I have written to Senator Conroy, 1 email and 1 letter to each of his 3 offices. I got a very long winded fob off from Belinda Dennett, who did not address any of my concerns, rather do what Conroy has done all along... Completely ignore what you have said and continue on with whatever agenda he is trying to push. I have met him in person and discussed in a public forum things about the proposed broadband upgrade, of which filtering was not mentioned.
Stuff the people in the country.
Roll it out for the cities first, then rural centres. That covers 98% of the population.
Yes it becomes quite apparent when you drive for 1000ks with no mobile coverage, Unless you get "Next G", which is more like 3.5G and not compatible with any other network in the world.
The rest can stick to deisel because there is no point driving say 350ks then having to stop for 30mins to recharge.
Pocket hurts from stupid parity pricing of diesel. It should be cheaper than unleaded! Highest I saw it was $2.15 a litre (which is nearly AU$10 a gallon), where as the petrol was $1.80 something.
Didn't one of the former out speakers against Nuclear power in Australia turn around and say the arguments are now outdated and yes it is a good interim solution.
Thing is, it's a rather large island and you are forgetting tasmania. I also wonder if there will be a charging station at the Nullaboor Roadhouse or maybe Meekathara or "insert random pissant town 1000+ kilometres from anywhere even remotely civilised".
If you were to do this right, you should really have a system where many different caps are available. You'd have a default one, probably well under 250GB, that comes with a service that's cheaper than what they offer now. Then you can pay more to increase your cap. You'd be able to monitor your usage, get a warning well before you hit the cap, and increase your account's cap at any time just by requesting it. And if you do hit your cap, then your account gets throttled to dialup speeds until your 30-day sliding window average decreases below the cap level.
Of course this would make far too much sense so Comcast won't do it, but it's what they ought to do.
That's how nearly every company in Australia works. However there are few that have a limit and whenever you go over, they charge the moon for data and our caps don't even get close to 250GB. Most that advertise big caps (100-150GB) usually offer the bulk of the data withing small "off-peak" windows, that you would have to flood your link with traffic to get even close to the limit, a another amount for peered traffic (usually within your city/state, which is irrelevant unless your employer is using a peered service and you do mass data transfers from home) and a small amount for the rest.
You really have to do your research well over here as otherwise you can ripped quite bad. I really dread it when friends ask internet advice as it takes so much time to find the right deal for what they are asking and they change all the time.
But how much work does it take to get it to handle that. Our quad core, many GB memory server with Fiber channel storage has issues in relation to the store manager going wonky with a couple of 100GB of mail.
You know that is a really nifty feature... I've had the pleasure of setting up and co-ordinating said accounts and I can tell you right now it's an after thought on MS's behalf, like a lot of their neat features, what the end users sees and how much hair the Admins have to pull in the process are 2 different things.
There are better systems, it's just people have a belief that the hole world is using Outlook, so it must be better.
Disclaimer: I am an exchange admin as part of my role and considering the plethora of products I've used in the past, exchange makes me cry!
The hardest part these days is understanding the "mythtv-setup" section which is covered in the documentation.(which isn't all that hard)
My better half is quite the opposite to me when it comes to computers and after I showed her a couple of buttons on the remote, she was away recording her programs, playing them back and watching live TV. The only drama comes from me being a slacker with only 1 tuner, combined with Australian broadcasters being unable to schedule anything properly!
I don't know when you checked last, as I've been using SATA discs since I set my box up, which was over 2 years ago. I'm pretty sure as of R5F27 of Knoppmyth (Current version is R5.5) SATA was available via the "auto" method. As for Capture cards, I've used some pretty obscure Chinese junk (for my security box) and they work quite fine. The only time I've had to update a component by hand is using bleeding edge gear, even then it is possible to get it working. Quick search of the supported hardware list will reveal quickly if your hardware will work without any troubles. My box was built entirely (aside from the capture card and remote) out of parts I had lying around. In fact the mother board, cpu and ram are near on 6 years old and I do playback HD on it. (hardware that old needs the help of an nVidia card to play HD)
I will give you points for "If it works" statement, but if you own a linux geek hat, I'd have to wonder how often you get frustrated with the hoops you have to jump through with a M$ MCE system. If you want to one day try it out, buy another hard drive (or if your like me, you'll probably have a stack in the corner) and throw an install on. I can have a basic box up in less then an hour, getting all my customisations done takes a little longer, but I have lots of documentation now!:P
I believe only *Optional* updates and non critical updates are not available without WGD*. I never install WGD* on my personal machines, but I do however manage the updates for our machines at work, and all the critical security/stability updates do go through.
