The electricity and water company in Canberra, Australia is nearing the end of a trial project which involves laying optical fibre to the curb, and the last mile being serviced via ASDL over copper. The network "has been designed from the outset as an open access full service network. Hence service providers interested in providing a range of services, including telephony, high speed Internet and TV, will be encouraged to share the network infrastructure, thus reducing the cost of providing any one service to a commercially viable amount." Sounds pretty neat, eh?
The trial (of approximately 200 homes in one suburb of Canberra) is due to finish on the 31st of July, with a decision made about whether to roll out the network to the rest of Canberra to be made hopefully by the end of August.
It's interesting as Canberra was bypassed by the two major telephone companies laying cable (Telstra and Optus) - most of Australia's major cities have two identical, side by side cable networks which are heavily criticised as unecessary and expensive duplication of services. Canberra has a relatively small popluation of approx. 350,000 but has a higher rate of computer ownership and internet access than the rest of Australia. I can't wait for the whole network to be rolled out! Video on demand, satellite TV feed, internet access, quake, quake and more quake! (-:
> Also the gcc acts real funny on my machine with > a whole bunch fatal signal 11 errors. I noticed > when I try to recompile somtething multiple > times, the compiler seems to stop at different > places with the signal 11 error and something > about program cc. If any of you know what is > going on, please tell me.
This is most likely a problem with your hardware. Check out the GCC Signal 11 FAQ for more info.
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I read a "Ask Bill" column where Mr Gates denys having made the remark about 640KB.
Someone should run etrade's site through the demoronizer to get rid of all that MS-HTML. Yuck.
The trial (of approximately 200 homes in one suburb of Canberra) is due to finish on the 31st of July, with a decision made about whether to roll out the network to the rest of Canberra to be made hopefully by the end of August.
It's interesting as Canberra was bypassed by the two major telephone companies laying cable (Telstra and Optus) - most of Australia's major cities have two identical, side by side cable networks which are heavily criticised as unecessary and expensive duplication of services. Canberra has a relatively small popluation of approx. 350,000 but has a higher rate of computer ownership and internet access than the rest of Australia. I can't wait for the whole network to be rolled out! Video on demand, satellite TV feed, internet access, quake, quake and more quake! (-:
Check it out at: http://www.transact.actew.com.au/
password.. salt.. hahahah (-:
To compile under redhat 6.0, just #ifdef out the #include line and it seems to work just fine.
Nice counter argument, dude.
I recommend "Zodiac" for a good read. Not quite SF (it's described as an eco-thriller) but a damn good read.
And guess which API microsoft is trying to squash? OpenGL of course. Their replacement - DirectX only runs on Win 95/98 (and NT to some extent).
Ben Fennema's URl is actually here
Heh. I remember SLS - they joys of buying boxes of floppies and copying disk images onto them. (-:
Linux has come a long way since the 0.99 days!
> a whole bunch fatal signal 11 errors. I noticed
> when I try to recompile somtething multiple
> times, the compiler seems to stop at different
> places with the signal 11 error and something
> about program cc. If any of you know what is
> going on, please tell me.
This is most likely a problem with your hardware. Check out the GCC Signal 11 FAQ for more info.