Telstra cable is available at my house - but not Optus. AFAICT the Telstra cable covers more houses than Optus, since I know quite a few people with Telstra cable, especially on the Gold Coast. (I use ADSL2+)
I remember DOS gaming and half the fun of installing it was getting the right combination of conventional, EMS, XMS, DPMI, OMG, etc memory, along with various driver incompatibilities. My MS-DOS 6.22 config.sys and autoexec.bat files contained about 20 options for various required states for the various games and applications I had installed - and I only had 180MB of HDD space! Some hated certain drivers (such as sound card, CDROM, zip drive guest, mouse, packet drivers) installed, others required those drivers to be installed. Some games didn't even like DOS being "loaded high" (ie above 640KB).
Me and a group of friends drove over 120km (each way) to go to a pre-screening of Serenity: we saw it at the cinema and didn't download it! The showing had completely sold out. But then I guess that would have been ALL the fans in the area, leaving none for the actual run...
That should be 00 1 610 867 5309 - 00 for international (in Egypt and most countries), 1 for NANP, 610 area code, etc. If you dialled 011 610 867 5309 from Egypt you might get a Etisalat mobile number (according to WTNG) or if you dialled it from the USA then you'd get a disconnected freecall number in Australia: 011 international, 61 for Australia (the 008 numbers were moved to 1800 in the late 1990s and there are no longer any +61 0x numbers).
My neighbour had their phone line coming out of the pit, over about a metre of council land, up a retaining wall, across the front garden and snaked into their house. I don't know if it was Telstra or Dodgy Bros, but it was like that for over a year. Of course, if they had DSL the modem would be inside the house, not outside! I wonder what would have happened if a mower had've gone over it?
Goodna is only "good" for a landmark as half-way between Toowoomba and the Gold Coast!
BTW, Toowoomba had a massive never-before-seen flood on the Monday before this story. If a shark swam past the main McDs in Toowoomba THAT would be news (since that was a flash flood, and the water would have ended up in the Murray-Darling system, and flowed into the ocean ~2000km away)
I rely on my infant son to wake me up. Obviously that is useful to everyone?
Fwiw I really use my nokia phone for alarms as it's less loud compared to my bedside alarm, so it will be less likely to wake him or my wife up if I need to get going before they wake up.
Do you even know what the CSIRO does? It does do all the research into new methods for industry. And then licenses them out to companies for manufacturing, using the license money for further research.
Using your definition every company that takes another company to court for patent violations is a "patent troll".
I haven't read TFA but my first thought was when I heard about these T-things was that they limit you to using more Telstra products. For example the T-hub doesn't work if you don't use Telstra Bigpond as your ISP. Wouldn't that go against the GPL?
Most phones can be $0 up front here in Australia, even the iPhone. Is that "tempting" enough for you?
Regarding the "similar problem" wasn't it that Queensland (which doesn't have DST) users had their phones set to Canberra/Sydney time (which does have DST) - in the winter it's the same but now we are heading into summer there's an hour difference - and some Queenslanders were awoken an hour early?
During summer my hot water bills are pretty much zero. Since getting PV and solar hot water my power bill has been reduced by more than a third - and that was with a pregnant wife (which meant more air-con use). Luckily I got them with a grant from the Australian government and it was all pretty much free!
My work just got a bunch of new 27 inch iMacs. One of my workmates runs it at a lower resolution, which annoys me that he is wasting pixels, but you don't really notice it. Until he opens VirtualBox then it is quite obvious that the screen is not running at a native resolution!
My ISP sends me notices (usage warnings, receipts, etc) to my non-ISP email account - it does Cc my ISP email account. I would expect every ISP to at least allow that option!
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Telstra cable is available at my house - but not Optus. AFAICT the Telstra cable covers more houses than Optus, since I know quite a few people with Telstra cable, especially on the Gold Coast. (I use ADSL2+)
Not to mention still using inches, feet, miles, Fahrenheit, pounds, etc. And not even using them properly (eg pints!).