Forgot the OS stuffs. Imaging/Standard Builds/Standard hardware all User equipment Windows XP Sp2/3, Servers mixture of Virtualised/Physical, Windows, Linux, Solaris.
Global company, 400 staff, 4 IT Staff. We do outsource local support for over seas offices though and have a consulting firm we use for extra hands when needed.
You want to be able to listen to mp3s? Type "sudo bla bla bla". You want to be able to watch divxes? Type "sudo yakity yakity yak". Want to be able to sync your music collection with your iPod? You gotta type sudo.
I myself have also been using Ubuntu since Breezy Badger (5.10) and I find with each release that comes out, less and less command line work is required to get things to a point where I'm happy.
To be brutally honest, the only things that require the command line now are little things I've done to make my life easier as a sysadmin, for Mp3s/Divxs/xvids etc. Enabling the Multiverse in sources is all that is required. Which is not enabled by default as in some countries the packages aren't legal.
Skip back to windows world for a moment, user A gets a divx, it won't play, that get told it's a codec issue and some moron links them to a "Partner Software" encrusted codec pack which rights off their machine. Skip back to Ubuntu for a moment, user A tries to play a divx, someone suggests enabling the multiverse in sources (System -> Administration -> Sources) and the next time they open it in totem, it pops and says it needs this codec, would you like to install it? You install it and then the video plays... What could be harder??
I miss our groupwise server, it was so much nicer than exchange. The important lesson there is that the business has to drive decisions, it has to want it. Reliability and speed is not enough to convince rouge Senior managers from whinging when option A is in a different spot compared to Outlook and that isn't good enough..... I could go on all day:(
With Windows, if something goes wrong, you can contact the hardware manufacturer (If it's hardware/driver-related) or Microsoft if it's software related. And if they won't help, you can sue them. You can't say the same about *nix, where the prevailing attitude seems to be "It don't work, you're on your own to find a fix"
Read a EULA lately, there is a line voiding Microsoft of any responsibility. *nix, plenty of paid for support out there, Novell (SuSe), Canonical (Ubuntu), Red Hat (think this one is obvious) and those are just distributions. A lot of the bigger more important packages have commercial backing and support. I should mod you flame bait, but never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Sounds interesting! The CLI environment sounds a bit like Cisco's IOS. the "?" is a life saver when you can't exactly remember what that blasted command was!
Tried both 64bit Java plugins for firefox in Ubuntu 8.04 and have had limited success in a couple of things (mainly our secure access portal), but I can't say I've tested thoroughly a range of different things, nor had time to try and resolve the issue. Everything works great on my 32 bit install (but using the Proprietary plugin).
Haven't got any citations, but some studies have shown handsfree kits to be worse. Which makes sense, if you are holding the phone to your ear, you are more inclined to be aware that you are impaired (driving with one hand as opposed to two), but if you are on hands free you can quite easily drift off and not even take notice on the primary task at hand. Which is the primary reason why I tend not to speak on the phone whilst driving, or if I do for a brief amount of time. Voicemail was invented for a reason. I don't get why people these days demand that if you have a mobile you must answer regardless, certain staff where I work get mighty pissed if you don't answer straight away.
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I have written to Senator Conroy, 1 email and 1 letter to each of his 3 offices. I got a very long winded fob off from Belinda Dennett, who did not address any of my concerns, rather do what Conroy has done all along... Completely ignore what you have said and continue on with whatever agenda he is trying to push. I have met him in person and discussed in a public forum things about the proposed broadband upgrade, of which filtering was not mentioned.
