Boooooring. Seems like nothing is happening these days. Still hanging on the phone checking out the ADSL situation but to no avail. The MediaBOX is dead in the water. My inspiration has hit rock bottom and I feel generally agitated because of the lack of events. RealLife sucks as usual. It is at times like [...]
Filed under Uncategorized by Björn Hallberg 5 years, 8 months ago | 310 views
Change of plans. Again. Looks like there will be no DSL for me after all. For some reason the base station became full over night. Or so they say.
I personally think that Telia kept my account on ice just enough time so that they could get another Telia customer to replace me. How is that [...]
Filed under PC by Björn Hallberg 5 years, 8 months ago | 201 views
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse. And then the secondary harddrive collapses. I have had this 40GB IBM 60GXP for like 10 months so you can understand that I am somewhat surprised.
Most of the data on the device was salvaged and the primary damage consisted of an array of bad clusters. After [...]
Filed under PC by Björn Hallberg 5 years, 8 months ago | 189 views
Ha, finally! New account should be activated in a day or two. They even had a deal where new customers got a free Zyxel Prestige 645 DSL bridge. Not too shabby if you ask me. Now I can buy a router instead.
The service itself will be up and running in about 20 days. I’ll be [...]
Filed under PC by Björn Hallberg 5 years, 8 months ago | 250 views
It has now been five (5) days and Telia still haven’t rid me of their despicable ADSL service. This stinks if you ask me. Sure, you can get an account and have a technician switch a couple of thingies within a day or two .. and then have a functional account within little over a [...]
Filed under PC by Björn Hallberg 5 years, 8 months ago | 184 views
Unfortunately, they were unable to assist me in the struggle with customs and did NOT feel that the customs fee and especially the handling and giro fee constituted a problem that they could deal with.
Well then, it seems I will have to cheat my way out of this situation as usual. If they are looking [...]
Filed under Movies by Björn Hallberg 5 years, 8 months ago | 228 views
If you remember, my BTTF got taxed since customs easily picked up the package being sent from Hong Kong. Now, there have been some rumours that CD-Wow have changed their shipping routines in order to foil EEC customs control. This is their official reply in this matter:
I can confirm for you that our new shipping [...]
Filed under Movies by Björn Hallberg 5 years, 8 months ago | 203 views
The order from DVDSoon has been voided. It should have shipped any day now but it seems that the Swedish customs dept. caught up on DVDSoon and their business as of last week. A great deal of items have been attacked, including several LOTR box sets. I am NOT going to do the same mistake [...]
Filed under Movies by Björn Hallberg 5 years, 8 months ago | 214 views
I voided the Telia account. The first customer service person I talked to didn’t really understand the word “service” and refused to do it for different reasons. I soon became really rude as well and eventually had to hang up. I called back, got another, more service minded person and the account was closed just [...]
Filed under PC by Björn Hallberg 5 years, 8 months ago | 243 views
Did you know that in Sweden you have to void you ADSL account from your current provider BEFORE you can establish if any competing providers are available in your area.
This is easily the most stupid technical solution that I have seen in a very long time. And as with so many other bad technical solutions [...]
Filed under PC by Björn Hallberg 5 years, 8 months ago | 221 views