Triple J's Hottest 100 For 2011

Todat Triple J played their Hottest 100. The songs you voted for and the best of 2011. What a year it was for Australian music and seeing so many Australian artists in the countdown was amazing. the Australian music industry is going very strong. The top 5 songs to make it onto the countdown this year were,

5. M83 - Midnight City

4. Boy And Bear - Feeding Line

3. Matt Corby - Brother

2. The Black Keys - Lonely Boy

And number one was, Gotye Ft. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know

I think a lot of people knew what was going to be number one. It was very heavily played on radio since it's released. A song I must say I liked and voted for. If you've been living under a rock for the last year check out the video below.

Unhappy New Modem

Yesterday I went out and got myself a new ADSL modem. I decided to change the make and model and went for a D-links modem to replace my Netgear DM111 ADSL modem. What I thought would be an easy thing to do turned into a nightmare. It took me just over an hour to get the modem going so I could just look at websites. It turned out the modems inbuilt firewall was stopping my streaming server from working. I only found out it wasn't streaming when I tried to show someone last night and I couldn't connect. I was out at a meeting of my local rescue squad in which my a member of. I knew when I got back home I had my work cut out for me.

Anyhow on my return home I jumped onto the computer and started to look into why this modem was trying to make my life a living hell. I spent another hour or so on it and worked out this modem just will not talk to my Apple Airport Extreme correctly. The modem has has it's own router built in even thou it only has one Ethernet port on it and can only have one computer connected to it at one time. When I purchased the modem yesterday I saw this of the modem and thought it might be a good thing but boy was I wrong. So after the Australia Day holiday today I'm going to have to take the modem back to where I got it from, Dick Smiths, and exchange it for another make and model modem. Looks like I'll be sticking with a Netgear modem.

The only thing I would like to know is what's the difference between the Netgear DM111 which I have now and their newer model the DM111P? I'm guessing it's Google time lol.

Telstra Outage Part 2

Ok, we now think we have fixed a few issues up now. I'm now using a service called No IP, this will allow my radio stream to work without having a static IP address and thus saving me $10 per month. This new servcie was given to me from Telstra themselves to try and see if it will do what I need a static IP for. So I have reactived the stream with this new service and hopefully it will keep it on the air 24/7. Time will only tell if it works. it's a free service for a basic, single user. So like I said I'm hoping it will work and keep working.

There is still an on going fault at the Balranald exchange which Telstra is working on with their equipment supplier to fix ASAP. Lets hope they also tell us we now have ADSL2+. it would be silly for telstra to spend 10's a thousands a dollars upgrading and replacing equipment to fix the congestion problem we had here and not at the same time upgrade the ADSL equipment to ADSL2+. But I guess we are talking about Telstra here and we are just only country people. So we're not high on their list of customers to give faster internet speeds. Not in a money making area like the city people are. Anyhow can only hope and wish.

So please let me know if you have issues with the radio stream. It's online now.

Telstra Outage

Since Friday afternoon my Internet connection has been out. The problem is a Telstra issue and they are working on getting the problem fixed urgently. Because of this problem the radio stream is not active and will not work until the network issue is fixed. So if your wanting to listen to the radio stream on the SAT FM page you won't be able until further notice.

We are hoping to have the stream back up and running as soon as we possibly can.

Update on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 3:02PM by Paul Hadlow

The outage I was having was fixed late Monday and today I had a new statis IP address issued to me. I'm just waiting on Telstra to make the IP address alive. Once completed I will update you on how it's going here.

Telstra are working hard to get everything working again. Hopefully it will be completed very soon.

Update on Monday, January 23, 2012 at 1:05AM by Paul Hadlow

We are still waiting on this on going problem with our static IP address to be fix after network upgrades were completed but Telstra on 13th January.

We are hoping we will have this problem fixed very soon. We'll keep you up to date on the matter here.

Bad iPhone & iPad Apps

Since getting my first iPhone which was the iPhone 3GS, I've taken a lot of notice to the apps I've purchased and installed on my iPhone. Like all the products I've purchased, one of the things I hate the most is companies not updating their software or firmware for their products. One of this apps, which I loved using was iStat for iPhone. Since Apple released the iPhone 4 this app has not worked correctly and after contacting them many times and getting the same answer, "we're working on it" nothing happens. How bloody hard can it be to fix the problem and release an update? I'm now having the same issue with Netgear and their 3G wireless routers they sell in Australia. These router work with the phone carriers USB modems. Telstra last month publicly released their new 4G LTE network and are now only supplying these new USB modems to their customers. If your old one breaks down and you need it replaced Telstra will only supply you with one of their 4G modems. Now this is great if you plug the modem straight into your computer and don't want to share the connection with other devices like your iPhone or iPad. If you have a 3G router like Netgear's your out of luck, these new modems won't work. Now I hear you saying, well of course it won't work, the router is for 3G networks and not 4G. Well I ask this, how on earth is the router going to know what network the modem is working with? All that is needed is a firmware update so the router know how to connect. I connected Netgear about this and was told they have no plans to update this router to handle the new Telstra 4G modems. What the!!!! Telstra is the biggest telco in Australia and Netgear is saying, oh well we don't care about their customers. Very stupid in my mind. I now have a wireless router I can't use and now have an issue of sharing my connection with my other devices. NOT HAPPY.

Now talking about being not happy and poor service from software makers, I now start on the biggest company's that don't give a shit, FaceBook. The other month they released an updated app for the iPhone and with this update they brought support for the iPad. This is great news if the stupid app worked. This app has clearly not been tested enough, it fails to load, only half works and at times just doesn't load pages or allow you to scroll down. All these issues if it even loads without crashing. I have now deleted the app and gone back to using Safari for FaceBook.

I really HATE companies that show they don't give a shit about their customer/users. Its even worse when you have paid for the app. Lift your game people or else I will not use your products and I will tell others to do the same.