Letter writing info (plagiarised links from one of my mailing lists)
http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/lobby.html and http://www.actnow.com.au/Tool/How_to_write_a_letter_to_a_politician.aspx
Stuff the people in the country. Roll it out for the cities first, then rural centres. That covers 98% of the population.
Yes it becomes quite apparent when you drive for 1000ks with no mobile coverage, Unless you get "Next G", which is more like 3.5G and not compatible with any other network in the world.
The rest can stick to deisel because there is no point driving say 350ks then having to stop for 30mins to recharge.
Pocket hurts from stupid parity pricing of diesel. It should be cheaper than unleaded! Highest I saw it was $2.15 a litre (which is nearly AU$10 a gallon), where as the petrol was $1.80 something.
Didn't one of the former out speakers against Nuclear power in Australia turn around and say the arguments are now outdated and yes it is a good interim solution.
Thing is, it's a rather large island and you are forgetting tasmania. I also wonder if there will be a charging station at the Nullaboor Roadhouse or maybe Meekathara or "insert random pissant town 1000+ kilometres from anywhere even remotely civilised".
I wish I had mod points... +Informative sarcasm or +Funny! I tip my hat and roll off my chair laughing!
If you were to do this right, you should really have a system where many different caps are available. You'd have a default one, probably well under 250GB, that comes with a service that's cheaper than what they offer now. Then you can pay more to increase your cap. You'd be able to monitor your usage, get a warning well before you hit the cap, and increase your account's cap at any time just by requesting it. And if you do hit your cap, then your account gets throttled to dialup speeds until your 30-day sliding window average decreases below the cap level.
Of course this would make far too much sense so Comcast won't do it, but it's what they ought to do.
That's how nearly every company in Australia works. However there are few that have a limit and whenever you go over, they charge the moon for data and our caps don't even get close to 250GB. Most that advertise big caps (100-150GB) usually offer the bulk of the data withing small "off-peak" windows, that you would have to flood your link with traffic to get even close to the limit, a another amount for peered traffic (usually within your city/state, which is irrelevant unless your employer is using a peered service and you do mass data transfers from home) and a small amount for the rest.
You really have to do your research well over here as otherwise you can ripped quite bad. I really dread it when friends ask internet advice as it takes so much time to find the right deal for what they are asking and they change all the time.
But how much work does it take to get it to handle that. Our quad core, many GB memory server with Fiber channel storage has issues in relation to the store manager going wonky with a couple of 100GB of mail.
You know that is a really nifty feature... I've had the pleasure of setting up and co-ordinating said accounts and I can tell you right now it's an after thought on MS's behalf, like a lot of their neat features, what the end users sees and how much hair the Admins have to pull in the process are 2 different things.
There are better systems, it's just people have a belief that the hole world is using Outlook, so it must be better.
Disclaimer: I am an exchange admin as part of my role and considering the plethora of products I've used in the past, exchange makes me cry!
Just change it over, tell them it's an updated skin :P
The hardest part these days is understanding the "mythtv-setup" section which is covered in the documentation.(which isn't all that hard)
:P
My better half is quite the opposite to me when it comes to computers and after I showed her a couple of buttons on the remote, she was away recording her programs, playing them back and watching live TV. The only drama comes from me being a slacker with only 1 tuner, combined with Australian broadcasters being unable to schedule anything properly!
I don't know when you checked last, as I've been using SATA discs since I set my box up, which was over 2 years ago. I'm pretty sure as of R5F27 of Knoppmyth (Current version is R5.5) SATA was available via the "auto" method. As for Capture cards, I've used some pretty obscure Chinese junk (for my security box) and they work quite fine. The only time I've had to update a component by hand is using bleeding edge gear, even then it is possible to get it working. Quick search of the supported hardware list will reveal quickly if your hardware will work without any troubles. My box was built entirely (aside from the capture card and remote) out of parts I had lying around. In fact the mother board, cpu and ram are near on 6 years old and I do playback HD on it. (hardware that old needs the help of an nVidia card to play HD)
I will give you points for "If it works" statement, but if you own a linux geek hat, I'd have to wonder how often you get frustrated with the hoops you have to jump through with a M$ MCE system. If you want to one day try it out, buy another hard drive (or if your like me, you'll probably have a stack in the corner) and throw an install on. I can have a basic box up in less then an hour, getting all my customisations done takes a little longer, but I have lots of documentation now!
