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Comment Re:Regarding IE (Score 2) 193

I found enough good reasons to make our Win7 image to have a prominent Firefox icon, with IE buried in the menus. People can use either, but most go with the path of least resistance, in this case it will be Firefox. It's actually really easy to manage the things most IT departments need to manage. I should know, that's what I do day in, day out.

Comment Re:Why should they change? (Score 4, Informative) 193

Unfortunately that's not the case. Office 2007 requires significant pain for the end user and also doesn't support OOXML all that well. In face a 1.3mb template file is enough to cause 100% cpu load, where as libre office handles the same file without any issues. A number of our staff voluntarily use Libre Office and we deploy it on our rental equipment as we cant justify the license cost of MS Office to open the simple excel files our survey software generates.

Comment Re:Seems unfair to me (Score 2) 203

The thing is, shipping costs more than the 10% GST in most cases anyway. So there isn't anything to gain from taxing overseas retailers. All it does is make things more complicated to purchase from them, meaning that at the end of the day, the only people that would lose out in that scenario are the consumers. So if the prices were competitive, people would more than likely buy local. I know that's how I operate, international sales are a pain when you need to make a warranty claim.

So IMHO, Gerry Harvey or any of those other large retail chains do not have a right to my money, they can stick their bad customer service and exorbitant prices up their collective coits.
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Submission + - Australian Govermant launch "cyber-safety" button (zdnet.com.au)

Techman83 writes: Weighing in at approximately 930kb, consuming approximately 30mb of memory, requiring both Adobe Flash and Adobe Air, is Senatory Conroy's "cyber-safety" button. The panic button has attracted ridicule amongst the industry and at a cost of AUD$136,000 have left many of us asking why? Even still Senator Conroy has stuck to his guns and launched the little red button, that resides in the taskbar and floats over the top of all the other applications just waiting to be double clicked in an emergency. If you wish to check it out for yourself, it is available for download here

Comment Re:Actually great for these companies! (Score 1) 156

Most of the secuirty industry is light years behind the rest of the world, their gear is really basic, the software to manage it is atrocious and the way they operate is very archaic. Imagine the dismay on the installers face when he asked for an Analogue phone line and the best we could offer him was a port on our FXS gateway (yeah not a great idea), we eventually convinced them to install a GPRS card in the system.

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