Posts by mijami

Sad Decline

For years I used to eagerly look forward to a trip to Perth to visit the Dick Smith store. I envied country towns, many of them smaller than the one I lived in, that had their own Dick Smith store. Eventually, Tandy had the foresight to open a store in town and while they had many useful products it wasn't a store for ground roots experimenters. Then Woolworths took over Dick Smith and announced that they were going to open a store in my own town. Imagine the excitement, followed by disappointment when I arrived at the store on opening day and asked "where are all the electronics components?" Even worse, there was some licencing condition that meant Tandy couldn't trade within 50km of a Dick Smith store so Tandy had to close down. What a shambles!

Block at source

If the BBC knew that 13,000 Australian IP numbers illegally accessed their material why didn't they just block access while they were doing it?

Due to previous Labor Govt secrecy and misinformation very few people actually understand the technical and logistical aspects of this project hence we have all these people gunning for FTTP just as we all would if the govt offered to send every Australian a cheque for $1 million. FTTP is dead in the water, a totally unsuitable project for a country like Australia. It was revealing to hear yesterday's question time in Parliament on the ABC. There are actually 75 premises connected to the NBN in Western Australia. Connections in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory total, yes, total less than 1,500 connected premises. If that is not a disaster, I don't know what is. I for one will be backing FTTN. At least we might get high speed broadband sometime soon and mark my words the speed will be similar to FTTP speeds. Everyone was expected to believe Labor's spin that FTTP would deliver 100Mb/sec to everyone. Hah! Understand the technology, the commercial compromises and do the maths.