Just upgrade to Knoppmyth and free yourself from the shackles completely.
mythbox:~$ uptime
11:12:53 up 31 days, 21:12, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.13, 0.09
Last time It got rebooted was to clean the dust out of the fans.
I believe only *Optional* updates and non critical updates are not available without WGD*. I never install WGD* on my personal machines, but I do however manage the updates for our machines at work, and all the critical security/stability updates do go through.
* Windows Genuine Disadvantage
Wouldn't people who work in demolitions, tearing down buildings, be very unhappy?
How could anybody be unhappy blowing things up/destroying things *evil laugh*
Forgot the OS stuffs. Imaging/Standard Builds/Standard hardware all User equipment Windows XP Sp2/3, Servers mixture of Virtualised/Physical, Windows, Linux, Solaris.
Global company, 400 staff, 4 IT Staff. We do outsource local support for over seas offices though and have a consulting firm we use for extra hands when needed.
Foster's: The Australian Beer that No Australian in their right mind drinks!
You want to be able to listen to mp3s? Type "sudo bla bla bla". You want to be able to watch divxes? Type "sudo yakity yakity yak". Want to be able to sync your music collection with your iPod? You gotta type sudo.
I myself have also been using Ubuntu since Breezy Badger (5.10) and I find with each release that comes out, less and less command line work is required to get things to a point where I'm happy.
To be brutally honest, the only things that require the command line now are little things I've done to make my life easier as a sysadmin, for Mp3s/Divxs/xvids etc. Enabling the Multiverse in sources is all that is required. Which is not enabled by default as in some countries the packages aren't legal.
Skip back to windows world for a moment, user A gets a divx, it won't play, that get told it's a codec issue and some moron links them to a "Partner Software" encrusted codec pack which rights off their machine. Skip back to Ubuntu for a moment, user A tries to play a divx, someone suggests enabling the multiverse in sources (System -> Administration -> Sources) and the next time they open it in totem, it pops and says it needs this codec, would you like to install it? You install it and then the video plays... What could be harder??
Spaghetti Code FTW!! :P
I miss our groupwise server, it was so much nicer than exchange. The important lesson there is that the business has to drive decisions, it has to want it. Reliability and speed is not enough to convince rouge Senior managers from whinging when option A is in a different spot compared to Outlook and that isn't good enough..... I could go on all day :(
With Windows, if something goes wrong, you can contact the hardware manufacturer (If it's hardware/driver-related) or Microsoft if it's software related. And if they won't help, you can sue them. You can't say the same about *nix, where the prevailing attitude seems to be "It don't work, you're on your own to find a fix"
Read a EULA lately, there is a line voiding Microsoft of any responsibility. *nix, plenty of paid for support out there, Novell (SuSe), Canonical (Ubuntu), Red Hat (think this one is obvious) and those are just distributions. A lot of the bigger more important packages have commercial backing and support. I should mod you flame bait, but never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Lets hope this aids the development of the current plugins then :)
Sounds interesting! The CLI environment sounds a bit like Cisco's IOS. the "?" is a life saver when you can't exactly remember what that blasted command was!
Tried both 64bit Java plugins for firefox in Ubuntu 8.04 and have had limited success in a couple of things (mainly our secure access portal), but I can't say I've tested thoroughly a range of different things, nor had time to try and resolve the issue. Everything works great on my 32 bit install (but using the Proprietary plugin).
Haven't got any citations, but some studies have shown handsfree kits to be worse. Which makes sense, if you are holding the phone to your ear, you are more inclined to be aware that you are impaired (driving with one hand as opposed to two), but if you are on hands free you can quite easily drift off and not even take notice on the primary task at hand. Which is the primary reason why I tend not to speak on the phone whilst driving, or if I do for a brief amount of time. Voicemail was invented for a reason. I don't get why people these days demand that if you have a mobile you must answer regardless, certain staff where I work get mighty pissed if you don't answer straight away.
64bit Support? Well I guess that will be trivial when we can at least build from source. Then into packages and Repo's :D