I did say alt-tab in Windows 3.0:) Windows 3.0 didn't have a taskbar. In 3.1 the way we have it now (bring up the window) was introduced as "fast-switch" (IIRC) and the old way became alt-esc.
And they are different colours! Easier to tell the difference. $5 is purple, $10 is blue, $20 is orange, $50 is tan and $100 is green. $1 and $2 are gold coins; 5, 10, 20, 50c pieces are silver coins and we have no 1c or 2c coins any more (they were copper).
Yep the 4-colour Bic pen is my choice. But then I'm not a biro connesuer like a lot people here appear to be. And I have big hands (MS Explorer mouse is too small!)
Do they use CAN electronics like pair-gain systems or RIMs? Those CAN electronics will stop you from getting DSL. A PGS splits one pair of copper into 2 or 4 phone lines. The older ones used an analogue splitting method (So max speed is either 28.8 or 9.6) whereas the newer ones are a bit like ISDN but you only get one of the two channels. A RIM does this on a larger scale (eg 480 lines from a set of fibres).
Here is Australia it used to be 2400bps minimum speeds by mandate, but now they've increased it to 19.2kpbs *throughput* (which means if the line can't handle it you can use compression to increase it - don't follow their logic really).
I use a 1.5M/256kbps ADSL and it costs $150/month (AUD, so ~$100US/month) but the speeds are not guarenteed if you download a lot (as in over 10GB/month). And this is considered one of the best deals in the country.
If you want cable you usually get 3GB/month *transfers* (uploads counted) for the most part, then either pay 14c/MB or get capped to 28k (depending on company, it's not a choice). There's a big thing about a woman who left p2p running accedentially and racked up a $10000 bill for 2 months!
I know for a fact that UTas (University of Tasmania) offers a standard of CompSci and sylabus similar to most other Australian universities - and its all MS based, plus a little Java for programming. I think there's a short section on *nix but it's all microsoft.
My uni's (USQ in Toowoomba Qld) IT department wants everyone to be using windows, but the Maths and Computing department is pretty much fully Linux. They have two undergraduate labs with only Linux, as well as many courses require the use of at least cygwin. This is a Good Thing. We do programming in GCC, G++ and Java. We had to write HTML using a text editor and networking software using Unix sockets...
A lot of the lecturers even don't use the new system they spent millions on (PeopleSoft) - I can't blame them, it is a lot slower than the old in-house system, even with the new hardware.
It would be good to see other companies get their products used; my mother works in a government department and they moved from Win 3.1 and Lotus Notes to a pretty much MS-only environment... (well of course they do have some specialised software)
Not available/too expensive for "normal people". (This is what I know of RequestDSL, there is also xyzed, don't know too much about them).
www.rslcom.com is a blank.html frameset page... I think you meant rslcom.com.au; their pricing is quite high. Lets say a 3GB account is good (this is both uploads and downloads), they want $389 per month for that! And thats for a 512/128 line speed...
But it's still not multi-megabit bandwidth, and often it is metered.
I cannot get cable here (being a regional city of ~100k people) and Austar (satellite paytv) is around $60/month. My ADSL is $150/month flatrate, and POTS/PSTN line rental is $25/month. That adds up to ~$US155/month ($US1=~66AUc).
But you can't directly compare these sorts of things; different earning rates can change things, as well as the fact Australia is an English speaking country (so lots of international traffic) which is physically separate from the rest of the world) This all costs many dollars.
Isn't it better now with Southern Cross Cables linking Australia with NZ and a few other islands with the USA? I know some traceroutes used to go through a.gen.nz domain from my Internode ADSL.
I used to use Telstra ADSL then left when they brought the unfair changes. (It was lucky, since we had to move house like a week afterwards anyway, so we got out of our 18 month contract 6 months into it...) I remember we had a long LAN party to try and screw them over, and ended up transferring ~100GB that last month.:)
Then we went with DataFast, being their 63rd customer (AFAICT), but during "off peak" the speeds were impossible, because of the large download limits during those times.
