Sorry there is nothing widespread about use of solar energy in Australia. Nor is it likely there will be much incentive (beyond tokenism) for the home owner to invest.
Here is Australia we have coal, and lots of it. We want to sell it. We have lots of uranium ore. We want to sell that too. Our government is reciting a mantra that these energy sources are clean, when handled properly, and there are never any problems. Our governments are prepared to rip up world heritage areas to get at these commodities. They are prepared to destroy other parts our lands to bury them.
Without our commodities the economic boom time Australia is in will cease to exist.
I'd love to use some of the sunlight that falls on my roof, and turn it into electicity, if but I could afford to do so.
I live in hope that solar tech will come down in price just like computers did...
I sort of agree... mostly I too have given up on buying music by conventional format where I can replay it. Occasionally I really do want to own the recording so I can listen to it when I want to... so I'll buy the CD and rip in in FLAC format for my personal use.
Soma is not "free", it is "listener supported radio". Don't leech off those who contribute, but contribute what you can, and what you think it's worth (obviously you do think it has value).
(Well this one brought out a predicable response of teenage/geek humour....)
This can only be a good thing. The should give you a grant install on in every home.
I have had a bidet for years, love it, plumbed in but doesn't need to be powered... love my ass being CLEAN. If your ass is properly clean you can dry it with a towel.
I ride my bike 20km every day - anyone who rides a bike for more than a few KM per day knows what a problem bacteria and sweaty ass cracks can me.
I swim 1.5km every day... I'd like to think that other users of the pool keep their asses clean too.
Well actually I'd like to think everone keeps their ass clean whatever. It's just a nicer way to think about people...
Maybe it's just that your average 'down under' IT person whose company uses FOSS has a pretty low opinion of the marketing research types who tend to conduct these surveys, and the journalist types who tend to publish these sorts of things, and thus doesn't partake in such crap.
I know when someone calls to 'survey' me, I almost always tell them to get lost. I have better things to do with my time than help the afore-mentioned maintain their job security.
I doubt the entertainment industry expects we will upgrade overnight (though no doubt those who sell the hardware would like us to). However, give it a few years an the technology will probably be quite prevelant.
Once you have the technology in place, all you need is for it's firmware to be re-flashable, to play the game of leap-frog between industry and free-loader, which in turn keeps piracy at an acceptably low level for the industry (as they do now).
"In order to play this HDDVD you must upgrade your monitor firmware to Version x. You can do this automatically by using the firmware flash image on this DVD. Press OK on your remote to continue."
If you are looking for documentation on some of those options, as I was, I found my man pages to be too old to be useful, however this document turned out to have in information I wanted...
Well the ensuing dicussion is pretty useful, even if the article itself is fairly lame. Lots of ideas presented here on effective ways to block such activity.
To keep such a large and sprawling project active requires huge volunteer resources, which obviously simply isn't available, no matter how much rhetoric we write here.
Maybe Debian distribution is simply being susperceded by others who do better on some of theses things, in which case, it will (must) either adapt or for face further decline.
That is a natural process of evolution. Look at some of it's wonderful spin offs, such as Umbunto (now how easy is that to get going, get it's based around Debian).
haha slashdot's a funny sort of place... but anyway it doesn't matter. there's enough comment that seems relevent for me that gets through, so i keep reading, and occasionally commenting.
Myself, I stopped using iTunes, as it doesnt carry the music I want, a few only radio stations do, so I use stream rippers, which is the same as saving off a radio. Not illegal yet, but wouldnt stop lawsuits, they can use for anything.
I work in radio. The sound you hear from radio is not the same as the sound engineer heard through his studio monitors after he finished mastering the recording for release. For that reason it's probably less of a target than direct track ripping from CDs.
Radio stations use a variety of processing techniques before broadcast - notably compressors and and limiters, for several reasons:
Compression makes the output level more uniform. The big times poeple listen to radio is over breakfast, and in the car, which are all noisy environments. Classical stations probably do this least.
Limiters stops the output levels getting to high (and thus causing distortion) when a huge bass line kicks in etc. on a track which started quietly.
