Works fine until you have to rely on the connection for any amount of time. USB->RS-232 was tried for some Wheelchair management systems that a client once wanted... It either didn't work or couldn't reliably work. This conversion is not a solution to people who require Serial Access.
Also failed for people who needed Serial connection to their GPS mapping gear whilst doing fieldwork for the Department of Primary Industry.
I ask, where is Australia's Telstra / Bigpond in all of this?
Same place they have always been: hiding in their money bin with Scrooge McDuck waiting for a real rival in the local Broadband Internet market to take them on. They haven't done ANYTHING in recent years, not until Labor unveiled their plan for a National Broadband Network (that they would probably not be party to).
All they do is fail to innovate and then threaten to sue people who want to use "their" infrastructure to build a better network. I can't believe people let the Government sell the whole Monopoly off. That's what happens when you get majority control of the upper and lower house.
Personally, I am wondering why there aren't other Australian 'telcos' trying to get control of a feed into this Country in order to take control of the domestic market. Hopefully given some time they will have enough money to build some competition aganist Telstra in the Broadband market.
When it comes to programming I found that one of the most useful classes I took was Introduction to Linguistics. Breaking down human language and learning to understand the compositions. This was infinitely more useful to me as a programmer than any of the Programming classes I took, though I could already program in a half dozen languages by that time. This was also a great class for taking when I started considering possibilities of Natural Language Processing with regard to Computers.
I think some of the arts classes are a great addition to the standard logical methodical process of standard Computer Science. They help keep the mind agile and introduce new ways of looking at a problem.
I am grateful they put a close box on each tab, I kept closing more than one tab because my mouse was a bit funky. I installed Tab Mix Plus on 1.x and it added the close buttons to the tabs, and also changed the tabs to scroll horizontally when you had many open, instead of trying to cram them into the available space.
Of course, most tabs I close are done so with a Ctrl-F4. I do see your point though for people who would prefer to keep the right hand tab closer, but I see the button per tab as a blessing personally.
I would have to say that another exception to the rule here is in Information Technology. It is simply not feasible for courses to be up-to-date with technology affairs, and as such the education you get from University will never be on par with somebody who has training. Even self training using borrowed library books (if your library is up to date) can be more beneficial for IT related jobs. Most of my study for Certification was done online without any money down, and I only paid for the Exams when I needed to.
I am currently working doing Network installation/maintenance and Server work, but I am also doing my University Degree as an External student with my local University. When I walked into this job I had no formal education above High-school, but I did have experience with computer Hardware and a little network experience. Having just recieved an offer to work elsewhere for more pay I am trying to find somebody with suitable skills to replace me in my current job. I have found nobody in the University pool who even remotely comes close to filling this position. I have had more success talking with some High-school leavers.
The reason for this may be that the Intelligent University graduates are moving to larger cities, but I think it depends on the study that the individual partakes in over the course of their life. There should be less mandated homework from schools IMHO and more suggested external learning, or at least the opportunity for those kids who are willing to learn extra-curricular topics to lower their homework expectations. I don't know how to achieve this realistically, but it should definitely be looked into.
Maybe in such an instance the newly elected leader won't be zealous enough to invade other countries for little or no apparent reason. I would prefer to have that kind of clarity in leadership than a somebody clouded by irrationality due to blasphemy or believing that they are a holy warrior fighting wars in the name of God.
The people who start wars in Gods name are the people you need to keep out of power. The ethical standards of religions are too often forgotten by those in power, and the moral conduct is set aside for political adgenda. Not to say that an atheist would be ethical and morally sound, but would not be clouded by perceived blasphemy or belief of being divinely favoured etc.
Really? I thought it was just laziness. We are used to him now so we keep him, just like the 13 years of Labor before that - we were used to them, so we kept them.
I agree that the government is just the team we would like to see take the fall, but I still don't think that excuses voting the same way in both the House of Reps and the Senate. This is where I think people who vote need to have some idea of what they are voting for. Perhaps somebody needs to draw a diagram at school. I don't recall ever having covered these topics in Curriculum, though that may have changed now.
The whole idea of having two houses of parliament is to keep legislation that hurts the public out of law, instead of bowing entirely to party lines. When it comes down to it you can't trust either party, but you can trust that they will bicker on almost anything questionable. We are supposed to keep it this way to keep bills like this being passed. Now we have a gaping hole until late 2007-early 2008 before we can right this attrocity.
