Archive for December, 2005

Rogers High Speed Internet now Low Speed, because of Rogers

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

On Rogers? Using their Cable Modem to connect to the internet? Did your Bit Torrent traffic suddenly die? Rogers Cable is no longer a good service for downloading files from the internet.

This is because Rogers has blocked/restricted/lowered the priority of Bit Torrent transfers in the last week or so, as a welcome home for the holidays for people like me who’s parents’ use Rogers. This is too bad as I just discovered DTV for internet TV and it downloads most of it’s files via Bit Torrent.

Based on other’s experience posted at BroadBandReports.com’s forums Rogers has restricted Torrent traffic so they can reserve more bandwidth for their new home phone service. A search on Roger’s High Speed Internet Page yielded no results.

What should you do if you are looking to purchase High Speed Internet for your new computer or you have something like Vonage or need to send file to or from work? Simple, contact your phone company about high speed internet. Rogers can no longer adequately provide this service.

Rogers slows downloads

UPDATE: In some Torrent applications turning on encryption will get around this, but you must turn off non-encrypted connections. An ISP (maybe Rogers does this, maybe they don’t) can just restrict traffic to places like mininova.org.

Here is a list of ISPs that punish Torrent traffic and the ammount of workyou need to do to get around it: azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Bad_ISPs

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PimpMyNutCracker.com

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

PimpMyNutCracker.com

PimpMyNutCracker.com — for all your holiday pimping needs.

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Podcasts

Monday, December 12th, 2005

We launched the University Teaching Podcast last week at work. As with many podcasts, production qualities are low, and they have this silly kid doing the intros, but we hope to grow on all fronts over time.

On another podcastsing note, the CBC is conducting a survey on Podcasts. It took me 10 minutes and I ticked off ‘likely’ and ‘frequently’ on most options, but it might take you less time.

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Hey crackhead!

Monday, December 12th, 2005

I heard about this craigslist.com post on TWIT. It’s a very funny post by someone who had his motorcycle sparkplugs stolen for use as a crackpipe.

“Hey Crackhead”,

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Dressed up Acrua from a dress down

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Here’s an Acura 1.7 EL that’s a lot like mine but with rims, wind guards and skirtting. I like the skirts and think it might be a nice addition to my EL, but I think the funniest part is this web page, created to sell the rims for this dressed up EL, is hosted at www.greenhavensc.com, Green Haven Sun Club. The Green Haven Sun Club is a Nudest/Naturist club.

Dressed up cars for dressed down people.

Fancy EL

UPDATE: Want to compare this ^ EL to my car? It’s now the picture for the Acura EL article on Wikipedia.

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paypalimony.com

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Remember when I said I had two new web sites to create, one was still born: paypalimony.com.

More info to come, but I wanted to make this space available for comments.

Screen shot of one of eight random slogans on site

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Downtime

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Sorry my site was down today.

I reauthorized comments the blog on Thursday after installing Hascash. Friday afternoon I was alerted that I had excessive growth in my error log. I attempted to correct the PHP Warning: ob_start(): output handler 'ob_gzhandler' cannot be used after 'URL-Rewriter' warning over the weekend but apparently did not completely fix it. I’ve since found the wordpress support document that details that Firefox doesn’t trigger the error.

Thus, today Potent Products, as detailed in their Terms of Serivce, has not tolerance for errors in your log file and make a habit of reading your log file. My website was shutdown and I was cut off from my E-Mail. I was able to negotiate a 24 hour reprieve and immediately placed the PHP command error_reporting(0); on the top of the offending page to suppress the warning (as it’s not an actual error and the site still works). I’ve since traced the problem to having wordpress’s bandwidth saving gzip function enabled and the hascash tool.

Thus I would recommend Potent Product’s web hosting to anyone who’s looking for a host who will shut their web site down before they consume 0.01MB of your alloted storage space within 48 hours. It’s good to know they’re there looking over your shoulder.

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