All this makes the 'sound' of the station less dependant on the programmer/producer/presenter's hands at the mixing desk.
Commercial stations use lots of compression, equalization, and effects processing, to get that crisp, excited, ultra-produced, loud sound (ugh...).
Additionally, with radio, there are whole extra layers of electronics involved in getting that signal to your ears.
Our recently re-elected government in Australia is unstoppable at the moment. They ran a FUD (of terrorism, rising interest rates) and bribery (of the tv watching masses) campaign which go them a majority in both our house of representatives and our senate.
Minor parties did oppose these bills.
The laws are passed in such a way the general population either doesn't hear about then because they are lost in other bills. They are not covered by Rupuert Murdoch's popular news paper press or on commercial news networks, for the most part.
Quite often the direct effects are not apparent - these are the sorts of laws that creep up on you as they become used more frequently.
I think it's a dishonest goverment that introduces legislation by stealth. But sadly there are plenty of those around in this world.
The answer is to become polically active (which we still can).
if you know john howard you know that he is not a nice, in fct he is a he's a tough, nasty little man, and he doesn't mind it that poeple think that of him - so he is arragant too.
so this is a good decision - honestly, probably the first good decision he has made since he came to power in my opinion.
so the new communication minister is at least better the richard alston. that is, at least, slightly re-assuring.
Yes and here in Australia at least, you can still purchase a handset, not locked to a provider, and have a 'pay for your calls only' type plan, thank goodness.
As someone who hates to be contactable unless I want to be, I pay $US10 per month for my mobile phone bill, and my handset is now about 4 years old. I'm not interested in being forced to use a camera phone, just like I wasn't interested in WAP (and where's WAP these days?).
The requirements always sound ridiculous when they announce them. By the time the O/S is available, it's usually just about affordable for desk-top, and possibly making an announcement now has an effect of pushing the price of hardware down, as manufacturers know how much people are prepared to pay for hardware.
The price in $ for a nice fast PC has fallen quite slowly, but you definitely get more for your money now....
I like running desk-top linux on hardware that never needs to use it's swap file:)
Looking at the hit counter on their web page, showing ~330K hits, I'd be suprised it this is in the slightest bit effective...
The quantity of traffic you generate simply isn't that great when you can get a $9.95 hosting deal that allows 500MBytes per month or more.
Bandwidth is cheap. Loading the same image multiple times is a waste of space unless you don't cache in your browser (and elsewhere). If you have access to your web server config (even on shared servers sometimes) you can easily configure so others can't do this by requiring the referrer to be your own site.
Maybe Microsoft did a lot of good. I am sure a lot of posts will show that.
Maybe. A long time ago I used Microsoft Quick C to do some cool stuff with my first PC, a 386SX, that replaced a Z80 system I had... When every other manual was I had was printed in a font like you'd find on a type-writer, Microsoft's manual were in readable Times. Dos 3.3 was OK, too I seem to remember. Back then Microsoft did seem like a good force... they brought affordable software to us.
We were able to move all our old Fortran 66 and 77 programs accross from IBM mainframes where we had to book time and even load cards sometimes, (and I am only 39) into a world where things ran fast and you didn't need to wait a day to get your print-out.
In short their software heralded a new age.
The we all moved on, and Microsoft got caught by it's own success, at last. Getting smaller is not easy or painless, but it's probably the journey they are about to embark upon.
I look forward to the day when they need to compete again (and that day is near). They may suprise us yet, and really innovate.
Happy weekend all who read this...
RG
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Does anyone have a recipe for integration of postfix, dspam amd clamav (or other open source virus scanner), similar to the way amavisd and mailscanner work with spam assassin and a virus scanner of choice?
That has huge impications for one of Austrlia's favourite gambling games, two-up, which is tradionally played (illegally) on Anzac day, and is an game you can legally play in our Casino's casinos.
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Sorry there is nothing widespread about use of solar energy in Australia. Nor is it likely there will be much incentive (beyond tokenism) for the home owner to invest.
