The ending of government subsidies to coal mines will have an equalising effect on the cost of coal (up to the new cost of production) making it easier for renewables to compete on an even playing field.
ABS ditches in-house plans in favour of outsourcing. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has opted not to build its own private cloud to host the 2016 eCensus, instead awarding a $9.6 million outsourcing contract to existing partner IBM.
Australia’s national statistics agency first offered Australians the option to avoid completing the Census via its traditional paper-based form with a web-based eCensus in 2006.
It partnered with IBM in a $9 million deal in 2005 to develop and support the web-based eCensus application - which is hosted on IBM’s AIX operating system and a WebSphere application server, out of the company's Baulkham Hills, Sydney data centre.
But the agency later virtualised its server infrastructure (with VMware’s vSphere) to create its own private cloud with the intention of hosting the 2016 eCensus.
Running the Census in-house would help address security perceptions arising from the data being handled from a third-party, the ABS said at the time. It said it also made sense to outsource the project to a third-party rather than deal with the one-off high traffic spike internally.
The agency became 95 percent virtualised after cutting 300 physical servers to 70, which hosted 1500 virtual machines.
But the Bureau of Statistics today confirmed it had decided to once again partner with IBM for hosting of the 2016 eCensus in order to ensure the expected high volumes would be properly managed.
The ABS expects the percentage of Australians completing the census online to double in 2016, forecasting a 65 percent take-up compared to 33 percent in 2011. For the first year of the eCensus, 10 percent of Australians submitted their form online.
“The ABS virtualisation project was successfully completed providing a very efficient platform for ongoing ABS operations, including supporting a number of components of the digital Census in 2016,” a spokesperson said.
“However, due to the peak volume of the online form during Census 2016 it was decided that contracting IBM would provide the best value for money and management of operational risk.”
Duncan Young, head of the 2016 Census within the ABS, said IBM had been contracted through a limited tender after proving it could offer the best value for money.
“This contract capitalises on the investment in the existing online Census system,” Young said in a statement to iTnews.
“Our existing solution has shown itself to be robust, and can be expanded to manage increased volumes. Using a known platform will reduce the risk of costly development and integration issues.”
Homestly I have never shopped at Amazon.com but I fail to see the point in gaming the system by posting veviews about products that these 'customers' have never used.
Put simply is this a case of those that review the most crap win?
-1 Modded wrong. With your 6 digit UID you must have registered when you were 6. CD's are a continuous stream with the option of having track pauses. This information is stored in the TOC
Seriously? Ubuntu is not a top tier distro. They get the bulk of their work done for free via Debian. Putting the firmwares back in and skinning the product isnt going to take that much that Debian hasn't already done.
Debian is my favorite distro but they are a bit millitantly free on occasion making the product harder to use than it sometimes needs to be to fall in line with the DFSG.
This is why it pains me to use Ubuntu but crap like this makes Debian worth it.
Probaby came out like a troll or flame. Such is life.
I find street lighting on highways annoying, Save money, turn off the poles and put down more reflectors. The reflectors have the added benefit of making the lane markings visible when overhead street lighting dosen't.
My most hated driving is at night while raining on a lit up highway. The street lighting illuminates the water on your windscreen causing almost whiteout conditions.
So we're getting back to the good old days where you needed to wipe the first couple of megs of the disk with a MS debug trick and re-partition to get rid of some of the viruses.
After rereading this a couple of times I really have to ask for confirmation:
So : * "by convention", 1 mSv/year is considered "safe" * the location you live in outputs about 3 times that value (natural source)
But, because we "know" where it comes from, and because it's "natural" radiation, it doesn't count as being harmfull and the safety limit is upped to those 3 mSv/year PLUS the "by convention" 1 mSv/year ??
??? What kind of logic is that ???
Shouldn't they just put the limit to 3 mSv/year for all people living in that area ? (it's kind of non-practical to remove all background radiation) + pay extra attention to potential effects due to already having 3 times the 'conventional' limit to live with ?
So nobody who lives in that area qualifies for X-rays, scans etc?
This effect is called back emf, we already have back emf in every motor already made. If we didn't have back emf then the motor would draw on average 5 times it's notmal running current (locked rotor current or start current).
It's the done thing that you let a capillary metering device system equalise pressures to reduce startup currents. Units from most manufacturers will have delay timers in the 3 - 7 min range.
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The ending of government subsidies to coal mines will have an equalising effect on the cost of coal (up to the new cost of production) making it easier for renewables to compete on an even playing field.
I wish I had Mod points :-D
http://www.itnews.com.au/news/...
ABS ditches in-house plans in favour of outsourcing.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has opted not to build its own private cloud to host the 2016 eCensus, instead awarding a $9.6 million outsourcing contract to existing partner IBM.
Australia’s national statistics agency first offered Australians the option to avoid completing the Census via its traditional paper-based form with a web-based eCensus in 2006.
It partnered with IBM in a $9 million deal in 2005 to develop and support the web-based eCensus application - which is hosted on IBM’s AIX operating system and a WebSphere application server, out of the company's Baulkham Hills, Sydney data centre.
But the agency later virtualised its server infrastructure (with VMware’s vSphere) to create its own private cloud with the intention of hosting the 2016 eCensus.
