After having looked at Ubuntu 2 years ago and finding it wasn't flexible enough back then (old habbits don't die) recent problems with the Debian kernel made me have a look at it again.
The Debian problems I'm facing:
* fingerprint scanner on my Thinkpad X60 tablet didn't work anymore.
* laptop wouldn't boot randomly, but getting stuck during boot process.
* fluxbox randomly hangs in combination with wine.
* upgrade of X.org screwed the tablet screen rotation.
* Neither NetworkManager or wicd in Debian support 3G dial-up without configuring it manually and then it's half arsed.
* New atheros drivers are acting up very badly.
and many many more.
So I installed Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) and I'm certainly impressed.
* Touchscreen and tablet-pen work out of the box (had to be configured manually in Debian).
* Fingerprint scanner works flawlessly after installing the applications. After a few manual changes, even for gnome-screensaver
* NetworkManager works right out of the box, including internal 3G datacard.
* Atheros card works right out of the box.
* Suspend works flawlessly right out of the box.
* The boot time is amazing. It only takes a few seconds to boot the laptop.
All in all, I'm impressed. We'll see how long it'll survive on the laptop.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Cogent on IPv6
Cogent finally set our IPv6 BGP session up today. This brings us to the point where all our 4 of our carriers supply IPv6 to us.
Cogent only has 781 routes at the moment, but I'd say that'll improve over time, seeing that they only get full-feeds from GBLX and NTT, some feeds over Swipnet.
Cogent only has 781 routes at the moment, but I'd say that'll improve over time, seeing that they only get full-feeds from GBLX and NTT, some feeds over Swipnet.
Friday, June 26, 2009
KPN in / GBLX out
The GBLX saga ends. With plenty off issues over the last year, we've shut the BGP down now and replaced it with IP transit from KPN.
Bringing the session with KPN (both v4/v6) online was comparable painless and so far, it's been flawless.
Bringing the session with KPN (both v4/v6) online was comparable painless and so far, it's been flawless.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Google over IPv6
Google has whitelisted our nameservers for IPv6, which means that Google will answer with AAAA records, if requested, and sites like Google, GMail, Google Maps etc. will be served over native IPv6 to our customers.
Blogger.com doesn't seem to be IPv6 enabled by Google yet.
Blogger.com doesn't seem to be IPv6 enabled by Google yet.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Callcenter trial
We're trialing a callcenter in Mayo as of today. Initially they are going to take our sales calls for the next month and we'll see how we get on.
With the growth of the business over the last 3 years, we're simply not able to take the calls at times anymore. At times there are just too many and at other times ... none.
The biggest issue is, that people have the attitude, that they either are impatient or don't want to leave a voicemail. So instead, they start calling like 20, 30, 40 times without leaving a voicemail, when they don't get anybody.
Or they leave a voicemail every time, still call 20, 30, 40 times, not waiting for the callback.
The upside is, if this works out for us, we'll be bringing the call volume down, because we hope to take every call. We should also be able to extend the support hours then.
With the growth of the business over the last 3 years, we're simply not able to take the calls at times anymore. At times there are just too many and at other times ... none.
The biggest issue is, that people have the attitude, that they either are impatient or don't want to leave a voicemail. So instead, they start calling like 20, 30, 40 times without leaving a voicemail, when they don't get anybody.
Or they leave a voicemail every time, still call 20, 30, 40 times, not waiting for the callback.
The upside is, if this works out for us, we'll be bringing the call volume down, because we hope to take every call. We should also be able to extend the support hours then.
Monday, May 18, 2009
e-Net Fiber being pulled in
We decided to move the fiber from Dangan across town to Mervue and also, we're going to light our own dark fiber in Galway. It'll also more than double our bandwidth to Dublin.
The drop connection for that is finally being pulled today, pictures will follow.
The beauty of it all is, that no civils are needed, because we can pull it through existing ducting in the cable-riser of the neighbor building (owned by the same landlord). That way we're ensured, that we've got entirely different paths.
Obviously, this fiber trunk is also on a completely different fiber ring and connection to Dublin from the BT fiber, that already is in Mervue.
The drop connection for that is finally being pulled today, pictures will follow.
The beauty of it all is, that no civils are needed, because we can pull it through existing ducting in the cable-riser of the neighbor building (owned by the same landlord). That way we're ensured, that we've got entirely different paths.
Obviously, this fiber trunk is also on a completely different fiber ring and connection to Dublin from the BT fiber, that already is in Mervue.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Out for GBLX
I've finally had it with Global Crossing. At least 4 issues in the last 6 months, first the incompetence to rate-limit ND/NS ICMPv6 traffic and I had to stick their nose at it, then several times with lost routing, where the routes weren't dropped.
Tonight again, routing lost, BGP routes are still there, but I had to clear the session manually get all back to normal.
All of that I might be able to live with, if the support was decent, but they are a complete nightmare. Also on April 27th the latency on both our IPv4 and IPv6 circuits went to pot. A consistant increase by 40-60 ms is not something i call Tier1 carrier grade Internet.
We've already advised our Layer2 provider to kill the session with GBLX and we're going to replace it with KPN instead. Hopefully that'll prove to be a lot better.
Tonight again, routing lost, BGP routes are still there, but I had to clear the session manually get all back to normal.
All of that I might be able to live with, if the support was decent, but they are a complete nightmare. Also on April 27th the latency on both our IPv4 and IPv6 circuits went to pot. A consistant increase by 40-60 ms is not something i call Tier1 carrier grade Internet.
We've already advised our Layer2 provider to kill the session with GBLX and we're going to replace it with KPN instead. Hopefully that'll prove to be a lot better.
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