Archive for August, 2008
I'm Online!
You’ve probably heard it from others, migrating from an ISP to another or new subscribers on a blank line tend to go horribly wrong.
Missed deadlines, defective modems, weird connection issues, finger-pointing among the ISP and line-supplier, etc. The horror-stories are well-known and occur too often.
Not for me though, I’ve had the most fluent installation possible.
Scenario: new (blank) analog line, new subscription with third-party supplier. Pretty simple.
I’ve applied for a DSL-subscription a month ago, and got notice from the ISP that the subscription would be ready the 7th of August. Yesterday, the line was supplied and I installed my modem. (5 minutes and 3 cables of work)
It all worked straight out of the box!
And to top it all: the ISP is only charging me from the 5th day of subscription, so that’s 6 days of free internet for me! 
Maybe I’m lucky, maybe there are nags i’m about to find afterwards, but for now the ISOP charges me €15,- per month for their 20mb-max line. Too bad I’m too far away from the DSLAM to get that speed, and my modem is only showing about 8mbits of speed.
Oh well, we’ll see what happens if I reroute the cables inside our house. 
Microsoft vs. Firefox3: finally resolved?
It took them quite a while though, but finally the update to Windows Live Mail has been pushed to the mailserver my account resides on.
No more Mail Classic, but the enhanced version that has been available to Firefox 2.x users for ages, and has been made unavailable for the Firefox3.x users. It seems to have been a browser-detection issue over at Microsoft, but they’ve managed to fix it.
Yay! I’m a happy camper.
Proof:
August has arrived
It being the first day of the new month always lets me reflect the previous month. A lot of stuff has happened in July, of which not all was good.
At this very moment though, the guy from the supplier is installing our lavabo and the previously mentioned accessories and he’s due to be done in a few hours.
I’m really eager to see what it’s like and how it fits in the small space that is our bathroom.
Luckily, I’ve been able to get past all Oracle-install issues and finally got DBXE, SoaSuite 10.1.3.3, JDev 10.1.3.3 and BAM 10.1.3.3 running one the very same box.
All is working well, and with 10.1.3.4 being released just a few days ago, I’m due to do some more installing and upgrading soon. I’ll post some hints and tips to do some tedious jobs when installing the software, as it nearly always fails to install properly on the first try.
*runs to the coffee machine*