Author Archives: The Elite Geek

What should a business do when they are alerted to a negative message about the business on someone else’s media stream? 1. Email them threatening legal action. 2. Accept it, learn from their mistakes and try and improve themselves. 3. … Continue reading →

WARNING: The following content might be too graphic for some viewers. If seeing scarred tissue, or the internals of a foreign body might make you ill, you are encouraged to look away now. Ok, with the wimps gone, we can … Continue reading →

The G9 telcos behind the proposal in competition with Telstra’s FTTN network, have made some ground, ahead of Telstra, as is nearly always the case, gotta love innovation. Anyway, just today they have submitted a draft plan to the ACCC … Continue reading →

This issue had me running around in circles, trying to recreate the same issue many ways. My system was BSOD’ing when I would load a game, or any full screen 3D video application. I’m sure most IT savvy folk out … Continue reading →

Today, we decided we would set about getting ourselves a new bed, to replace an existing bed that has suffered torture from: Us both sleeping on the sides of the bed. Having a baby sleep in the middle, and practically … Continue reading →

New Zealand Telecom is looking toward selling its copper network rather than facing a regulatory split. That’s an interesting move, they don’t get regulated, and they get a lot of cash for a copper network, as most copper networks are … Continue reading →

What a fantastic site from the competitors (and wholesalers) of Telstra. Love the title: Tell The Truth Telstra. Good luck with that one. Probably have more luck finding people to work for free to install fibre cable, compared to getting … Continue reading →

Points to both sides of the Fibre-to-the-node argument: Telstra’s FTTN plan: * Is approaching 2 years old. * Will affect competition for providers who have rolled out their own DSLAMs * Will reproduce the same scenario a lot of ISPs … Continue reading →

One disappointment with many products is failure to stick to standards. Nearly every system you look at is ATX. They are either mini, midi or maxi. Generally, midi. They all are the same size however, to accomodate different hardware, for … Continue reading →

Telstra have certain charges. For example: $59 – Connection Fee to connect an inplace operational connection at a previously lived in residence. $125 – Connection Fee to connect an existing line, where there is work required to be done on … Continue reading →

The ACCC served a competition notice against Telstra in relation to expensive wholesale line rental, that it had deemed as anti – competitive (and rightly so too). This notice was served in April last year, after Telstra raised the line … Continue reading →

Under recent threat from the proposal of the Labor party to peer with the private sector, Telstra have again bought their FTTN proposal back to the table for further consideration. Telstra originally stopped talks around it’s FTTN network after they … Continue reading →

In June 2007, Optus is expected to make a rather fantastic and interesting move. They will dump the Telstra garbage they resell, in exchange for reselling solely from its own footprint which carries much higher margins. There are good reasons … Continue reading →

April Fools Day. Some funny pranks: Whirlpool: Mandatory ISP filtering will block P2P This one didn’t get me. I was expecting it. Rather funny to see the shocking number of people that fell for it though. Whirlpool: Aura adjusted. This … Continue reading →

Here’s an interesting point, Coles and Woolworths do not sell Panadol for babies, not very convienient. The reason I understand it as being so, is because they could get sued if someone were to buy Panadol from there, and overdose … Continue reading →