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VDSL: Bye, bye

Dustin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:11:44 +0000

Still haven’t received any update from the Telekom service desk regarding my latest inquiry. I also called in again today in order to see if there might be someone that could actually help (of course not, not even telling them that I would pay to figure out why VDSL is supposedly not available helped). Therefore I [...]

VDSL: My first invoice

Dustin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:27:32 +0000

I was stunned to receive an e-mail with my first invoice from Deutsche Telekom today. So at least that seems to be working. Still I am not able to properly use their self-service website and I also assume that this is the reason why I am also not able to order VDSL. I will be a [...]

VDSL: For the fun of it…

Dustin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:10:18 +0000

As I am getting bored of waiting for my first invoice from Deutsche Telekom (will it ever come?) I thought it might be fun to get into the discussion with the service desk again: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, ihre Antwort ging nicht über den Text der Fehlermeldung auf der Webseite hinaus ("Versuchen sie es später nocheinmal") und stellt [...]

Germany vs. Turkey (3:2) …again…

Dustin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:52:33 +0000

Hm, I guess we are lucky to reach the final. Turkey was clearly the better team. Thank you Philip Lahm!

Germany vs. Portugal (3:2)

Dustin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:47:34 +0000

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY! We actually made it into the half finals of EURO 2008. I really have to repent for not believing in us winning against Portugal. What a game, probably worth a final! Unbelievable…

A Day At The Park

Dustin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:00:50 +0000

Friday night we decided to drive over to Amsterdam and enjoy the A Day At The Park open air on saturday with Sven Väth and Dubfire. A few colleagues of my beautiful girl had asked us to join them and it sounded like a great idea - except for the weather forecast which promised rain [...]

VDSL: Try again later…

Dustin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:23:38 +0000

At the end of last week I received the following response to my support request asking to fix the link betweeen my phone and account number. Apparently the agent working on that task did not understand what I asked them to do (in German only, sorry): Entschuldigen Sie, dass Sie die Anwendung -Mein T-Home- für Ihren Anschluss [...]

OpenSSL: Retrieve remote SSL certificate

Dustin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:12:58 +0000

The following small script has been copied over from madboa.com: #!/bin/sh # # usage: retrieve-cert.sh remote.host.name [port] # REMHOST=$1 REMPORT=${2:-443} echo |\ openssl s_client -connect ${REMHOST}:${REMPORT} 2>&1 |\ sed -ne ‘/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p’

VDSL: No progress..

Dustin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:21:00 +0000

Dammit! I spend a good chunk of my free time on the phone with the Deutsche Telekom support the last two weeks without actually moving forward a tiny bit. Currently the status is: I am not able to order VDSL (even though all my neighbours are -> we are all connected via the same house connection) Deutsche [...]

VDSL: Land line ConnectOK

Dustin — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:09:36 +0000

Long time no write… I’ve been on vacation during the past weeks and on my return last Friday I found a letter from Deutsche Telekom announcing they would install the land line on Tuesday, the 27th of May which is - today! At 12:23h the service technician rang the bell (absolutely on time, he was scheduled to [...]