Now we are with Internode, and they have much better customer service and also a better network. 1.5Mbps flatrate (256kbps up), I know it's expensive and slow by some countries' standards, but its the best available at this time! ($150au/month)
I'm interested in getting into wireless internet, so one can bypass Telstra completely. Internode do a good job, but they are still limited by Telstra's incompetence. They are building their own network around South Australia (www.agile.com.au) can't wait til they expand.
And availablity is a problem, with all the pair-gain devices in use. I know of several people who couldn't get it because of that.
(iii) To any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call
In the USA how does the calling party know if the called party in on a charged service? I mean, as I understand it, all numbers are in 1xxxyyyzzzz, so it doesn't seem like a very easy way to determine what sort of number it is. I mean, is the yyy different depending on which xxx you are in?
Here in Australia, there was a fairly recent renumbering that made all numbers fairly uniform. For example, all numbers beginning with 04 are mobile phones (10 digits), and pagers are in 016 (6 or 9 digits). (Numbering Plan)
It costs around 25c to send an SMS, where most flagfalls appear to be around 20c, then ~60c/minute for the call, so SMSs are a little cheaper, and they have become very popular. Walking around town you can hear the constant "beep-beep" of SMS received. I own a Nokia 5510 and I send quite a few messages.:)
It doesn't cost anything to receive a message, but Telstra wanted to do a deal with ICQ (IIRC) that charged for both ways. Sending messages are usually included in the "included calls"; I'm on a $30/month plan: I can make $30 worth of calls or SMSs before my bill will increase. Its another way of "minimum spend".
I'm on the Optus network, most of my spam tends to come from Heaven.com.au, although I haven't got any for a while.
But it also means that it is impossible to have number portability between PSTN and PMTN. since all land-line phones (local numbers) begin with one of 02,03,07,08 and all mobiles begin with 04. (plus 8 digits in both cases) And the person making the call gets charged the differing amounts. I think the new 05 numbers have some portability, but I'm not too sure about them, and they probably will have one of the above numbers behind the scenes.
Probably the closest would be Oatley Electronics? I've never been there but I used to read Electronics Australia and there was always comments about them...
Besides I turn my monitor off at its switch when I'm not using it anyway! My MS mouse occasionally moves by itself and upsets power-saving.
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I work for Domino's Pizza Australia, and it's not all that bad. The driver doesn't get the brunt of the customer, the CSR who answers the phone gets it. People bitch about the price, even when it's less than $AU6 each (around $3.50 US) pickup. Standard menu price for delivery is $16.95 (~$10 US) for the first one and $7.00 (~$4 US) each after that, and people swear and carry on. I usually tell them to compare it to catching a taxi to the store and back.
Customers are annoying though: it's been raining constantly for two weeks and I've only been getting maximum 5c tips! Even people who live in huge houses in the rich areas wait for me, standing in the rain, to dig out a 5c piece. With a 3 delivered for $19.95 voucher! TIGHTASSES! (Tipping is not common in Australia:P) But I have been known to get $10+ tips...
We get paid by the hour (with a delivery allowance), so that doesn't encourage speeding, and we have money even on slow delivery nights. You can claim all car expenses on tax; I got almost $2k back last finincial year - pretty much all the tax that was taken out.
It's rare that the customer forgot to ask for something and/or the driver forgot the coke or something, and they're usually pretty understanding. I have never been assaulted in 3 years, and only once someone refused to pay (it was an hour late anyway).
But this job is really only while I'm at university, I have another job as well as government assistance.:)
This guy I know used to play Quake3 using only his right hand on the explorer pro mouse! (And still kick everyone's arses) I think he had: mouse1: shoot, mouse2: jump, mouse3: altfire, mouse4: backwards, mouse5: forwards.
My old keyboard had an "Ez" key on the extreme top-right. That was quite easy to accedentally press, like when reaching for CDs/drinks/pens/etc then fell down. The Ez key was like a Meta key, but you don't press it down to use the other key, which, without drivers, rendered the keyboard useless until it was pressed again to deactivate. This was a TurboMedia cheap-ass keyboard.
