Interestingly, all the CSIRAC history forgets to mention it was located at Chisholm Institute of Technology's Caulfield campus (now Monash) for a long time as a display of one of the earliest computers ever made. I worked there and had the keys into the display, I now wish I'd added a bit of graffiti to the mercurary delay lines.
I get 70meg a second at my desk (And the Microsoft guys we had in last month, couldn't believe you can download the Windows 7 iso, in under 5 minutes until they all did it themselves) I guess it makes up for the crappy pay......
The Current Austrlian Prime Minisiter was born in Wales, in a mining village. Most Australians can only wonder that a miners daughter from overseas, is now the Australian Leader.
I've overseen the management of ~600 macs running an SOE for the last 9 years.
We use AD for authentication OSX servers for the applicaton of the mac equiverlent of Group policy settings and Radia to deploy software (now called HP openview something arrather)
We have not been happy with Radia since HP bought it a few years ago, so after a review of products last year we are now moving to Casper (the friendly ghost) from JAMF
As far as I know importing motor cycles into India, is restricted and expensive, you have to buy local !!!! (based on a mate who wanted to ride his bike across India, and had to prove he still had it when he left)
omg, its takien us 7 years to undo this sort simple to setup, difficult to protect system. Once the auditors found it, it was year after year of explaining that 10% of systems have been moved off the plain text passwords, then 25% then 50%, etc
My advice, only ever do this, if you are not securing anything scure, and you will never have to face an security audit board...
the local articles state, that the "medical drill" that was on-site, was to small to drill a hole this big, so something with more "torque" was located.
I can just see the ad's now, You don't need to be a brain surgeon to work our drills, etc, etc
I've seen Telstra put in underground fibre, and its not expensive, think a team of 5 vehicles, 4wd cutting fences, then first d8 dozer doing initial cut with plough, then second dozer, doing another cut and laying the cable, then another dozer driving along behind making it all flat, followed up byt another 4wd putting the fences back together.
And whats more the speed probably 2 to 3 kph.
However, when you consider that many remote cattle and sheep stations can be more than 500 km to the nearest service centre. (The largest station in Australia is 36,000 sqr km or 6,000,000 acres). Its more than just a few days work to get out there.
(Remember many remote stations still fly to town, have a weekly mail run truck that delivers all the day to day needs, teach the kids ont he radia, and fly doctors in for emergencies and live on generator power)
We test, because OS X is not backwardly compatable enough.
We currently have 1 enterprise product that DOES not work on OSX 10.5, but does on 10.4 fine.
10.5 also broke our centralized authentication process. So if you run unmanaged Macs then yep its all fine, but that is not running an enterprise setup, that's just running a heap of Macs.
Its not the same, and it doesn't scale well We more than halved our support calls times on Macs when we rolled out a centrally managed and supported managed operating environment, it would have been more, but apples last minute upgrades, and breaking of backward compatability now require significant more testing.
We support Linux, Win XP, and OS X, and the linux and PC's are the cheapest to support, and have the best backward compatability.
Want to know what the biggest apple problem in the enterprise is ?
Just try leasing them, on a 3 year lease, and find out at the end of the lease theirs no replacement machines because apple has run down the channel due to a new product announcement, that is yet to happen.
Happens on a regular basis to us, and then the new machines doesn't support the current release of OS X, so we cant deploy until we fully test in any case, as it only runs 10.5.2 or later, not earlier or some such rubbish.
Apple is light weight and no where near enterprise ready.
Nintendo seem to be selling virtual games at a great rate,here in australia there now more than 100 available, and I know I've bought 10 or so. I bet the profit per sale on a virtual game is close to that on a Wii game.
Oh yes you do, private heath insurance does NOT cover anything other than hospital costs, if you want to see a Doctor, you need your medicare card unless you want to pay the entire cost. (all australians can get a rebate for both public and private consultaions)
Redhat set up a meeting today with Michael, and it was very interesting.
He is currently touring Australia and SE Asia, he said he would be in Malaysia (KL I assume) on the weekend.
He was a very fluent speaker, and covered many of the points raised in the article, during our meeting.
We also asked him about GFS (something we are working on deploying) and he had some interesting comments on where its going.
He also was stong on making the point that newstuff/possibly unstable will be in Fedora, and when it all works it will be ported to RHE, he strongly encouraged us to submit stuff to Fedora, as a way to help steer the direction that RHE will take in the long term
He also stated that RHE 3 will be supported for 7 years from release, and new versions will be released every 18 months
Well I manage a team that manages ~4000 workstations, 8% are macs, 92% Windows 2k/XP. (down from 78% macs 15 years ago)
Guess what our support break down in in personal.
50% each, you do the sums, our unmanaged macs cost ~5 times as much to support as our managed PC's. (Thats why our managed Mac project is just about to roll out, and will hopefully reduce support cost by a factor of greater than 5 for macs)
I am sure with a little bit of work you can figure out ambient temperature by measuring the temperature of your PC CPU. and working out how it compares with the ambient temperature
Actually, if you ever used the net in Oz, before 1990, you would know that the original australian domain was OZ i.e.
my first email address was at cit5.cit.oz.au, o boy those where they days.....
hence I live in oz
>.oz.au >The.oz.au subdomain has been delegated to >Robert Elz (kre@munnari.oz.au).
