GKPE: General Ramblings thread

dgcorner wrote in post #3059599
Rumour has it the the internet backbone was down early this morning for "maintenance" -- it is why the whole country didn't have access to the internet. Frankly, I think it is a lot of crock that Telecom continues to provide worse than 3rd world internet services!

Not sure if the hardware is owned by telecom, but it was a Telstra outage officially

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momentz wrote in post #3060942
Not sure if the hardware is owned by telecom, but it was a Telstra outage officially

Dunno if it is related to the broadband issues, but Telecom replaced a major router on their network at 11:30 due to a hardware fault. Took down our connection to the auckland regional libraries for 10 minutes so nobody could get any books out in greater auckland (except for auckland city) because we host their library system.

telstra went poof. this then effected telecom and every other ISP - the router change over was planned and was just coincidental to the outage..

Telstra finally got it fixed at 2pm.. It basically killed most international traffic and internally was so clogged thats why we ground to a halt..

How can we (thats NZers) compete on a international market with this sh1te service.

Hey all you Kiwis
Was kindly directed over this way by Scottnz. I'm kind of new to photography. Just had a 400D bought for me, so I'm frantically trying to learn how to use it!

So nice to meet you all.

Di

Nzshrimper wrote in post #3061024
telstra went poof. this then effected telecom and every other ISP - the router change over was planned and was just coincidental to the outage..

Telstra finally got it fixed at 2pm.. It basically killed most international traffic and internally was so clogged thats why we ground to a halt..

How can we (thats NZers) compete on a international market with this sh1te service.

funny that some of you had problems with the internet, my internet has been connected all day

Di-in-NZ wrote in post #3061100
Hey all you Kiwis
Was kindly directed over this way by Scottnz. I'm kind of new to photography. Just had a 400D bought for me, so I'm frantically trying to learn how to use it!

So nice to meet you all.

Di

hey Di, welcome to the forum. we are all friendly and even helpful enjoy your stay.

Di-in-NZ wrote in post #3061100
Hey all you Kiwis
Was kindly directed over this way by Scottnz. I'm kind of new to photography. Just had a 400D bought for me, so I'm frantically trying to learn how to use it!

So nice to meet you all.

Di

Welcome. Di is female? Just thought I better check.

Oh found out checked profile via website .............

Di-in-NZ wrote in post #3061100
Hey all you Kiwis
Was kindly directed over this way by Scottnz. I'm kind of new to photography. Just had a 400D bought for me, so I'm frantically trying to learn how to use it!

So nice to meet you all.

Di

Hi Di, Im the overseas correspondent here bringing you news & weather from Europe.

Warm but overcast. (Er... not me, the weather!)

Well just looking at cars. I have 1 craped out 323 that is falling apart but great on gas and around town. Then I have a nicer 929 but V6 and with the price of fuel (Super 96) a bloody fortune to run but brillant on long trips.

Umm what to do. I need to think about my day trips up North.

welcome Di..

weka2000 wrote in post #3061135
Umm what to do. I need to think about my day trips up North.

Buy another lens or a 1 series body and forget about the car.:p

weka2000 wrote in post #3061135
Well just looking at cars. I have 1 craped out 323 that is falling apart but great on gas and around town. Then I have a nicer 929 but V6 and with the price of fuel (Super 96) a bloody fortune to run but brillant on long trips.

Umm what to do. I need to think about my day trips up North.

Corolla is a good option. Chose an interiour trim level that you like, the engines are bulletproof and economical throughout the range

weka2000 wrote in post #3061135
Umm what to do. I need to think about my day trips up North.

get a mini

Welcome Di, I hope you have a sufficently large wallet, it can be quite dangerous perusing these pages.............

Tony, the car we got for our daughter is an absolute miser, I filled it up on the day we picked it up, its done about 250km since and just put $17.00 in it to top it back up.

1300 cc 1994 toyota carolla very tidy & straight $2500

Its a bit hard to get used to driving a car, driven vans, people movers for the last 11 years, seats are soo low to the ground!!!

I have to take the family with me
We have Sandras little 323 but no good on hills with 4 people. I did look at a couple of sports cars but no back seats....perfect