True, but switches on the outlet are pretty much UK-only, as are plugs that include a fuse. Other 230 V-countries don't use them.
Wrong, switches on the outlet are common in other 230 volt countries -- such as New Zealand and Australia for example. I seem to recall seeing some in Spain as well.
The current iPhone works on all four frequencies -- i.e. 800/1900 for the US and 900/1800 for the rest of the world, so it would technically work fine on all four UK networks.
GSM/UMTS is the only option in Europe, so no point even considering the option of CDMA. CDMA is declining in terms of global market share -- with Australia and New Zealand both migrating away from a mixed GSM/CDMA environment to a GSM only environment. Many other regions are GSM only already.
Uh, anyone whose ISP keeps their authentication servers (that's most of them) north of the cut was taken offline. Similarly the few people for whom it goes the other way.
There ARE services hosted south of Palmy, y'know, and they were unavailable to Aucklanders and everyone else north of Palmy/Wairarapa.
I have a friend who works and lives south of Palmerson North (in Levin to be specific) who said Internet was working OK. Apparenly in his area ADSL was alright although Dialup was having heaps of issues with various ISPs.
...Telecom and TelstraClear purposely depeered from various internet exchanges through which they could have easily redirected traffic during this outage,...
The ISPs Telecom and TelstraClear previously peered with all had their Auckland-Wellington routes on either Telecom or TelstraClear. No other ISPs, as far as I know, have their own cable linking Wellington and Auckland. So Even if Telecom was peered with other ISPs they would still have overloaded so much traffic onto TelstraClear's network that it would probally slow to a crawl. Therefore peering wouldn't be a great idea in this situation. Although I do agree that they should kept their peering agreement with the Auckland and Wellington peering exchanges.
TelstraClear was the one which did the depeering, not Telecom.
They both have depeered, although they depeered at different times. Nowdays if I do a traceroute from my Woosh Wireless connection to either Telecom or TelstraClear it never goes through the Auckland Peering Exchange (APE), where previously it always went via the APE. Traceroutes to other ISPs still goes via the APE fortently.
Not 100%. Telecom is listed on the NZSX so they have shareholders from various countries, including many New Zealand-based shareholders. They were once 100% owned by two USA telcos, but that is no longer true.
Luckly most people in NZ don't have their mobile with Telecom -- they only have a 45% marker share versus competitor Vodafone's 55%. I hear Vodafone's network was working perfectly well throughout this outoage. Anyway it was only the Lower North Island part of Telecom Mobile's network that was affected.
Ditto for other stuff, the outoage was a major one not not as widespread as the parent post makes out. People in Auckland (the largest city in New Zealand), were not affected. People in many other major NZ cities (excluding Wellington and Palmerson North) were not affected as well.
I have to agree with the parent. I had a Quantum 2GB for over 5 years and it always worked perfectly. After that I went through 2 Seagate 40GB hard drives in less than 2 years. After the second I didn't bother to return it for replacement as I had figured out that two seagates HDDs failing in a row indicated that the quality of that specific model was not good enough to last for its 3-years warranty period. Not suprisely, shortly after Seagate decided to reduce the warranty on all new HDDs to 1 year. I bet my money that the crap quality of their HDD forced Seagate to reduce the warranty to stop lossing money.
Later I bought a Samsung 60GB since, at the time, they were the only one to provide a 3-year warranty. The Samsung works perfectly to this day. My server has a second-hand Quantum 12GB hard drive which also works perfectly. Both the Samung and Quantum drives passed the SMART self-test when I checked both rectently. I also have 3 Maxtor 2GB lying around and they seem to work pretty well and at least one of them have passed the SMART self-test. I havn't checked the other two. I also had a WD tempoarly and that wasn't too bad as well.
So far Quantum has done pretty well and they had a great reptuation before being taken over by Maxtor. However Maxtor itself is pretty good. Basically the only company I feel uncomfortable about is Seagate, however many of my friends have Seagate HDDs and have had no issues with them. So perhaps it was the PSU I had at the time that might have been damaging the HDD. A few months after the second HDD broke the PSU broke after puffing some smoke out the back. I have a theory that maybe the Seagate didn't like the voltage levels of the old PSU while the Samsung was more tolerant of crap power.
Needless to say I made sure my next PSU was of much better quality than the generic one that came with my crappy case.
I have 10Mbps at home for some months now, with TelstraClear... Is New Zealand that ahead of the UK?
I would like to add that this is only avaiable to a small percentage of New Zealand homes and business who have access to TelstraClear's network. Most New Zealaners have only one option, Telecom New Zealand, who is one of the worst option for broadband access. FYI Telecom used to be the telco monoploy.
