Wetas are quite rare and completely harmless. In fact, the only creature in New Zealand that can significantly harm humans is the Katipo spider - a rare (I've lived in NZ for 30 years and never seen one) relative to the Australian Redback and North American Black Widow. Bites from this spider can cause breathing problems and nervous system slowdown but not death.
"Weta" in this instance refers to..
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..a large, nocturnal, flightless insect native to New Zealand. Some of these things can grow as large as 30 grams, making Wetas the heaviest insect on the planet.
I used my Nokia 8210 (which, when in the palm of my hand, I can completely cover by folding in my fingers) in Galipoli, an extremely remote part of Turkey earlier this year. The phone only needs to be recharged every three to four days.
One of the advantages of GSM is that low powered handsets can still operate a long way from a cell site.
I have a Sony CS3 projector for home use, display is about 2.5 metres square, works great with TV, PS2 and Computer.
One of these babies will set you back around GBP1500, the only downside is the ongoing cost; bulb life is around 2500 hours and the bulbs are GBP250 a pop. I figure to change every 18 months.
I have to disgaree with you on the quality of technical Exodus employees. I have dealt with a number of hosting companies over the years, including PSI-Net, Level3, NTL and Exodus here in the U.K. and can say that in my experience the calibre of Exodus employees is extremely low. Let them near your equipment at your own risk.
Here's the story of how New Zealand's rugby team became known as the "All Blacks."
New Zealand began playing rugby internationally in 1888, wearing a navy blue uniform with gold fern on the breast. By the time of the 1905 "Originals" tour of Great Britain this had changed to a black uniform with white fern on the breast.
After the New Zealand side had demolished England at Twickenham, the Times newspaper headlined an article which was supposed to read "All Backs" (no L) in reference to the running rugby that New Zealand played, even amongst the forwards. The Times misprinted the headline "All Blacks" and the name has stuck since.
This all boils down to economic warfare from the U.S. against China. How difficult would it be fore ANY government to get it's hands on a massive amount of any consumer product?
The sooner China (or someone, anyone!) blows the Americans off the face of the earth the better for all of us.
To be somewhat pedantic, there is not Nobel Prize for economics.
The five pizes mentioned in Alfred Nobel's will are Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature (The Swedish prizes) and Peace (the Norwegian prize.)
In 1968, the Bank of Sweden (Sveriges Riksbank) instituted the "Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" in time for the bank's tercentenary celebrations.
There is a Nobel exhibition on at the Swedish stock exchange building in Stolkholm's Old City until 2002. Well worth a visit.
I have a Garmin GPS 2 (or 3, not sure) +, which has a BNC attached aerial about 7 centemetres is length. It happily receives an adequete GPS signal indoors if I am close to (like within three metres of) a window. Better results could be obtained with a larger aerial I suppose or by bouncing the signal off the roof.
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One of them was XTRA, the ISP owned by the ex-SOA telco Telecom New Zealand. I believe the other was Actrix, a Wellington based ISP.
Before you go "publicly shaming" those two organisations, you should be aware that their blacklisting may very well have had more to do with Alan Brown's personality (I like the guy and respect him immensely but must acknowledge that he can be extremely difficult) and his commercial interests than it did spam.
That said, more power to him and Manawatu Internet services. He keeps "the Man" on his toes.
Is there anyone in the world who doesn't believe that;
1-Microsoft is a monopoly?
2-Breaking up Microfot will be good for the IT industry?
3- In the U.S. money purchases justice?
4- George "W" Bush is a buffoon?
This decision presents a major opportunity for the EU, if Brussels choses to enforce a breakup or trading sanctions against the Redmond beast; If they do, the European IT induustry will leave the U.S. in the dust.
Ever tried to remember an IPv6 Address?
For those of us working in IT hostnames are a luxury that we can often live without. IPv6 is going to make working DNS an absolute necessity.
"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" comes from the English language version of the title sequence of an arcade game by Taito called "Zero Wing"
The story goes that a developer at Taito volunteered to do the translation from the original Japanese because he had started taking an English course.
They're a good price/spec for web servers load balanced by something like Cisco LocalDirector.
I'm setting this up right now with Netra T1's, though each of the Netra's will only use the local disk for the OS, Apps and Logging. All the HTTP content will be NFS mounted by an E-4500 + Photon disk array.
This is a Kiwi venture, the fact that Oz is gettting access is incidental.
Note that many Oz Internet users alread get their access through Kiwi ISP's, such as Auckland's IHUG.
That scene caused a bit of an uproar in New Zealand back when the film was made, as that is a real live sheep really being blown up.
Apparently Peter Jackson called up the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and the SPCA and asked this question;
"Is strapping a load of dynamite to a sheep and exploding it a humane way to kill it?"
The answer from both organisations was yes.
Microsoft is aware that they can bribe Washington politicians in order to get a favourable ruling in the anti trust case.
Consider that seperation of powers between the three pillars of government (judicial, executive, legislature) is required to have a working democracy.
1-Nixon didn't go to prison because "No president has ever been sentenced to prison" = Political expediency outweighing judicial equality.
2-O.J. is innocent because he can afford to be.
3-Rodney King deserved his asault because he was black and his attackers were white.
4-Microsoft can rely on the American political system to turn a blind eye to any legal transgressions they make now our in the future.
Welcome to the corporate dictatorship.
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Wetas are quite rare and completely harmless. In fact, the only creature in New Zealand that can significantly harm humans is the Katipo spider - a rare (I've lived in NZ for 30 years and never seen one) relative to the Australian Redback and North American Black Widow. Bites from this spider can cause breathing problems and nervous system slowdown but not death.
