The Site With the Lamp: November 2007 Archives

Faith Restored in Dialog

November 30, 2007

Finally I have got my Dialog Telekom WiMax connection and I am very happy dialog customer once again. As I understand it this is the first connection given out from the Battaramulla base station. There were several issues in setting...

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Toshiba A100 - 786

November 27, 2007

My mother's birthday present on her sixtieth birthday last week was a Toshiba A100 786. It happens to be her first computer. I wanted to get her a Macbook but because of the trouble my father recently had with his...

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First reboot.

November 19, 2007

Yesterday for the first time in a very long long time, I have had to restart my desktop because of a software failure. This machine does get rebooted once in a while. Most often it's because of a power cut....

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Faith (Partially) Restored in Dialog.

November 15, 2007

After my initial disappointment with dialog, things took a dramatic turn for the better. The email I sent to Dr Hans had been acted up. My faith in Dr Hans Wijayasuriya has been restored and I would once again assert...

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A dead macbook.

November 14, 2007

My father's macbook which is just three months old is a goner. It refused to boot Tuesday last week. You get nothing but a black screen when you press the power button (even though the power LED is lit). Apparently...

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WiMax and the decline of Dialog

November 12, 2007

Update 15-11-2007: please see Faith (Partialy) Restored in Dialog and Faith Restored in Dialog Dialog Telekom once Sri Lanka's primier Telco is now in slow and stead decline. I have commented about this before but even I didn't realise how...

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