Australians all let us rejoice
for we are young and free.
-- 8cake

Well said - and we're certainly working on it. Say no to Internet Censorship.

I just switched hosting of large files (12Mb or so PDFs) on my employer's website from the existing Australian host to one in the USA. Why? Because it's cheaper to send data from the USA to Australian users than it is to send it from within Australia.About 100x cheaper, in this case, when comparing Anchor Networks per-Gb pricing to SimpleCDN's ( Read more... )

The pricing for Windows 7 is absolutely obscene - and rips Australian users off even more than the US. Pricing comparison for Win7 Pro, with US dollars converted to current AU$ equivalent:
  US AUAU % premium New OEM $110(?)$19563% Upgrade $221 $39964% New Retail $333 $44957%
As a software developer myself, I try to respect ( Read more... )

The Anchor Networks head sysadmin has an opinion on commercial support for software that's pretty similar to mine - it's garbage. Both of us have learned this from painful experience ( Read more... )

• User calls. "How do I make a PDF smaller to email it" ?
• Me: [talks user through PDF optimiser]
• User: it still doesn't work, it comes back to me.
• Me: Odd. Did you have a look at the file size?

Peter Thrush of ICANN recently commented that the Australian Internet Filter proposal is akin to the Maginot Line of WWII French fame. We all know how well that worked ( Read more... )

GNOME Evolution isn't noted for its client certificate support. Entries in the bug tracker about it have rotted for years, and it has absolutely no acknowledged support whatsoever. Most other mail clients have had client cert support for years if not decades ( Read more... )

UPDATE/CORRECTION: See the update here. Dell, your call centre still sucks, but the hardware is fine. Just like normal.
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Of (very) late, I've found myself periodically reiterating: snuggles with nice fun folks are good. And kind of addictive. In fact, in general things are pretty pleasant ( Read more... )

I'm beginning to get really, really sick of arsonists. I understand the appeal of pyromania as well as (OK, perhaps rather more than than) the average person, but how people extend a fascination with fire to setting fire to random things for pointless destruction is beyond me. For that matter, is it even overblown pyromania rather than the simple ( Read more... )