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« on: November 13, 2007, 11:31:29 am »
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Why the hell has VCAA got such a shit server... its a huge association that is largely internet based, and needs accessing by thousands of students and teachers, all around the same time......


LEARN TO FUCKING UPLOAD VCAA YOU SHITS.

I fucking KNEW i should have downloaded all the assessors reports + study designs etc way back at the start of the year when the site wasnt backed up with hundreds of us trying to check shit out.

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<-- im a grumpy bum .. next 3 days will decide the course of my future, and VCAA isnt being supportive :(

hooray for specialist exam 2 and physics exam.

/sigh :oops:
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« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2007, 11:34:20 am »
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAhAhAHAHAhAhAHA i tried to open one of hte practice exams on webpage, and it wasnt running, so i closed it and went to save link as instead (cause at least then i can see some damn progress bar)
So firefox told me i need to install adobe update... so i og okay yeah whatever, go nuts firefox. and adobe background downloader starts up...
480kb adobe document, 107mb adobe update.

the 480 kb practice exam is going at 0.8kbps, approx 8 minutes left...

the adobe update has about 4 minutes left, and its going at around 800kbps.

/giggle
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« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2007, 11:38:18 am »
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It gets worse. Try accessing the VCAA website at 7am on December 17 this year.
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« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2007, 11:39:38 am »
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dw, im pulling an all night, staying up till 7am to get my resulst... so ill just have the website open from dinner the day before hehe, ill just tap refresh every 5 minutes when it gets close.

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oh btw... adobes done updating... stupid vcaa exam still downloading lol ... but the speed has gone up to 1.6kbps, hooray.
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« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2007, 11:49:07 am »
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You know when you go to the Centrelink offices, and they all smell the same? They've got that fresh carpet smell? Actually, seems like most government places have that same smell...
Well, this is like the same. The servers have dead server smell. :D
The site of every Goverment or Government-related entity seems to have similar characteristics - A web design looking like it hasn't been updated for 7 or 8 years, slow servers, and generally hard to navigate sites :P

I'm betting the server is a PC sitting in someone's office.
Let's blame their host:
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daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ whois 203.12.60.150
% [whois.apnic.net node-1]
% Whois data copyright terms    http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html

inetnum:      203.12.60.0 - 203.12.63.255
netname:      DIRSCHOOLED-AU
descr:        Directorate of School Education
descr:        GPO Box 4367
descr:        Melbourne
descr:        VIC 3001
country:      AU
admin-c:      MB284-AP
tech-c:       PK206-AP
mnt-by:       APNIC-HM
status:       ALLOCATED PORTABLE
changed:      nobody-[at]-aunic.net 19950201
changed:      aunic-transfer-[at]-apnic.net 20010525
changed:      hm-changed-[at]-apnic.net 20060508
source:       APNIC

person:       Morris Burgess
address:      Level 2, 2 Treasury Place, East Melbourne
country:      AU
phone:        +61 3 9637 3036
fax-no:       +61 3 9637 2600
e-mail:       burgess.morris.e-[at]-edumail.vic.gov.au
nic-hdl:      MB284-AP
mnt-by:       MAINT-NEW
changed:      hm-changed-[at]-apnic.net 20060508
source:       APNIC

person:       Poh-fun Kwan
address:      Level 2, 2 Treasury Place, East Melbourne
country:      AU
phone:        +61 3 9637 3036
fax-no:       +61 3 9637 2600
e-mail:       Kwan.PohFun-[at]-edumail.vic.gov.au
nic-hdl:      PK206-AP
mnt-by:       MAINT-NEW
changed:      hm-changed-[at]-apnic.net 20060508
source:       APNIC

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(replace -[at]- with @, I concealed the emails addresses because I don't want them getting spam from spambots because I posted the email publicly :P)


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the 480 kb practice exam is going at 0.8kbps, approx 8 minutes left...

the adobe update has about 4 minutes left, and its going at around 800kbps.

/giggle

Haha :P

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oh btw... adobes done updating... stupid vcaa exam still downloading lol ... but the speed has gone up to 1.6kbps, hooray.

Use a download accelerator like GetRight or Free Download Manager and use 10 or so simultaneous connections... Hopefully that'd speed it up a bit :D  :twisted:
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« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2007, 11:53:27 am »
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lol
but that would slow it down even more for everyone else! :P
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« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2007, 11:58:24 am »
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Quote from: "Galelleo"
lol
but that would slow it down even more for everyone else! :P

Haha, true that :P
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« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2007, 12:07:58 pm »
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It gets worse. Try accessing the VCAA website at 7am on December 17 this year.


Come at 6.50 am, instant access!! =D

Anyway, we should organise an IRC room that night. Prava?
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« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2007, 12:11:52 pm »
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It gets worse. Try accessing the VCAA website at 7am on December 17 this year.


the sms option won't let ya down
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« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2007, 12:16:04 pm »
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Lolz, from 2002: http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/media/mediareleases/2002/13-12-02.html
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Students accessing results via the information phone line should hang up for 10 minutes if they cannot get through at first try.

Students having trouble accessing results via the Internet should log off if web access is slow, to avoid clogging up the system for others.

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It gets worse. Try accessing the VCAA website at 7am on December 17 this year.


Come at 6.50 am, instant access!! =D

Anyway, we should organise an IRC room that night. Prava?

IRC chat, good idea :D
Which IRC network would you use? I use VillageIRC a lot (only because the #simplemachines room is there :D) but also use DALNet and Freenode. :)

And yeah, the SMS option, how do we register for it?
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« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2007, 12:30:52 pm »
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SMS last year came to me at about 7:10am :) I think I registered to get it on like the first day it was possible last year xD

"To pre-register to get your results by SMS, send a text message as follows:

    * Student number (eight digits, not the letter)
    * Space
    * PIN (four digits)
    * Send to 19 787 888

You can do this from 9 am Monday 19 November until midnight Sunday 16 December

You will receive your results at 7 am Monday 17 December. Requests sent after midnight may cause a short delay "
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« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2007, 12:39:11 pm »
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SMS last year came to me at about 7:10am :) I think I registered to get it on like the first day it was possible last year xD


mine came just before 7 i think. Then I checke dthe computer anyway just to make sure, and i got on straight away.


it's scary, you'd think with the thousands of results they send out, there would have to be a typo somewhere
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« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2007, 01:00:58 pm »
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SMS last year came to me at about 7:10am :) I think I registered to get it on like the first day it was possible last year xD

"To pre-register to get your results by SMS, send a text message as follows:

    * Student number (eight digits, not the letter)
    * Space
    * PIN (four digits)
    * Send to 19 787 888

You can do this from 9 am Monday 19 November until midnight Sunday 16 December

You will receive your results at 7 am Monday 17 December. Requests sent after midnight may cause a short delay "

Does it cost money to register? Also do they send you your Enter and specific study scores?
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« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2007, 01:09:18 pm »
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i use mIRC, but happy to DL a diff client if necessary... i reckon its a good idea, easier than everynoe geting msn, and faster than posting.
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« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2007, 01:12:01 pm »
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It costed $1.10 last year

Last year my sms looked something like this:
2006 ENTER: N/A
IT09 A B+ C SS: 51
MA01 A D A+ SS: 30 etc.
I'm not sure if scaling would be in there or not for the year 12s

But for me, I couldn't access the internet one for a good few hours. The sms beep was nicer xD
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