Got a another one for you. When they built the new parliament house the decided they wanted Italian marble. An Australian marble miner wanted to sell them his and wanted an advance so he could set up a polishing factory.
The Aust govt decided his marble wasn't good enough and they wanted Italian stuff. The Aussie miner sold his marble to the Italian company who cut and polished it and sold it to the Australian government to use in parliament house.
Go figure.
This doesn't suprise me a lot but it does please me. I worked for Telstra (the government telco) for many years and their lan/wan network which is unbelievably huge has been running on Novell since the first lan went in. At that time the workstations were running winblows 3.11 but the network was Novell.
I don't know if they still are on Novell but I can't imagine them changing considering the complexity of the network. When it first went in Telstra (then called Telecom) was a government commission. The expertise has been around for quite some time.
Australia also just changed the copyright laws to allow copying cd's and software, they even threw out dvd zoning. Sounds to me like somebody in the Australian beureacracy has had a gutful of the RIAA, Microsoft and all the other IP exploiters dictating terms.
Sometimes the "Yes Minister" system we use here comes out on top;)
Gimp is improving at an astonishing rate but PS is used extensively in the industry. I usually use gimp when I can but that doesn't help when somebody hands me a complex PS file.
Photoshop and Dreamweaver with Linux binaries would be sensational. I'd still use gimp but these are programs that often stop people throwing away Winblows altogether.
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Got a another one for you. When they built the new parliament house the decided they wanted Italian marble. An Australian marble miner wanted to sell them his and wanted an advance so he could set up a polishing factory. The Aust govt decided his marble wasn't good enough and they wanted Italian stuff. The Aussie miner sold his marble to the Italian company who cut and polished it and sold it to the Australian government to use in parliament house. Go figure.
This doesn't suprise me a lot but it does please me. I worked for Telstra (the government telco) for many years and their lan/wan network which is unbelievably huge has been running on Novell since the first lan went in. At that time the workstations were running winblows 3.11 but the network was Novell. I don't know if they still are on Novell but I can't imagine them changing considering the complexity of the network. When it first went in Telstra (then called Telecom) was a government commission. The expertise has been around for quite some time. Australia also just changed the copyright laws to allow copying cd's and software, they even threw out dvd zoning. Sounds to me like somebody in the Australian beureacracy has had a gutful of the RIAA, Microsoft and all the other IP exploiters dictating terms. Sometimes the "Yes Minister" system we use here comes out on top ;)
Gimp is improving at an astonishing rate but PS is used extensively in the industry. I usually use gimp when I can but that doesn't help when somebody hands me a complex PS file. Photoshop and Dreamweaver with Linux binaries would be sensational. I'd still use gimp but these are programs that often stop people throwing away Winblows altogether.