Well, I fixed them, the permalinks. A permalink of course is a URL that points to a specific blog entry even after the entry has passed from the front page into the blog archives, or — in my case — to a completely different system. Because a permalink remains unchanged indefinitely, it is less...
Read more →Last night, at 22:40 my ADSL line came back to life, after having shut down around 17:00. OTE finally switched me back to 4Mbps. I guess kyría Ioanna came through for me after all. The bumpy 24Mbps ride seems to be over. Thanks for your sympathies, everybody. Blog conversion progress I’ve added Tom’s biography...
Read more →Day 13. I went down to the city centre today to plead with kyría Ioanna (the new DSL tsarina) to speed up the process of downgrading me to 4Mbps. She really did her best, talking to various persons on the phone, to make my case a priority. I’m now back home for 3 hours...
Read more →Welcome, welcome! You’re looking at my new blog! Actually it is the same blog, but the software that powers it is new: I changed from MovableType to WordPress. The reason? It was about time that I upgraded my old MovableType installation which hadn’t changed since 2004 and which was creaking at its seams. Moreover...
Read more →Day 12. Get this: it is Sunday, moreover it is a special Sunday, Epiphany, which is celebrated all over Greece, the highlight being the diving for the cross, where young (and not so young) men dive into the ice cold water to retrieve a cross that the priest has thrown in. This typically happens...
Read more →Day 11 As I reported already the ADSL line was up at 07:40 this morning. Without a single interruption it stayed up until 12:13. Could it be possible that I had finally entered 24Mbps nirvana? You know the answer already of course. No, I hadn’t. At 12:13 the line went down for the first...
Read more →Day 7 of ADSL flakiness. On Monday December 31st I went to OTE in Iraklio to speak to a real person about my ADSL problems. Of course I didn’t get any further than an administrative staff member who dully noted down what I said (I presented her with a nice spreadsheet of all the...
Read more →On Friday evening the line went down again around 18:30. I could see a pattern emerging here: every evening (afternoon if you’re Greek), the line would lose its sync between 17:00 and 19:00, and would remain unable to connect again for between 10 and 16 hours, until around 10:00 in the morning. During that...
Read more →Well, my christmas present from OTE turns out to be a lemon. Let’s re-cap: on December 19th I ordered the upgrade to 24Mbps. The lady at the other side assured me that I qualified technically. By that I understood that the infrastructure of OTE was capable of actually delivering 24Mbps to my house. On...
Read more →Just in time for the christmas season, OTE, the incumbent telecom operator, which happens to be the supplier of my ADSL connection, has announced drastic price cuts to their services. I ordered my upgrade yesterday and as a result I will soon have a 24Mbps/1Mbps ADSL2+ connection for €29.90/month, VAT, ISP, all inclusive, no...
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