I remember DOS gaming and half the fun of installing it was getting the right combination of conventional, EMS, XMS, DPMI, OMG, etc memory, along with various driver incompatibilities. My MS-DOS 6.22 config.sys and autoexec.bat files contained about 20 options for various required states for the various games and applications I had installed - and I only had 180MB of HDD space! Some hated certain drivers (such as sound card, CDROM, zip drive guest, mouse, packet drivers) installed, others required those drivers to be installed. Some games didn't even like DOS being "loaded high" (ie above 640KB).
Get off my lawn with your xbox!
Slashdot runs on Linux, doesn't it? Obviously Linux isn't user friendly enough to post comments onto it!
Me and a group of friends drove over 120km (each way) to go to a pre-screening of Serenity: we saw it at the cinema and didn't download it! The showing had completely sold out. But then I guess that would have been ALL the fans in the area, leaving none for the actual run...
That should be 00 1 610 867 5309 - 00 for international (in Egypt and most countries), 1 for NANP, 610 area code, etc. If you dialled 011 610 867 5309 from Egypt you might get a Etisalat mobile number (according to WTNG) or if you dialled it from the USA then you'd get a disconnected freecall number in Australia: 011 international, 61 for Australia (the 008 numbers were moved to 1800 in the late 1990s and there are no longer any +61 0x numbers).
So yes, a paid holiday for us! Though the 27th is now almost over...
That's what most mobile phone companies in the world do!
My neighbour had their phone line coming out of the pit, over about a metre of council land, up a retaining wall, across the front garden and snaked into their house. I don't know if it was Telstra or Dodgy Bros, but it was like that for over a year. Of course, if they had DSL the modem would be inside the house, not outside! I wonder what would have happened if a mower had've gone over it?
Goodna is only "good" for a landmark as half-way between Toowoomba and the Gold Coast!
BTW, Toowoomba had a massive never-before-seen flood on the Monday before this story. If a shark swam past the main McDs in Toowoomba THAT would be news (since that was a flash flood, and the water would have ended up in the Murray-Darling system, and flowed into the ocean ~2000km away)
Who needs to wake up before the 4th of January anyway? Today was a public holiday! Sleep through the long weekend
I rely on my infant son to wake me up. Obviously that is useful to everyone?
Fwiw I really use my nokia phone for alarms as it's less loud compared to my bedside alarm, so it will be less likely to wake him or my wife up if I need to get going before they wake up.
Come to the southern hemisphere, it's summer now.
Do you even know what the CSIRO does? It does do all the research into new methods for industry. And then licenses them out to companies for manufacturing, using the license money for further research.
Using your definition every company that takes another company to court for patent violations is a "patent troll".
I haven't read TFA but my first thought was when I heard about these T-things was that they limit you to using more Telstra products. For example the T-hub doesn't work if you don't use Telstra Bigpond as your ISP. Wouldn't that go against the GPL?
Is that why I'm getting "Your request could not be completed" when trying to access it?
Most phones can be $0 up front here in Australia, even the iPhone. Is that "tempting" enough for you?
Regarding the "similar problem" wasn't it that Queensland (which doesn't have DST) users had their phones set to Canberra/Sydney time (which does have DST) - in the winter it's the same but now we are heading into summer there's an hour difference - and some Queenslanders were awoken an hour early?
What?! My bills are around $150-200 a quarter. Before the PV cells and solar hot water was installed it was always less than $350, even with air con.
One of my ISPs explicitly supports Linux: http://www.internode.on.net/support/faq/broadband_adsl/getting_connected/#So_you_undoubtedly_support_Windo :) Too bad most of you guys can't use them!
I thought the comment about removing the SIM slot was only for CDMA phones (USA), where the UMTS phones (ATT & ROW) would keep the SIM slot.
During summer my hot water bills are pretty much zero. Since getting PV and solar hot water my power bill has been reduced by more than a third - and that was with a pregnant wife (which meant more air-con use). Luckily I got them with a grant from the Australian government and it was all pretty much free!
And no-one knew our first Prime Minister until the TV ad told us!
My work just got a bunch of new 27 inch iMacs. One of my workmates runs it at a lower resolution, which annoys me that he is wasting pixels, but you don't really notice it. Until he opens VirtualBox then it is quite obvious that the screen is not running at a native resolution!
My ISP sends me notices (usage warnings, receipts, etc) to my non-ISP email account - it does Cc my ISP email account. I would expect every ISP to at least allow that option!
What?