On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Low Chin Chau <[email protected]> wrote:
> sure. I do get the timeout-on-long-downloads errors, but not one where
> a site is persistently unavailable.
>
good for you. Dunno if i'm just unlucky, surf a lot, have been with
starhub for a long enough time to notice this sort of thing... or a
combination of some of those things.
> One of my pet peeves though are sites that don't work without the
> "www". But that's another matter :)
>
yeah, I agree. Like local singapore (sometimes governmental! ahem
<transport>!) sites.
> Peace
>
yeah. My deal is with starhub, and this nonsense of theirs. And their
CSOs can be quite brain dead at times. ("starhub = not ok. Bypass
proxy = ok. You dont get the connection?")
-jf
--
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."
--Richard Stallman
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
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