They probably programmed it to look like that is what happened, although maybe the spinning rings only occurred on already infected clients, so interacting with the rings was didn't mean you got infected, but in fact already were infected.
They probably programmed this to perpetuate the myth from said movies, and make people see the virus rather than just feel the lag. It does take a sort of showman to do something like that, and why not in a game take the showmanship approach? Not that I endorse infecting anything, but it is an interesting concept.
I totally hear you, I am also a right-wing supporter, and again I voted left-wing simply for the reason that YOU CAN'T HAVE one party dominate both houses of parliament. The whole idea of having two houses of parliament was so that they each oppose each other so, theoretically, only the non-extreme/sensible bills get through.
I tried so hard to explain to so many people that having Libs in both houses was a bad choice, and yet here we are with this massive problem of quick bills pushed through both houses approved without proper debate.
What I find more bizarre about the whole state of gov't in Australia currently is that although we have right-wing upper/lower house in Federal parliament, why the hell is there left-wing state governments?! I think people in this country have failed to learn how Government works.
There is also the great problem that you have multiple junction points, like a School Build I know of, that gives junction points to each user. Users like to rename these whatever, and when it comes time to migrate the data across to a new system you end up copying repeated data (at least if you use xcopy, which we did at the time).
I had to write a script that read through every folder, and every subfolder on the drive, identified junction points and killed them. It still didn't work if the junction point had certain special characters in it, but killed enough of them so that I didn't end up over filling the new Server.
I'm surprised that ntbackup even allowed you to disable backing up the contents of junction/mount points. What a nightmare.
So you believe that the key needs to be human readable when you already have a machine readable passport? They could have used a randomized key that was included in the Machine Readable portion down the bottom. It didn't have to be based on personal information at all. That would have made brute-forcing the chip a whole lot more difficult, and therefore required that the theives have physical access to the passport.
It was like that in Toowoomba (South East Queensland, and therefore probably Brisbane) as well. It was ~30'C one day, then the next there are icy winds and apparently with wind chill it was estimated at 9'C today.
The wind itself was an anomoly because by this time of year its usually warm breezes, not icy gales.
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Indeed. You have a leader who is one. Hater of "The Axis of Evil" and an avid hater of grammar and speech. It also seems a shame that foreign policy seems to be going backwards to those racist times not so long ago. What is the biggest shame is that Australia is following you down this dark hole of International Loathing.
I think IBM would need to do a hell of a lot more than add one-click to fix up their site... It's a nightmare, and most of the time I have tried to download RAID Drivers for a specific server they have never worked, and that's AFTER I find out where they put the drivers for that Server.
Maybe they should sue their web-designer.
But a lawsuit against Amazon is just as welcome in my books, they have done the same for long enough now.
I've fixed a few Exchange servers that were left open to relaying... Damn were those Queues long! It is true though that most mail servers no longer relay, because thanks to SPAM we no longer trust who is trying to relay messages. I haven't seen any legitimate use of a relay in many years now, and it is likely to die off even more into the future.
Exactly. The Predator wasn't exactly 'invisible' when cloaked, but if he was still then he just melded into the background. He was never completely concealed. I envision this technology in much the same manner, not a true invisibility but an effective cloak.
I receive complaints from time to time about the amount of spam that gets to users Inboxes in one of the places I manage. There are approximately 1-5 messages a day for a couple of users (who most likely post their email addresses or colleagues email addresses into random web sites).
The logs I get suggest that approximately 86% of the mail sent to the server is spam, and are stopped at the Firewall. I think they would be greatly appreciative of the training I have given that spam filter, although it can always do with more.
I am sure there are other higher profile mail servers that get hit with a whole lot more spam than my tiny little corner of the Interweb. If the filtering servers went down I am sure there would be an overwhelming "OMFG" from all those nay-sayers.
This is exactly right, if they are seriously worried about terrorism they WILL remove it from the site. After all, it was already pointed out that the obfuscation of the data could be easily remedied. Terrorists could probably write their own code to do this, or hire somebody else to do it.
If they want the security, remove it from the site, otherwise they should just accept that it is Fair Use of the data.
Great, another technology for increasing speeds that we in Australia aren't going to see for about five years. With Telstra dragging their heels and collapsing in their pursuit of FTTN, and the damn slow adoption of ADSL2+ to anywhere that isn't a capital city has left the majority of Australians in a position where 1.5Mbps is the best that can be achieved.
