into the building) We do not have enough of a connection to the Net for us to do any work even if you were lucky enough to get us on the phone.

There is just one question remaining.

Who has the board games?

CN

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Spock Is Not Impressed

Jul29
Published on: July 29, 2011
Categories: Media, MEME
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Sean Bonner Made a Thing “http://spockisnotimpressed.tumblr.com/Wil Wheaton suggested it get made “A Thing”, The Internetz Agreed and “A Thing” has been born.

(This is a retouched copy of My contribution to The Thing. Original one was a quick five minute knock up while working, you can see it HERE. )

But Remember, Spock is not Impressed! Unless you grab a copy of the Spock template to use to add Spock to photos which can then be submitted to the blog.

Go Internetz. Go spread The Thing and make this MEME fly.


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Interwebs, Interwebs, Wherefore art you Interwebs?

Feb11
Published on: February 11, 2011
Categories: Technology
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Recently we have been noticing the ADSL router at the Ninja Temple has needed rebooting on a more regular bases. At first we thought nothing much of this since its often needed rebooting in the past. The full nature of the reboots were not realised until the several people who have been rebooting/reconnecting the gateway to the Interwebs got together and mentioned they had been doing it more often. At this point it was realised that something was not right.

Now the Insane Asylum provides the ADSL connection to the Ninja Temple, so I logged into the console and checked our connections. And according to the logs we were having a maximum uptime of five minutes, and a average uptime of fifty seconds. With this info to hand, a fault check request was sent in. and this reply was received.

BTW cannot progress this fault as the root cause is the PSTN failure. Please report to your Copper Line Service Provider.ff

KBD test completed, expires at 12:10
The Copper Line test has failed (LN). Openreach network fault found.

OK. So its a BT fault, not a problem as we also have a partners console with them. Fault logged with BT on the business line. The waiting game then began. Twenty Four hours later and we are up to the point where “An engineer is needed to check local network, we’ll let you know when we have an estimated date” So Our best guess is Interweb Services from the Ninja Towers will resume at some point this year.

Watch This Space.

CN

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Sell Out! By Yours Truly

Feb05
Published on: February 5, 2010
Categories: Web Store, WebSite
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Well dear Reader I have a confession to make.

R:You mean, Your finally going to admit to stealing that Grade 3 listed street sign to give to a girl you liked?

GN:errrr. Not that kind of confession!

The confession I have to make is…. I have finally Sold out.  I have had websites for a very long time now, and have never had any advertising, sales, etc. on any of them.  And if you consider at one point my main site was getting several thousand individual visitors a week, I had a few requests for such.

Especially on an Insanity Test I wrote way back in 1999(ish) which had people from all over the world sitting it, from general people, military, governments, and so on.  Well after finding a FaceBook Fan site dedicated to the test, I decided to sell out. and make a simple logo, and put some items up on a CafePress site for sale.

If nothing else it will add a bit of advertising for when I finish the book I’m working on that’s a collection of Very funny emails sent from people sitting the test and answering questions 138 & 139.

138 Have you ever mailed ‘pen@penddraig.co.uk’?

139 If so did you announce your undying love to this person?

So I apologise now.

The Insanity Test Store


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Who knew? Ninjas go Tweet Tweet

Apr29
Published on: April 29, 2009
Categories: Twitter
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I have finaly stepped into the twitterverse. Ok, not really stepped into it yet, I’m currently stood on the side with one toe in the water testing the temprature before jumping in.

twitterI have been lurking around social networking since before it was even called “social networking”, I was a SPOD on the old telnet talkers, I was on IRC before it was full of botnets, ICQ from the begining, then Livejournal, myspace, Bebo, tagged, facebook, linkedin, etc, ad infinitum…. Yet I have never had a twitter account, or so much as looked at a twitter page. Now this is a bit odd since I have accounts on little used systems, yet none on one of the biggies.

I know facebook and MySpace and such may be much bigger than Twitter, but where else do you get celebrities, governments, newspapers posting news and personal thoughts on a daily if not hourly schedule? Where can you read people like Kevil Smiths thoughts without a team of trained ninjas and the knowledge of where he hides his diary (Its in his sock draw)

So I am now on twitter, not really posted much yet and already have 3 followers. And I should get the CodeNinja & Co. on there soon as well.

So for those of you alreay swiming the seas of the twitterverse I am GreatGothNinja (http://twitter.com/GreatGothNinja)

Hopefully I will see you there.


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Busby Pt. 4

Oct29
Published on: October 29, 2008
Categories: Customers, Technology
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It gets better…
After a week trying to evaluate My last “Data FileBusby have decided they are unable to evaluate the data due to their system still being broke from my last test. So to speed things up they are simply granting me access to their Live system as of Friday.

Oh the power… A new system to find the bugs in…


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Busby Pt. 3

Oct13
Published on: October 13, 2008
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An update on the progress of my project with “Busby” is about due.

As you are aware from my previous posts, this project is all about integrating with some old archaic parts of the Internet. For those of you interested in how old, I spotted a variable $Noah.

Well we recently hit a problem where every test we put through broke their system in such a way that they could not reproduce the error even using the test data we provided. Got to love old code.

Well their engineers worked night and day for the last week and have finally fixed the problem.  They rolled back the code to a moth ago before they made any changes.  I believe the old Internet code has become self aware, and is resistant to change.

SkyNet is coming.


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Busby Pt. 2

Oct06
Published on: October 6, 2008
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I thought I would just give you an update on the fun of “Obscure Code” The bane of the Internet.

After months of development, and testing we now have data files that meet the hundreds of requirements imposed on us by Busby. The file was uploaded to the Main test server, Inserted into the system which then promptly crashed. The File was then checked over by “humans” to make sure it complied, which it did.

It was reinserted into the system, and Crashed!

No one knows why, There is no one left from the early days of the Internet left who know how any of this stuff works!


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The wonders of The Internet

Feb19
Published on: February 19, 2006
Categories: LiveJournal, Technology
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Cool.

I have just discovered you can tax your car on-line, So no longer do I have to spend days trying to find all the bits of paper needed for the taxing procedure. Or then pop to the post office during lunch break and get stuck in a line of old people so bored and lonely they go to the post office for a nice chat with the equally bored old person behind the counter…


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