subject states it all, comp.risks, has archives discussing nearly every computer failure for the last 20 years, check it out.
Australian Bills are different colors and lengths
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Greenbacks No More
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Australia has made a much bigger jump, in that all the bills are now printed on a polymer, instead of paper, the bills, last on average about 5 times longer, and they have some cool features such as clear windows in the bill, that I would guess are impossible to copy.
As well the bills are translucent, and if you hold them up to the light you can see parts of the design on each side add together if everything is alligned up correctly.
And the 2 best things about Oz money, 1. You can wash them, and nothing happens to them at all. 2. You can put them in the oven and make shrinky currency (Although that would be illegal and I do not suggest you do it:-)
The core point is how long did it take to test the fix, Many, Many Mozilla fixes cause regressions elsewhere.
In General (i.e. not these particular problems)
I'd bet the MS had the fix inside three days as well, it then took (At a guess)
2 weeks for internal regression testing 4 weeks for external large scale customer testing and feedback 2 weeks to get the documentation, patches and everything out for wide scale deployment.
All in all thats pretty fast.
With Mozilla I'd say
3 days to fix 1 day to apply fix 3 - 5 days to get a testers to try the nightly build numerous days of people complaining about fix 1 day * 3 as patch is removed 1 day as patch is reaplied
etc
you get the idea (I have used Mozilla for the last 12 months on a daly basis, so don't think this is a Mozilla b
At my place of employment, a University I get 4 weeks leave, which can be banked up to 8 weeks, at which point it sits there and wont go any higher.
I get 15 days sick leave a year.
After 10 years I get long service leave which is 3 months at full pay or 6 months at half pay off.
I can also cash in 4/52th of my pay and have an extra 4 weeks giving me 8 weeks leave per year.
As well we work flex time, and I can flex up to 1 day a week per fortnight (= 2 weeks in Australian) i.e. work 9 days in every 10.
I do get payed significantly less (approx 25% excluding Super which when added in makes the difference about 10%) than I would in an industry job, but with 2 young kids, and a Doctor for a wife (who works for her self, and get no paid leave, its great to have such a flexable job.
This also happens with Traffic to OZ, and I'd guess most other countries.
The bottom line, is most English content providers are in the US (like slashdot), and if you want to see it you'd better pay.
I'd guess that China and other non english countries would have the best change at getting costs equalised, as they don't need the US site to the same extent.
Microsoft states in the EULA, that when machines change hands, ie end of lease, the licence can only be transfered with
1. Original Hologram/Sticker on device
2. All media supplied with computer
3. any manuals supplied.
This causes problems as if you lease 1000 computers a year, like we do, you need to keep all the CD's some where for 3 years, and then hand it on at the end of lease.
We don't want CD's with our machines, and our supplier insists on giving them to us, because of the particular licence they have with MS.
The cost of storeing the CD's and getting them back to the machine as it goes back is not insignificant.
I have implimented Pcounter a 2 Universities, here in Oz, and works very, very well.
I started with ver 2 about 7 years ago, and we sent every printjob that counted wrong back to Andy, and he gradually iorned out all the holes that students tried to exploit to get free counting, until, its now almost builtproof.
I've not been involved in the Cisco IP phones, but we have a trial of about 100 of them at my place of emplotment. It seems that the server that interfaces the phones with the outside world i.e. VOIP PSTN only runs on NT, and we have had a few problems with reliability of that component.
My wife, uses software called Medical Directory which writes scripts, and does drug interactions and other medical stuff. It cost $50/year to use and that includes free updates each quarter, free telephone support. we stoped paying for it, and they still send us copies, and all they ask in return is for us to tell them how many people are using it. The revenue is generated by the software pulling out ads and placing them on the screen depending on what you are prescribing. For instance if your patient has the flu, it pulls up flu drugs, ect. This software has something like 65% of computer literate doctors in Australia using it. Its a run away success. Dave...
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subject states it all, comp.risks, has archives discussing nearly every computer failure for the last 20 years, check it out.
