Not content with starting a flaming shitfest by anonymous declaration with Linus Torvalds (who managed to get where Tanenbaum wanted to be fifteen years ago), Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a computer science professor at Vrije Universiteit, decides to start a flaming sitfest by anonymous declaration with Theo De Raadt. (who is where Tanenbaum wants to be in fifteen years with this project)
If I go to www.cdsmodel.com, it works fine. If I go to www.cdsmodel.com., which should be identical, I get to a completely different parked site. What the heck - this isn't supposed to happen.
Then again, we're talking about the same people who use an Excel add-in within 5 miles of a billion dollar transaction, so go figure.
And the pictures that are submitted are evidence of places that need to be more heavily policed, because anonymous photographers were able to take pictures there.
Internode and iiNet are the two awesome ISPs in this country, although there are lots of smaller ones. You'll want to avoid the ISPs that charge $180/GB on any of their plans for excess usage such as Telstra, Dodo or Optus. This is not a typo. That's 180 Australian Dollars for every Gigabyte you go over your allowance. For example, Optus's 'Yes Fusion $79 plan comes with 4 GB and $150 for every Gigabyte over that. Needless to say, they've got their had stuck up so far their own bottom that they can see daylight through their own ears. But even they completely oppose the plan.
A certain Mark Newton who works for Internode is also an extremely outspoken critic of the censorship plan. But Telstra, iiNet and Internode, likely 3 out of the biggest 5 ISPs all have important people saying that the filtering won't work.
Broadband Choice is an excellent overview of the choices out there. Check out Whirlpool if you want to know more about the situation.
That's what I have done. Gave up on TV a few years ago and completely gave up on it a few months ago. The thing I can't understand the most is how people can sit through the ads and actually watch them. I think it's one of the most pathetic and time-wasting things I have ever seen. The cost to the national economy of advertising is probably higher than it's benefit, if there is any at all.
Sure, I may sound like one of those arrogant pricks who say they don't watch TV. But in my demographic that's almost becoming the standard now. I have a big Sony Trinitron right next to me. Haven't turned it on in weeks. I've got an antenna cable running towards it, but it doesn't quite reach. I just need to get a 1.5 metre extension, which I probably have lying around somewhere. But I just can't be bothered, because it's all just crap anyway. Not missing anything.
Well, the Nine Network has its head so far up its own ass that they can see the cluetrain whooshing past their head through their ears and empty skull.
The media landscape in Australia is a mess, and it's just best to stay as far away from that as you can. Specific examples:
No free-to-air TV network is allowed to transmit to more than 75% of the population
When AM radio was introduced in the twenties, it was introduced with a DRM scheme where receivers were locked to a single station
There isn't a single commercial FTA general entertainment channel on satellite. You'd think that satellite TV would be a great idea in a country like Australia...
No more than 3 commercial free-to-air networks have been allowed for the past 40 years.
The government mandated HD all the way back in 2001 because they thought it'd be a great idea. Then they made sure that everything on SD was simulcast on HD, killing choice.
Because of the above restriction, no FTA station can introduce new channels. Although they've been allowed to show different things on HD for a little while now.
Because of the early commitment to HD, the MPEG2 + DVB-T standards were chosen. Had they introduced HD at the same time as the UK or New Zealand, they could have saved themselves about 40 MBit/s through the spectrum in capital cities, easily accomodating about 6 new channels with the current frequencies, while still having HD.
Our latest communication minister is as much an idiot as his predecessors. See Internet Regulation, on Slashdot earlier today/yesterday.
Regional television in Australia is broken. Let's just leave it at that - it could fill a book.
And then there's something else, Telstra:
The incumbent telco ($150/GB to $2000/GB excess fees on their ISP plans) is so deep in Foxtel it's not funny.
The government is one of the largest shareholders in Telstra.
And then there's Channel Nine:
It took them about 5 years to show the last few episodes of Voyager. At 1am or something.
They're news/breakfast hosts are fundamentally unlikeable.
They just fired half their journalism department and killed the long-running 'Sunday'.
They just have crap and nothing else on.
They're quite closely affiliated with Microsoft/MSN. Go figure.
10000 songs times $200.
Yeah, I'd only owe $2 million.
Someone who fills their iPod pays only $400,000.
Better than the old one, which would be $93 million.
What I have not seen mentioned is the following, planned by the same government:
A great firewall will be erected around Australia. Australians will not have the option to opt out of 'illegal' content.
If you are Australian, take ACTION NOW!!! I've already contacted the current local (Liberal) member and Senator Conroy. This firewall, if it is to work at all, will slow speeds by up to 75% and will cripple the communications of an entire nation. The solutions needed to make sure that corporate VPNs and other tools keep working is non-existent. This is not a hoax. Please let the tech community be able to tell them what we think.
