Savings

Well, I downloaded 838MB from a Monash computer today. I'm pretty sure most of it won't be going towards the quota but it was worth a shot (was seeing 4MB/s).

• VMWare Server 2
• VMWare Player
  
• Paragon Backup 9 (apparently I have a legit free serial)
  
• Radeon graphics drivers

Date	Time	Type	Number	min:sec	$
24/06/09	1:55 PM	Free SMS	614xxxxxx85	00:00	0.00
23/05/09	9:50 AM	Standard Call	04xxxxxx33	00:03	0.56
22/05/09	5:15 PM	Free SMS	614xxxxxx83	00:00	0.00

Challenge complete - no expenditure for one month. muahaha
But it looks like I have too much left over:

$18.62

Saturday 15 August 2009

It'll have to be rolled over then. hmm

Savings follow-up:

24-JUN-09	Faculty of Business & Economics - Students	ca-web-9030.lib	HTTP Browsing	off-net	107,765,417	0.592710
24-JUN-09	Faculty of Business & Economics - Students	ca-web-9030.lib	HTTP Browsing	on-net	1,742,486	no charge
24-JUN-09	Faculty of Business & Economics - Students	ca-web-9030.lib	Generic Non-Established TCP	off-net	77,022	0.000424
24-JUN-09	Faculty of Business & Economics - Students	ca-web-9030.lib	Generic Non-Established TCP	on-net	86,343	no charge
24-JUN-09	Faculty of Business & Economics - Students	ca-web-9030.lib	https	off-net	1,196,690	0.006582
24-JUN-09	Faculty of Business & Economics - Students	ca-web-9030.lib	https	on-net	151,069,598	no charge
24-JUN-09	Faculty of Business & Economics - Students	ca-web-9030.lib	Binary over HTTP	off-net	8,348,232	0.045915
24-JUN-09	Faculty of Business & Economics - Students	ca-web-9030.lib	Binary over HTTP	on-net	643,427,011	no charge
24-JUN-09	Faculty of Business & Economics - Students	ca-web-9030.lib	GMail	off-net	1,031	0.000006

Useful phrases

I thought some of these might be useful, but hey - who knows?

Monash net surprise

10-JUN-09

Faculty of Business & Economics - Students

dyn-118-139-8-180.its

Binary over HTTP

on-net

211,009,731

no charge

That means they cached:
Far Cry 2 patch
Crysis Warhead patch
Arcsoft's Total Media Theatre 3 trial

funky...

Thanh's mobile challenge

The Challenge
Keep mobile phone service expenses at or below 68 cents for a continuous 30 day period.

To address the challengee's key points of concern:-

• no callbacks after prank/buzzes
• address book culled to reduce temptation
  
• alternatives ready with SMSPup balance at 311 points

I've used $2.25 during February 2009 so I think this is doable.

Quote from challengee deliberately removed from context:
 lol, doesnt matter hu's it is, as long as it tastes good :P