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One pretty damn beautiful word

Published on 5. August 2011 in life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

Versandbestätigung

Yes, that’s right, my new iMac is finally on its way to me. I haven’t had my own computer now for around 6 months and I am really looking forward to the screamer that it will be. Little does it know that no sooner will it be delivered than I will be opening it up for surgery to further increase performance – OWC SSD and my 16GB of Crucial RAM here we come :-)

Where's our speed?Now we just have to wait for damn Deutsche Telekom to give us the VDSL speed we ordered. I mean, I expected that they would royally f@#k things up – which they have so far – but it is getting kinda stupid now.

Deutsche Telekom offered us 50Mbps speed and we were really unhappy with the service we were receiving from 1 & 1 so we canceled 1 & 1 and signed up with Telekom. Well, first they forgot to send the router out which, after calling them they sent it out. Unfortunately it was a piece of rubbish anyway so we returned it and I bought a new Fritz Box 7390 from Saturn. This fixed all the reception problems certain machines were experiencing when connecting via wifi with the Speedport W 723V and proved that the Telekom router really is an inferior product.

Anyway, ever since signing up we have been stuck on 6Mbps and I asked Ina if she could ask them why that is. They created a ticket and then came the response that 50Mbps was not available in our area. Hmmmmm, why did they offer it to us in the first place then? I wonder.

But now all the street around us is being dug up and a big fat beautiful fibre cable is being transplanted into the earth, this can really only mean o0ne thing. The “Weisse Flecken” that Telekom considers we currently live in is being worked on and we might just very soon have the speed we’re after after all.

Summer rain

Published on 2. August 2011 in life and music. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Yes.
The rain.
And a lot of it.
Today is the first sunny day we have had for at least a week or two I believe.
Ridiculous really.
Was at a friends place the other evening and the weather report showed that at that time it was warmer and sunnier in Sydney (Winter) than currently in Berlin (Summer).

Here’s my Haiku:

Sad Berlin Summer
Gone and missed its time to shine
Always the same; pain

So be wary when you read something like this online (taken from world-guides.com):

“During the summer, between May and August, the city of Berlin can get pleasantly warm with many hours of sunshine and it is very unusual for a day to have no sunshine at all.”

Because this is the second Summer in a row that has seen very little, if any sun. I’d certainly be pretty pissed if I came here for a Summer holiday……

p.s. Received the OWC SSD (the second one they sent out on the 27th, July – the first is most likely now residing in a DHL guys house in his newly constructed computer – f%#ker) and have ordered my new iMac – originally Apple said it would take 4 days to be ready, now they say 2 weeks. Whatever, it’s not like I haven’t been waiting months already right??

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SSD woes

Published on 27. July 2011 in life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Well, it has been over 1 month since I placed the order with OWC and there is still no sign of it. The real pain is, as I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, that I was stupid and chose delivery without a tracking number. So who knows where it is, it left the States to never never land – one thing I am almost certain of is that it is never going to arrive at my doorstep.

I mean, how long do we actually live? Do I really have to set aside a minimum of 1 month every time I order something from the States? What freaking century do we live in? How can anything possibly take that long (or longer)? The package enters Germany within generally 3 days, after that it is this f@cking country that is pissing around with my time. This place just pisses me off so badly sometimes. When I order something from the States and am living in Australia (which is a hell of a lot further away from the States than bloody Germany) it usually takes a maximum of 1 week. So just what the f#$k is going on here is anyones guess. This country is slow in every possible way – there are roadblocks even where you can’t see them and it wears me out sometimes to the point where I just don’t want to be here anymore.

I am just so pissed. I don’t know who has it, but someone does – and my bet would be on some wanker from the Zollamt that just happens to be building a new computer right about now.

Luckily, since I bought the product in the States, they have wonderful customer service (even though it is partially my fault for choosing the cheapest shipping). I reported that it still wasn’t here and that I am now in a tough spot because I can’t order my new system until the disk arrives (which I am – I now have no machine to do my work on from home which means I have to stay longer at work). The person I spoke to (Adam) was very friendly (even though I might have come across a little annoyed) and offered to start a claim against USPS and have another SSD sent out immediately via FedEx without incurring any additional charges myself. Can you imagine the same service in Germany?? No, I didn’t think so.

So no matter how this place keeps on f#$%ing with my shit ordered outside of the EU, they can go f#$% themselves, I will keep on doing it regardless. Until I can order what I require within the EU – I don’t see why I should be forced into purchasing an inferior product just because it is available locally. That to me seems like some kind of dictatorship – it certainly doesn’t provide me with the freedom to which I am entitled.

Maybe nothing has really changed at all – the wall is down but still nothing gets in…..