I'm now using a Mitsubishi Diamond Touch keyboard, it was only $AU20, and it is my favourite. Not too clicky, not mushy, the insert/etc keys are close to the cursor keys for easy reach. I like a huge enter key. The board is also quite compact and doesn't take up acres of desk-space like some other KBs I've had.
Um, ISPs buy bandwidth by the size of the pipe, not how many gigabytes is transferred through it. You can work out a $/GB figure, but that will still be an approximation. ISPs charge (end-users) by the gigabyte to stop all the leechers filling the available bandwidth.
My ISP (Internode in Australia) has a "flat rate" plan that makes no promises about speed (but they try to keep it above 5KByte/sec) but prioritise you depending on your usage habits (the more you download the slower you can go). I have a 1.5Mbps line [256kbps up] (paying $AU150/month) and I beleive this is pretty much the best deal in this country. This plan is the same price as the 8GB/month plan (with excess usage being charged at a per MB rate), but we have been doing over 4 times this.
Yes you people elsewhere might think this is crappy, (others might think it is excessive - there are 5 people on the LAN, still think it's too much?) but oz is so far away from everywhere it's expensive for a lot of data, as well as the sheer size of the continent. And the still-monopolistic Telstra! My ex girlfriend used to say its cheaper to call her brother in the UK than it is to call me 10km away!
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I did say alt-tab in Windows 3.0 :) Windows 3.0 didn't have a taskbar. In 3.1 the way we have it now (bring up the window) was introduced as "fast-switch" (IIRC) and the old way became alt-esc.
And they are different colours! Easier to tell the difference. $5 is purple, $10 is blue, $20 is orange, $50 is tan and $100 is green. $1 and $2 are gold coins; 5, 10, 20, 50c pieces are silver coins and we have no 1c or 2c coins any more (they were copper).
Alt-escape is task switch, the same at alt-tab was in windows 3.0. (ie is switches programs without bringing up the popup thingy)
Yep the 4-colour Bic pen is my choice. But then I'm not a biro connesuer like a lot people here appear to be. And I have big hands (MS Explorer mouse is too small!)
So, ban axes not guns!
Do they use CAN electronics like pair-gain systems or RIMs? Those CAN electronics will stop you from getting DSL. A PGS splits one pair of copper into 2 or 4 phone lines. The older ones used an analogue splitting method (So max speed is either 28.8 or 9.6) whereas the newer ones are a bit like ISDN but you only get one of the two channels. A RIM does this on a larger scale (eg 480 lines from a set of fibres).
Here is Australia it used to be 2400bps minimum speeds by mandate, but now they've increased it to 19.2kpbs *throughput* (which means if the line can't handle it you can use compression to increase it - don't follow their logic really).
I use a 1.5M/256kbps ADSL and it costs $150/month (AUD, so ~$100US/month) but the speeds are not guarenteed if you download a lot (as in over 10GB/month). And this is considered one of the best deals in the country.
If you want cable you usually get 3GB/month *transfers* (uploads counted) for the most part, then either pay 14c/MB or get capped to 28k (depending on company, it's not a choice). There's a big thing about a woman who left p2p running accedentially and racked up a $10000 bill for 2 months!
Do you have my red stapler?
Well Why give just the /24 when the entire 127.0.0.1/8 is available? :)
I know for a fact that UTas (University of Tasmania) offers a standard of CompSci and sylabus similar to most other Australian universities - and its all MS based, plus a little Java for programming. I think there's a short section on *nix but it's all microsoft.
My uni's (USQ in Toowoomba Qld) IT department wants everyone to be using windows, but the Maths and Computing department is pretty much fully Linux. They have two undergraduate labs with only Linux, as well as many courses require the use of at least cygwin. This is a Good Thing. We do programming in GCC, G++ and Java. We had to write HTML using a text editor and networking software using Unix sockets...
A lot of the lecturers even don't use the new system they spent millions on (PeopleSoft) - I can't blame them, it is a lot slower than the old in-house system, even with the new hardware.
