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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:17:03
Fachtna Roe has fired the opening shots on a campaign to 'inform' meteor (the Irish mobile phone company) of the poor state of it's free web sms gateway. His grievances (listed in an amusing fashion in this meteor website parody) cover the poor address book functionality, the inability to edit names, lack of support for special characters and a poorly implemented group messaging. Curiously he omits the lack of import / export functionality increasingly been found on a myriad of web2.0 sites. But he certainly does have a point!
Users who have 'made the switch' from networks like vodafone and O2 will certainly be non-plussed when they compare their old service with the new. Maybe it's time for meteor to play an agressive game of catch up and revamp this useful (if awkward) tool.
Side Note
I've been a long term meteor user (2002 if memory serves, which it doesn't!) and for the most part have been satisfied with the service offered, with the exception of their website. Adding to annoyances mentioned above I've recorded several instances of 500 errors presenting verbose (and cracker useful) debug information to anyone and everyone over the years, usually to the tune of the message below. Risky business dumping this kinda information to complete strangers site admins!
Example 500 error message from mymeteor.ie...
Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Executing Database Query.
Timed out trying to establish connection
The error occurred in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mymeteor/do_login.cfm: line 21
19 : AND p.phone_number = <cfqueryparam value="#form.msisdn#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
20 : AND c.id = p.subscriber_id
21 : AND c.code LIKE <cfqueryparam value="%#form.pin#%" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
22 : AND s.subscriber_id = p.subscriber_id
23 : AND w3_login_user=1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SQL SELECT s.client_id, s.subscriber_id, s.subscriber_first_name,
s.subscriber_last_name, s.subscriber_address, s.subscriber_phone,
s.subscriber_email, s.subscriber_birthday, p.phone_number, c.code,
s.tariff_plan_name FROM v_w3_subscriber_full_info s, v_w3_subscriber_phones p,
flagship.v_client_subscriber_sheet c WHERE 0=0 AND p.phone_number =
(param 1) AND c.id = p.subscriber_id AND c.code LIKE (param 2) AND
s.subscriber_id = p.subscriber_id AND w3_login_user=1
DATASOURCE new_flag
Please try the following:
Check the ColdFusion documentation to verify that you are
using the correct syntax.
Search the Knowledge Base to find a solution to your problem.
Browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Remote Address 217.78.11.50
Referrer https://www.mymeteor.ie/mymeteor/login.cfm?CFID=147404&CFTOKEN=48337242
Date/Time 29-Jul-04 11:02 PM
Stack Trace (click to expand)
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Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Executing Database Query.
Timed out trying to establish connection
The error occurred in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mymeteor/includes/mymeteor_header_prepaid.cfm:
line 113
Called from /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mymeteor/send_sms/sms_submit.cfm: line 2
Called from /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mymeteor/includes/mymeteor_header_prepaid.cfm: line 113
Called from /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mymeteor/send_sms/sms_submit.cfm: line 2
111 : mweb_trans_types_id in (4,11) and
112 : fs_sub_id = #session.subscriber_id# and
113 : msisdn = '#session.msisdn#'
114 : and mweb_trans_statuses_id <> 9
115 :
Tags: disappointing, ffs, meteor, rant, right/wrong, sms.