Telstra will be hiring Linux-savvy people I think..."
The article mentions training costs, so I doubt that they'll be hiring. Looks like they're going to attempt to re-train the current staff. Or at least those staff that aren't in India.
You must either be using an outdated MSN client or have set somethign up incorrectly. When I click the "X new messages" on mine it launches Mozilla. The only thing on my system that launches IE is WindowsUpdate.
As for good Jabber clients, I like psi. It's never crashed on me, and I tried gaim but every time I walked away from the computer I'd come back to find gaim had mysteriously disappeared. I use MSN 6.0 and I happen to quite like the new features. Customisation of a client is nice and it's not as bloated as I expected. Of course it does need some fine tuning as the customisations keeps dropping back to defaults whenever I close the client.
I recently installed 3.0r1 for a colleague to use on the development network here at work. All up and running in under an hour and even has X configured with a gui login. Looks just like the RedHat box he has sitting next to it, only I think he's more impressed with the package management system on the Debian box.
Even if you're in hospital you still have to vote. They come to you or you do it via postal vote. Even troops posted overseas at the time are not exempt. It's illegal not to be registered to vote, and if you're on the voting roll it's illegal not to vote.
Don't know anyone whose ever been fined for showing up on election day and enrolling instead of voting. Never known anyone to be fined for not voting in a local government election.
It's illegal to vote incorrectly, but since it's secret ballot they can't tell if you've screwed it up on purpose.
I'm sorry, but how can they legislate to stop people from giving away the source code to something they created? That makes very little sense to me. And wouldn't that kill learning programming at school? I mean, if you could only submit your compiled program, how could they test you on your technique?
Of course there's already a lot of nonsensical legislation out there so I wouldn't be surprised to see some..... I guess it's just disturbing to think that as usual the politicians are going to attempt to legislate a problem away.
My CDs? Since when have they been my cds? I only pay money to purchase them. Has the US Govt suddenly decided that because somebody's paid money for something that it actually belongs to them??
Next thing you know, astronauts are going to be thinking they can create wormholes by skating the atmosphere of the planet.:-)
Not to forget Australia's inclusion in the space program *snigger* OK yes I'm talking about a fantasy TV show here;-) There's no way we can afford to do anything other than watch as our communications companies launch satellites into space on another continent.
Of the several people I have mentioned opensource, prominantly linux, software to, they have been baffled.
Sounds like me about an hour ago when discussing Mozilla with my supervisor. I went "HUH?" when he said "What are the licensing costs?". I then responded "It's Open Source. It's free. If we don't alter the source code we're under no obligations at all." His response was "Really? And people actually use this software? How come I didn't know it was free?"
I see it as the difference between trusting Netscape and trusting AOL. Since AOL bought Netscape (and Winamp too), quality has dropped and spyware and 'features' have taken over.
Inlaws have 500meg data cap. They don't care, they like the 'always-on' aspect. Didn't cost them a cent for me to 'leech' on their connection.
At home I have Optusnet. NO FREE DOWNLOADS FOR ME! The only advantage I can see Telstra having over Optus is that they do offer free traffic. The only free traffic on Optus is checking how much data you've downloaded so far this month. And considering that they cap traffic speed to 3k/s after you go over the limit, I check it at least twice a day.
Not only 'leeches' go over their limit. We would love to play games online on our connection (the ping to some NWN servers in Aus is fantastic) however there are 3 of us in the house, and if we all did a few hours a day in addition to what we normally do with the connection, the cap would kick in about a week into the month. Sometimes it does anyway, like when my brother was viewing movie trailers online and didn't realise that they were over 50meg each. Or when my brother re-installed his OS and then downloaded all the updates to it without checking whether I'd mirrored them locally. Whoops!
I envy you that you can happily go back to dial-up. We're looking at getting TPG Unlimited 512/128. The catches are:
a) Have to pay on credit card; and b) Have to pay quarterly in advance.
Other than that, it looks great! We have it on good authority from Telstra that our line can get ADSL (and the exchange is across the road so we'd better be able to!). We're willing to pursue it if our application is knocked back. (Anyone who won't put in a complaint when their ISP is told one thing by Telstra and then Telstra is willing to hook them up on the spot is a fool.)
As for your new Estate not having ADSL capabilities, if Telstra is to be believed, you should have it in the next 12 months. They're testing new equipment that'll allow RIM and PG systems to get ADSL. How nice that they didn't bother to do it until the nasty backlash recently. Still, shouldn't complain, they might change their minds.
