Comment Re:The budget isn't $82,000 (Score 1) 67
Oh, and if you think the humour is kind of puerile, I'll give you that, but given how "serious" the Matrix is, I consider that part of it being a spoof.
Oh, and if you think the humour is kind of puerile, I'll give you that, but given how "serious" the Matrix is, I consider that part of it being a spoof.
> My personal favorite professional-grade fan film is Broken Allegiance,
Oh, come on!..... How can it not be Computer Boy?!?!?
http://www.flumps.org/funny/computerboy/images/computerboy.mov
Sheesh....
Ultimately, yep, we're all going to lose this stuff unless we keep backups. People lost photos and data in house fires, it's going to become questions in later generations of what's actually worthwhile keeping. Photos of you with your trousers around your ankles out drunk on some random sat night might be hilarious to you on facebook now, but they aren't going to mean anything to your grandchildren. I think ultimately, a lot of this stuff needs to be forgotten....
We're going to lose our music and our books, this is why we have copyright libraries around the world, to keep this stuff for our future generations. As long as Disney don't get their way (They'd better not) this stuff will all hit public domain and our grandchildren will get access to all this anyway.
Honestly, I don't know how much of a loss this really is and whether it's worth talking about in the grand scheme of things..
This is disgusting. While I'm not Julian Assange's fanboi by any stretch of the imagination; I'd love to see the government that I grew up with grow a pair and at worst say "Well, I guess we're taking this one on the chin", he's to be tried in the country that he comitted the offense, and if he is serve time, to serve time in Australia under prisoner exchange.
At best, I'd rather like seeing Julia Gillard say "By your own rules, Freedom of Speech and press which you enforce on other countries is coming home to roost". Your country hasn't been de-stabilsed, nothing is that differernt. Sure, it's put a few noses out of joint, but why crucify a man over all this. There are many different elements like this in society, time to face up to them.
There's even a howto here:
Hey Vint (Just in case your reading)
I don't know his renumeration, but between pension, shares and the rest, he's gotta be coming close to this number.
There was a number of
I've seen people in purchasing (I don't know if they had dirt or what...) saving the company 25k/week the first week they walked in.
It's all plausible if you have the right skill set. I understand that ICANN is close to home and all that, but it's not unrealistic to have to pay it if you want the skill set.
Found this on Dolby's website for the Atmos system:
And? It's discriminatory too. Difference being, that in this instance, it's socially acceptable to do so.
If you have multiple NTP servers, then your suggestion of "haywire" is moot. (I love your haywire suggestion by the way, that it's guaranteed to fail in such a way to cause everything to drift.... Oooohhh bogeyman!) Also, buy a dedicated device. I have GPS based NTP servers which now have an uptime of the last time I moved them (6 months). Before that, the uptime was from when they were comissioned (4 - 5 years ago). We measure their drift in nanoseconds.
As you point out though, it depends on what the application is. In some instances if the device doesn't output time, they only need to know time relative to themselves then a cheap TXCO (Thermal controlled crystal oscillator) will be cheaper than an ethernet interface, an IP stack and the human overhead.
*blink* how can running your own NTP server taking time from GPS "Fuck up all the devices in the hospital" ?
There is a good link here:
http://ttsiodras.github.com/rsbep.html
This is a good move for creating par files etc as part of your backups. He also has some other really good information up there in regards to protecting data. Especially creating backups under windows:
Rob, your editing again?
Seconded to previous poster, my parents live in the 'burbs in Sydney on the border of two exchanges and can't get ADSL, so no, this isn't a complete waste.
Targetting higher value areas where they are going to get a large take up and get income to support the roll out is also a good business decision.
CSIRO is building the technology to do NBN for rural. It's called Ngara:
There is plenty of times these exact things happen. It's called "Security" and it's big business. While you complain about it, in a lot of places these things happen for a reason and yes there is security personnel who review data brought between the networks. Stop being so short sighted.
Correct, the law on this hasn't been changed. There is a requirement for 99.95% uptime, and every time the provider fails, they get fined. Telstra / NBNCo hasn't been excused from this, so while they might have 4 hours of battery in the CPE, the last major power outage I saw in Sydney was for about 16 hours (Transformer explosion). That means that NBNCo would be fined for the rest of the time. Telstra is just covering their arse.
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