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  1. Re:How does the censorship work? on Australia's Censored URL List Remains Hidden · · Score: 1

    i'd love to see the price tag on a system that can filter content on a 120Gb/s link

    btw just 1 of those little links and its getting upgraded to 240Gb/s
    www.southerncrosscables.com (shockwave required)

  2. Re:Crashing X-Windows on Serious IIS Hole; Minor X Bug · · Score: 1

    you obviusly don't know anything about C programing do you

    malloc returns a pointer (the address of the memory) to the memory it just allocated so that you can use it and that memory will remain allocated untill deallocated by free or hopefully when the process exits or is killed

    so if you have just got the address of the memory then obviusly nothing else can now use that memory untill you release it (unless you want to segfault to death)

    btw i think that site with the exploit just got DoS'ed itself

  3. Re:why australia? on Do-it-yourself UPS · · Score: 1

    actually its for the benifit of the large american audience
    dansdata is an australian website and thus the article talks in terms of 240V (NB to idiot editor its not 220V)

  4. Re:Lacking some features on Do-it-yourself UPS · · Score: 1

    the surge protection from this would be great due to the isolation of your pc from the main power via a battery

  5. Re:The value of your data on Do-it-yourself UPS · · Score: 1

    > and the transmission lines are underground

    yea right do you have any idea how much that would cost in australia where the power lines go for 1000's of km's across a very large and sparsly populated country

  6. Re:Australian monopoly money on Do-it-yourself UPS · · Score: 1

    between 55c and 60c check the sign in the front window of your local bank they should have a list of exchange rates
    or try a travel agent

  7. Re:quit your whining on Death of Decent Australian Broadband · · Score: 1

    what only $700 / Month

    (warning the prices on this webpage will shock many americans)
    Telstra Bigpond Direct Pricing

  8. Re:I'm curious on Death of Decent Australian Broadband · · Score: 1

    > If every Aussie is angry at the ISP, it's a wide open door for a new ISP with no capping to come in and make a lot of money.

    well you might be able to compete with optus but Telstra is the big giant of corporations in Australia (they are the biggest company in the country)

  9. Re:here we go again on Death of Decent Australian Broadband · · Score: 1

    > To lay out broadband across a country so vast and a with such a low population density is always going to be an expensive task.

    well the government paid for most of the copper (that now belongs to telstra)

    which brings in the new problem the local loop was paid for by the goverment and a corporation is reaping the benifits. recent legal developments have led to telstra having to allow others access to the local loop (thank god) but they are still chargeing obsecne amounts of money for it

  10. Re:Broadband in Oz.... on Death of Decent Australian Broadband · · Score: 1

    people have tried that and the payments never go through so he is right you can't pay it online

    you also can't combine the internet bill with your phone bill and get the combined bill discount despite what the tv ads say

  11. Re:Perhaps broadband should charge 'per megabyte'? on Death of Decent Australian Broadband · · Score: 1

    > This fabulous deal is called "peering". If you're a Tier-1 ISP, you don't pay for data. This is by agreement amongst the ISPs. All the Tier-1 ISPs are in the USA, and guess what? They won't let any non-US ISPs join the club.

    thats all fine and dandy but the we don't get free internal traffic here in australia unless the isp want to give access to a site for free

    13.9c/MB for data from the guy accross town
    13.9c/MB for data from the guy in New York

  12. Re:Perhaps broadband should charge 'per megabyte'? on Death of Decent Australian Broadband · · Score: 1

    if i could get 3GB for $40 i would be very happy
    as it stands it cost $95.95 +13.9c/MB there after
    add $15 dollars if you want to use another phone company for your phone calls

  13. Re:I'm no email antispam guru... on The Story of "Nadine" · · Score: 1

    a domain with the MX record set to 127.0.0.1 so that it sends the spammers mail server spastic

  14. Re:I use Commodore Basic 2.0 on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 1

    hehe i cheated and looked it up in a commodore 64 programmers referance book

  15. Re:I use Commodore Basic 2.0 on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 1

    it sets the backgorund and border to ?black?