I would LOVE to hear about the adoption of new high speed broadband technologies in this country, unfortunately it isn't going to happen until Wireless technologies are in a position to directly compete with the wired network (So Optus, Vodafone etc need to have the infrastructure in place to obsolete Telstras copper) or somebody actually rolls out a redundant copper network to directly compete with Telstra. Even should this happen, there will need to be cable laid to offshore so that Telstra isn't monopolising the only International link we have by charging outrageous prices.
Isn't it great when a Government creates a monopoly then sells it to private industry? We are told to wear the choice of second rate technology because there is no incentive for a private monopoly to spend money, when they can make just more money by doing nothing and charging exhorbitant prices for second- or third-rate Internet.
It would have been better if they had kept Telstra fully Government owned. I hope elsewhere in the world will get to see this technology. I pine for it.
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When I travel, I usually keep a couple of photocopies of the ID page. I have one in my money belt, and one in my suitcase. You can actually get through customs after having had your passport stolen, provided you have this kind of information with you. Other photocopies I carry: Copies of my tickets and any bookings I have made.
I usually keep a copy of my credit card details written in code too. Well, those that I don't remember off the top of my head that is:)
Maybe I am just too paranoid. I often carry an empty/fake wallet in my pocket, sometimes I putsome small change in, just so I don't always appear to be reaching into my money belt all the time. That way it isn't the end of the world if I am asked to hand over my wallet.
I haven't needed any of these things as yet, but I like the feeling of having some of my bases covered.
Maybe if there was a license for using the Internet, then a standard for acceptable vs illegal behaviour could be established. It amazes me how many people don't actually realise that downloading music and movies is illegal.
At least if there were a license then there would be a better set of rules that can be pointed out that let people know what breaches they have made. Whether they choose to follow the license is one thing, but having it there as a guideline to online processes and acceptability could improve the understanding of those who at the moment have no idea what they are getting themselves in for.
This would probably also help to bring awareness to people who follow schemes to earn money on the internet by becoming spammers. Any funds from the licensing could then be used to improve the Internet and prosecute infringements like spammers and Virus/spyware writers.
Of course, that is a little to Utopean. I don't see anything wrong either way with a license. The Internet could then be a Privelage... not a Right!
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Either that or they just failed to install the right Codecs
Works fine until you have to rely on the connection for any amount of time. USB->RS-232 was tried for some Wheelchair management systems that a client once wanted... It either didn't work or couldn't reliably work. This conversion is not a solution to people who require Serial Access.
Also failed for people who needed Serial connection to their GPS mapping gear whilst doing fieldwork for the Department of Primary Industry.
What did yours "work fine" for?
Maybe there was a sect that did fund this research, but they blew all their money on something and went broke ...
Same place they have always been: hiding in their money bin with Scrooge McDuck waiting for a real rival in the local Broadband Internet market to take them on. They haven't done ANYTHING in recent years, not until Labor unveiled their plan for a National Broadband Network (that they would probably not be party to).
All they do is fail to innovate and then threaten to sue people who want to use "their" infrastructure to build a better network. I can't believe people let the Government sell the whole Monopoly off. That's what happens when you get majority control of the upper and lower house.
Personally, I am wondering why there aren't other Australian 'telcos' trying to get control of a feed into this Country in order to take control of the domestic market. Hopefully given some time they will have enough money to build some competition aganist Telstra in the Broadband market.
Is this theory like evolution the theory?
When it comes to programming I found that one of the most useful classes I took was Introduction to Linguistics. Breaking down human language and learning to understand the compositions. This was infinitely more useful to me as a programmer than any of the Programming classes I took, though I could already program in a half dozen languages by that time. This was also a great class for taking when I started considering possibilities of Natural Language Processing with regard to Computers.
I think some of the arts classes are a great addition to the standard logical methodical process of standard Computer Science. They help keep the mind agile and introduce new ways of looking at a problem.
I am grateful they put a close box on each tab, I kept closing more than one tab because my mouse was a bit funky. I installed Tab Mix Plus on 1.x and it added the close buttons to the tabs, and also changed the tabs to scroll horizontally when you had many open, instead of trying to cram them into the available space.
Of course, most tabs I close are done so with a Ctrl-F4. I do see your point though for people who would prefer to keep the right hand tab closer, but I see the button per tab as a blessing personally.