Australia has made a much bigger jump, in that all the bills are now printed on a polymer, instead of paper, the bills, last on average about 5 times longer, and they have some cool features such as clear windows in the bill, that I would guess are impossible to copy.
:-)
As well the bills are translucent, and if you hold them up to the light you can see parts of the design on each side add together if everything is alligned up correctly.
And the 2 best things about Oz money,
1. You can wash them, and nothing happens to them at all.
2. You can put them in the oven and make shrinky currency (Although that would be illegal and I do not suggest you do it
The core point is how long did it take to test the fix, Many, Many Mozilla fixes cause regressions elsewhere.
In General (i.e. not these particular problems)
I'd bet the MS had the fix inside three days as well, it then took (At a guess)
2 weeks for internal regression testing
4 weeks for external large scale customer testing and feedback
2 weeks to get the documentation, patches and everything out for wide scale deployment.
All in all thats pretty fast.
With Mozilla I'd say
3 days to fix
1 day to apply fix
3 - 5 days to get a testers to try the nightly build
numerous days of people complaining about fix
1 day * 3 as patch is removed
1 day as patch is reaplied
etc
you get the idea
(I have used Mozilla for the last 12 months on a daly basis, so don't think this is a Mozilla b
At my place of employment, a University I get 4 weeks leave, which can be banked up to 8 weeks, at which point it sits there and wont go any higher.
I get 15 days sick leave a year.
After 10 years I get long service leave which is 3 months at full pay or 6 months at half pay off.
I can also cash in 4/52th of my pay and have an extra 4 weeks giving me 8 weeks leave per year.
As well we work flex time, and I can flex up to 1 day a week per fortnight (= 2 weeks in Australian)
i.e. work 9 days in every 10.
I do get payed significantly less (approx 25% excluding Super which when added in makes the difference about 10%)
than I would in an industry job, but with 2 young kids, and a Doctor for a wife (who works for her self, and get no paid
leave, its great to have such a flexable job.
Dave...
This also happens with Traffic to OZ, and I'd guess most other countries.
The bottom line, is most English content providers are in the US (like slashdot), and if you want to see it you'd better pay.
I'd guess that China and other non english countries would have the best change at getting costs equalised, as they don't need the US site to the same extent.
Its all relative.
I've done a heap of work on nisgina 2000
(see nisgina.deakin.edu.au)
we use it in our teaching labs (approx 1000 machines)
and it works fine.
I wouldn't put in onstaff machines though its fairly invasive in the way it works.
Domain controllers are simpler to use, you just need to sync the passwords from your unix hosts, which we have now done.
Microsoft states in the EULA, that when machines change hands, ie end of lease, the licence can only be transfered with
1. Original Hologram/Sticker on device
2. All media supplied with computer
3. any manuals supplied.
This causes problems as if you lease 1000 computers a year, like we do, you need to keep all the CD's some where for 3 years, and then hand it on at the end of lease.
We don't want CD's with our machines, and our supplier insists on giving them to us, because of the particular licence they have with MS.
The cost of storeing the CD's and getting them back to the machine as it goes back is not insignificant.
Dave..
I have implimented Pcounter a 2 Universities, here in Oz, and works very, very well.
I started with ver 2 about 7 years ago, and we sent every printjob that counted wrong back to Andy, and he gradually iorned out all the holes that students tried to exploit to get free counting, until, its now almost builtproof.
go look at www.pcounter.com
Dave...
I've not been involved in the Cisco IP phones, but we have a trial of about 100 of them at my place of emplotment. It seems that the server that interfaces the phones with the outside world i.e. VOIP PSTN only runs on NT, and we have had a few problems with reliability of that component.
My wife, uses software called Medical Directory which writes scripts, and does drug interactions and other medical stuff. It cost $50/year to use and that includes free updates each quarter, free telephone support. we stoped paying for it, and they still send us copies, and all they ask in return is for us to tell them how many people are using it. The revenue is generated by the software pulling out ads and placing them on the screen depending on what you are prescribing. For instance if your patient has the flu, it pulls up flu drugs, ect. This software has something like 65% of computer literate doctors in Australia using it. Its a run away success. Dave...