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lego_boy_aus writes ""TELSTRA has begun proceedings in the High Court against Communications Minister Helen Coonan over broadband funding."

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,221 82192-5005961,00.html"
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22182192-5005961,00.html

hurr1 writes "Total cases in twenty years amount to only 7,500 or 375 a year. By comparison, Cambodia, whose population is less than a tenth of Japan's, had 170,000 people living with HIV or AIDS, according to United Nations estimates. See the Ten Myths Of HIV/AIDS video movie explore this problem in human society."
http://www.mens-sexual-health.org/wwwboard/messages/2382.html

Here is a short story about my switch to Ubuntu from XP at work. I have been Microsoft free for 3 months now at a Microsoft heavy shop. Few people know I am using Open Office and Linux. I create countless documents that people open using Word, Excel, PPT and nobody can tell that they were created using Open Office. http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/o pen-source-and-microsoft-free-17339
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek

ramboando writes "There's been a lot of fanfare about Linux replacing Windows on desktops but we've yet to see all but a few vendors offer Linux as a pre-installed option. Dell offers Ubuntu, but only in the US, and Acer notebooks are being pre-installed with Ubuntu it on Singapore. Initially they decided not to sell it in the UK, but have now flip-floped on their decision and said it will be made available.

ZDNet Australia talked to several manufacturers, and industry experts to find out how long we'll have to wait."
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Is-the-demand-for-desktop-Linux-negligible-/0,130061733,339280844,00.htm

Well, I guess it's my turn to weigh in on the "new" Slashdot firehose.

I like it.

There's not that much to say, really. It provides what I consider a nice, clean interface to lots of potentially interesting stories and data from a wide variety of sources. However, there's also garbage to wade through (real men browse at Black).

The voting system and color coding is probably the best idea. I don't care how many people like the topic, I just want a quick and easy gauge to determine what the general opinion is. I can do that easily with the color coding. And the voting, if used wisely, can make Slashdot even more powerful. What I mean by that is if a story quickly goes to a high color, the editors can use that information to determine that the story is potentially "front page" material.

I think the Firehose is going to be my new home on Slashdot - everything, raw and uncut. Just the way I like it.