Archive for January 13th, 2006
Eircom Broadband 11 hour downtime. What exactly am I paying for?
Posted on January 13, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork, Ireland, Technology.
Few useful words for Network Operations in Eircom: Active/Passive Clusters, RAID, RAC, Multi-Pathing, Redundancy, 24*7*365 Network Monitoring, investment, SLA.
€33 per month ex-VAT for this? Next time Eircom, maybe don’t double the download speed, just halve the price.
This wasn’t just me, this was, in their words, “the Cork region”. Can anyone who has business broadband with Eircom in Cork confirm if they were down from midnight to 11.30am this morning? Are you going to sue?
Of course, we’ll all be refunded the half-day downtime on our bill. Oh maybe not, it might affect the price they are acquired at by the latest suitor who sees an effective monopoly making shed-loads of money for old rope.
[tags]eircom, cowboys, service, monopoly[/tags]
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Testing Postie Plugin from GMail
Posted on January 13, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Blogging, Pictures, Technology.
Dirk, who has written the most excellent Postie plugin for Wordpress is
putting a ton of effort into tracking down why I can’t send an MMS picture
message from Vodafone to the blog using his plug-in. We are now testing
other mail clients to see if they work. This one has a picture attached as
the suspicion is that pictures are causing the problem.
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