ABC television will have a younger sibling from 7 March in the form of ABC2, the broadcaster’s new free-to-air digital channel
After gobbling up OzEmail to create the third-largest ISP in Australia, iiNet managing director Michael Malone is considering further acquisitions here and in New Zealand
At his keynote address to the RSA Security Conference, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced that a beta version of the next generation of Internet Explorer will be released this northern summer
A bizarre attack in 2002 left Dr OC Smith, a medical examiner in Shelby County, Tennessee, handcuffed to a window guard, wrapped in barbed wire and with a motion-sensitive bomb strapped to his chest. In an even stranger development, detectives concluded that the highly respected doctor faked his attack. He was arrested on charges of lying to federal authorities and illegally possessing a bomb — via Paul Mellen
It has been called everything from a crying shame
to environmental vandalism as the debate over climate change management heats up in Australia. The Australian Medical Association, state governments and environmentalists protested Little Johhny Coward‘s refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol when the treaty, known officially as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, came into effect Wednesday
Two campaigners who were found to have distributed a leaflet in the mid-1980s libelling the McDonald’s fast food chain were denied their rights to free speech and a fair hearing, the European Court of Human Rights ruled yesterday
iiNet will take over the residential business of home grown Internet access group OzEmail after completing an AU$110 million acquisition agreement with its owner
Workshare Technology offers a free safety net from the potential embarrassment of a public display of hidden and forgotten Microsoft Office comments and changes, called Workshare Trace
Apologies to those wondering about the lack of updates of late, it was due to a couple of server moves and an incompetent ISP.
After much investigation, and a push from my old ISP courtesy of poor service, I opted for iiNet. However, the site hosting had just been paid for the year and was still with the original ISP.
Wait for it, this does have something to do with the site being brunk for over a week.
I asked old ISP to send my domain mail through to my new ISP, which I though was a simple enough task. It did happen, with much grumbling and it was suggested that as the server the site lived on at the old ISP was old and unstable, perhaps I would like to be swapped over to a shiny new server with cPanel at no charge. Why not.
Site got moved, ran the check utility for MT and found some missing perl modules. Old ISP has not been able to install basic perl modules in a week. On top of that my webspace and bandwidth were a hell of a lot less on the new server than on the old.
Back into research mode and a bit of poking around on the MT support forum found a thread of MT friendly hosts. Decided on Total Choice Hosting, as they seemed to have a lot of happy MT customers. Signed up yesterday, account was confirmed overnight, spent the day uploading files and redelegating the domain, by the time I got home the domain delegation had gone through and I’ve just been rebuilding the site.
And why, I hear you ask, am I rebuilding the site? Because old ISP was incapable of porting my original database from the old server to the new server. That’s one blog rebuilt and three more to go. Never have I been more happy that the old server couldn’t manage PHP archive pages, it meant that while the site was not functioning, it was at least accessible. And as a bonus it kept the comment spamming scum at bay for a while.
Update: That’s the last of the blogs rebuilt. From signup to completion was about 36 hours, I wasn’t at it continuously, which is quite a difference from the week down and still counting to install the missing perl modules at the old ISP.
Scientists have successfully modified the AIDS-causing HIV in such a way that it can attack metasticised melanoma (cancer cells). The impact of genetic research on cancer research is in and of itself amazing. To mix this with the strategy of using one strong enemy against another is brilliance. Research will continue, obviously, but they are already reporting success on living creatures
Pig embryos could provide sources of new organ and tissue transplants for people, and they may pose fewer risks than using material from adult animals
Australia’s communications watchdog is investigating the Liberal Party over Prime Minister John Howard‘s pre-recorded phone messages used to bombard households during the federal election campaign
Scientists at The Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University have created virus-like computer programs that replicate, mutate randomly, and compete with each other… in other words, they evolve. Among such feats as learning to add and compare numbers, these digital life forms also once avoided scientists attempts at killing
them, by playing dead. You can download the project from SourceForge
Telstra will not build its planned multi-billion-dollar residential fibre-optic network — designed to replace copper lines over the next two decades — without iron-clad guarantees from the competition regulator, but will consider partnering with rivals for the project
Slate’s Paul Boutin reports on the sordid history of the oldest scam on the Internet. For almost as long as the Web has existed, there’s been a thriving economy of sites, services, and software vying to grab you as soon as you mistype an URL. Studies estimate that 10-20% of all hand-entered URLs are mistyped, adding up to at least 20 million wrong numbers per day, helping to enrich the likes of porn purveyors, ISPs, Paxfire, Microsoft and VeriSign
Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he does it. He speaks seven languages and is even devising his own language. Now scientists are asking whether his exceptional abilities are the key to unlock the secrets of autism.
Tammet is calculating 377 multiplied by 795. Actually, he isn’t
calculating: there is nothing conscious about what he is doing. He arrives at the answer instantly. Since his epileptic fit, he has been able to see numbers as shapes, colours and textures. The number two, for instance, is a motion, and five is a clap of thunder.When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That’s the answer. It’s mental imagery. It’s like maths without having to think…
A survey by the Union of Concerned Scientists and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has found hundreds of US Fish and Wildlife Service scientists have been instructed to change findings to favour business interests
Wiki Media Foundation, the group behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia project, said Friday that search giant Google has volunteered to host some of its content on company servers
A newly found security flaw in popular browsers, including Firefox and Opera, could be exploited by hackers to carry out phishing scams, security experts have warned
If you think you’re safe from identity theft, take your eye off your PC and make sure you know where your wallet is. That’s because a new survey has found that you may have more to worry about from careless paper management than from evil online forces
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