Monthly Archives: January 2012

Wikipedia Blackout Day 2012 January 18

Wikikpedia has blacked itself out in protest of SOPA and PIPA – the anti-piracy legislation by the U.S. Government. I can’t think of another country that would put such restrictions in place. I mean, tampering with the world wide DNS … Continue reading

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FibreOp Update

The wonderful techs from Bell-Aliant stopped by today to replace the smoked router. That still did not fix the problem with the televisions but I suspect what follows is a coincident. Once they replaced the smoked router – and, yes, … Continue reading

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FibreOp ActionTec Router – Failed?

Looks like it was too good to last: part of the video feed has failed. Suddenly during the middle of Sunday afternoon – when I was about to watch the Huston Texans-Baltimore Ravens game, how ironic is that – the … Continue reading

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Post-FibreOp Install SpeedTest

Here is an update post-FibreOp install. The installation started about 9:00-9:30-ish and ended just before 4:30. There is a fair bit of work required. The fibre has to be run from the utility pole to the house. Then the UPS … Continue reading

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Upgrade to Bell-Aliant FibreOp

Today is the day that we are upgrading to Bell-Aliant FibreOp.  I have been on Aliant ADSL since, well, almost forever – whenever they brought out ADSL in the St. John’s metro area.  It was call Warp 3 service that … Continue reading

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Linux Mint 12 and USB 3 – Grrrr….

I’m still having problem with USB 3 and Linux Mint; version 12 in this case.  I’m going back and trying the pci=nomsi option once again.  This is really, really annoying since all my VMware Workstation virtual machines reside on the … Continue reading

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