I just got my 80gig that I bought last October replaced under warranty. All they wanted was the error code returned by the powermax software which you can download off their website.
No testing, no questions asked. I took it back to the distributor with the RMA number from Maxtor, and they handed me a new drive with a receipt that says 1 year warranty.
Pretty damn spiffy really because the drive I got was better than I what I had.
However, all this took 2 weeks, and in the meantime I bought a new Seagate 80gig with 8meg cache. Very nice.
Hopefully this all is just a hoax because I don't think my real-life karma is THAT bad that I'd have to return yet another drive for replacement.
a) How many of them can afford PCs that run windows xp? b) If they can afford them, they probably came with windows xp pre-installed c) all the NPOs I know are running a few P-IIs with windows 98 that was donated by kind souls who no longer need/want it
Actually, the number of people writing Jedi on their census dropped because it's illegal to make a false statement on the census. Jedi is NOT a registered religion and the government was threatening to fine people who wrote it on the census form.
Not that I would have anyway. IIRC, it was an optional question.
What's the percentage now? I believe it was something like 30% of Australians hold New Zealand citizenship (of course I could just be confused, but I doubt it.)
In my section at work, 2 out of 5 employees are Kiwis. Of course in my household, 1 out of 2 residents are Kiwi-born (my fiance is a Kiwi. I don't hold it against him;-))
But.... does that mean that if you are a busy systems administrator you're just a 'sysadmin' ? Cuz if you've got time to say "I'm a Systems Administrator" then you're not working hard enough. At least that's what my boss keeps telling me.... Pity he's got the day off and can't tell me not to read slashdot;-)
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Where do you live that postage only costs 40c? About 10 years in the past?
Postage has been 50c for a considerable amount of time now. Welcome to 2004.
The article mentions training costs, so I doubt that they'll be hiring. Looks like they're going to attempt to re-train the current staff. Or at least those staff that aren't in India.
It's definitely the tea of choice in my household too. We paid about $6AU for our last box of 100, nearly finished already too.
;-)
Which reminds me, I haven't had a cuppa yet today
Tea, Earl Grey, HOT!
You must either be using an outdated MSN client or have set somethign up incorrectly. When I click the "X new messages" on mine it launches Mozilla. The only thing on my system that launches IE is WindowsUpdate.
As for good Jabber clients, I like psi. It's never crashed on me, and I tried gaim but every time I walked away from the computer I'd come back to find gaim had mysteriously disappeared. I use MSN 6.0 and I happen to quite like the new features. Customisation of a client is nice and it's not as bloated as I expected. Of course it does need some fine tuning as the customisations keeps dropping back to defaults whenever I close the client.
I recently installed 3.0r1 for a colleague to use on the development network here at work. All up and running in under an hour and even has X configured with a gui login. Looks just like the RedHat box he has sitting next to it, only I think he's more impressed with the package management system on the Debian box.
ObLink Go to the codecs page.
Even if you're in hospital you still have to vote. They come to you or you do it via postal vote. Even troops posted overseas at the time are not exempt. It's illegal not to be registered to vote, and if you're on the voting roll it's illegal not to vote.
Don't know anyone whose ever been fined for showing up on election day and enrolling instead of voting. Never known anyone to be fined for not voting in a local government election.
It's illegal to vote incorrectly, but since it's secret ballot they can't tell if you've screwed it up on purpose.
Can we call them PIGs for short?
I'm sorry, but how can they legislate to stop people from giving away the source code to something they created? That makes very little sense to me. And wouldn't that kill learning programming at school? I mean, if you could only submit your compiled program, how could they test you on your technique? Of course there's already a lot of nonsensical legislation out there so I wouldn't be surprised to see some..... I guess it's just disturbing to think that as usual the politicians are going to attempt to legislate a problem away.
My CDs? Since when have they been my cds? I only pay money to purchase them. Has the US Govt suddenly decided that because somebody's paid money for something that it actually belongs to them??
Next thing you know, astronauts are going to be thinking they can create wormholes by skating the atmosphere of the planet. :-)
Not to forget Australia's inclusion in the space program *snigger* OK yes I'm talking about a fantasy TV show here ;-) There's no way we can afford to do anything other than watch as our communications companies launch satellites into space on another continent.
Flying High 2 would be more fun.
*William Shatner looks through periscope, looks at camera with odd look, and looks through periscope again.