It would be good to see other companies get their products used; my mother works in a government department and they moved from Win 3.1 and Lotus Notes to a pretty much MS-only environment... (well of course they do have some specialised software)
shift + insert is equivalent to ctrl + V (paste)
and shift+del is cut
and ctrl+ins is copy
There are a few others that I used to use all the time in my qbasic programming days.
My current keyboard is a Diamond Touch Keyboard. It feels nice, but probably not as nice as the older on I used to use. But it was only $AU20 new.
The windows keys are useful, for things like show desktop (win+d), and get WinAmpControl and you'll be able to do things like win+n for next track.
Not available/too expensive for "normal people". (This is what I know of RequestDSL, there is also xyzed, don't know too much about them).
www.rslcom.com is a blank.html frameset page... I think you meant rslcom.com.au; their pricing is quite high. Lets say a 3GB account is good (this is both uploads and downloads), they want $389 per month for that! And thats for a 512/128 line speed...
190.00USD/mo would get me a 256kbs/128kbs with caps set to around 20GB/mo in Australia.
:)
It's not that bad, check BroadBandChoice which is a sister site to Whirlpool.
But it's still not multi-megabit bandwidth, and often it is metered.
I cannot get cable here (being a regional city of ~100k people) and Austar (satellite paytv) is around $60/month. My ADSL is $150/month flatrate, and POTS/PSTN line rental is $25/month. That adds up to ~$US155/month ($US1=~66AUc).
But you can't directly compare these sorts of things; different earning rates can change things, as well as the fact Australia is an English speaking country (so lots of international traffic) which is physically separate from the rest of the world) This all costs many dollars.
Isn't it better now with Southern Cross Cables linking Australia with NZ and a few other islands with the USA? I know some traceroutes used to go through a .gen.nz domain from my Internode ADSL.
:)
I used to use Telstra ADSL then left when they brought the unfair changes. (It was lucky, since we had to move house like a week afterwards anyway, so we got out of our 18 month contract 6 months into it...) I remember we had a long LAN party to try and screw them over, and ended up transferring ~100GB that last month.
Then we went with DataFast, being their 63rd customer (AFAICT), but during "off peak" the speeds were impossible, because of the large download limits during those times.
Now we are with Internode, and they have much better customer service and also a better network. 1.5Mbps flatrate (256kbps up), I know it's expensive and slow by some countries' standards, but its the best available at this time! ($150au/month)
I'm interested in getting into wireless internet, so one can bypass Telstra completely. Internode do a good job, but they are still limited by Telstra's incompetence. They are building their own network around South Australia (www.agile.com.au) can't wait til they expand.
And availablity is a problem, with all the pair-gain devices in use. I know of several people who couldn't get it because of that.
(iii) To any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call
:)
In the USA how does the calling party know if the called party in on a charged service? I mean, as I understand it, all numbers are in 1xxxyyyzzzz, so it doesn't seem like a very easy way to determine what sort of number it is. I mean, is the yyy different depending on which xxx you are in?
Here in Australia, there was a fairly recent renumbering that made all numbers fairly uniform. For example, all numbers beginning with 04 are mobile phones (10 digits), and pagers are in 016 (6 or 9 digits). (Numbering Plan)
It costs around 25c to send an SMS, where most flagfalls appear to be around 20c, then ~60c/minute for the call, so SMSs are a little cheaper, and they have become very popular. Walking around town you can hear the constant "beep-beep" of SMS received. I own a Nokia 5510 and I send quite a few messages.
It doesn't cost anything to receive a message, but Telstra wanted to do a deal with ICQ (IIRC) that charged for both ways. Sending messages are usually included in the "included calls"; I'm on a $30/month plan: I can make $30 worth of calls or SMSs before my bill will increase. Its another way of "minimum spend".
I'm on the Optus network, most of my spam tends to come from Heaven.com.au, although I haven't got any for a while.
