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Australia's Great Linux-Based Satellite Network
yBshy4 writes "This article may interest the Slashdot folk. LinuxWorld Australia is reporting on Australia's largest satellite network, covering some 800,000 square kilometres, or most of the state of New South Wales, has gone live. The network consists of 75 Linux-based satellite routers that provide Wi-Fi (802.11b) connectivity to country towns that are unable to get DSL. The routers are engineered by Ursys and run Debian providing gateway services such as DNS and mail. According to the article, Ursys chose Debian 'because of its packaging support, which facilitates the ability to push updates to the routers remotely.' Ursys tried to use Windows but it was 'too unstable.' Hopefully this is an important step to providing better Internet access to regional areas across Australia. Anyone know of similar Internet access projects around the world?"
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...that's almost enough to blanket uranus.
Would -you- date me??
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Naw. It was probably made because windows is shit.
Someone else for SCO to sue
What I learned from linuxworld.com.au:
Windows Server offers a saving of 11%-22% over Linux in 4 out of 5 workload scenarios.
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FUCK OFF RICHTER AND ALL YOUR COHORTS!*!
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. It's pretty damn easy to do too.
Hi Vladinator! Thanks for all your K5 troll accounts you blithering tard!
roos can do the single-handed surfing thing.
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Here's your justification, you lousy piece of troll shit. My DSL connection at home sucks, and that's where the beta server is running. I gave out the site to 125 people who emailed me asked me for the site, so that it didn't die. Now you've decided to be a fucking flaming asshole and post the site everywhere, causing signifacnt problems with my DSL at home because you're a piece of shit with nothing better to do.
I've wasted 5 hours this morning deleting your trolls and in the meantime have gotten NO other work done because of you. I'm trying to do something nice for MacSlash community and upgrade our server so it's better. You insist on wasting my time with this shit, and keeping me from being able to work on the new server.
I've worked on this site for over 3 years without every making a penny off of it because I like the interaction with other Mac users. You've just spoiled that. I now dread loading the site every morning because of trolls like you. I spend most of my time now dealing with your petty bullshit instead making this a better place. And I'm about ready to just shut the whole damn thing down instead of dealing with you anymore.
So there's you're fucking justification. Now stop posting the address of the new site.
-- Ben Stanfield
Executive Editor @ MacSlash
I mean, if Oz is going Linux, it's not going to be cheap. Just think how much it'll cost to buy all those kangaroos extra-large pocket protectors.
I found rather disturbing to see in a Linux
oriented site the Microsoft ads both at the
top (Flash animation) of the page and on the
right (animated gif) saying explicitly that
Windows Server TCO is cheaper than Linux, and
pointing to the infamous FUD spreading "Get
the facts" page.
[tin foil hat]
After some minutes and reloading the page
multiple times the same ads are still here;
could they be delivered (both by doubleclick)
on purpose to articles that Microsoft finds
unfriendly?
[/tin foil hat]
I'm a RMIT student in Melbourne and use a SuSE based notebook at school. How do I go about accessing this Linux based Wi FI network so that I don't have to reformat my notebook to crappy old XP???? It would be nice to use a Linux based network that has the stability of Linux
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Linux powers my orbiting brain lasers and genetically engineered cyber goats. Linux give me the power to crush those who oppose us. You know I would be more impressed if you could get all those satellites running on a bewoulf cluster of Atari 2600's. I'm going to stop ranting now and get back to work.
-Dipster
I plan to spend my sabbatical in Australia next fall. At home, I use a cable modem which costs (US)$30-$40 (I forget), has no bandwidth limitation (to the best of my knowledge) and is fairly fast (sometimes faster than the university's Internet2 connection, although the "IT tsars" on campus are probably causing problems). What should I expect (wrt Internet) at a university like ANU?