Yes, because storing thousands of jpg images and other binary data is exactly what git was intended for.
Get people to store their data on Samba fileservers. Set up home directories in their name as well as shared directories accessible by everybody or Samba groups. Use ACL if you need to.
To backup, use rsync and OpenSSH, write a few batch scripts and hey - presto! Instant solution that'll even work with cheapo webhosts and your home linux box as backup servers. Versioning can be done for any amount of time by using rsync's backup feature, and you can allow people to browse old versions within Windows Explorer connected to a Samba share in that way.
The Casio XJ-S31 does JPEG slide shows from a USB stick. With this order of magnitude price, that'll be the best you can hope for, since I'm assuming you'll also want something portable.
Well, the original iBook had an advertised battery life of 6 hours. And I'd really like to know shadow-isohunt's OS if he can get 7 hours of battery life. To convert, that's 9.2 Watts of Power that shadow-isohunt's laptop draws. I've never managed to get it much below 11 Watts. What I'd like to know is where he can get 2 less Watt on the same Hardware with mostly the same software.
For reference, 12 Watt is standard under light use. With a bit of Googling I see that the Eee PC draws up to 22-or-so Watt, with 12 Watt probably also being standard.
What I'm trying to say is that there's a laptop out there for $300 that's basically got the same CPU speed, as much RAM, twice the screen diagonal, a HDD and draws not one Watt more power than the eeePC. I've anything, then unless you really are looking for a computer exactly as small as the eeePC, which due to the fiddly keyboard I don't always believe, I've already got a superior (but oldish) alternative that runs Windows XP without troubles.
Typo. 1960 grams without CD drive or battery. Batteries weigh 410 grams, CD-ROM drive is 266 grams. I've got an eee PC here, and it is a lot lighter at just under a kg.:(
If you want something that's just a step up from an Eee PC, get a Latitude C610. I had a C600 whose hinge broke after ages and got a broken C610 and did a transplant. And being able to have two batteries in there in place of the CD/DVD-drive slot is just badass. The C600 was free and the broken eBay C610 cost $50.
Just over 1 kg, 14-inch screen. Some of the stuff is showing its age, like the single USB1 port, but with a PCMCIA card, that's no problem either.
But one thing baffles me, I've never been able to get more than 6 hours out of mine (making 12 hours with two batteries), and I've got the slower 1 GHz processor. Any advice in terms of software, hardware, batteries or power configuration? Running Windows XP or Ubuntu? - Tried PowerTop or Intel Drivers or did you change anything in the BIOS?
Also, I've got a COM-port on my cheapo DVB-T receiver too.
In a nutshell, I can turn on my 15-year-old TV out of standby by just clicking a button on my computer and when click same button again it goes back into standby.
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Canonical Ltd. is registered on The Isle of Man with its corporation tax of 0%. The tax 'sheter' is not South Africa here.
Not content with starting a flaming shitfest by anonymous declaration with Linus Torvalds (who managed to get where Tanenbaum wanted to be fifteen years ago), Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a computer science professor at Vrije Universiteit, decides to start a flaming sitfest by anonymous declaration with Theo De Raadt. (who is where Tanenbaum wants to be in fifteen years with this project)
If I go to www.cdsmodel.com, it works fine. If I go to www.cdsmodel.com., which should be identical, I get to a completely different parked site. What the heck - this isn't supposed to happen. Then again, we're talking about the same people who use an Excel add-in within 5 miles of a billion dollar transaction, so go figure.
And the pictures that are submitted are evidence of places that need to be more heavily policed, because anonymous photographers were able to take pictures there.
It all makes sense now!
Internode and iiNet are the two awesome ISPs in this country, although there are lots of smaller ones. You'll want to avoid the ISPs that charge $180/GB on any of their plans for excess usage such as Telstra, Dodo or Optus. This is not a typo. That's 180 Australian Dollars for every Gigabyte you go over your allowance. For example, Optus's 'Yes Fusion $79 plan comes with 4 GB and $150 for every Gigabyte over that. Needless to say, they've got their had stuck up so far their own bottom that they can see daylight through their own ears. But even they completely oppose the plan.
A certain Mark Newton who works for Internode is also an extremely outspoken critic of the censorship plan. But Telstra, iiNet and Internode, likely 3 out of the biggest 5 ISPs all have important people saying that the filtering won't work.
Broadband Choice is an excellent overview of the choices out there. Check out Whirlpool if you want to know more about the situation.
