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Comment Our solution (Score 1) 870

Is to have an official approved calculator provided by the university - students can get to handle it in the admin office before the examination. We also provide official foreign language dictionaries for the examination upon request. It is the university wide policy which applies to all examinations and the students are informed up front.

Comment mailbox format + mutt (Score 1) 385

I too archive all my emails. The solution I use is quite simple compared to others proposed here.

I have postfix deliver a copy of all mails to an archive directory with mailbox file per year as well as to my inbox (or other mailboxes depending on filtering rules). Each archival mailbox file is about 5GB compressed.

Filtering these mailboxes by header using mutt is a very fast operation and even doing in-body searches and views takes less time than it takes gzip to uncompress the files. Obviously they can easily be backed up in the usual ways.

Comment Re:Fry - not (Score 1) 134

These systems typically have short range in air and thus require many antennas closely spaced. The consequence is that distances are smaller and therefore, due to the inverse square law, the power needed at each antenna is much smaller and the average power in the environment will be much smaller.

The Internet

Telstra Kicked Out of $15bn Broadband Project 158

An anonymous reader writes "Australia's largest telco and ISP, Telstra, has been kicked out of the bidding process to build a national broadband network (NBN) estimated to be worth $15 billion. The Aussie government had earlier given assurances that the proposal would be considered, however it now won't even be evaluated by the expert panel, which will make the recommendations to the Senator for Broadband and Communications. The government may now take steps to legislate so that Telstra can't build a network that competes with the NBN — leaving the incumbent to focus on wireless HSPA+ technology instead."
Hardware Hacking

An Open Source Coffee Machine 99

An anonymous reader writes "The Open Source Coffee Machine [video link] is a recycled coffee machine, controlled by a PC running Beremiz, and using some MicroMod CANopen I/O nodes from Peak-System. This machine have been prepared by Peak-System and Lolitech for SCS-Paris-08 exhibition. It served free coffee during four days at Peak-System's booth, and has been donated to IUT of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France, so that students can have fun practicing automation."

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