>The domain was Australia's first domain and >originally devised to register names of those >entities operating within the ACSnet network, >and continues to be used to register those >entities who are visible within the ACSnet >network domain. Registration of a name within >this domain is only undertaken once the name is >visible on the ACSnet network.
>This domain is gradually shrinking as less >sites are connected to ACSnet.
I manage a group that roles out and manages SOEs in a resonalbe size organiseation (~3500 workstations)
And in my experiance Apple suck.
Our PC supplier, provides us with new hardware to check that our standard images run on it, before the hardware is released.
Apple refuse, and so we sometime have to stop shipping new apple models for 2 to 3 weeks while we sort out what the problem is with our standard image.
Whats more Apple refuse to tell us when a new model will release, as we may stop buying the current model
This causes us major problems as all workstations are on a 3 year lease, and when we have to return workstations, they have to go, and we cant wait for apple to get the act together.
The other minor problem is that OUR mac's (all 500 of them) cost us about twice the cost to support compared to our Win2k / WINxp fleet (mainly as we have a fully managed Windows SOE, and the Macs are standalone.)
Hopefully when our managed Mac SOE is released, those costs will fall dramaticly.
Another problem is Apple will not discount, If I buy 50 G4's, do I get a good price ? No apple will give me a free Xserve which I dont want as I already have 3 of them !!
The final problem is intergrating the Macs with out Environment, it is not simple, and the Apple documentation is worse than non existant, we mainly have to use documentation written by third party people, and that is not good.
The acer tm800 is much under rated as a laptop, we pay ~2700 AUS$ ~ $1500US for a 1.3Mhz Pentium Processor M rpoicess 512Mb ram, and a DVD/CD writre combo drive, with wireless etc.
All in all not a bad laptop for the price.
I currently use an Acer TM610, and its great, I love it
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Interestingly, all the CSIRAC history forgets to mention it was located at Chisholm Institute of Technology's Caulfield campus (now Monash) for a long time as a display of one of the earliest computers ever made. I worked there and had the keys into the display, I now wish I'd added a bit of graffiti to the mercurary delay lines.
I get 70meg a second at my desk
(And the Microsoft guys we had in last month, couldn't believe you can download the Windows 7 iso, in under 5 minutes until they all did it themselves)
I guess it makes up for the crappy pay......
The Current Austrlian Prime Minisiter was born in Wales, in a mining village.
Most Australians can only wonder that a miners daughter from overseas, is now the Australian Leader.
I've overseen the management of ~600 macs running an SOE for the last 9 years.
We use
AD for authentication
OSX servers for the applicaton of the mac equiverlent of Group policy settings
and Radia to deploy software (now called HP openview something arrather)
We have not been happy with Radia since HP bought it a few years ago, so after a review of products last year we are now moving to Casper (the friendly ghost) from JAMF
see http://www.jamfsoftware.com/ for more info, it works fine
As far as I know importing motor cycles into India, is restricted and expensive, you have to buy local !!!!
(based on a mate who wanted to ride his bike across India, and had to prove he still had it when he left)
and every screw looks like a nail
omg, its takien us 7 years to undo this sort simple to setup, difficult to protect system.
Once the auditors found it, it was year after year of explaining that 10% of systems have been moved off the plain text passwords, then 25% then 50%, etc
My advice, only ever do this, if you are not securing anything scure, and you will never have to face an security audit board. ..
the local articles state, that the "medical drill" that was on-site, was to small to drill a hole this big, so something with more "torque" was located.
I can just see the ad's now, You don't need to be a brain surgeon to work our drills, etc, etc
I've seen Telstra put in underground fibre, and its not expensive, think a team of 5 vehicles, 4wd cutting fences, then first d8 dozer doing initial cut with plough, then second dozer, doing another cut and laying the cable, then another dozer driving along behind making it all flat, followed up byt another 4wd putting the fences back together.
And whats more the speed probably 2 to 3 kph.
However, when you consider that many remote cattle and sheep stations can be more than 500 km to the nearest service centre. (The largest station in Australia is 36,000 sqr km or 6,000,000 acres). Its more than just a few days work to get out there.
(Remember many remote stations still fly to town, have a weekly mail run truck that delivers all the day to day needs, teach the kids ont he radia, and fly doctors in for emergencies and live on generator power)
for a number of years, at my previous job, a number of guys went on an Australia day ski on the backside of Mt Kosiosco.
As I remember (it was a few years ago), it took something like 6 hours to hike from the nearest road, for about 20 minutes of downhill summer bliss.
We test, because OS X is not backwardly compatable enough.
We currently have 1 enterprise product that DOES not work on OSX 10.5, but does on 10.4 fine.
10.5 also broke our centralized authentication process. So if you run unmanaged Macs then yep its all fine, but that is not running an enterprise setup, that's just running a heap of Macs.
