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1986 words in 7 posts over 4 days
CONTENT WARNING (LANGUAGE)
828 words by attila written on 2022-02-11, last edit: 2022-02-23, tags: outage, telmex, writing
ssh has been red for 8 minutes 45 seconds. a little red square that says: ssh 8m45s in the middle of it. like some castaway or prisoner yeah better prisoner: let me be played by john casavetes please ranting but slowly ranting and raving and ... read more
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147 words by attila written on 2022-02-11, last edit: 2022-02-23, tags: cfe, outage, personal, telmex
fxxk everything. that's the main thing. fxxk EVERYTHING:
nyet weather
it has been almost 6 weeks since our dsl went out. we've had nothing but tethered internet over our phones. the signal is sxxt. the internet is sxxt. it was always sxxtty but now it's extra special ... read more
98 words by attila written on 2012-05-18, last edit: 2012-05-25, tags: mexico, outage, telmex
Telmex finally restored basic connectivity to us today. Yay?
We're now back to the familiar sucktastic Telmex DSL connection that we have known and loved... shouting "BE MORE FASTER" at the screen is not only good therapy it actually helps. Really. We swear. A ... read more
117 words by attila written on 2012-05-17, last edit: 2012-05-17, tags: outage, telmex
What the fuck. Our phone went dead including dial tone and DSL on the night of 1 May and has not come back as of 17 May. Telmex is beyond belief. We are finally online using a Huawei E173 3G USB Modem ... read more
452 words by attila written on 2013-06-17, last edit: 2016-08-06, tags: mexico, outage, telmex
I would like to think that "rats ate my Internet" is a rarely-uttered English sentence. I don't imagine many people have had occasion to use it. It would be even more difficult to imagine someone who has had more than one occasion to use it although one would strongly ... read more
143 words by attila written on 2012-05-24, last edit: 2012-05-24, tags: mexico, outage, telmex
Rafael Carrillo the manager at Telmex in Mérida that seems to have taken an interest in our case promised me that he would look into increasing our connection speed. It appears he was true to his word. Our modem now reports that our line is configured for 2mbps down / ... read more
201 words by attila written on 2022-02-15, last edit: 2022-02-19, tags: bsd, cli, hacking, ksh, linux, monitoring, shell, telmex
Sometimes you need an indicator light. I used to find them comforting on the computers of yore.
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