Running the Census in-house would help address security perceptions arising from the data being handled from a third-party, the ABS said at the time. It said it also made sense to outsource the project to a third-party rather than deal with the one-off high traffic spike internally.
The agency became 95 percent virtualised after cutting 300 physical servers to 70, which hosted 1500 virtual machines.
But the Bureau of Statistics today confirmed it had decided to once again partner with IBM for hosting of the 2016 eCensus in order to ensure the expected high volumes would be properly managed.
The ABS expects the percentage of Australians completing the census online to double in 2016, forecasting a 65 percent take-up compared to 33 percent in 2011. For the first year of the eCensus, 10 percent of Australians submitted their form online.
“The ABS virtualisation project was successfully completed providing a very efficient platform for ongoing ABS operations, including supporting a number of components of the digital Census in 2016,” a spokesperson said.
“However, due to the peak volume of the online form during Census 2016 it was decided that contracting IBM would provide the best value for money and management of operational risk.”
Duncan Young, head of the 2016 Census within the ABS, said IBM had been contracted through a limited tender after proving it could offer the best value for money.
“This contract capitalises on the investment in the existing online Census system,” Young said in a statement to iTnews.
“Our existing solution has shown itself to be robust, and can be expanded to manage increased volumes. Using a known platform will reduce the risk of costly development and integration issues.”
The IBM contract will expire in October 2016.
... I could type "xterm" somewhere and have it launched.
... or just "term"
That has nothing whatsoever to do with Gnome and everything to do with your DISTRO.
Also most (all) distro's have a single user mode that runs graphics free, login to that and configure to your hearts content.
Your comment seems to be fishing for a +5 Insightful but you're -1 Troll.
Homestly I have never shopped at Amazon.com but I fail to see the point in gaming the system by posting veviews about products that these 'customers' have never used.
Put simply is this a case of those that review the most crap win?
This stoush has been going on for so long with dirty tricks from both sides about hardware that is obsolete.
my 2c
LOL Modpoints, tha sarcastic humor is killing me!
Mod points, I wish I had mod points.
Everyone is quick to bash the lawyers. The people you should be directing your anger at is the people that engage the lawyers to do stupid stuff...
-1 Modded wrong. With your 6 digit UID you must have registered when you were 6.
CD's are a continuous stream with the option of having track pauses. This information is stored in the TOC
http://www.t10.org/cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=f&f=mmc3r01.pdf PP36-45
Seriously? Ubuntu is not a top tier distro. They get the bulk of their work done for free via Debian. Putting the firmwares back in and skinning the product isnt going to take that much that Debian hasn't already done.
Debian is my favorite distro but they are a bit millitantly free on occasion making the product harder to use than it sometimes needs to be to fall in line with the DFSG.
This is why it pains me to use Ubuntu but crap like this makes Debian worth it.
Probaby came out like a troll or flame. Such is life.
Did you read this after you typed it? Fsck man, less COFFEE.
It's awesome that a major chip manufacturer is willing to invest time to implement a new architecture in the Linux kernel.
Pity that windows isn't open sourced, they wont benefit from this effort ;-)
Thanks, This ^^^^ Is now along with it's parent is my email sig.
I find street lighting on highways annoying, Save money, turn off the poles and put down more reflectors. The reflectors have the added benefit of making the lane markings visible when overhead street lighting dosen't.
My most hated driving is at night while raining on a lit up highway. The street lighting illuminates the water on your windscreen causing almost whiteout conditions.
Adrian
Most cable cores are kevlar or similar for weight reasons.
^ as well...
So we're getting back to the good old days where you needed to wipe the first couple of megs of the disk with a MS debug trick and re-partition to get rid of some of the viruses.
After rereading this a couple of times I really have to ask for confirmation :
So :
* "by convention", 1 mSv/year is considered "safe"
* the location you live in outputs about 3 times that value (natural source)
But, because we "know" where it comes from, and because it's "natural" radiation, it doesn't count as being harmfull and the safety limit is upped to those 3 mSv/year PLUS the "by convention" 1 mSv/year ??
??? What kind of logic is that ???
Shouldn't they just put the limit to 3 mSv/year for all people living in that area ? (it's kind of non-practical to remove all background radiation) + pay extra attention to potential effects due to already having 3 times the 'conventional' limit to live with ?
So nobody who lives in that area qualifies for X-rays, scans etc?
I know the following is XKCD but it's still quite informative:
http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/
Wait for the dupe to be submitted in 2 years...
That would have been a pretty emotional moment I would think.
...Nearly!
The bullets are loaded into the breach from the magazine, so they come from the breach not the mag ;-)
This effect is called back emf, we already have back emf in every motor already made. If we didn't have back emf then the motor would draw on average 5 times it's notmal running current (locked rotor current or start current).
Nothing new here.
Adrian
It's the done thing that you let a capillary metering device system equalise pressures to reduce startup currents. Units from most manufacturers will have delay timers in the 3 - 7 min range.
Adrian
If you'd have moderated him troll i'd have metaz moderated _you_ "unfair". His comment is on topic, and not a flame or a troll.
Adrian, YMMV.