Its not the same, and it doesn't scale well
We more than halved our support calls times on Macs when we rolled out a centrally managed and supported managed operating environment,
it would have been more, but apples last minute upgrades, and breaking of backward compatability
now require significant more testing.
We support Linux, Win XP, and OS X, and the linux and PC's are the cheapest to support, and have the best backward compatability.
Just go to http://www.macintouch.com/leopard/compat.html, to see what broke and what only kinda broke, (and its not a small list), we were affected by a number of these issues.
Want to know what the biggest apple problem in the enterprise is ?
Just try leasing them, on a 3 year lease, and find out at the end of the lease theirs no replacement machines because apple has run down the channel due to a new product announcement, that is yet to happen.
Happens on a regular basis to us, and then the new machines doesn't support the current release of OS X, so we cant deploy until we fully test in any case, as it only runs 10.5.2 or later, not earlier or some such rubbish.
Apple is light weight and no where near enterprise ready.
>When did it become up to people to pay what they feel like paying
Oh, only for the about 1850 of the last 2000 years.
In fact it still happens today, thats what buskars are.
Nintendo seem to be selling virtual games at a great rate,here in australia there now more than 100 available, and I know I've bought 10 or so. I bet the profit per sale on a virtual game is close to that on a Wii game.
Oh yes you do, private heath insurance does NOT cover anything other than hospital costs, if you want to see a Doctor, you need your medicare card unless you want to pay the entire cost. (all australians can get a rebate for both public and private consultaions)
Redhat set up a meeting today with Michael, and it was very interesting.
He is currently touring Australia and SE Asia, he said he would be in Malaysia (KL I assume) on the weekend.
He was a very fluent speaker, and covered many of the points raised in the article, during our meeting.
We also asked him about GFS (something we are working on deploying) and he had some interesting comments on where its going.
He also was stong on making the point that newstuff/possibly unstable will be in Fedora, and when it all works it will be ported to RHE, he strongly encouraged us to submit stuff to Fedora, as a way to help steer the direction that RHE will take in the long term
He also stated that RHE 3 will be supported for 7 years from release, and new versions will be released every 18 months
All in all an interesting hour.
my brother was a ceramic engineer for a while, he made ceramic toilets (cisterns)
Well I manage a team that manages ~4000 workstations, 8% are macs, 92% Windows 2k /XP.
(down from 78% macs 15 years ago)
Guess what our support break down in in personal.
50% each, you do the sums, our unmanaged macs cost ~5 times as much to support as our managed PC's.
(Thats why our managed Mac project is just about to roll out, and will hopefully reduce support cost by a factor of greater than 5 for macs)
I am sure with a little bit of work you can figure out ambient temperature by measuring the temperature of your PC CPU. and working out how it compares with the ambient temperature
Actually, if you ever used the net in Oz, before 1990, you would know that the original australian domain was OZ i.e.
.oz.au subdomain has been delegated to
my first email address was at cit5.cit.oz.au, o boy those where they days.....
hence I live in oz
>.oz.au
>The
>Robert Elz (kre@munnari.oz.au).
>The domain was Australia's first domain and
>originally devised to register names of those
>entities operating within the ACSnet network,
>and continues to be used to register those
>entities who are visible within the ACSnet
>network domain. Registration of a name within
>this domain is only undertaken once the name is
>visible on the ACSnet network.
>This domain is gradually shrinking as less
>sites are connected to ACSnet.
I cant use ITMS, (other than to browse) cause I'm not in the US and Apple is only licensed to sell music in the US. Damm
So the question is, can you use gift certificates to get around this little licensing issue ?
I manage a group that roles out and manages SOEs in a resonalbe size organiseation (~3500 workstations)
And in my experiance Apple suck.
Our PC supplier, provides us with new hardware to check that our standard images run on it, before the hardware is released.
Apple refuse, and so we sometime have to stop shipping new apple models for 2 to 3 weeks while we sort out what the problem is with our standard image.
Whats more Apple refuse to tell us when a new model will release, as we may stop buying the current model
This causes us major problems as all workstations are on a 3 year lease, and when we have to return workstations, they have to go, and we cant wait for apple to get the act together.
The other minor problem is that OUR mac's (all 500 of them) cost us about twice the cost to support compared to our Win2k / WINxp fleet (mainly as we have a fully managed Windows SOE, and the Macs are standalone.)
Hopefully when our managed Mac SOE is released, those costs will fall dramaticly.
Another problem is Apple will not discount,
If I buy 50 G4's, do I get a good price ?
No apple will give me a free Xserve which I dont want as I already have 3 of them !!
The final problem is intergrating the Macs with out Environment, it is not simple, and the Apple documentation is worse than non existant, we mainly have to use documentation written by third party people, and that is not good.
The acer tm800 is much under rated as a laptop, we pay ~2700 AUS$ ~ $1500US for a 1.3Mhz Pentium Processor M rpoicess 512Mb ram, and a DVD/CD writre combo drive, with wireless etc.
All in all not a bad laptop for the price.
I currently use an Acer TM610, and its great, I love it
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