I used to work for company with its office in the CBD of Melbourne, when there was a small disaster at a substation that left about half the city without power, elevators jammed, etc. Guess what, that phone that was in the lift? It was wired in to the office PABX, that was running on a UPS with stuffed batteries, so those phones went dead.
Kinda handy that mobile phones could be used? (Even though the mobile network shat itself straight away with "OMG is your power off too?" calls)
Actually this used to be the case nationwide, but it was still only a preference, without legal binding. Medicare now takes care of this, and I beleive this is actually legally binding now
Agree with you there, altough at least a good deal of Brisbane to Melbourne via the Newell Hwy is 110km/h, unlike the Bruce Hwy going north only being 100km/h and not having cattle roaming on the road
Maybe just need some common sense applied. I've read a few articles here in Australia where this feature has been used by police after a reported car theft, the police would be in communication with Holden as to where the car is and then once they are following, they wait until its safe to to stop the car (ie not at a railway crossing or somewhere else dangerous), and then bam car stops and owner doesnt have to deal with the normal crap of a car theft.
I want this service should I one day actually buy a new car. If the government doesnt want me driving there are always going to be ways of stoppping me
What fucking right to free speech?? Where in the constitution or commonwealth law do we have this right?
This pisses me off how often aussies go on about this so called right.
I do agree that the johny parody site shutdown was bullshit though
It was my understanding that Phillips already had some cd manufacturing, when CDs were going to be of a small size, and to stop Phillips having a head start over Sony, someone at Sony used the longer piece of music as justifcation as to why the CDs needed to be larger, and catchup
I use XMLTV feeds, and where I am in.au I only get 6 channels. Why? There are some shows I like watching, and TV stations here are quite good at stuffing around with schedules, so I just set MythTV to record the shows I like whenever they are on, and for this I use XMLTV via tvguide.org.au (community ran site which collects together TV schedules)
TV stations here have said they won't make this info freely available, and we can't scrape it as its copyrighted information.
Bonds together 4 cable lines? I though one of the big issues with cable was saturation from multiple users on the same bit of cable? Not sure here as adsl is by far more available around here
Sony Ericsson K750 (the letters after don't matter, mine is is a k750i, but thats because its the 'international' version). Bluetooth? Yes Store stuff on it and plug in in to the computer? Yes (just on windows it will ask about other devices, besides the mass storage, but nothing a few cancels cant fit) 512mb? Well sure, just need to buy a large memory stick duo, but not like they are hard or expensive (like $60AUD on ebay for 2gb)
Linux: Because rebooting is for adding hardware.
Only because your system isn't running hotpluggable hardware.
Now if only somebody could invent a way of upgrading the kernel without rebooting I would be laughing!
Test bed, like the good 'ol Free Trade Agreement? feels like we are on our way to being the 51st state of the US, just look at the TV shows that are on, and listen to all the teenage homies everywhere I go.
I'm amazed the goverment screwed up something like this, but I'm sure it'll will get fixed up soon.
You don't wanna do this, you'll just worry even more (your gonna be a parent, your are *always* going to worry about your kid(s) from now on).
When we first bought our baby home from hospital, my wife barely slept, with our son in the same room, until my mother-in-law came to stay with us (she lives about 1500km away), and told, he will sleep fine in the next room (in all reality about 5m from where we slept).
You don't want baby monitors and such, just a slight ajar door you can sneak in and out of. After they are a couple of months old, you and your wife will be used to the way your little one sleeps and from there on it gets easy.
Just remmember the most important thing dude. ENJOY IT! Its a great experience as a dad, although watching my wife in so much pain during labour was hard, and when my son was born, I was really torn for the first time in my life. To be beside my wife as she go cleaned up post-labour or beside my son. I stayed with my son, and dressed him, and kept where my wife could see.
She is pregnant again now, I can hear the two of them causing mischeif in the bath now.
Prepare yourself for the ride of your life. Spend a whole day in bed asleep before your baby is born and then grab on to the ride, enjoy the feeling of helping to create a life, and remmember nature has been growing kids for a long time, without technology.
Wildly inaccurate probably, but it has varied between 50-80cents over the last ten years, I know at some stage (in the 70s?) the aussie dollar was stronger for a while, which caught out a number of aussies who taken US$ loans
Why does the technology need to be changed? Here in.au we have had mobile phone number portability for a a couple of years, and can easily change between the gsm and cdma networks
I've found my own answer, spammers rarely put my e-mail in the To:/CC: fields, so I have set procmail to deliver all my mail to the 'unknown' folder by default and have a rule which puts e-mail sent to all my known addresses put in my inbox folder, and mailing lists go to their own folders. I also allow mail delivered to anything @mydomain to deliver to my mailbox via procmail, and use a different address for each site/vendor/whatever and therefore I can block bad e-mail addresses forever
A help desk log got passed around the other day at work, one of our stores (i do second level support for big retail company) rings up to place a log on their monitor that is fuzzy and they want replaced. The person who taken the call then went and assigned it to the right team, but a little later another 1st level call center tech reads the log and makes the following comment... "VNCed to pc, everything looks fine) and CLOSES the log! Scary considering these guys have operator privs on store servers and even our corporate mainframe! argh!