*Shot of USS-Enterprise flying towards camera.
Sounds like me about an hour ago when discussing Mozilla with my supervisor. I went "HUH?" when he said "What are the licensing costs?". I then responded "It's Open Source. It's free. If we don't alter the source code we're under no obligations at all." His response was "Really? And people actually use this software? How come I didn't know it was free?"
I see it as the difference between trusting Netscape and trusting AOL. Since AOL bought Netscape (and Winamp too), quality has dropped and spyware and 'features' have taken over.
I borrowed the inlaws telstra cable connection to download mandrake 9.1 isos. They mirror files on their file server!
Inlaws have 500meg data cap. They don't care, they like the 'always-on' aspect. Didn't cost them a cent for me to 'leech' on their connection.
At home I have Optusnet. NO FREE DOWNLOADS FOR ME! The only advantage I can see Telstra having over Optus is that they do offer free traffic. The only free traffic on Optus is checking how much data you've downloaded so far this month. And considering that they cap traffic speed to 3k/s after you go over the limit, I check it at least twice a day.
Not only 'leeches' go over their limit. We would love to play games online on our connection (the ping to some NWN servers in Aus is fantastic) however there are 3 of us in the house, and if we all did a few hours a day in addition to what we normally do with the connection, the cap would kick in about a week into the month. Sometimes it does anyway, like when my brother was viewing movie trailers online and didn't realise that they were over 50meg each. Or when my brother re-installed his OS and then downloaded all the updates to it without checking whether I'd mirrored them locally. Whoops!
I envy you that you can happily go back to dial-up. We're looking at getting TPG Unlimited 512/128. The catches are:
a) Have to pay on credit card; and
b) Have to pay quarterly in advance.
Other than that, it looks great! We have it on good authority from Telstra that our line can get ADSL (and the exchange is across the road so we'd better be able to!). We're willing to pursue it if our application is knocked back. (Anyone who won't put in a complaint when their ISP is told one thing by Telstra and then Telstra is willing to hook them up on the spot is a fool.)
As for your new Estate not having ADSL capabilities, if Telstra is to be believed, you should have it in the next 12 months. They're testing new equipment that'll allow RIM and PG systems to get ADSL. How nice that they didn't bother to do it until the nasty backlash recently. Still, shouldn't complain, they might change their minds.
Australia ISPs don't give enough bandwidth quota to bother infringing copyright.
They've made our decision for us. And is anyone surprised that the government isn't trying to change the situation?
Going with Telstra is NEVER better than going with a reseller. $60 a month for 500 meg of data INCLUDING uploads?! I don't think so!!!
I just got my 80gig that I bought last October replaced under warranty. All they wanted was the error code returned by the powermax software which you can download off their website.
No testing, no questions asked. I took it back to the distributor with the RMA number from Maxtor, and they handed me a new drive with a receipt that says 1 year warranty.
Pretty damn spiffy really because the drive I got was better than I what I had.
However, all this took 2 weeks, and in the meantime I bought a new Seagate 80gig with 8meg cache. Very nice.
Hopefully this all is just a hoax because I don't think my real-life karma is THAT bad that I'd have to return yet another drive for replacement.
a) How many of them can afford PCs that run windows xp?
b) If they can afford them, they probably came with windows xp pre-installed
c) all the NPOs I know are running a few P-IIs with windows 98 that was donated by kind souls who no longer need/want it
er, i'm a Miss (not a Ms or Mr). Sorry to ruin your day :-P
Shouldn't that be:
"Bloody whinging Kiwi" ? :-)
Actually, the number of people writing Jedi on their census dropped because it's illegal to make a false statement on the census. Jedi is NOT a registered religion and the government was threatening to fine people who wrote it on the census form. Not that I would have anyway. IIRC, it was an optional question.
Including the population.
;-))
What's the percentage now? I believe it was something like 30% of Australians hold New Zealand citizenship (of course I could just be confused, but I doubt it.)
In my section at work, 2 out of 5 employees are Kiwis. Of course in my household, 1 out of 2 residents are Kiwi-born (my fiance is a Kiwi. I don't hold it against him
I get called "I can't login".
But.... does that mean that if you are a busy systems administrator you're just a 'sysadmin' ? Cuz if you've got time to say "I'm a Systems Administrator" then you're not working hard enough. At least that's what my boss keeps telling me.... Pity he's got the day off and can't tell me not to read slashdot ;-)