Musti's blog

Say all the things you need to say, with Absolut vodka

Musti — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:13:11 +0000

An idea I had that I think would make an awesome alcohol commercial – would be really cool if it was done fully done properly. Filmed by me for a uni assignment (30 second commercial). Oh and I know there’s a spelling error in it! I didn’t write the signs

Window

Musti — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:34:20 +0000

It’s not what it looks like

Musti — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:33:39 +0000

Night view

Musti — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:32:54 +0000

I took this shot on the first day I got my camera, when I was still very excited about it. It's just from my balcony at around 7pm. The wooden fence in the picture is no longer there - the whole thing has been replaced by glass. It's quite nice actually, should probably take a picture of it.

Sunset

Musti — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:31:10 +0000

Southport

Musti — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:30:21 +0000

Southport

Musti — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:56:00 +0000

BF:BC2 Beta server fix

Musti — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:45:15 +0000

The release of the BF:BC2 beta left thousands of players with an almost unplayable game, because the server browser wasn’t (and still isn’t) working properly. I made a very small application that temporarily fixed the issue and was quite surprised to see it received almost 2000 downloads within the first 48 hours.

Download here

More information on the application available here

Internode

Musti — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:08:03 +0000

Best. ISP. Ever.

I signed up on Thursday at 3pm expecting to wait up to a week for my DSL connection because I completely cancelled my service with TPG, as well as my phone line with Telstra. Friday morning 7am I get a text message saying my internet connection is ready to go. I already have a modem ready to go (Dynalink RTA 1320) I’m connected to the infamous OXEN exchange. Some users connected to this exchange are getting very bad speeds because of the massive amount of congestion on this specific exchange so I was expecting to get bad speeds as well, or at least nothing above 8mbps (ADSL1 speed).

To my surprise I’m getting 13mbps which is a huge deal for me. I was always on 1.5mbps so this is great. I’m also getting an upload speed of 1mbps so that is fantastic. The unmetered content that Internode has to offer is also amazing! All the game servers, file mirrors, iView, Tivo etc. I love how I can find my favourite shows like Diggnation on the Internode file mirror and download it without worrying about my usage. I can also download game demos and full games off steam without worrying about the download size.

All in all, Internode is an awesome ISP. Some might not like the prices but it is well worth the money. The customer service is unbelievably good – “It’s like they actually care” so if you’re looking for a change of ISP definitely check out Internode. Their ADSL services are available nationwide, and if you’re lucky you might be able to get ADSL extreme where you live.

iPhone + hellstra + random

Musti — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:44:33 +0000

This week I managed to lose both my iPhone and home Internet connection, which means I have been living in hell!

First of all, dealing with Telstra is the biggest waste of time there could be. I had to call 5 times over 3 days just to get my phone line reconnected, and I’m still waiting! On top of that, my iPhone decided it would be a good idea to randomly die on me as I was using it.

I was getting the “infinite restarts” problem, the phone would not boot up properly and wouldn’t go bast the apple logo. Annoyingly, iTunes does not let you restore an iPhone without an Internet connection so I searched to see if any of my neighbours had something to offer me. No luck there.

Instead of restoring my old iPhone I decided to get a new one, and somehow managed to do just that at 10pm. I still needed Internet to activate it so off to mcdonalds carpark I went! They have 100% free wifi now which came in very handy! Having a new iPhone means that I’d lose over 25,000 text messages (You would text that much too if you had unlimited). iTunes did give me the option to restore a backup but I chose not to, I still had all my contacts but I didn’t see the point of restoring all my messages and apps. It’s a new year, new start.

So now I’m sitting here writing this pointless blog. I really shouldn’t call it a blog, I don’t know who would waste their time reading it. It’s more of a diary, an archive. I’ll read it again in 10 years to remind myself how lame I was/still am. Still waiting for my phone line to be reconnected! I hate telstra. Although I am considering forking out $200 a month for 200GB DSL2 as they are the only provider in my area

I type way too fast on the iPhone, need rehab. Can’t wait for the weekend it’s gonna be the biggest one yet!

Random. Over and out.