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Submission + - Mircosoft certifications for high school credits in Queensland Australia (brisbanetimes.com.au)

Submitted by kanad on Thursday November 21, 2013 @05:02AM

kanad writes: High school students in Queensland, Australia would be able to do Microsoft certifications online and get credits . The exam fees will be free for students and courses include Microsoft's products like Sharepoint and SQL Server. Ostensibly this is for making kids ready for workforce but Australian IT entrepreneur Matt Barrie CEO of freelancer.com has criticised it for vendor lock-in and Microsoft's influence in the educational system.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 1145

by kanad on Friday March 22, 2013 @01:17AM (#43243779) Attached to: SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes

In Australia the govt. was thinking of introducing it but has backed off. So do not think it can never happen in law. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/nicola-roxon-to-spare-the-right-to-offend-in-discrimination-u-turn/story-fn59niix-1226565490811

Honeycomb To Require Dual-Core Processor 177

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @09:56PM from the expand-the-requirements dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "According to managing director of Korean consumer electronics firm Enspert, Google's new Android Honeycomb tablet OS will require a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor to run properly. That means that many existing Android tablets will not be upgradeable to Honeycomb, as they lack the processor necessary to meet the spec. Currently, Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform is the only chipset in products on the market to include a Cortex-A9, although other manufacturers have said they're moving to the new processor architecture for 2011 products."

Comment Re:What? (Score 3, Interesting) 158

by kanad on Friday October 15, 2010 @04:48PM (#33913338) Attached to: AOL Spends $1M On Solid State Memory SAN

Careful on what you wish.Virgin Blue airlines in Australia suffered a 2 day blackout costing $20 million due to a single solid state drive failure. They have since gone back to normal drive. Read it at http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/still-no-clue-to-virgin-blues-20m-question/story-e6frgakx-1225937335722

Comment Re:Assume IE 6 earns them 1 million dollars a day. (Score 1) 233

by kanad on Saturday July 31, 2010 @05:04AM (#33094178) Attached to: UK Government Rejects Calls To Upgrade From IE6

IE6 may be 10 years old but even today many software depends on it. In my company the QA tool is HP Quality Centre, a very expensive tool at that. It is a ActiveX control that only runs on IE 6 and IE 7 (that is if it doesn't crash every few hours). Several hundred man hours has been spent since many years to create requirements and test cases and it is not easy to replace it just for this reason alone. So IE 6 stays.

Comment Re:Good riddance! (Score 1) 272

by kanad on Saturday January 30, 2010 @04:17PM (#30965558) Attached to: Google To End Support For IE6

Not only in house software but vendor softwares as well. We have a huge investment in HP Quality Centre, a test management software. The UI is ActiveX but works in IE 7 though. But only the devs have installed IE7 as we have local admin access, everyone else is IE6. And this will possibly stay for ever.

Comment Re:Good Riddance (Score 1) 796

by kanad on Thursday December 17, 2009 @07:43AM (#30472226) Attached to: UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018

In Australia a very common way to buy property is at an auction. Since you don't know how much the house will end up at auction and you have to pay a 10% deposit on the spot after winning to seal the deal, cheques are pretty much the only option. We are talking substantial money here, like 10% of $522,000 = $52.2K. You write a cheque and since you know it takes 3 working days to cash the cheque, go back home and transfer money parked in a high interest saving account to the checking account.

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