But it also means that it is impossible to have number portability between PSTN and PMTN. since all land-line phones (local numbers) begin with one of 02,03,07,08 and all mobiles begin with 04. (plus 8 digits in both cases) And the person making the call gets charged the differing amounts. I think the new 05 numbers have some portability, but I'm not too sure about them, and they probably will have one of the above numbers behind the scenes.
:)
Hmm the ACA has changed their site... anyway check out range search and number portability.
wasn't this posted a few days ago?
Probably the closest would be Oatley Electronics? I've never been there but I used to read Electronics Australia and there was always comments about them...
1830 with quotes, 350 for my full name, 271000 without quotes. My name is shared with a movie character (played by Kevin Kline)...
:-)
Don't worry, one of my friends' name is "Michael Jones", he has 74k hits with quotes.
Besides I turn my monitor off at its switch when I'm not using it anyway! My MS mouse occasionally moves by itself and upsets power-saving.
I work for Domino's Pizza Australia, and it's not all that bad. The driver doesn't get the brunt of the customer, the CSR who answers the phone gets it. People bitch about the price, even when it's less than $AU6 each (around $3.50 US) pickup. Standard menu price for delivery is $16.95 (~$10 US) for the first one and $7.00 (~$4 US) each after that, and people swear and carry on. I usually tell them to compare it to catching a taxi to the store and back.
:P) But I have been known to get $10+ tips...
:)
Customers are annoying though: it's been raining constantly for two weeks and I've only been getting maximum 5c tips! Even people who live in huge houses in the rich areas wait for me, standing in the rain, to dig out a 5c piece. With a 3 delivered for $19.95 voucher! TIGHTASSES! (Tipping is not common in Australia
We get paid by the hour (with a delivery allowance), so that doesn't encourage speeding, and we have money even on slow delivery nights. You can claim all car expenses on tax; I got almost $2k back last finincial year - pretty much all the tax that was taken out.
It's rare that the customer forgot to ask for something and/or the driver forgot the coke or something, and they're usually pretty understanding. I have never been assaulted in 3 years, and only once someone refused to pay (it was an hour late anyway).
But this job is really only while I'm at university, I have another job as well as government assistance.
The sun wouldn't damage your iris, just your retina, making you blind...
You will rue the day you crossed me Trebek!
This guy I know used to play Quake3 using only his right hand on the explorer pro mouse! (And still kick everyone's arses) I think he had: mouse1: shoot, mouse2: jump, mouse3: altfire, mouse4: backwards, mouse5: forwards.
My old keyboard had an "Ez" key on the extreme top-right. That was quite easy to accedentally press, like when reaching for CDs/drinks/pens/etc then fell down. The Ez key was like a Meta key, but you don't press it down to use the other key, which, without drivers, rendered the keyboard useless until it was pressed again to deactivate. This was a TurboMedia cheap-ass keyboard.
I'm now using a Mitsubishi Diamond Touch keyboard, it was only $AU20, and it is my favourite. Not too clicky, not mushy, the insert/etc keys are close to the cursor keys for easy reach. I like a huge enter key. The board is also quite compact and doesn't take up acres of desk-space like some other KBs I've had.
Um, ISPs buy bandwidth by the size of the pipe, not how many gigabytes is transferred through it. You can work out a $/GB figure, but that will still be an approximation. ISPs charge (end-users) by the gigabyte to stop all the leechers filling the available bandwidth.
My ISP (Internode in Australia) has a "flat rate" plan that makes no promises about speed (but they try to keep it above 5KByte/sec) but prioritise you depending on your usage habits (the more you download the slower you can go). I have a 1.5Mbps line [256kbps up] (paying $AU150/month) and I beleive this is pretty much the best deal in this country. This plan is the same price as the 8GB/month plan (with excess usage being charged at a per MB rate), but we have been doing over 4 times this.
Yes you people elsewhere might think this is crappy, (others might think it is excessive - there are 5 people on the LAN, still think it's too much?) but oz is so far away from everywhere it's expensive for a lot of data, as well as the sheer size of the continent. And the still-monopolistic Telstra! My ex girlfriend used to say its cheaper to call her brother in the UK than it is to call me 10km away!