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Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Dumps Water Data Project

Posted by samzenpus on from the that-wasn't-the-plan dept.

littlekorea writes "Australia's weather bureau has racked up bills of $38 million for a water data system, based on Red Hat Linux, MySQL and Java, that was originally scheduled to cost somewhere between $2 million and $5 million. The Bureau's supplier, an ASX-listed IT services provider SMS Management and Technology, did a good job of embedding itself in the bureau, with all changes having to be made by the original consultant that built it."

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  1. beta boycott next week! by rr_at_slashdot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    See you all back on February 17!

    1. Re:beta boycott next week! by PGC · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It is not februari 10th yet

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      The Dutch will inherit the earth. If not, we'll settle for a bit of ocean. Beta delenda est!
  2. Re:We are not an audience by PGC · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Must be something wrong with the comments system, `cause I could swear I had replied to this... Once more then: See http://meta.slashdot.org/story... .

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    The Dutch will inherit the earth. If not, we'll settle for a bit of ocean. Beta delenda est!
  3. I sucked a lot of cock to get where I am. by magic+maverick+ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I only want to be the best that I can.

    My mouth is stained.

    Ah fuck it, you know what? Fuck you and your mother, I'm not getting paid enough to post this shit.

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    HELP MY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED BY AN ILLIBERAL ART STUDENT SET TO DESTROY THE INTERWEBZ!
  4. Re:We are not an audience by PGC · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent up

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    The Dutch will inherit the earth. If not, we'll settle for a bit of ocean. Beta delenda est!
  5. So this is how Slashdot dies. by McDutchie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Much like Digg did. How sad.

    1. Re:So this is how Slashdot dies. by StripedCow · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      The worst part of it is: M$ will outlive Slashdot...

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      If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
  6. Re:We are not an audience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please post this to new articles if it hasn't been posted yet. (Copy-paste the html from here so links don't get mangled!)

    On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design. Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system.

    If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this in a new tab. After seeing that, click here to return to classic Slashdot.

    We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.
    We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott

    Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta
    Commentors - only discuss Beta
      http://slashdot.org/recent - Vote up the Fuck Beta stories

    Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.

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    Discussion of Beta: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=56395415

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    Alternative Slashdot: http://altslashdot.org (thanks Okian Warrior (537106))

  7. Fuck BETA by puffingbear · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fuck BETA, that is all