So, my point is, New Zealand is not ahead of the UK by a long shot. We are still very far behind since the majority of NZ households and businesses have no option other than Telecom NZ's ripoff pricing.
Personally I am somewhat fortunate to live in a area serviced by Woosh Wireless (a UMTS-based wireless broadband ISP) which is the only serious company competing with Telecom's ADSL offering in Auckland - and even then their prices aren't that much better than Telecom's. Auckland is the largest city in NZ and the fact there are only 2 major competitors with simalar pricing says a lot about how "advanced" we, as a country, are in the area of broadband pricing...
There are times when I want to go on holidays and just leave the laptop home (or in the hotel room) and just take lots of photos. This HDD would enable me to just copy the photos to a HDD whenever I max out my memory stick. I think this is a great idea, espcially for people who don't use computers when they are on holiday - which is the majority of the digital camera users I know.
Humm, when run as a user it only shows my processes but when run as root (via sudo) it shows the root processes as expected. A bug in FreeBSD, or is this expected behaviour?
The suitation in New Zealand is much better. I know of three banks whose website works reasonably well under Mozilla -- ANZ Bank (2nd largest bank), National Bank (4th largest bank) and the ASB Bank (5th largest bank). I also know a close friend is a customer of the BNZ (2nd largest bank) and she uses Firefox so I suppose she has no problem with the BZN either. I guess Westpac, the largest bank in terms of customer numbers, will also work fine under Mozilla since the rest of their website rendered perfectly under Mozilla last time I checked.
My SONY DVD player works well with my Philips TV. My SONY PlayStation works well with my Philips TV. My SONY Digital Camera works well with my non-SONY computer.
Your assertion that all SONY products only works with other SONY products is false. It is true that some SONY producs doesn't interoperate well with other produces (the Memory Stick being an example) but there are many products that follows industury standard, such as their TV, DVD/VCR players, and Digital Cameras.
It would also be interesting to look at the paid email providers too. Does the ISPs that offer IMAP hosting do backups of their customer's emails? I quite like the idea of IMAP, but this issue raises an interesting question. With POP3 email, your emails are stored on your own computer, so you can easily backup email. How easy is it to backup and restore IMAP email boxes?
There are plenty of other places people could go to for free email, or they could use their very own ISP for email service. But for some bizzare reason people just want to have a @hotmail.com email address. I dunno, maybe it gives people a fuzzy feeling having an @hotmail.com account rather than @yourisp.com...
Here in New Zealand, ICQ used to the the most popular IM program in the late 1990's. Now, however, almost everyone has migrated over to MSN. Almost everyone I know that use IM use MSN Messenger. They use it cos its easy to use and cos everyone else in NZ use it.
They started to catch on in the first part of this century and became big around 1910-1920.
Would that be the 21st Century or the 20th Century?:-P
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Its possible not to pay any ATM fees, if you are with a bank that has agreements with other banks to use their ATMs for free. For example, customers of The National Bank have been able to use ASB Bank and TSB Bank ATMs for free for many years now. The customers of the TSB and ASB banks also have free access to National Bank's ATMs.
The ANZ Bank rectently purchased the National Bank from its British owner, Lloyds TSB, and now ANZ and National Bank customers can access both National/ANZ ATMs for free. This came into effect only a week ago -- December 1st.
Nowdays the only banks that chages a fee for using any other bank's ATM are Westpac, Bank of New Zealand and some other smaller banks. The ANZ/ASB/National/TSB banks all allow their customers to use at least one other bank's ATMs for free.
Can anyone tell us what is the case with the KiwiBank and SuperBank (the New World/4 Square/Pack'n'Save bank)? I read somewhere that the SuperBank charges $2.00 for every ATM transaction regardless of which bank you use. Apparenly the banks wouldn't let them use their ATMs for free or even a small charge!
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True, but switches on the outlet are pretty much UK-only, as are plugs that include a fuse. Other 230 V-countries don't use them.
Wrong, switches on the outlet are common in other 230 volt countries -- such as New Zealand and Australia for example. I seem to recall seeing some in Spain as well.
The current iPhone works on all four frequencies -- i.e. 800/1900 for the US and 900/1800 for the rest of the world, so it would technically work fine on all four UK networks.
GSM/UMTS is the only option in Europe, so no point even considering the option of CDMA. CDMA is declining in terms of global market share -- with Australia and New Zealand both migrating away from a mixed GSM/CDMA environment to a GSM only environment. Many other regions are GSM only already.
That should be spelt Vodafone.
I agree with the parent post. XP does give you options, although it does seem to connect to the highest signal by default.
