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InCrawler blocked by Qualitynet!
Again, I was trying out the list of 24 recommended meta-search engines, when I found out one of them, InCrawler, is blocked by our ISP Qualitynet. Now for those of you who may not know, a meta-search engine is a search engine that gets its search results from other multiple search engines, and combine them [...]
Qualitynet planned outage
Dear Valued Customer, As part of the ongoing developments and enhancements to the Internet services, we would like to inform you that we will be upgrading some major elements of the Internet platform. As a result, the DSL Internet services might not be available for short period on Sunday 30th September 2007 between 3.30 a.m. [...]
MOC Stops New Fiber Optics Accounts
According to an ISP insider, they were surprised MOC have stopped creating new accounts for Fiber Optics users and they were trying to find out why. Really depressing after everyone (even people who don’t have Fiber yet) was so happy that we finally might see an improvement. My best thought is MOC saw they are [...]
PING…
One of the challenges we face in Kuwait is fast and stable internet access. It’s not easy to get, which is why I pay $55/month for 256 DSL connection. I heard the prices went a bit down now though. Now that I have moved to a new area, I still don’t have phone lines (Fiber [...]
ISPs In Kuwait Blocking Specific Keyword Searches!
When you think you have seen everything from ISPs, soon you realize you’re wrong. Today I was trying what is supposed to be a neat trick on Google using certain parameters to get the results you want. However instead I was rudely blocked by Qualitynet. Another proof of our superior technological advancement in fighting pornography. [...]
KEMS Blocks Blogger in Kuwait!
I was just writing a long article about Blogger accounts being blocked by KEMS. Just before I hit the Publish button I thought of giving it another shot, and it worked. This still doesn’t explain the silly move of blocking it. How did this block happen? By mistake? I doubt. Either they quickly decided to [...]
Kuwait ISPs And The Unstoppable Fall
Moore’s law has always been admired and thought of to be true, even in Kuwait, if you look at it upside down that is! Moore’s law simply applies that computer technology performance will double every 18 months, and its prices will go by half in the same amount of time. Over the years, we have [...]