Here is Australia we have coal, and lots of it. We want to sell it. We have lots of uranium ore. We want to sell that too. Our government is reciting a mantra that these energy sources are clean, when handled properly, and there are never any problems. Our governments are prepared to rip up world heritage areas to get at these commodities. They are prepared to destroy other parts our lands to bury them.
Without our commodities the economic boom time Australia is in will cease to exist.
I'd love to use some of the sunlight that falls on my roof, and turn it into electicity, if but I could afford to do so.
I live in hope that solar tech will come down in price just like computers did...
-R
Soma is not "free", it is "listener supported radio". Don't leech off those who contribute, but contribute what you can, and what you think it's worth (obviously you do think it has value).
My favorite is Radio Paradise
-R
The harder they make it to access their content, the less I watch. I can live without DVD movies. It's not something I need to stay alive.
-R
Ah I notice you responds as Anonymous Coward when it comes to discussion of cleans asses.
-R
(Well this one brought out a predicable response of teenage/geek humour....)
This can only be a good thing. The should give you a grant install on in every home.
I have had a bidet for years, love it, plumbed in but doesn't need to be powered... love my ass being CLEAN. If your ass is properly clean you can dry it with a towel.
I ride my bike 20km every day - anyone who rides a bike for more than a few KM per day knows what a problem bacteria and sweaty ass cracks can me.
I swim 1.5km every day... I'd like to think that other users of the pool keep their asses clean too.
Well actually I'd like to think everone keeps their ass clean whatever. It's just a nicer way to think about people...
-R
Maybe run a proxy server that required authentication in a data centre in the USA on a cheap [virtual] box?
RG
Maybe it's just that your average 'down under' IT person whose company uses FOSS has a pretty low opinion of the marketing research types who tend to conduct these surveys, and the journalist types who tend to publish these sorts of things, and thus doesn't partake in such crap.
I know when someone calls to 'survey' me, I almost always tell them to get lost. I have better things to do with my time than help the afore-mentioned maintain their job security.
As for all the sheep jokes, well, BAAAAAAAAAA!
-Richard
I doubt the entertainment industry expects we will upgrade overnight (though no doubt those who sell the hardware would like us to). However, give it a few years an the technology will probably be quite prevelant.
Once you have the technology in place, all you need is for it's firmware to be re-flashable, to play the game of leap-frog between industry and free-loader, which in turn keeps piracy at an acceptably low level for the industry (as they do now).
"In order to play this HDDVD you must upgrade your monitor firmware to Version x. You can do this automatically by using the firmware flash image on this DVD. Press OK on your remote to continue."
-r
netfilter-extensions-HOWTO.txt
-r
Well the ensuing dicussion is pretty useful, even if the article itself is fairly lame. Lots of ideas presented here on effective ways to block such activity.
-r
To keep such a large and sprawling project active requires huge volunteer resources, which obviously simply isn't available, no matter how much rhetoric we write here.
Maybe Debian distribution is simply being susperceded by others who do better on some of theses things, in which case, it will (must) either adapt or for face further decline.
That is a natural process of evolution. Look at some of it's wonderful spin offs, such as Umbunto (now how easy is that to get going, get it's based around Debian).
-Richard
haha slashdot's a funny sort of place... but anyway it doesn't matter. there's enough comment that seems relevent for me that gets through, so i keep reading, and occasionally commenting.
-r
front page express / netscape composer had a lot to answer for with regards to ugly web pages...
-r
Not only on the article the story links to, but to another story as well, noted in this previous /. post
RG
I work in radio. The sound you hear from radio is not the same as the sound engineer heard through his studio monitors after he finished mastering the recording for release. For that reason it's probably less of a target than direct track ripping from CDs.
Radio stations use a variety of processing techniques before broadcast - notably compressors and and limiters, for several reasons:
Compression makes the output level more uniform. The big times poeple listen to radio is over breakfast, and in the car, which are all noisy environments. Classical stations probably do this least.
Limiters stops the output levels getting to high (and thus causing distortion) when a huge bass line kicks in etc. on a track which started quietly.
All this makes the 'sound' of the station less dependant on the programmer/producer/presenter's hands at the mixing desk.