What is a selectee?
Uh, anyone whose ISP keeps their authentication servers (that's most of them) north of the cut was taken offline. Similarly the few people for whom it goes the other way. There ARE services hosted south of Palmy, y'know, and they were unavailable to Aucklanders and everyone else north of Palmy/Wairarapa.
I have a friend who works and lives south of Palmerson North (in Levin to be specific) who said Internet was working OK. Apparenly in his area ADSL was alright although Dialup was having heaps of issues with various ISPs.
- James
What a troll. Please mod the parent post a troll.
The ISPs Telecom and TelstraClear previously peered with all had their Auckland-Wellington routes on either Telecom or TelstraClear. No other ISPs, as far as I know, have their own cable linking Wellington and Auckland. So Even if Telecom was peered with other ISPs they would still have overloaded so much traffic onto TelstraClear's network that it would probally slow to a crawl. Therefore peering wouldn't be a great idea in this situation. Although I do agree that they should kept their peering agreement with the Auckland and Wellington peering exchanges.
-James
TelstraClear was the one which did the depeering, not Telecom.
They both have depeered, although they depeered at different times. Nowdays if I do a traceroute from my Woosh Wireless connection to either Telecom or TelstraClear it never goes through the Auckland Peering Exchange (APE), where previously it always went via the APE. Traceroutes to other ISPs still goes via the APE fortently.
-James
Telecom is an American owned company.
Not 100%. Telecom is listed on the NZSX so they have shareholders from various countries, including many New Zealand-based shareholders. They were once 100% owned by two USA telcos, but that is no longer true.
- James
Much of the countrys mobile network went down.
Luckly most people in NZ don't have their mobile with Telecom -- they only have a 45% marker share versus competitor Vodafone's 55%. I hear Vodafone's network was working perfectly well throughout this outoage. Anyway it was only the Lower North Island part of Telecom Mobile's network that was affected.
Ditto for other stuff, the outoage was a major one not not as widespread as the parent post makes out. People in Auckland (the largest city in New Zealand), were not affected. People in many other major NZ cities (excluding Wellington and Palmerson North) were not affected as well.
- James
John Howard is the Prime Minister of Australia. He was one of the first leaders to express support for George Bush's plan to invade Afganstian.
I bought a Mac Mini. Where is the S-Video port?
You can get the Apple DVI-to-Video adaptor for USD 19.00 at store.apple.com.
I have to agree with the parent. I had a Quantum 2GB for over 5 years and it always worked perfectly. After that I went through 2 Seagate 40GB hard drives in less than 2 years. After the second I didn't bother to return it for replacement as I had figured out that two seagates HDDs failing in a row indicated that the quality of that specific model was not good enough to last for its 3-years warranty period. Not suprisely, shortly after Seagate decided to reduce the warranty on all new HDDs to 1 year. I bet my money that the crap quality of their HDD forced Seagate to reduce the warranty to stop lossing money.
Later I bought a Samsung 60GB since, at the time, they were the only one to provide a 3-year warranty. The Samsung works perfectly to this day. My server has a second-hand Quantum 12GB hard drive which also works perfectly. Both the Samung and Quantum drives passed the SMART self-test when I checked both rectently. I also have 3 Maxtor 2GB lying around and they seem to work pretty well and at least one of them have passed the SMART self-test. I havn't checked the other two. I also had a WD tempoarly and that wasn't too bad as well.
So far Quantum has done pretty well and they had a great reptuation before being taken over by Maxtor. However Maxtor itself is pretty good. Basically the only company I feel uncomfortable about is Seagate, however many of my friends have Seagate HDDs and have had no issues with them. So perhaps it was the PSU I had at the time that might have been damaging the HDD. A few months after the second HDD broke the PSU broke after puffing some smoke out the back. I have a theory that maybe the Seagate didn't like the voltage levels of the old PSU while the Samsung was more tolerant of crap power.
Needless to say I made sure my next PSU was of much better quality than the generic one that came with my crappy case.
I have 10Mbps at home for some months now, with TelstraClear ... Is New Zealand that ahead of the UK?
I would like to add that this is only avaiable to a small percentage of New Zealand homes and business who have access to TelstraClear's network. Most New Zealaners have only one option, Telecom New Zealand, who is one of the worst option for broadband access. FYI Telecom used to be the telco monoploy.
So, my point is, New Zealand is not ahead of the UK by a long shot. We are still very far behind since the majority of NZ households and businesses have no option other than Telecom NZ's ripoff pricing.
