Tuesday, February 18

Geek

Aye Aye Net

Eight years ago I signed up with iiNet for ADSL on their top-tier business plan, which gave me 1.5 mbits down, 256 kbits up, and 60GB of monthly downloads.

I'm still on the same plan, and paying the same amount each month.  Only now I get 14 mbits down, 2 mbits up, and 1200GB of downloads.

I wish more things worked like that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:01 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 66 words, total size 1 kb.

1 Every so often I'll log into my Linode manager (I don't need to except once in a blue moon anyway) and find that, hey, they've upped my memory/CPU/storage allocation just because.

I love those guys, especially now that the Fremont CA site isn't going up and down like a yo-yo anymore...

Posted by: GreyDuck at Wednesday, February 19 2014 06:32 AM (3m7pZ)

2 That's pretty nice, GreyDuck--it's been my experience that they don't bother changing your plan for you if the new one's better and cheaper, they just keep charging you for your now-obsolete plan--the way I found out about this was looking at my hosting site and discovering that I'd been paying a plan for about two years after it was replaced with one much better.  That has happened to me personally once, the place I currently work once, both with web hosting, and Verizon did it to me with Fios once (when I called about cancelling they pointed out that the plan I was on wasn't even offered any more and bumped me from 5MBps to 25.)

Posted by: RickC at Thursday, February 20 2014 11:54 AM (swpgw)

3 Pixy?  I need your help... there are still two rogue comments in my "CONTENT > Comments > edit" screen that are so long that they've pushed all the editing boxes off the edge of my screen.

I can't seem to find where to adjust the Editing screen to widen it, if that's even possible.  Could you please work your magic on this matter, like you've done before?

Thank you muchly!

Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, February 24 2014 04:17 AM (zG9ns)

4 'Duck, if you're using a modern browser and know a little HTML/CSS, hit F12 to bring up the developer tools.  You can use those to do something clever like resize the element that's too big.

Posted by: RickC at Tuesday, February 25 2014 02:02 AM (ECH2/)

5 I have no idea what I'm doing.

Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, February 25 2014 01:37 PM (WZT9T)

6 And now I've got a visible spam comment, too.  I weep.

Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, February 25 2014 01:45 PM (WZT9T)

7 Sorry about that Wonderduck.  I'll take a look now.

If you let me know the spammers' names or URLs I can run an automated search-and-destroy script on them.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:04 PM (2yngH)

8 Okay, you should be good now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:11 PM (2yngH)

9 And I'm going to try something...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:11 PM (2yngH)

10 rhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarbrhubarb

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:12 PM (2yngH)

11 Okay, comments thingy shouldn't do that no more.  (Works in Chrome, anyway.)

I'm going to replace it with a Datatables widget at some point soon.  That will handle all the ick formatty stuff for me.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:38 PM (PiXy!)

12 Pixy, thank you!  While I don't use Chrome regularly, I'll keep it installed just in case this happens again. 

You're the ginchiest!

Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:43 PM (WZT9T)

13 Now also for Firefox!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:52 PM (PiXy!)

14 Looks like somebody created an account just to leave comment spam

Posted by: Hypozeuxis at Monday, March 03 2014 05:01 AM (XjJZF)

15

That happens occasionally. Maybe once a year, one of them spams me. (My blog requires a login to comment.)

Didn't happen today, at least not yet.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, March 03 2014 06:36 AM (+rSRq)

Hide Comments | Add Comment

Comments are disabled. Post is locked.
50kb generated in CPU 0.0695, elapsed 0.5559 seconds.
56 queries taking 0.5441 seconds, 358 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.