I would have to say that another exception to the rule here is in Information Technology. It is simply not feasible for courses to be up-to-date with technology affairs, and as such the education you get from University will never be on par with somebody who has training. Even self training using borrowed library books (if your library is up to date) can be more beneficial for IT related jobs. Most of my study for Certification was done online without any money down, and I only paid for the Exams when I needed to.
I am currently working doing Network installation/maintenance and Server work, but I am also doing my University Degree as an External student with my local University. When I walked into this job I had no formal education above High-school, but I did have experience with computer Hardware and a little network experience. Having just recieved an offer to work elsewhere for more pay I am trying to find somebody with suitable skills to replace me in my current job. I have found nobody in the University pool who even remotely comes close to filling this position. I have had more success talking with some High-school leavers.
The reason for this may be that the Intelligent University graduates are moving to larger cities, but I think it depends on the study that the individual partakes in over the course of their life. There should be less mandated homework from schools IMHO and more suggested external learning, or at least the opportunity for those kids who are willing to learn extra-curricular topics to lower their homework expectations. I don't know how to achieve this realistically, but it should definitely be looked into.
It's the current you really have to worry about.
Maybe in such an instance the newly elected leader won't be zealous enough to invade other countries for little or no apparent reason. I would prefer to have that kind of clarity in leadership than a somebody clouded by irrationality due to blasphemy or believing that they are a holy warrior fighting wars in the name of God.
The people who start wars in Gods name are the people you need to keep out of power. The ethical standards of religions are too often forgotten by those in power, and the moral conduct is set aside for political adgenda. Not to say that an atheist would be ethical and morally sound, but would not be clouded by perceived blasphemy or belief of being divinely favoured etc.
Really? I thought it was just laziness. We are used to him now so we keep him, just like the 13 years of Labor before that - we were used to them, so we kept them.
I agree that the government is just the team we would like to see take the fall, but I still don't think that excuses voting the same way in both the House of Reps and the Senate. This is where I think people who vote need to have some idea of what they are voting for. Perhaps somebody needs to draw a diagram at school. I don't recall ever having covered these topics in Curriculum, though that may have changed now.
The whole idea of having two houses of parliament is to keep legislation that hurts the public out of law, instead of bowing entirely to party lines. When it comes down to it you can't trust either party, but you can trust that they will bicker on almost anything questionable. We are supposed to keep it this way to keep bills like this being passed. Now we have a gaping hole until late 2007-early 2008 before we can right this attrocity.
They probably programmed it to look like that is what happened, although maybe the spinning rings only occurred on already infected clients, so interacting with the rings was didn't mean you got infected, but in fact already were infected.
They probably programmed this to perpetuate the myth from said movies, and make people see the virus rather than just feel the lag. It does take a sort of showman to do something like that, and why not in a game take the showmanship approach? Not that I endorse infecting anything, but it is an interesting concept.
I totally hear you, I am also a right-wing supporter, and again I voted left-wing simply for the reason that YOU CAN'T HAVE one party dominate both houses of parliament. The whole idea of having two houses of parliament was so that they each oppose each other so, theoretically, only the non-extreme/sensible bills get through.
I tried so hard to explain to so many people that having Libs in both houses was a bad choice, and yet here we are with this massive problem of quick bills pushed through both houses approved without proper debate.
What I find more bizarre about the whole state of gov't in Australia currently is that although we have right-wing upper/lower house in Federal parliament, why the hell is there left-wing state governments?! I think people in this country have failed to learn how Government works.
There is also the great problem that you have multiple junction points, like a School Build I know of, that gives junction points to each user. Users like to rename these whatever, and when it comes time to migrate the data across to a new system you end up copying repeated data (at least if you use xcopy, which we did at the time).
I had to write a script that read through every folder, and every subfolder on the drive, identified junction points and killed them. It still didn't work if the junction point had certain special characters in it, but killed enough of them so that I didn't end up over filling the new Server.
I'm surprised that ntbackup even allowed you to disable backing up the contents of junction/mount points. What a nightmare.
So you believe that the key needs to be human readable when you already have a machine readable passport? They could have used a randomized key that was included in the Machine Readable portion down the bottom. It didn't have to be based on personal information at all. That would have made brute-forcing the chip a whole lot more difficult, and therefore required that the theives have physical access to the passport.
It was like that in Toowoomba (South East Queensland, and therefore probably Brisbane) as well. It was ~30'C one day, then the next there are icy winds and apparently with wind chill it was estimated at 9'C today.