..a large, nocturnal, flightless insect native to New Zealand. Some of these things can grow as large as 30 grams, making Wetas the heaviest insect on the planet.
Bullshit.
I used my Nokia 8210 (which, when in the palm of my hand, I can completely cover by folding in my fingers) in Galipoli, an extremely remote part of Turkey earlier this year. The phone only needs to be recharged every three to four days.
One of the advantages of GSM is that low powered handsets can still operate a long way from a cell site.
I have a Sony CS3 projector for home use, display is about 2.5 metres square, works great with TV, PS2 and Computer.
One of these babies will set you back around GBP1500, the only downside is the ongoing cost; bulb life is around 2500 hours and the bulbs are GBP250 a pop. I figure to change every 18 months.
I have to disgaree with you on the quality of technical Exodus employees. I have dealt with a number of hosting companies over the years, including PSI-Net, Level3, NTL and Exodus here in the U.K. and can say that in my experience the calibre of Exodus employees is extremely low. Let them near your equipment at your own risk.
Here's the story of how New Zealand's rugby team became known as the "All Blacks."
New Zealand began playing rugby internationally in 1888, wearing a navy blue uniform with gold fern on the breast. By the time of the 1905 "Originals" tour of Great Britain this had changed to a black uniform with white fern on the breast.
After the New Zealand side had demolished England at Twickenham, the Times newspaper headlined an article which was supposed to read "All Backs" (no L) in reference to the running rugby that New Zealand played, even amongst the forwards. The Times misprinted the headline "All Blacks" and the name has stuck since.
Trolls like this dork make me think that /. should disallow posts from browsers running IE.
No, because the propaganada the US government programmed you with wouldn't allow for the concept.
"Those that fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."
-Aristotle.
Who the fuck is Santayana? Are you misattributing or
is he plagurising?
This all boils down to economic warfare from the U.S. against China. How difficult would it be fore ANY government to get it's hands on a massive amount of any consumer product? The sooner China (or someone, anyone!) blows the Americans off the face of the earth the better for all of us.
To be somewhat pedantic, there is not Nobel Prize for economics.
The five pizes mentioned in Alfred Nobel's will are Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature (The Swedish prizes) and Peace (the Norwegian prize.)
In 1968, the Bank of Sweden (Sveriges Riksbank) instituted the "Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" in time for the bank's tercentenary celebrations.
There is a Nobel exhibition on at the Swedish stock exchange building in Stolkholm's Old City until 2002. Well worth a visit.
I have a Garmin GPS 2 (or 3, not sure) +, which has a BNC attached aerial about 7 centemetres is length. It happily receives an adequete GPS signal indoors if I am close to (like within three metres of) a window. Better results could be obtained with a larger aerial I suppose or by bouncing the signal off the roof.
One of them was XTRA, the ISP owned by the ex-SOA telco Telecom New Zealand. I believe the other was Actrix, a Wellington based ISP. Before you go "publicly shaming" those two organisations, you should be aware that their blacklisting may very well have had more to do with Alan Brown's personality (I like the guy and respect him immensely but must acknowledge that he can be extremely difficult) and his commercial interests than it did spam. That said, more power to him and Manawatu Internet services. He keeps "the Man" on his toes.
Is there anyone in the world who doesn't believe that; 1-Microsoft is a monopoly? 2-Breaking up Microfot will be good for the IT industry? 3- In the U.S. money purchases justice? 4- George "W" Bush is a buffoon? This decision presents a major opportunity for the EU, if Brussels choses to enforce a breakup or trading sanctions against the Redmond beast; If they do, the European IT induustry will leave the U.S. in the dust.
The Register has an article on how MNSBC has been doctoring out the details of this story in order to cast M$ is a better light. See it here.
Ever tried to remember an IPv6 Address? For those of us working in IT hostnames are a luxury that we can often live without. IPv6 is going to make working DNS an absolute necessity.
"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" comes from the English language version of the title sequence of an arcade game by Taito called "Zero Wing" The story goes that a developer at Taito volunteered to do the translation from the original Japanese because he had started taking an English course.
They're a good price/spec for web servers load balanced by something like Cisco LocalDirector. I'm setting this up right now with Netra T1's, though each of the Netra's will only use the local disk for the OS, Apps and Logging. All the HTTP content will be NFS mounted by an E-4500 + Photon disk array.
This is a Kiwi venture, the fact that Oz is gettting access is incidental. Note that many Oz Internet users alread get their access through Kiwi ISP's, such as Auckland's IHUG.
That scene caused a bit of an uproar in New Zealand back when the film was made, as that is a real live sheep really being blown up. Apparently Peter Jackson called up the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and the SPCA and asked this question; "Is strapping a load of dynamite to a sheep and exploding it a humane way to kill it?" The answer from both organisations was yes.
Microsoft is aware that they can bribe Washington politicians in order to get a favourable ruling in the anti trust case. Consider that seperation of powers between the three pillars of government (judicial, executive, legislature) is required to have a working democracy. 1-Nixon didn't go to prison because "No president has ever been sentenced to prison" = Political expediency outweighing judicial equality. 2-O.J. is innocent because he can afford to be. 3-Rodney King deserved his asault because he was black and his attackers were white. 4-Microsoft can rely on the American political system to turn a blind eye to any legal transgressions they make now our in the future. Welcome to the corporate dictatorship.