Cristian Bradiceanu » Personal http://blog.bradiceanu.net just another (technical) blog Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:18:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Internet in Qatar http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2008/03/06/internet-in-qatar/ http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2008/03/06/internet-in-qatar/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:04:01 +0000 admin http://www.bradiceanu.net/wordpress/2008/03/06/internet-in-qatar/ Starting this morning the Internet link is very slow, with 10-40% packet loss and 1.5 second RTT. This could be due to Qtel’s PCCWBTN link down starting after 8 a.m. AST. Traffic is routed via AS6453 (Teleglobe), which is heavily overloaded and oversubscribed. Of course, the FLAG Telecom link is not used for ADSL subscribers. So, the 2 MBPS ADSL link (largest residential package available in Qatar) real speed is around 200 kbps. This reminds me of home Internet access ten years ago.

]]> http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2008/03/06/internet-in-qatar/feed/ 0 Watch your home TV anywhere http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2007/11/10/watch-your-home-tv-anywhere/ http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2007/11/10/watch-your-home-tv-anywhere/#comments Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:52:31 +0000 admin http://www.bradiceanu.net/wordpress/2007/11/10/watch-your-home-tv-anywhere/ Thanks to Sling Media, I can watch all cable and Pay-TV stations in Qatar, streamed directly from my home over the Internet. I can even remote control the Set-Top Box.

Sling Box (classic) connections: analog antenna (tuner) – cable, Composite input – UPC STB. The setup will be complete with a DVD HDD recorder (connected to S-Video input and also to the STB).

The new Sling Box Pro is on the way from amazon.co.uk.

]]> http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2007/11/10/watch-your-home-tv-anywhere/feed/ 0 n-am.ro and nuam.ro domains http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2007/05/19/n-amro-and-nuamro-domains/ http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2007/05/19/n-amro-and-nuamro-domains/#comments Sat, 19 May 2007 10:16:09 +0000 admin http://vps.bradiceanu.net/wordpress/?p=45 Just registered n-am.ro and nuam.ro domains.

Web sites are ‘parked’ for now until I choose what to put there.

E-mail web access at mail.n-am.ro.

Also, the Start Page at start.n-am.ro, Calendar at calendar.n-am.ro and Docs and Spreadsheets at docs.n-am.ro. For mail, nuam.ro is aliased to n-am.ro.

If you have ideas about web site content or want an e-mail address in these domains let me know :-) Same for mumu.ro domain.

DNS hosting kindly provided by EditDNS.

]]> http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2007/05/19/n-amro-and-nuamro-domains/feed/ 0 Google Checkout and Apps woes http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2007/03/31/google-checkout-and-apps-woes/ http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2007/03/31/google-checkout-and-apps-woes/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:30:20 +0000 admin http://vps.bradiceanu.net/wordpress/?p=42 After more than one month (order placed on February 27, 2007) I still haven’t received the Premier Edition upgrade.

Please see my post on Google Apps discussions:

http://groups.google.com/group/apps-features/browse_thread/thread/aae0d17d398c80a

Never seen such bad and unprofessional support for a (future) paid service and I highly recommend against buying this service.

]]> http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2007/03/31/google-checkout-and-apps-woes/feed/ 0 Google Apps does not accept payments from Romania http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2007/02/23/google-apps-does-not-accept-payments-from-romania/ http://blog.bradiceanu.net/2007/02/23/google-apps-does-not-accept-payments-from-romania/#comments Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:49:04 +0000 admin http://vps.bradiceanu.net/wordpress/?p=40 Got this message from Google Checkout while trying to upgrade to Premier Edition:
Google Apps does not accept payments from Romania
VISA xxxx – Not accepted

I have used the same Visa card to upgrade Picasa Web Albums storage and on my trip to US with no problems.
Sad :-(

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uname -a output:

SunOS laptop 5.10 Generic_118844-20 i86pc i386 i86pc

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