Brisbane POTN: General Ramblings Thread v2.0

woah 1024 takes a while to load on 64k heheh we blew out the 3G limit here at home

nice pics all, bummer about the job Helen.[p]... hope you get one you enjoy soon...

wakko wrote in post #4612663
woah 1024 takes a while to load on 64k heheh we blew out the 3G limit here at home

nice pics all, bummer about the job Helen.[p]... hope you get one you enjoy soon...

Is that the royal we! Feng. How much of the 3G did you own?:p

Greg_C wrote in post #4612698
Is that the royal we! Feng. How much of the 3G did you own?:p

No, Greg, you've got it all wrong. Jessica did most of the downloading, hey Feng?

Bloody kids, can't keep them off the computer.

Primm wrote in post #4612747
No, Greg, you've got it all wrong. Jessica did most of the downloading, hey Feng?

Bloody kids, can't keep them off the computer.

lol hehehe

Greg_C wrote in post #4612698
Is that the royal we! Feng. How much of the 3G did you own?:p

Primm wrote in post #4612747
No, Greg, you've got it all wrong. Jessica did most of the downloading, hey Feng?

Bloody kids, can't keep them off the computer.

I was going to say her... but you guys wouldn't have believed me

In all seriousness though, I think a combination of the 3 boys (brother in law, brother and me) and our work emails/patches/updates etc did it hehe...

Changing their provider to one with a dynamic cap now though... sliding quota. "Need more? Slide bar!" Very much a pay for what you use system... If you don't reach your quota, they only charge you for what you use ($1.02/GB). You just choose your maximum cap.

Primm wrote in post #4612747
Bloody kids, can't keep them off the computer.

Amen to that. My sister has been on the computer with all my photos on it all day and won't get off.

I think I might have to go for some portable hard drive sort of setup so that I can have them and DPP, photoshop etc installed on them so that I can use virtually any computer I like. Here or elsewhere.

Greg_C wrote in post #4609871
I haven't got a good shot of one of these guys yet. The pre-flash that the ETTL system emits seems to spook them so when the real flash goes off they are a blur in the air.:o

Not always Greg - if you shoot enough of them, you come across a Doli that is just plain well, non-fussed about the flash and stays put. I got an image of on recently, but would have to find it.

Dave

wakko wrote in post #4612663
woah 1024 takes a while to load on 64k heheh we blew out the 3G limit here at home

nice pics all, bummer about the job Helen.[p]... hope you get one you enjoy soon...

Well spare a thought for some of us still stuck on 56k guys...big images like that simply take forever for us to download...

3gb download limit Feng, that's crap, who you with and how much are they ripping you off by? TPG offer a ADSL 1 8000k plan, 20gb/20gb for $59/month. I'd go with my employer, ECN, but they're VERY expensive...at least I got a job, and got a freebie dialup account to boot

Helen - sorry to hear about the crappy agencies. I personally detest agencies and think that they should be made illegal.

Happy new year everyone.

Dave

dpastern wrote in post #4613288
3gb download limit Feng, that's crap, who you with and how much are they ripping you off by? TPG offer a ADSL 1 8000k plan, 20gb/20gb for $59/month.

That would be his parents place in NZ i think. He has some incredibly huge cap back home

ahhh, just to make me jealous...

I might go with a shdsl line via work :P 2mb up and down nah don't need the upload amounts lol!!! Plus work is far too expensive, $189/month for a adsl 1 8000k plan, 20gb d/l limit...

Dave

No idea what ours is. I do know its got 1mb up unlimited and we have a 50gb download limit that gets throttled back to 512k unlimited if we go over it. I think its just a tad over $50 a month.

-spam- wrote in post #4613388
No idea what ours is. I do know its got 1mb up unlimited and we have a 50gb download limit that gets throttled back to 512k unlimited if we go over it. I think its just a tad over $50 a month.

Are you sure about that 512k throttling Sam ? Most ISPs only do 64k on a throttled link (or 128k if you pay for the better plan).

Greg_C wrote in post #4612265
Nice Spidy Sam, some flutterbys from me.

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No.2 Skipper

Dammmmn...... that is one awesome shot. That light and DOF is just fantastic!

DAdeGroot wrote in post #4613407
Are you sure about that 512k throttling Sam ? Most ISPs only do 64k on a throttled link (or 128k if you pay for the better plan).

hey hey, David.

Welcome to the thread

Im pretty sure thats what it gets cut back to, it seems faster when its throttled than our old 512 connection was.

dpastern wrote in post #4613288
I'd go with my employer, ECN, but they're VERY expensive...at least I got a job, and got a freebie dialup account to boot

We used to be through ECN before "downgrading" to Smellstra Bugpong. This was back in the dial-up days, though.

I've been with an agency for the last year as a result of not being at uni this time last year. I have a mild intellectual disability, so I was with a firm that specialised in people with disabilities, but because I could still get a job by myself they were never really hands on with me. The only times they were I was attending some workshop thing where I already knew all the stuff they told me. The other time I'd be at their office with them helping me go through newspapers and websites and stuff and they were lathering on such a false sense of optimism by saying things like "Oh you'd be good at that job" and things like that. Needless to say I wondered why I felt like sh*t when I didn't get said job.

The biggest mistake I made was getting the job at Wollies because I was no longer a priority for them so they only rang or emailed me once every six weeks just to be polite. When the sh*t hit the fan at Wollies and I stopped getting hours my case manager had the hide to suggest I try getting hours in other departments. Then and there I realised that he had no idea what he was going on about at all.

I haven't told them about Australian Geographic and I probably won't unless they mention it first. My contract with them ends this month and I'll be so glad because they really were a waste of my time.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #4613407
Are you sure about that 512k throttling Sam ? Most ISPs only do 64k on a throttled link (or 128k if you pay for the better plan).

-spam- wrote in post #4613425
hey hey, David.

Welcome to the thread

Im pretty sure thats what it gets cut back to, it seems faster when its throttled than our old 512 connection was.

You know, Spam, I think your subliminal messaging has claimed another victim.