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Submission + - Contractor gets Cut (smh.com.au)

Submitted by lanky2004 on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @07:50PM

lanky2004 writes: Bit of a booboo here in Sydney town today.

Thousands of homes and businesses in Sydney's CBD will be without phone, internet or mobile services today — and some could be cut-off for several days — after a contractor accidentally severed crucial underground cables.

Submission + - Zero-Knowledge Coding: Am I Crazy For Deciding To 4

Submitted by

r0wan

on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @07:35PM

r0wan writes: "I maintain a blog and currently have a Blackberry 8310, for which there are zero Blogger mobile clients that work with the new GData Blogger API (and yes, I do know about Mail2Blogger, but until Blackberry coughs up a rich text mail client, it's not a great option). Being the type of person who unscrewed lightbulbs as a kid 'to see where the light comes from', I decided to write my own.

The problem? At the moment of my decision, the closest I'd ever come to programming was VBScripting a lot of admin scripts, and I knew absolutely zilch about Java or J2ME and less than that about object oriented programming.

That was about two weeks ago. Now I know fractionally more than zilch about Java and J2ME thanks to Sun's Java trails, and I've managed to install the Blackberry JDE, the Blackberry JDK, the J2ME 3.0 SDK and Eclipse. I've even successfully figured out how to open a few existing open source J2ME projects (MobileBlogger and Azure for those still reading) and build them, which required some minor troubleshooting that was major for me since I had to look up what a workspace was, and figure out that you can't use spaces for them.

My co-workers, however, think I'm crazy, stupid, or both and that I should either pay someone to write it for me or pay for hosting and PHP something that I can browse to on my Blackberry. I'm stubborn, so I'm ignoring them and reading up on What Is A Constructor during my lunch hours, but part of me wonders, are they right? Am I biting off way more than I should try to chew?"

Submission + - Australian Goverment to break up Telstra (abc.net.au)

Submitted by benz001 on Monday September 14, 2009 @09:41PM

benz001 writes: The same Minister in charge of the ridiculous broadband filter plan has at least won a few brownie points with today's press conference (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/15/2686143.htm). Telstra, Australia's largest ISP and the countries main infrastructure owner is to voluntarily split off its network and wholesale arms or the Goverment will step in with legislation.

The official press release can be found on the Ministers site (http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/088)

Submission + - Captain Planet Goes Online (mnn.com)

Submitted by

lanky2004

on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @10:28PM

lanky2004 writes: "Captain Planet episodes are being released online. Relive your best childhood memories when computers were quaint and you spent more time running around saving the planet. Watch them now: http://www.mnn.com/captainplanet"

Comment leap second? (Score 1) 480

by lanky2004 on Thursday January 01, 2009 @10:29PM (#26295955) Attached to: Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes?

could it have been something to do with the leap second that was added in at 2008-12-31 23:59:60

Comment Re:'Each of these devices is used... (Score 1) 155

by lanky2004 on Saturday November 18, 2006 @09:39PM (#16901038) Attached to: Zune Profits Go To Record Label

i think they actually refer to the part where Zune users can share music wirelessly with other Zunes. That would be the un-paid-for material that they are refering to.

So Microsoft is paying for the user to be able to "share" the music.

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