The wind itself was an anomoly because by this time of year its usually warm breezes, not icy gales.
I think IBM would need to do a hell of a lot more than add one-click to fix up their site... It's a nightmare, and most of the time I have tried to download RAID Drivers for a specific server they have never worked, and that's AFTER I find out where they put the drivers for that Server.
Maybe they should sue their web-designer.
But a lawsuit against Amazon is just as welcome in my books, they have done the same for long enough now.
I've fixed a few Exchange servers that were left open to relaying... Damn were those Queues long! It is true though that most mail servers no longer relay, because thanks to SPAM we no longer trust who is trying to relay messages. I haven't seen any legitimate use of a relay in many years now, and it is likely to die off even more into the future.
Exactly. The Predator wasn't exactly 'invisible' when cloaked, but if he was still then he just melded into the background. He was never completely concealed. I envision this technology in much the same manner, not a true invisibility but an effective cloak.
I receive complaints from time to time about the amount of spam that gets to users Inboxes in one of the places I manage. There are approximately 1-5 messages a day for a couple of users (who most likely post their email addresses or colleagues email addresses into random web sites).
The logs I get suggest that approximately 86% of the mail sent to the server is spam, and are stopped at the Firewall. I think they would be greatly appreciative of the training I have given that spam filter, although it can always do with more.
I am sure there are other higher profile mail servers that get hit with a whole lot more spam than my tiny little corner of the Interweb. If the filtering servers went down I am sure there would be an overwhelming "OMFG" from all those nay-sayers.
This is exactly right, if they are seriously worried about terrorism they WILL remove it from the site. After all, it was already pointed out that the obfuscation of the data could be easily remedied. Terrorists could probably write their own code to do this, or hire somebody else to do it.
If they want the security, remove it from the site, otherwise they should just accept that it is Fair Use of the data.
Great, another technology for increasing speeds that we in Australia aren't going to see for about five years. With Telstra dragging their heels and collapsing in their pursuit of FTTN, and the damn slow adoption of ADSL2+ to anywhere that isn't a capital city has left the majority of Australians in a position where 1.5Mbps is the best that can be achieved.
I would LOVE to hear about the adoption of new high speed broadband technologies in this country, unfortunately it isn't going to happen until Wireless technologies are in a position to directly compete with the wired network (So Optus, Vodafone etc need to have the infrastructure in place to obsolete Telstras copper) or somebody actually rolls out a redundant copper network to directly compete with Telstra. Even should this happen, there will need to be cable laid to offshore so that Telstra isn't monopolising the only International link we have by charging outrageous prices.
Isn't it great when a Government creates a monopoly then sells it to private industry? We are told to wear the choice of second rate technology because there is no incentive for a private monopoly to spend money, when they can make just more money by doing nothing and charging exhorbitant prices for second- or third-rate Internet.
It would have been better if they had kept Telstra fully Government owned. I hope elsewhere in the world will get to see this technology. I pine for it.
When I travel, I usually keep a couple of photocopies of the ID page. I have one in my money belt, and one in my suitcase. You can actually get through customs after having had your passport stolen, provided you have this kind of information with you. Other photocopies I carry: Copies of my tickets and any bookings I have made.
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I usually keep a copy of my credit card details written in code too. Well, those that I don't remember off the top of my head that is
Maybe I am just too paranoid. I often carry an empty/fake wallet in my pocket, sometimes I putsome small change in, just so I don't always appear to be reaching into my money belt all the time. That way it isn't the end of the world if I am asked to hand over my wallet.
I haven't needed any of these things as yet, but I like the feeling of having some of my bases covered.
Maybe if there was a license for using the Internet, then a standard for acceptable vs illegal behaviour could be established. It amazes me how many people don't actually realise that downloading music and movies is illegal.
At least if there were a license then there would be a better set of rules that can be pointed out that let people know what breaches they have made. Whether they choose to follow the license is one thing, but having it there as a guideline to online processes and acceptability could improve the understanding of those who at the moment have no idea what they are getting themselves in for.
This would probably also help to bring awareness to people who follow schemes to earn money on the internet by becoming spammers. Any funds from the licensing could then be used to improve the Internet and prosecute infringements like spammers and Virus/spyware writers.
Of course, that is a little to Utopean. I don't see anything wrong either way with a license. The Internet could then be a Privelage... not a Right!