Here in the Caribbean (and South America), we have our own internet registry. Since we were running out of addresses from our upstream provider, we’ve decided it was time to arrange a subnet of our own. And so we did. After a long period of calling / mailing, we finally got our assignment last Friday: [...]
In short, I’ve always hated it. But today, it actually made my day. One of our Dutch Students at the office found out a local telco had set up an online SMS application. Curious as they were, they copied the code, adjusted it a bit, and found out they could send messages themselves as well. [...]
Lots of Mystery Meat (aka “steak”), some french fries, and sauce. Our dinner tonight tasted great, for only 7.50 NAFL each ;)
(If I’m dead tomorrow, everyone will at least know why.)
A miracle has happened. When we came home this afternoon, I saw we got a brand new watermeter. Seems my phonecalls to Aqualectra did help, and they finally realized it’s -their- loss if they can’t bill me.
Now, let’s wait for the new bill, I’ll be surprised if that goes right the first time as well. [...]
We’re still working on our network setup. Setting up new sites/locations, pulling links from one point to another, and trying to keep stuff redundant in the meantime. At the moment we’ve come pretty far I can say, as we pulled out the “final” router we needed today. This one is going to be in the [...]
The last few days, it has been raining like crazy. So much even that we got some leakage in the house, streets were flooded, stuff like that. As it doesn’t rain very often, they don’t have any way of getting the water away quickly. Funny sight though :)
Also, we’ve assembled quite some furniture already. Including [...]
Finally, the furniture arrived. I’ve been waiting for the stuff since I got here (on February 11th). To cut a long story short: The mover thought there was more to ship, and thus decided to keep my stuff stored until more would arrive. Which would never happen. Which I’ve told them. But anyway, after some [...]
Suppose you have a Cisco VG224 (Voice Gateway) located at a cruiseship-dock. Suppose the fans get corroded by the salt over time, and there’s no airco, so the thing stops working because of the heat. Ofcourse you don’t have any spare parts, and ordering fans will take some weeks due to customs+shipping.
This was our [...]
This morning, when I woke up, Soosh mentioned we didn’t have any water. I got out of bed, opened the gate, and went to check on the connection, meter, and stuff. As those are all outside everywhere on the island, it sometimes happens some “kids” just turn off the water for fun. Though, this time, [...]