Posted April 7th, 2009 by ac3raven
Full Story
A National fiber broadband network to reach 90% of Australia’s residents with speeds of 100mbps and up. The partially government funded infrastructure overhaul will cost approximately AUS$43 billion over the next 8 years, and the network will be available for any ISP to use.
The government intends to create a public/private company to contruct the network, and 51% of the company will be owned by the government. Five years after the development of the network, the government will sell off all of it’s share of the company, leaving it in the hands of the private sector.
What’s still unclear is what rules the government will impose on the use of the fiber lines, and whether there will be regulations preventing monopolization of the network. Not to mention how the private company will operate when the government relinquishes its majority share.
Posted January 24th, 2009 by bash
So this is week two running windows 7 on the old emachine. So far I have been pleasantly surprise by how well it has performed, and how few glitches I have run across for it being a beta and all.
The Good
Good performance on sub-par hardware.
Network sharing - File sharing, and printer sharing is now working after the latest updates.
beta 7
The Bad
IE8 - I started testing the computer with the intention of not using FireFox, but after being unable to do my school work online, access some web mail, and poor performance I have installed FireFox.
Standby - doesn’t work the computer locks up and has to be powered completely off.
Wireless - older wireless hardware will work, but the install file must be switched to compatibility mode for Win 2000 or XP.
The Ugly
HDCP - I cannot watch any movies because the computer cannot determine that my analog output is not copying them.
Take away
Its clear that Microsoft has learned a lot from VISTA and the outcry of the users. Many of us have lost hours if not days of our lives because of the poor performance of VISTA. I hold out hope that the HDCP legacy hardware issues will be worked out, but even if not I see an permanent upgrade from windows XP to Windows 7 in my near future.
