Pentankh Eternal’s Blog

Well yesterday some time while I was at work iiNet disconnected my phone line in preparation for Naked DSL. Once that is completed (est 2-3 weeks) I will have a phone line with no line rental and just Broadband on it with VOIP for telephone.

The VOIP will be quite handy because…

“iiTalk is a broadband phone service included free with every Naked DSL plan . It lets you make calls to fixed phone lines (and VOIP) Australia-wide for nothing.”

Free phone calls Australia wide. Nice. Pity I don’t make many calls but if I ever did I don’t have to worry about how much it’ll cost I might phone my parents from time to time or my sister. Everyone else talks to me on the internet anyway via chat or email.

I phoned ‘3′ yesterday and had Broadband added to my mobile phone account. Unfortunately, they only work in Billing Cycles so it won’t be enabled until Tuesday. That means I have no landline nor internet until Tuesday. Well, technically I can use Broadband through my  phone right now.. at ridiculously high rates for casual use.

Is there nothing this guy can’t do?

While the Liberals were in we had a drought. Now that K-to-the-Rudd is in, it’s raining all the time

Hooray for Krudd!

I got an old Soundblaster PC. It’s 933MHz Pentium III with 256mb RAM. I put my 120Gb Western Digital hard drive in it which already had Mandrivalinux 2006 installed. I had to configure X86Config but once that was done it booted up nicely. I made a few configuration changes and it’s working wonderfully. I guess I should see if some config files can be based off the Interface instead of static IP ranges.  It works well for the low specs and even runs XviD files at full screen with no problems, stutters or skips. So I’m way happy with that. I bought 2Gb of DDR 400 RAM for my own desktop PC. 1Gb just doesn’t cut it. I took out the two 512Mb DDR 333 chips and put in two 1Gb’s. It seems somewhat smoother to use now.

Yey :-/

Go do it or give the gubberment more munnies!

Swimming lessons are over for another week. Might go to the kids indoor playground later. Was going to head down to the Goldie but it’s Schoolies so there goes that idea.

They reckon it will rain all weekend but it’s clear and sunny at the moment. Rained earlier tho.

Not much of a blog post. Byte me!

I’ve started playing Texas Hold’em Poker online at Pokerstars again. Scott invited me back. I am going to try playing with real money. Not much, but it might be fun for a change. This morning Sienna and I woke up early so we headed to the shops.  We went to Target and bought her some new swimmers and a new Dora the Explorer dress. I bought myself some work shoes as well since I could find nothing suitable at the Target in Queen St Mall.  We came back home and she got changed then we went to her new Swimming School. She really loved it there but the lessons are only 15 minutes long. Weird.  I think it’s because they are only open until 12pm on the days they are open so they keep them short. Even Sienna noticed. She came out of the lesson and asked to go back in again.  We came home and had some lunch and I had to go to work in the city. 

Work needed someone to help move a server.  We turned up at 1:30pm which is when we were supposed to move the server but they weren’t ready. We waited around until 4pm before they were organised enough for us to move it, then we had to wait around for another half hour or so until everything was tested.  By the time we got home it was 6pm *Sigh* NOT HAPPY JAN! I get a bunch of TOIL time though. We had some *eurgh* MacDonalds food while waiting and so when we got home we watched some of Happy Feet and Sienna went to bed.  I’m watching A New Hope Star Wars movie on TV while playing Poker.  Let’s hope tomorrow is more interesting.  I did find an advertising brochure for a kids indoor playground not too far from home so I might take Sienna there tomorrow. It’s only $5 for the whole day, but we won’t stay that long.