Thursday, 16 February 2012

Decoding the ebay rx:EndTime in RSS feeds time date utime unix time

The rx:EndTime in ebay item RSS feeds is related to utime or Unix time

The numerical content is multiplied by 1000 so it has to be divided by 1000 to convert it back to utime.

For example

rx:EndTime
xmlns:rxurn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents
content 1330125134000

Dividing the content by 1000 gives
1330125134

Put this into a utime online conversion such as http://www.epochconverter.com/ and you get
GMT: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:12:14 GMT

The GMT end time can then be converted to your local time by the usual methods.
pages.ebay.com/internationaltrading/timezones.html

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Tuesday, 17 January 2012

How to get your money back from Dodo Wireless Broadband! 3G [WIN]

Ugly fuckin' bird!
Dodo 3G is oversubscribed and has become hella slow, slower than dialup.

Meanwhile, the consumer has to pay for failed uploads / downloads for substandard service.

Calling their Australian Indian call center will not help if the tower is congested.  So the next step is to demand MONEY BACK.


This worked for me on my prepaid 3G broadband.  Do your homework first by following these steps.
  • Calculate what percentage of unused data you have left and calculate this against the initial data purchase price as the basis of refund
  • Fill out the online service support form at http://response.dodo.com.au or Google "Dodo complaint" to find the page link
  • State to Dodo that you wish to seek a refund based on the usable data left on your account.
  • Mention that the service is slow, unresponsive 3G broadband AND you will complain to the TIO if they don't refund (complain anyway)
  • Also state that you have previously contacted their technical services, tried differed hardware, different location but all to no avail.
If they don't not contact back in two days, contact them by phone and go through the standard loop of tech support, followed by escalation.  Finally state that you will require a refund for the crap service.

They will eventually credit back a refund and in 10 minutes your modem will be - no service.  Bye bye 3G Dodo aka Optus Shite.

It is time to make the Dodo extinct!



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Friday, 6 January 2012

reaver wps error: sqlite3 library not found! ubuntu | sqlite3_open


./configure not working?

New with reaver-wps 1.3

Need a bit of sqlite action

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

done!

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paypal politically exposed person, why ask this question?

Politically Exposed Person

A Politically Exposed Person (PEP) is someone who performs important public functions, for example:

Heads of state, government and cabinet ministers;

Influential functionaries in nationalised industries and government administration;

Senior judges;

Senior party functionaries;

Senior and/or influential officials, functionaries and military leaders and people with similar functions in international or supranational organisations;

Members of ruling royal families;

Senior and/or influential representatives of religious organisations (if these functions are connected with political, judicial, military or administrative responsibilities).

politically exposed person


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Monday, 2 January 2012

Displaying multiple web pages on a single web page

Source: http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/152344-multiple-web-pages-1-screen-page.html

If you like to keep a eye on multiple web pages without flooding tabs here is a way to do it.

I know there are FF extensions that can do this.

http://pastebin.com/z33nh5tw

<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="content-type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<table style="width: 1000px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center" width="50%"><iframe src="http://slashdot.org" style="width: 500px; height: 400px;"></iframe><br>
</td>
<td align="center" width="50%"><iframe src="http://slashdot.org" style="width: 500px; height: 400px;"></iframe><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" width="50%"><iframe src="http://slashdot.org" style="width: 500px; height: 400px;"></iframe><br>
</td>
<td align="center" width="50%"><iframe src="http://slashdot.org" style="width: 500px; height: 400px;"></iframe><br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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