Commercial stations use lots of compression, equalization, and effects processing, to get that crisp, excited, ultra-produced, loud sound (ugh...).
Additionally, with radio, there are whole extra layers of electronics involved in getting that signal to your ears.
RG
Our recently re-elected government in Australia is unstoppable at the moment. They ran a FUD (of terrorism, rising interest rates) and bribery (of the tv watching masses) campaign which go them a majority in both our house of representatives and our senate.
Minor parties did oppose these bills.
The laws are passed in such a way the general population either doesn't hear about then because they are lost in other bills. They are not covered by Rupuert Murdoch's popular news paper press or on commercial news networks, for the most part.
Quite often the direct effects are not apparent - these are the sorts of laws that creep up on you as they become used more frequently.
I think it's a dishonest goverment that introduces legislation by stealth. But sadly there are plenty of those around in this world.
The answer is to become polically active (which we still can).
Richard
i think that is reasonable. kids can use thier own ISPs to steal music and jerk of to porn and cam sex.
-r
if you know john howard you know that he is not a nice, in fct he is a he's a tough, nasty little man, and he doesn't mind it that poeple think that of him - so he is arragant too.
so this is a good decision - honestly, probably the first good decision he has made since he came to power in my opinion.
so the new communication minister is at least better the richard alston. that is, at least, slightly re-assuring.
That's not Stallman!
Look the the picture, He's not that clean, young, or good looking, and he never has he been so well lit
And surely it's not the articles author, Lisa Stapleton, unless she's in traing for the olympics and been taking those performance enhancers...
RG
Yes and here in Australia at least, you can still purchase a handset, not locked to a provider, and have a 'pay for your calls only' type plan, thank goodness.
As someone who hates to be contactable unless I want to be, I pay $US10 per month for my mobile phone bill, and my handset is now about 4 years old. I'm not interested in being forced to use a camera phone, just like I wasn't interested in WAP (and where's WAP these days?).
RG
The requirements always sound ridiculous when they announce them. By the time the O/S is available, it's usually just about affordable for desk-top, and possibly making an announcement now has an effect of pushing the price of hardware down, as manufacturers know how much people are prepared to pay for hardware.
:)
The price in $ for a nice fast PC has fallen quite slowly, but you definitely get more for your money now....
I like running desk-top linux on hardware that never needs to use it's swap file
RG
Looking at the hit counter on their web page, showing ~330K hits, I'd be suprised it this is in the slightest bit effective...
The quantity of traffic you generate simply isn't that great when you can get a $9.95 hosting deal that allows 500MBytes per month or more.
Bandwidth is cheap. Loading the same image multiple times is a waste of space unless you don't cache in your browser (and elsewhere). If you have access to your web server config (even on shared servers sometimes) you can easily configure so others can't do this by requiring the referrer to be your own site.
RG
Maybe. A long time ago I used Microsoft Quick C to do some cool stuff with my first PC, a 386SX, that replaced a Z80 system I had... When every other manual was I had was printed in a font like you'd find on a type-writer, Microsoft's manual were in readable Times. Dos 3.3 was OK, too I seem to remember. Back then Microsoft did seem like a good force... they brought affordable software to us.
We were able to move all our old Fortran 66 and 77 programs accross from IBM mainframes where we had to book time and even load cards sometimes, (and I am only 39) into a world where things ran fast and you didn't need to wait a day to get your print-out.
In short their software heralded a new age.
The we all moved on, and Microsoft got caught by it's own success, at last. Getting smaller is not easy or painless, but it's probably the journey they are about to embark upon.
I look forward to the day when they need to compete again (and that day is near). They may suprise us yet, and really innovate.
Happy weekend all who read this...
RG
Does anyone have a recipe for integration of postfix, dspam amd clamav (or other open source virus scanner), similar to the way amavisd and mailscanner work with spam assassin and a virus scanner of choice?
RG
That has huge impications for one of Austrlia's favourite gambling games, two-up, which is tradionally played (illegally) on Anzac day, and is an game you can legally play in our Casino's casinos.