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Online personality test

Well, I’ve always kinda been curious how these online tests work, and always found it strange that a maths formula based on seemingly unrelated questions could come up with a good insight into peoples personality. It was kinda strange when I did this particular test which I believe to be pretty accurate in some areas, however some seem to be way off. Maybe it’s a clever generalisation where people think it’s accurate because people pick out the things that they wish to see in themselves?


My Personality

Neuroticism
69
Extraversion
34
Openness To Experience
21
Agreeableness
18
Conscientiousness
36
You are neither a subdued loner nor a jovial chatterbox. You enjoy time with others but also time alone. You can be very easily upset, even by what most people consider the normal demands of living. People consider you to be extremely sensitive and emotional. As a practical person you like to think in plain and simple terms. Others describe you as down-to-earth, practical, and conservative. People see you as tough, critical, and uncompromising and you have less concern with others' needs than with your own. You are reasonably reliable, organized, and self-controlled.

Test Yourself Compare Yourself View Full Report

Click here to take the most insightful personality test.


I wouldn’t mind a few of you people to take this test and see how closely it matches your personality and make a post in the comments about it. While I think the basic description is a little lacking, click on the full report to get a more indepth reading….

Airservices update Australian DAPs

Airservices has released the next cycle of Australian Airport DAPs for 13-MAR-2007. My script is currently running to combine these PDFs into one for each aerodrome and should be finished within the hour.

You can obtain the latest charts here. (hint: Check the last modified date!)

Netgear DG834 followup

Well, it does look as though the Netgear DG834 modem is a fairly poor contender when it comes to sync speeds and throughput on ADSL2+ lines. The Billion 7300 modem that my ISP sent me outperforms the DG834 by nearly 1.5Mbit!

The DG834 came up with the following:

ADSL1 (G.DMT)  
DownStream 5184 kbps
UpStream 800 kbps
ADSL2+  
DownStream 4969 kbps
UpStream 810 kbps

The Billion 7300 seems to outclass the Netgear by a fair margin:

ADSL1 (G.DMT)  
Downstream 6656 kbps
Upstream 800 kbps
ADSL2+ (Annex A)  
Downstream 5390 kbps
Upstream 812 kbps
ADSL2 (Annex A):  
Downstream 5338 kbps
Upstream 816 kbps

Interestingly enough, both modems achieved a higher sync rate using ADSL1 spec than ADSL2 or ADSL2+. Looks like I’ll be staying in ADSL1 mode for quite some time :)

ADSL2+ and Netgear DG834 modems

I finally managed to get an ADSL2+ connection to my house! This has however caused lots of frustration in getting it to work! From my research, it looks like the Netgear DG834 modem does not like a lot of ADSL2+ lines.

I have one of these modems at a friends place and it seems to sync up using ADSL2+ and gets a nice 10Mbit connection. Mine however will not sync at all in ADSL2+ mode… It’s interesting that using ADSL1 (G.DMT), the modem will sync at ~5Mbit downstream - which is what I was expecting seeing as my Cisco router would report a max attainable line speed of around 5Mbit.

If I lock the Netgear DG834 to ADSL2+ mode, it will not sync at all. I talked to Netgear about this and they did the good old “it’s the ISPs fault” and didn’t really want to hear anything more. In the meantime, I’m getting my ISP (Spin Internet - I’d recommend them to anyone!) to send me a Billion 7300 modem which they say seems to have no issues.

Will be interesting to see if the Netgear DG834 modem is just no good at ADSL2+!