NEW BLOG!!

New Blog:

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I no longer update blogger- as userfriendly and fun as it is. Call me a wagonist.

Agile 

Closed 

Opened out 

Sideways 

Agile messenger again 

My messages 

Statuesque - Shining despite the dirt. 

The Nokia 9300, Ahhh Sheer Delight! 

Trying Something New

Until I get my camera back to take pics of the Nokia 9300 in action I need to give some reasons to read my blog.

What do tech guys like more than tech? Answer... HOT GIRLS.

Why else do we play games like Dead or Alive 4 if not for the amazing CG, why else do we run behind Lara Croft in Tomb Raider? No, it isn't because she can jump...

Additionally I am a HUGE Vybz Kartel fan. I figured let me try a little something.

Did I say my phone is King?

Whoever said bMobile's GPRS service was bad is probably using a lame phone. Yes, you and your SLVR and your Motorola C333 and the like having nothing on me. NCB uses bMobile's GPRS system to do their mobile swipe card system. I use bMobile to remote control my PC from my Nokia 9300.

Yes, that is what I said. I was having some trouble with my DynDns account and figured out that the reason I wasn't remote controlling things is because my account password was incorrect. After correcting that I was able to promptly log into my remotely anywhere account on my PC and view the status. I havent yet tried to remote control in the real sense- over GPRS... ridiculous- but I can manage accounts, shut down the system, telnet, ssh and just about everything else.

I was also able to swiftly adjust my wireless network settings at home from the phone while I was at work. I think I am getting infinitely happier about my new phone. I still haven't setup blackberry fully but I have everything else. Perhaps a new voice dialing system would be a welcome addition.

Pictures to come.

My Obesession

I just wanted to post a link to my obsession. I don't think I will add or subtract anything from this setup. I am just going to save my money until one month I can just close my eyes and buy all the parts. The best part will be putting it all together, bit by bit. It shouldn't be too loud because I am using ultra silent fans.

New Build

New Developments

I have made some changes in my life.

I have given away (second phone donated) the Motorolla V300 to my father. Seemingly it was father's day and I figured it would make a good gift. It was either I give it to him or I give it to my girlfriend's sister. Dad got it. He likes it too; it is the coolest phone he has ever owned. Happy father's day dad- who will never read my blog.

You may be asking what phone do I have now? Am I going to go hard or go lame? Well, to all my player-hating non-supporters I have gone hard. We call her 9300, Nokia 9300. The Godess of phones is with us; the Nokia Smartphone will be our refuge. So me and 93, so we roll.

I had every intention of taking pictures but well... I did other things instead. I will however post some web pics until I can borrow my camera again.

The phone is everything. It runs a Symbian 7, Series 80 OS which means that it can be anything imaginable. It has some awesome default features which I haven't fully tested but will certainly attempt. It has a system lock which I guess is anti-theft. It has built in document, sheet, powerpoint etc readers. It has the ability to do an ip-passthrough. Therefore when connected to my PC, whether by cable or by bluetooth the phone will inherit my internet connection (1mbps) and act accordingly. I want to test that theory. I am going to build a PAN using bluetooth to the phone. It is going to be hype.

I wanted the phone because it has been haunting me for years. I had to go through so much crap but finally I took out the money (retails from CandW for J$44200) and said yes. It closes to show a regular brick (and mortar?) phone but when it opens it becomes your mini-laptop. Hype. I have two more things I want to put on it and then it will be ready for hard labour. I am going to load blackberry connect on it as well as Bulldog anti-virus.

Due to changes at work I am going to be connected to the BES so I may as well have a fully featured and fully open device to do everything. Antivirus is a basic necessity for a smartphone. I wish I could insure the phone though- but that may be stretching it. I can only get it under householders insurace- and I don't own my own yet. I am still a kid I suppose... right.

I have Agile Messenger running with googletalk, msn and yahoo so I am as connected and even more so than with the hiptop. I have a fully featured HTML browser. It comes with a messaging client. I am not going to upgrade it until I see how the phone handles blackberry first.

Some guy

SO there is this dude who calls in for tech support saying he is unable to ping his ip address. He has a dynamic ip (a residential account) so all I want to know is whether or not he can browse the web. He can browse, he can check email- why is he bothering me. He thinks he should be able to ping but he has no idea how pinging works.

Firstly- is his modem going to allow an incoming ping request? No answer.

Secondly, is the machine behind the modem (al-be-it masked by a NAT Firewall) going to respond to the request? No.

So I try to give him some knowledge and let him know he needs to reconceptualize things. Punk.

I called the Internet Admin and asked them if we block things- nope we don't . What makes matters worse is that residential customers aren't supposed to be able to ping- he was surprised when I told him that I could. I think if he knew the little things I was up to it would blow his mind. I do worse than ping, I vpn, remote desktop, ftp etc. The only thing I haven't really tried yet is a web server. That was simply because I couldn't get Win 2003 server to deal with my wifi on a radius properly (a task I will one day pick up under Nix.)

All the guy needs to do is flash his Speedtouch 536 to a recent firmware version. After he does that he can verify some settings related to incoming requests. The new speedtouch firmware allows for integration with Dynamic DNS. He should get himself an auto-updated account so that he doesn't have to remember the ip- like a lame person.

Geez, tired of these NOobs.