That's what I have done. Gave up on TV a few years ago and completely gave up on it a few months ago. The thing I can't understand the most is how people can sit through the ads and actually watch them. I think it's one of the most pathetic and time-wasting things I have ever seen. The cost to the national economy of advertising is probably higher than it's benefit, if there is any at all. Sure, I may sound like one of those arrogant pricks who say they don't watch TV. But in my demographic that's almost becoming the standard now. I have a big Sony Trinitron right next to me. Haven't turned it on in weeks. I've got an antenna cable running towards it, but it doesn't quite reach. I just need to get a 1.5 metre extension, which I probably have lying around somewhere. But I just can't be bothered, because it's all just crap anyway. Not missing anything.
And then there's something else, Telstra:
And then there's Channel Nine:
10000 songs times $200. Yeah, I'd only owe $2 million. Someone who fills their iPod pays only $400,000. Better than the old one, which would be $93 million.
defeated by public outcry
Contact your local legislators and Senator Conroy. Sitting on your bum is not going to do anything at all.
What I have not seen mentioned is the following, planned by the same government:
A great firewall will be erected around Australia. Australians will not have the option to opt out of 'illegal' content.
If you are Australian, take ACTION NOW!!! I've already contacted the current local (Liberal) member and Senator Conroy. This firewall, if it is to work at all, will slow speeds by up to 75% and will cripple the communications of an entire nation. The solutions needed to make sure that corporate VPNs and other tools keep working is non-existent. This is not a hoax. Please let the tech community be able to tell them what we think.
http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/76ya5/australians_will_be_unable_to_optout_of_the/
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1399635276&eid=-255
http://nocleanfeed.com/takeaction.html This is being discussed on Whirlpool but NEEDS TO HIT THE MEDIA TODAY!
Yes, because storing thousands of jpg images and other binary data is exactly what git was intended for. Get people to store their data on Samba fileservers. Set up home directories in their name as well as shared directories accessible by everybody or Samba groups. Use ACL if you need to. To backup, use rsync and OpenSSH, write a few batch scripts and hey - presto! Instant solution that'll even work with cheapo webhosts and your home linux box as backup servers. Versioning can be done for any amount of time by using rsync's backup feature, and you can allow people to browse old versions within Windows Explorer connected to a Samba share in that way.
"Hello Bob, this is Alice", Bob "Yeah, what is it", Alice "You left a message on my answering machine, but it's all garbled", Bob "Damn that Eve"
The Casio XJ-S31 does JPEG slide shows from a USB stick. With this order of magnitude price, that'll be the best you can hope for, since I'm assuming you'll also want something portable.
CSS3 is still in the works. The final version has still not been published.
Well, the original iBook had an advertised battery life of 6 hours. And I'd really like to know shadow-isohunt's OS if he can get 7 hours of battery life. To convert, that's 9.2 Watts of Power that shadow-isohunt's laptop draws. I've never managed to get it much below 11 Watts. What I'd like to know is where he can get 2 less Watt on the same Hardware with mostly the same software.
For reference, 12 Watt is standard under light use. With a bit of Googling I see that the Eee PC draws up to 22-or-so Watt, with 12 Watt probably also being standard.
What I'm trying to say is that there's a laptop out there for $300 that's basically got the same CPU speed, as much RAM, twice the screen diagonal, a HDD and draws not one Watt more power than the eeePC. I've anything, then unless you really are looking for a computer exactly as small as the eeePC, which due to the fiddly keyboard I don't always believe, I've already got a superior (but oldish) alternative that runs Windows XP without troubles.
Typo. 1960 grams without CD drive or battery. Batteries weigh 410 grams, CD-ROM drive is 266 grams. I've got an eee PC here, and it is a lot lighter at just under a kg. :(
If you want something that's just a step up from an Eee PC, get a Latitude C610. I had a C600 whose hinge broke after ages and got a broken C610 and did a transplant. And being able to have two batteries in there in place of the CD/DVD-drive slot is just badass. The C600 was free and the broken eBay C610 cost $50. Just over 1 kg, 14-inch screen. Some of the stuff is showing its age, like the single USB1 port, but with a PCMCIA card, that's no problem either. But one thing baffles me, I've never been able to get more than 6 hours out of mine (making 12 hours with two batteries), and I've got the slower 1 GHz processor. Any advice in terms of software, hardware, batteries or power configuration? Running Windows XP or Ubuntu? - Tried PowerTop or Intel Drivers or did you change anything in the BIOS?
Also, I've got a COM-port on my cheapo DVB-T receiver too. In a nutshell, I can turn on my 15-year-old TV out of standby by just clicking a button on my computer and when click same button again it goes back into standby.