Pierre Marcolini have their shop (they call it a Boutique, Daaaahling) just up the road from us on Kensington High Street, so it would have been chirlish not to visit them and purchase some of their wares.
It’s really not cheap – £25 for 250gr of little chocolates, however the flavours are broadly worth it. My favourites? Violettes and Jasmine Tea infusion. I’ll be back for more!
There’s been a bit of pruning up in my gallery – all my original work is still there, just some of the rather crappy picture of celebs have gone.
It’s now been four months to the day that I had my piercing done.
Not a great to remark upon since the last time I posted about it, last week was a little uncomfortable; a bit of encrustation (eugh) that took a few days to fix, but all sorted now.
I did say that I’d leave it until the four month mark before trying to stretch up again, but after last week’s little set back I think I may want to leave it a little longer. The piercing is still quite tight, and I think that the stretch would do some damage and set me back a bit.
Until 5 months then!
Well, I have to admit at least I’m getting replies from Belkin, but I’m not really getting anywhere.
As a précis, it seems that the router cannot support full sized Ethernet MTUs (1500) in 802.11b mode. 802.11n seems to work fine with standard MTU sizes – I haven’t yet tried the 802.11g mode.
If anyone can decipher the latest reply, a small prize will be yours – or rather, if you can tell me that they’re not talking absolute rubbish:
Alex, the MTU is nothing but the Maximum Transmission unit which is used for the rate of data transfer. Usually most of the ISP’s or the programs use the MTU as 1400 by default. If a particular pc has issue in transferring files or connecting to some websites, this might be the issue with the MTU settings on the router/computer, since there is no proper data transfer.
In your issue, the Pre N card works fine even without changing the MTU size (before changing the MTU). So the issue is only with the non-Belkin wireless cards which are running at 11 mbps speed. May be this wireless card is not able to transfer the files when MTU is set to 1500 but at the same time the pre N card works at 1500. So the MTU depends upon the computer. Some computers work at 1400 and the other at 1500 and third may be at 1100.
Apparently, they’re passing it onto their research team to investigate, but I don’t hold out much hope (although I said that about getting any sort of reply). You will, of course, be the first to know when I do.
This is where I work – that shabby white hut purched atop the roof of another building in the centre.
It seemed to feature quite highly on a program last night about an ex-colleague called Babar Ahmad, called "The New Al-Qaeda". It was complete with reconstructions of Babar and my boss – fairly poor ones though.
It was rather full of hyperbole – Babar really didn’t work with "powerful" computers, unless you count a 4 year-old Pentium III desktop as powerful (which it isn’t).
Anyway, a little bit of excitement in the evening.
My present expensive food fads include:
Japanese White Pearl Tea – A very light tea that comes as little jasmine flavoured balls that unfurl in hot water. Cute.
Sauternes – Stupendously lovely, honey sweet desert wine from Bordeaux. The sweetness comes from the fact the grapes are rotten when harvested. Lovely with chocoloate and rotten cheese.
A few of the more unusual search strings that have brought people here:
The last one features quite highly in Google it seems, hurrah for the lawyers!
A swift update to this problem of any form of uploading from wireless clients of the Belkin Pre-N router / wireless access point.
In summary:
I have reported this issue to Belkin, but as yet have had no reply. A swift Google reveals others with similar issues.
The strange behaviour with file sizes >1kB lead me to think it might be an MTU problem. Anyway, on my two problematic laptops, I used the Dr. TCP program to set the MTU to 1100 for the wireless NICs and that’s sorted it.
Well, it’s a workaround – I don’t consider the issue resolved fully until Belkin publish some working firmware that’s able to cope with the proper MTU of 1500. After all, that’s the ethernet standard.
For now, avoid Belkin router and wireless products until this issue is sorted.
Windows Longhorn has been in development for, well, a while. Things are now starting to progress, but only at the expense of dropping all the good bits out of it like WinFS.
On top of that, they’ve decided to reveal its launch name today – Windows Vista.
Dreadful. It’s supposed to convery "clarity". I think I’ll just call it "WinVi" or something. And here’s the logo look:
The release schedule has also been published, but I wouldn’t pin my hopes on in too much:
As well as having a crazy chute style system instead of your normal tap tube, these taps from Hansa glow somewhere between red and blue depending on the temperature. No more burnt handies then…