Did I wake up in 1995, or is the SAAQ restricting my choices to two banks in Quebec?
I can renew my license plates online with a credit card, but for some reason, they seem to want to force me to either waste paper and a stamp, or to go to their location to pay.
And yes, paying at their location will cost you an extra $3 on top of that $86/year driver’s license.
In an attempt to see if it was worth it to switch to Google’s DNS, I made a quick performance comparison.
Using DNS Performance Test (DPT) , a tool that uses a random list of domain names, I tested performance over 500 (502 to be precise) queries. First, to my ISP’s servers, then to 8.8.8.8 (Google’s).
This test is far from scientific as I ran both test back to back, didn’t try multiple periods in the day, etc. But whatever, it’s fun !
ISP / Google
Worst Query time: 1166ms / 880ms
Average query time: 167ms / 145ms
Timeouts: 8 / 4
So it would seem that for now Google is slightly faster. However, this is probably nowhere near enough to convince me to give Google some even more logs to profile me, no matter what the privacy policy says..
Online service available
* Monday to Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
* Sunday noon to 11:00 p.m.
Note: Any operation completed after 11:00 p.m. will not be recorded.
via Vehicle Storage | Online Services SAAQclic | SAAQ.
What ? The government computer only gets in at noon on Sundays ? ??
Latest build of Chromium 4 as my default browser for a week, on OS X.
Let’s see how I can survive this.
First step: Install AdBlock+ And Subscribe to EasyList. That was why I could never survive Chrome before. Oh well that and the fact that the window decorations on Chrome for Windows make me want to jump out of the Window. (no pun in…yeah it was intended).
I have just upgraded my Macbook pro to 10.5.8.
I didn’t use the combo update for two reasons:
1) My ADSL is totally messed up, waiting for Bell to fix it, so 700+megs is insane for an update
2) I figured that since my OS X install was about a WEEK OLD that it could handle updates easily.
The install went fine, I rebooted.. and now I can’t even launch Firefox 3.5 !
Update: I rebooted a second time, and now Firefox seems to work fine. My spotlight index appears to be wiped, which I assume is normal.
Weird.
