Author: Dennis

Dennishttp://www.aroundmyroom.comDennis Slagers, Just a guy from Holland

Mastercard

So what is happening to Mastercard Creditcards?

Friends of mine got their cards blocked and this weekend I discovered that my card is also blocked? What the ??

checking my account till end of october showed no signs of abuse or mis-usage .. So I wonder why my credit card is blocked. I will check it today with my bank .. More info later and if you have some info: write something in the comments

Mastercard, Priceless….

Update: called my local Bank office and they told me that there was a ‘foreign countries’ block code onto my Card. It should have nothing to do with internet payments. The only question they asked me if I had been travelling abroad and used my card (yes, in Hong Kong) and afterwards my card was used / debited in the U.K.  by an internet payment ..

Mmm This afternoon I can have it unblocked by visiting my local bank office.

Update II: back from visiting the local bank, but they could not tell me a lot. But I was called quickly after my visit by the fraud prevent department of the Credit Card agency. Their internal bells were ringing after some wierd things happened on my cardnumber last week.

7 november people tried to abuse my credit card in several stores, internet shops and restaurants in mainly England and Italy.

In total they tried to abuse the card for more than a couple 3 to 4000) euro. They succeeded in getting something from the Virgin Store for EUR 430 .. It was tried many times .. . 

So I have to get that money back … Tomorrow I will be called again by the fraud team. Sorry for the palls at DMC in England but I think your system is causing my trouble. You are the only one where it is possible to pay without direct checking secure. For me it’s clear .. Someone is abusing the system.

LANDISK – RDC2891 Sourcecode

After long discussion, I finally got a written approval for getting the sourcecode for the RDC based LANDISK (in this case for the RDC 2891 chipset). But probably also usable for the RDC 2882 chipset as the way of firmware upgrade / firmware is the same.

As I am not into compiling and not want to brick any device I have on hand: greet my sponsors at http://www.aroundmyroom.com/landisk and than visit the rdc2891 folder to get the rdc2891.rar file

Use at your own risk. ;-)

Blog Top50 of Flop ..

zo sta je vorige maand nog in de Top50, en zo ben je geheel onbekend binnen in diezelfde lijst na een update. Ben ik verwijderd om de een of andere reden?

Ik las net een artikel op de yellowlemon tree site en dacht: even kijken waar ik deze maand sta (nu geef ik eigenlijk weinig om lijstjes), maar het is wel vreemd dat ik ineens foetsie ben ..

Zelfs de ‘fixed link’ waar mijn weblog op bereikbaar was is weg .. gone .. nada .. noppes niets..

The Ben Liebrand Grandmix 1989

Last week I ordered the DMC CD-10 (The Ben Liebrand Grandmix 1989) which was very rare and hard to get.

Today I received it from the offical distributor (Disco Mix Club).

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The Grandmix 1989 is sent  by DMC in a cd-sleeve (plastic) and this ‘official’ re-press looks like it is burned on a writeable CD. The printing (cover / title book) looks more professional. Total Price: 15 pounds 50 ..  (for 35 euro you can get it from ebay now)

I’m happy to have this official CD (although it is a re-print) .. ..  b.t.w. the CD contains more than 99 tracks but has ‘indexes’ so that the total amount of tracks is showing 99. Where the indexes are you can see this when reading the booklet ..

Update: checking the code inside the CD (AIW700T) it learns me that it are indeed writables: SONY CD-R 52x INKJET PRINTABLE FULL FACE CD’s ..

Uhmpff.. Oink Down..

Uhmmm.. ben ik eens rijkelijk laat met het lezen van nieuwsberichten. Oink (een bittorrent site) is down gehaald ivm de pre-releases die ze veelal aanboden. Oh was dat zo? Dat wist ik nie ..

update: Het artikel laat de mensen ook denken dat Oink gelijk staat aan ‘de Scene’ zoals men dat zo mooi noemt. Dat is natuurlijk kolder .. Bittorrent staat ergens bijna geheel aan de eind van de lijn: dus gewoon dicht (TE) bij de consument. Zodat ‘massa’ distributie aanwezig is.

Maar goed: niet alle nummers kunnen op 1 staan dus je kan al het muziek ook niet op 1 hoop gooien .. Waarom heb je anders hitlijstjes: en voor troep betaald men in de winkel ook niet. Waarom zou je dat dan wel moeten doen op het internet?