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Tuesday Afternoon
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(link) Tuesday, 9-March-2004 14:36:29 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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ApathyGates has some more info about broadband over powerlines: While the technology has been available in Australia for some time, it's never been commercially used - until now. _The company I'm contracted out to is soon to go live with 1GB backbone from central Queensland back to Brisbane via the Ergon Energy powerlines - it's also going to have a 1GB hookup through QLD Railway as a failsafe..how's that for redundancy? _:D It's safe to say that broadband over powerlines might be in our houses within 5 years, but of course, we are always behind everyone else. I've been saying for years now that the next big thing about Internet access will be it disappearing. By that I mean: do you think about access to electricity supply when you flick a light switch? No, it's just there, transparently. In the future, when you move into a house you will get the water on, the phone on, the power on, the net on. I doubt we'll have "Internet" jacks next to our phone plugs or power points, though. More likely fast wireless networks, possibly connected via broadband over powerlines. Or perhaps something else will come along in the meantime. :)
Apparently US federal regulators are investigating the relationship between Microsoft and SCO in the light of SCO's current intellectual property lawsuits against Linux users, thanks Dink. This recent commentary by ESR is interesting too.
Win yourself a Radeon 9600 AIW card over on Hypothermia.
Bit-Tech have a roundup of quiet power supplies, while MadShrimps compared video card coolers.
Sue says that Autopatcher has been updated. Seems to be some kind of automatic Windows updater.
Tech-Report reviewed the 74GB Raptor hard drive. We checked them out a little while ago here. Some retailers have a special deal for two of these drives at the moment, info here.
If you do find yourself with a few hard drives, you could experiment with RAID - PCStats have a beginners guide to setting up an array.
Haven't seen this in years.. the handwritten clock, thanks Amfibius.
We reviewed the FrontX ports thing years ago too! JustFPS offer their opinion of it.
SilentPCReview consider laptop hard drives as an option when building a quiet desktop PC.
Dink found more info about Telstra's Trading Post purchase. He also noticed that learning Elvish is an option at one particular British school. Very handy. I'd prefer to learn Klingon myself. Mevyap!
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