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I used to work for company with its office in the CBD of Melbourne, when there was a small disaster at a substation that left about half the city without power, elevators jammed, etc. Guess what, that phone that was in the lift? It was wired in to the office PABX, that was running on a UPS with stuffed batteries, so those phones went dead. Kinda handy that mobile phones could be used? (Even though the mobile network shat itself straight away with "OMG is your power off too?" calls)
Actually this used to be the case nationwide, but it was still only a preference, without legal binding. Medicare now takes care of this, and I beleive this is actually legally binding now
Agree with you there, altough at least a good deal of Brisbane to Melbourne via the Newell Hwy is 110km/h, unlike the Bruce Hwy going north only being 100km/h and not having cattle roaming on the road
Maybe just need some common sense applied. I've read a few articles here in Australia where this feature has been used by police after a reported car theft, the police would be in communication with Holden as to where the car is and then once they are following, they wait until its safe to to stop the car (ie not at a railway crossing or somewhere else dangerous), and then bam car stops and owner doesnt have to deal with the normal crap of a car theft. I want this service should I one day actually buy a new car. If the government doesnt want me driving there are always going to be ways of stoppping me
What fucking right to free speech?? Where in the constitution or commonwealth law do we have this right? This pisses me off how often aussies go on about this so called right. I do agree that the johny parody site shutdown was bullshit though
It was my understanding that Phillips already had some cd manufacturing, when CDs were going to be of a small size, and to stop Phillips having a head start over Sony, someone at Sony used the longer piece of music as justifcation as to why the CDs needed to be larger, and catchup
I use XMLTV feeds, and where I am in .au I only get 6 channels. Why? There are some shows I like watching, and TV stations here are quite good at stuffing around with schedules, so I just set MythTV to record the shows I like whenever they are on, and for this I use XMLTV via tvguide.org.au (community ran site which collects together TV schedules)
TV stations here have said they won't make this info freely available, and we can't scrape it as its copyrighted information.
Bonds together 4 cable lines? I though one of the big issues with cable was saturation from multiple users on the same bit of cable? Not sure here as adsl is by far more available around here
Well... it can't be too long before linux kernel 2.7 gets branched in preparition for Vista's replacement. Linux 3.0
Sony Ericsson K750 (the letters after don't matter, mine is is a k750i, but thats because its the 'international' version).
Bluetooth? Yes
Store stuff on it and plug in in to the computer? Yes (just on windows it will ask about other devices, besides the mass storage, but nothing a few cancels cant fit)
512mb? Well sure, just need to buy a large memory stick duo, but not like they are hard or expensive (like $60AUD on ebay for 2gb)
Linux: Because rebooting is for adding hardware.
Only because your system isn't running hotpluggable hardware.
Now if only somebody could invent a way of upgrading the kernel without rebooting I would be laughing!
Test bed, like the good 'ol Free Trade Agreement? feels like we are on our way to being the 51st state of the US, just look at the TV shows that are on, and listen to all the teenage homies everywhere I go.
I'm amazed the goverment screwed up something like this, but I'm sure it'll will get fixed up soon.
You don't wanna do this, you'll just worry even more (your gonna be a parent, your are *always* going to worry about your kid(s) from now on).
When we first bought our baby home from hospital, my wife barely slept, with our son in the same room, until my mother-in-law came to stay with us (she lives about 1500km away), and told, he will sleep fine in the next room (in all reality about 5m from where we slept).
You don't want baby monitors and such, just a slight ajar door you can sneak in and out of. After they are a couple of months old, you and your wife will be used to the way your little one sleeps and from there on it gets easy.
Just remmember the most important thing dude. ENJOY IT! Its a great experience as a dad, although watching my wife in so much pain during labour was hard, and when my son was born, I was really torn for the first time in my life. To be beside my wife as she go cleaned up post-labour or beside my son. I stayed with my son, and dressed him, and kept where my wife could see.
She is pregnant again now, I can hear the two of them causing mischeif in the bath now.
Prepare yourself for the ride of your life. Spend a whole day in bed asleep before your baby is born and then grab on to the ride, enjoy the feeling of helping to create a life, and remmember nature has been growing kids for a long time, without technology.
Yeah but the latency of the station wagon is kinda bad
The australian constitution doesn't actually give citizens freedom of speech. See http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn 42.htm
Well actually its a Dual P3 1Ghz
Wildly inaccurate probably, but it has varied between 50-80cents over the last ten years, I know at some stage (in the 70s?) the aussie dollar was stronger for a while, which caught out a number of aussies who taken US$ loans
Yes get rid of Johny, he definitely won't get my vote with farmers parents and me being very anti-dmca
As for high treason, its my understanding that you can only be charged with high treason during war, otherwise its just 'regular' treason
It isn't a G5 (IBM PPC770) but is closely related
Why does the technology need to be changed? Here in .au we have had mobile phone number portability for a a couple of years, and can easily change between the gsm and cdma networks
I've found my own answer, spammers rarely put my e-mail in the To:/CC: fields, so I have set procmail to deliver all my mail to the 'unknown' folder by default and have a rule which puts e-mail sent to all my known addresses put in my inbox folder, and mailing lists go to their own folders. I also allow mail delivered to anything @mydomain to deliver to my mailbox via procmail, and use a different address for each site/vendor/whatever and therefore I can block bad e-mail addresses forever
A help desk log got passed around the other day at work, one of our stores (i do second level support for big retail company) rings up to place a log on their monitor that is fuzzy and they want replaced. The person who taken the call then went and assigned it to the right team, but a little later another 1st level call center tech reads the log and makes the following comment... "VNCed to pc, everything looks fine) and CLOSES the log! Scary considering these guys have operator privs on store servers and even our corporate mainframe! argh!