tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88196805469239162792009-05-10T21:27:31.393+12:00Welcome to our Blog, a collaborative project between Phillip Jackson and Hayden Tennent.Hayden Tennentnoreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819680546923916279.post-85684597251065633012009-05-10T19:40:00.026+12:002009-05-10T21:27:31.400+12:00

I recently initiated a trial of Private Box which offers a postal mail forwarding service.  The service is run by Steven Morey of Wellington.  They advertise on their website a 28 day change of mind policy along with a two month free trial.  After signing up for their free trial and finding out a bit more about the company I decided to cancel the service.  Cancelling by email was not very

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Varying response time claims from First Security.  Varies from 8 to 25 minutes.From: Jacques Gerber [mailto:JacquesG@firstsecurity.co.nz]Sent: Friday, 3 April 2009 11:57 a.m.To: Bernadette WebsterCc: De Wet Cronje; Izak NelSubject: RE: RESPONSE TIME : Dannemora AREAGood Day BenadetteOur standard response time for this area is a target time 15min at nightand 25min during day time.Regards,Jacques

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Hayden Tennentnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819680546923916279.post-17547514958674432712009-02-20T14:36:00.003+13:002009-02-20T14:42:46.918+13:00

I ran a brief experiment with Google Adwords which included the term 'netbook'. I ran the campaign for a few days and then paused it.I received the following email today from Google asking for the removal of the term 'Netbook' due to trademark concerns.----------------------------------------------Campaign: 'Affiliate Test,' Ad Group: 'Asus 1000HA'----------------------------------------------AD

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When you attempt to log into the National Bank website, it redirects to nbnz.co.nz regardless of whether you came through nbnz.co.nz or nationalbank.co.nz. NBNZ.co.nz is currently not resolving correctly. People are unable to log into internet banking.Website unavailability via domain name confirmed from multiple locations as shown belowHyperSpinAlertra SpotCheckOpenDNS reports the following

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IX webhosting have now migrated my MySQL databases for nztechie.com and nztechie.net on to a new MySql server.  They migrated it three hours after the agreed time but I don't see any problems at this stage.  I had no communication from the administrators on the progress of the migration until it was completed.  Support agents I spoke to through their chat facility refused to provide or get any

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IX Webhosting acknowledges that their MySql Server MySql404.ixwebhosting.com is overloaded, and offers to move the NZTECHIE.COM database to a "Less Loaded" server.Dear Hayden,Thank you for contacting our technical support team.Thanks for your patience and sorry for all inconveniences that you have been faced to. Let me please inform you that our administrators have investigated your issue and

Hayden Tennentnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819680546923916279.post-37809354652886914062009-01-15T19:17:00.005+13:002009-01-15T19:23:48.775+13:00

NZTECHIE.COM is currently experiencing some severe degradation in service with the main site being unavailable at regular intervals. According to IX Web Hosting they are experiencing a hardware problem with the MySQL server I am using in conjunction with my site. The MySQL server in question is MySQL404.At this time the fault is ongoing.Below is a copy of the email response to my support

Hayden Tennentnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819680546923916279.post-88529904792233739692009-01-13T15:01:00.001+13:002009-01-13T15:01:33.242+13:00

Hi Hayden Unfortunately, we are writing to let you know that Telecom has decided to close Ferrit.co.nz, so from 5pm Wednesday 14th January you will no longer be able to make purchases online at www.ferrit.co.nz. Of course you can still visit any one of our retailer’s websites directly. Ferrit retailers will be

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So i downloaded Playstation home today and like everything on the PS3 it took forever, and after a few times of unable to connect to server, i finally got started, made my charater and walked around my house, looks cool, then more downloading of the home square, while that was taking ages i moved my chairs and tables around. Finally it was downloaded and i went into the square, it was quite busy

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A man in Scotland calls his son in London the day before Christmas Eve and says, I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough.'Dad, what are you talking about?' the son screams.‘We can't stand the sight of each other any longer,' the father says. Were sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call

Hayden Tennentnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819680546923916279.post-89075632750461931942008-12-15T17:50:00.005+13:002008-12-24T16:52:25.056+13:00

So i'm finally changing web hosts from Startlogic to ix Hosting. This change should be happening next week so check back for updates on the process :)Hopefully this change will inspire me to get some exciting things happening on my website!

