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  1. Its all about the airframe hours.. on UK Demands Sourcecode for Strike Fighters · · Score: 1

    Its the Airframe hours that are killing the Australian FA-18's. The airframes have just clocked up way too many hours, because they are our sole strike force capability, and its all we have. With the F22 being delayed further and further, its going to be a serious question of whether or not the FA-18's can actually last that long. (The F111's cant!)

  2. Lexmark Printer / Scanner units.. on Cost Effective Scan-to-FTP Products? · · Score: 1

    Possibly not ideal, but cheaper than copiers, the Lexmark T512 series of laser printers have an optional scanner attachment that allows scanning to ftp via ethernet. Auto sheet feeder as well. Quite a nice device.

  3. Re:British Rail on British Rail's Flying Saucer · · Score: 1

    Not true. The Tilting mechanism is being incorporated into modern trains around the world. An example is the Queensland Rail Tilt Train, which is currently the fasted train in Australia, having been comissioned here in 1997.

  4. Latex and CVS on MS Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind · · Score: 1
    I know how much of a mess, because 10 years ago O97 didn't have the Outlook integration, and I was forced to keep multiple copies of things on disk, and the review/formatting/comments stuff was really poor.

    Who would have thought that LaTex and CVS would have solved this problem since 1984. Versioning and changes is something MS Office still hasnt got close to right. And because of its closed binary file structure, you cant use external versioning tools to version control your documents. You are stuck with the internal MS Office utils, which suck.

  5. Re:The parable of the two farmers and the customer on Attorney General Investigates Music Price Fixing · · Score: 1
    *They would be actively working together through the FPAA to sue their users who make illegal copies through planting seeds
    *They would be suing people for planting with no real proof they actually planted
    *They would have a long history of losing antitrust cases dating back to the 60s

    And this is different to what they have been doing with Genetically Modified Seedlings exactly how? Farmers can be sued for growing genetically modified crops when their crops have been poluted by GM pollens from OTHER GM Crops.

  6. We were encouraged... on Professor 'Packetslinger' Assigns Questionable Task · · Score: 3, Insightful
    When I did my engineering degree, with the computer science subjects we were encouraged to explore the network and understand its topology. We even had assignments where we HAD to do this and report back with what we knew about what was where.

    Its a bit like open source software.. The information is public, what problems are there by students looking at it. As long as the dont actually compromise anything, they could be helping it security.

    In this case, I think the IT Staff are being idiots.

  7. Re:Validity on We Don't Need No Stinkin' Broadband · · Score: 1
    Whats the problem? Its no less accurate than the slashdot polls...

  8. Re:Brickified? on Bounty For Booting XP on the Intel iMac · · Score: 1

    I never wanted to be a computer salesman anyway! I wanted to be a Lumberjack!

  9. Re:SCSI?? on SCSI vs. SATA In a File Server? · · Score: 1

    That was for external devices like scanners.

  10. Australia suffers as well.. on The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy · · Score: 1
    We have a dial before you dig phone line here as well, but we still lose cables.

    The best story I know of here is when construction workers in Adelaide Uni accidently took out a water pipe that was not marked on the plans. The water pipe leaked water which then flooded an underground datacenter. This took out the majority of the uni's IT services and thanks to the close associations of the State's uni's, most of the services of the state's other universities as well.

    So not a direct kill by the back hoe, but a damn good one none the less.

  11. Re:Pennies must go! on Earth's Copper Supply Inadequate For Development? · · Score: 1

    There was a grace period. One and two cent coins were eliminated and no longer available from our Central Bank. However, for a period they were still legal tender and able to be traded. They are no longer legal tender and only worth their weight in the metal itself. (Two tenths of fk all.)

  12. Re:OT: date format on Cross Site Scripting Discovered in Google · · Score: 1

    Here in australia we would say, "Twenty-First of December, Two-thousand and five" Which matches the way we would write the date, 21/12/2005.

  13. Re:A visual computer myth on The Mythbusters Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    There have also been (more than) a few monitors, which if put into the incorrect (invalid) display mode would simply fry themselves.

  14. Re:Dupes allow off topic posts, right? on MSIE To Adopt Firefox Feed Icon · · Score: 1

    I was going to suggest the Belkin. The original chipset versions had plenty of driver problems, not interacting with the card itself, but with Windows. The later versions run a newer bluetooth chipset, use less power and are generally better quality with better drivers and bluetooth subsystem.

  15. Re:Also no mention of BBC Micro, etc. on 30 Years of Personal Computer Market Share · · Score: 1
    The BBC also featured heavily in Australia but mainly as a teaching platform. I know alot of schools that used the BBC micro, they also networked to a server which was not common for personal computers at the time.

    I first learnt logo on the BBC.

  16. Re:Downsite? on Steam Hybrid Car from BMW · · Score: 1
    Supercharged and Turbocharged engines are not new at all by anymeans. Its just the weight and complexity of the setup + the intake piping.

    They are quite common on Marine Diesel engines and have been used for years on 2-Stroke Detroit Diesel Engines.

  17. Re:Cool on IBM Promotes Linux Partners to Highest Tier · · Score: 1

    There already is. IBM have their own Java Implementation.

  18. Re:Top 3 on Top 10 System Administrator Truths · · Score: 1

    For the less functionally inept databases, simply place begin transaction ahead of your delete statement. That way if your delete is incorrect, you can simply roll it back (rollback). Theres many ways that you can screw up a delete statement even with there where clause there, and transactions help protect you.

  19. Re:95% of all problems.... on Top 10 System Administrator Truths · · Score: 1

    I call these ID-10T errors.

  20. Re:Not that much of a problem! on The Unspoken Taboo - The Never Expiring Password · · Score: 1

    I cant work out if you are trying to troll or not... So I will bite anyway.

    This would be even worse than a non-changing password. If someone needs to change it to a different password everyday, they will not be able to remember their current password, and hence will probably just write it down somewhere convenient. Hence there will be postit notes of passwords floating around your office.

    Some sys-admins do a really shithouse job purely because the power goes to their head. This sounds like one of those times.

  21. Re:Not as smart as they think... on Barcode Scam Redux - Target's $4.99 iPod · · Score: 1
    Even better, there was a Etrade / Pizza Hut voucher for 1 free large pizza floating around the internet for a while. It was for 'valued shareholders'. Many poeple printed it and received a free large pizza at their local store.


    The only problem? Pizza Hut doesnt have public shareholders.

  22. Re:What was wrong with Azureus? on GCC 4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    The GPL has no restrictions at all if you only use it. The GPL only applies if you try to distribute GCC or distribute versions of the GCC that you have modified your self. If you simply compile your source code, and distribute that, there are no restrictions at all.

    However, The major point here is that GCC provides the source code. Sun does not.

  23. Re:What was wrong with Azureus? on GCC 4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    And if you dont follow that:

    Sun's JRE is free IF: you can agree to their license agreement, the terms and conditions etc etc. Also, the Sun JRE does not provide the source, whereas the GCC does.

  24. Re:What was wrong with Azureus? on GCC 4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    You would need to recompile Azureus using GCC.

  25. Re:What was wrong with Azureus? on GCC 4.1 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Azureus is programmed in Java. Therefore it had to execute under a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) as provided by Sun or IBM. All of these JRE's are not free. Now Azureus can be compiled by GCC (which is free), Azureus can be executed in a 100% free environment.