Personally I am somewhat fortunate to live in a area serviced by Woosh Wireless (a UMTS-based wireless broadband ISP) which is the only serious company competing with Telecom's ADSL offering in Auckland - and even then their prices aren't that much better than Telecom's. Auckland is the largest city in NZ and the fact there are only 2 major competitors with simalar pricing says a lot about how "advanced" we, as a country, are in the area of broadband pricing...
There are times when I want to go on holidays and just leave the laptop home (or in the hotel room) and just take lots of photos. This HDD would enable me to just copy the photos to a HDD whenever I max out my memory stick. I think this is a great idea, espcially for people who don't use computers when they are on holiday - which is the majority of the digital camera users I know.
> uname -sr /usr/libexec/getty /usr/libexec/getty /usr/libexec/getty /usr/libexec/getty /bin/sh /usr/local/
FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE
> ps -u root
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
jamespole 44929 0.0 0.1 392 196 p0 R+ 10:09PM 0:00.00 ps -u root
jamespole 44925 0.0 0.4 1340 852 p0 Ss 10:09PM 0:00.01 -tcsh (tcsh)
> sudo ps -u root
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
root 44933 0.0 0.1 420 248 p0 R+ 10:10PM 0:00.01 ps -u root
root 151 0.0 0.2 956 520 v3 Is+ Mon04PM 0:00.00
root 150 0.0 0.2 956 520 v2 Is+ Mon04PM 0:00.00
root 149 0.0 0.2 956 520 v1 Is+ Mon04PM 0:00.00
root 148 0.0 0.2 956 520 v0 Is+ Mon04PM 0:00.00
root 144 0.0 0.1 648 180 con- I Mon04PM 0:00.01
Humm, when run as a user it only shows my processes but when run as root (via sudo) it shows the root processes as expected. A bug in FreeBSD, or is this expected behaviour?
Mac OS X (Darwin 7.5.0) shows the same behaviour.
The suitation in New Zealand is much better. I know of three banks whose website works reasonably well under Mozilla -- ANZ Bank (2nd largest bank), National Bank (4th largest bank) and the ASB Bank (5th largest bank). I also know a close friend is a customer of the BNZ (2nd largest bank) and she uses Firefox so I suppose she has no problem with the BZN either. I guess Westpac, the largest bank in terms of customer numbers, will also work fine under Mozilla since the rest of their website rendered perfectly under Mozilla last time I checked.
My SONY DVD player works well with my Philips TV.
My SONY PlayStation works well with my Philips TV.
My SONY Digital Camera works well with my non-SONY computer.
Your assertion that all SONY products only works with other SONY products is false. It is true that some SONY producs doesn't interoperate well with other produces (the Memory Stick being an example) but there are many products that follows industury standard, such as their TV, DVD/VCR players, and Digital Cameras.
It would also be interesting to look at the paid email providers too. Does the ISPs that offer IMAP hosting do backups of their customer's emails? I quite like the idea of IMAP, but this issue raises an interesting question. With POP3 email, your emails are stored on your own computer, so you can easily backup email. How easy is it to backup and restore IMAP email boxes?
There are plenty of other places people could go to for free email, or they could use their very own ISP for email service. But for some bizzare reason people just want to have a @hotmail.com email address. I dunno, maybe it gives people a fuzzy feeling having an @hotmail.com account rather than @yourisp.com...
I can't quote a source, but I have read that GPRS can't be used for VOIP since its latency is far too high for VOIP.
Here in New Zealand, ICQ used to the the most popular IM program in the late 1990's. Now, however, almost everyone has migrated over to MSN. Almost everyone I know that use IM use MSN Messenger. They use it cos its easy to use and cos everyone else in NZ use it.
Would that be the 21st Century or the 20th Century? :-P
Its possible not to pay any ATM fees, if you are with a bank that has agreements with other banks to use their ATMs for free. For example, customers of The National Bank have been able to use ASB Bank and TSB Bank ATMs for free for many years now. The customers of the TSB and ASB banks also have free access to National Bank's ATMs.
The ANZ Bank rectently purchased the National Bank from its British owner, Lloyds TSB, and now ANZ and National Bank customers can access both National/ANZ ATMs for free. This came into effect only a week ago -- December 1st.
Nowdays the only banks that chages a fee for using any other bank's ATM are Westpac, Bank of New Zealand and some other smaller banks. The ANZ/ASB/National/TSB banks all allow their customers to use at least one other bank's ATMs for free.
Can anyone tell us what is the case with the KiwiBank and SuperBank (the New World/4 Square/Pack'n'Save bank)? I read somewhere that the SuperBank charges $2.00 for every ATM transaction regardless of which bank you use. Apparenly the banks wouldn't let them use their ATMs for free or even a small charge!