  16. Re:Posted on March 31st on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it shows local time you fool

    Posted by Cliff on Mon April 01, 04:52 PM

  17. Re:Secret? on The Root of All E-Mail · · Score: 1

    nope.

    a client contacts the first dns server it knows of and asks it for the ip for www.domain.com
    if the dns server knows the answer it tells the client
    if the dns server knows where to find the answer it asks that server and then hands the answer to the client
    failing that every dns server on the planet has the list of root name servers in it and it then consults at least 1 of the root servers to find the answer which it then sends to the client
    which root server is contacted is random and as far as any normal dns server (ie non root) all root servers are the same

    if all that fails the client then tries the next dns server it knows of (and will go through all of them) unless of course the dns server tells it that the domain definatly dosen't exist
    if no dns servers that a client knows of knows the answer the client then gives you that lovely screen in your web browser

    if you read the article the only special thing root-a does is it sends out the list of changes to the dns hirachy every 6 hours

  18. Re:Look At It From the ISP's Standpoint on How to Work Around Broken Port-80 Routing? · · Score: 1

    > To name a few, the virtually only ISP in Australia under any of it's 3 major names

    are you refering to this Telstra Bigpond Direct Proxy

    and a bit of info about how to connect your (squid) proxy to it

    and i get a 72% hit rate on the bigpond direct cache. but due to a new proxy server here my own server is only getting 8% compared to around 20% on the old one.

    the direct proxy is also used by those on bigond broadband cable to avoid hitting the transperant proxies on the cable network which don't work

  19. Re:Attn: HR - please discard on O'Reilly's Antenna Shootout · · Score: 1

    he spelt it right you got it wrong try a dictionary next time

    savvy /sav-ee/ colloq. -v. (-ies, -ied)
    know. -n. knowingness; understanding.
    [Pidgin alteration of Spanish sabe usted
    you know]

  20. Re:really? on Australian Commisssion Defends Playstation Mod-Chipping · · Score: 1

    oh ffs

    post a link that is censored and i will see if i can see it (I'm in Australia)

    bet you i can

  21. Re:I HAVEN'T NOTICED THAT RECENTLY! on Australian Commisssion Defends Playstation Mod-Chipping · · Score: 1

    well duh

    have you ever seen a map of South Australia
    oh and for the uninformed thats the state where the Woomera Detetion centre is located

    Woomera is a small town in the largest military area covering a large part of the state. Its been used for nuclear tests, test firing rockets both military and civilian and is a big no go area for ANYONE.

  22. Re:My problem with spam on When Spammers Try To Sue You · · Score: 1

    What you have an UNLIMITED internet account really are you sure have you read the terms and conditions and the acceptable user policy.
    The only unlimited accounts in
    Austalia cost around $799 dollars a month for a 256/64 adsl link (metro only) jumps up to $999 in regional areas which I am in.
    http://www.tpg.com.au/products_services/adsl.htm l
    Go on Use your link as an umlimited link and I bet you wont have 1 next month you TROLL

  23. Re:My problem with spam on When Spammers Try To Sue You · · Score: 1

    ok chew on this

    Here in Austrlia we ALL pay per MB for ALL data we receive.

    Do I want spam NO BLOODY WAY!

  24. Re:Invasion?? on Escape from Data Alcatraz · · Score: 1

    just to add to that military invasion bit
    there are 2 ways for a foreign power to get to Adelaide
    1. Through the entire country (Dumb)
    Fight through the entire country to attck 1 facility why bother
    2. Via the southern ocean (Even Dumber)
    while invaders are bouncing in the waves the RAAF gets them with anti ship missiles from the fleet of orions which are based in Adelaide

  25. Re:What for? on Escape from Data Alcatraz · · Score: 1

    thats only 1 of the links used by 1 of the providors (Telstra)
    Optus dosent use that cable at all and is the other providor used
    2 providers using 2 cables plus the other links they both have