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Email from New Zealand Agent for Sandisk stating that the Sandisk Titanium Plus USB Flash Drive is not available in New Zealand.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: Neal Danby [mailto:NealDanby@lacklands.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2008 2:35 p.m.To: xxxxSubject: SDCZ28-004G-A11 Hi xxxxx,This product is not available

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Quote"26,991 of our customers have been infected with fake Anti-Virus 200979,469 websites have been spreading the Anti-Virus 2009 infection120,923 malicious files have been removed from our system"Fatima Said, CCOIX Web Hostinghttp://www.ixwebhosting.com

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There was a man who worked for the Post Office whose job was to process all the mail that had illegible addresses. One day, a letter came addressed in a shaky handwriting to God with no actual address. He thought he should open it to see what it was about.The letter read:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dear God,I am an 83

Hayden Tennentnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819680546923916279.post-83622744289578608862008-11-10T20:06:00.002+13:002008-11-10T20:09:06.491+13:00

The page at https://banking1.anz.com says:The message you have entered into the Pay Anyone Reference field contains inappropriate or unsuitable language. Please amend this language to allow your transfer to be processed.

Hayden Tennentnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819680546923916279.post-71651123323091774322008-10-21T15:19:00.004+13:002008-10-21T15:23:50.551+13:00

Just received this email from 1-day regarding an outage of their website!Oh Dear!!You’ve probably figured out by now that something’s not quite right with the 1-day website today!Our technicians are furiously scratching their heads, running around with clipboards and plugging and unplugging all sorts of cables to try and kick the dear old thing into life again so that you can have your daily

Hayden Tennentnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819680546923916279.post-77483193458484334392008-10-13T18:46:00.003+13:002008-10-13T18:50:44.908+13:00

Clicking this Google public service announcmentLeads to this:

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Tonight i had a burst of inspiration and started work on a new project which is actually an old project i've been trying to do for years.And here it now begins again......The settlers arrived and built a house,Then a Church,And so the town starts to take shape,More to come....

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After restarting my router a few times, and tweaking a few settings. Below are the results of my speed test.Not bad I say.

Hayden Tennentnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819680546923916279.post-38854886125102139172008-10-03T20:04:00.006+13:002008-10-03T20:18:47.772+13:00

Broadband - Terms & Conditions - Telecom Business Hubhttp://www.telecombusinesshub.co.nz...uctTerms.aspx"Telecom is unable to provide specific performance guarantees, however we are committed to providing a consistent and reliable service. While we always strive to provide a consistent service, there are a number of factors that influence reliability. For this reason, we do not guarantee

Hayden Tennentnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819680546923916279.post-85932499475226788952008-09-22T20:40:00.003+12:002008-09-22T20:51:39.847+12:00

Hello!This is the latest update from the world of Xetatica! aka SLPNZ.New Youtube site: www.youtube.com/slpnzrailFeaturing Rail Videos.New Blog site: http://slpnz.blogspot.comFeaturing Stuff from All SLPNZ Projects!Update on Model Railway Project: http://www.slpnz.com/rail/index2.htmlFeaturing A video on the Construction & Operation, And info on the exciting New Layout COMING SOON!!4 New Tracks

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Today I received a replacement PCMCIA / PCCARD cage for a Dell 620 laptop that I have been working on.The above picture shows the broken cage. I would surmise that the damage was caused by the T3G card that is used in the slot being subjected to a significant shock, causing it to break the cage.

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Funny message I got when I was searching for more information about the Waihopai spy base.According to 3dnewzealand.com the spy base is located at the following coordinates:Latitude: -41.576 Longitude: 173.739

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Came across this while looking at digital cameras on the Sony website.Defeats the purpose of having an online special when it is unavailable online. Is this some sort of marketing technique I am not aware of?

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