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Just a quick shout out to the OCAU forums users out there, make sure your PM box is not full or have alternative modes of communication (ie. email) available.
The auDA is releasing a whole bunch of reserved AU domain names, thanks Craig. In 2005 auDA held a ballot for the allocation of geographic names* in com.au and net.au. A number of geographic names were not allocated in the ballot and have remained on auDA's Reserved List. These names will be released at 2pm AEST on Sunday 21 October 2007. The list of names to be released can be downloaded below. The names will be released on a first come, first served basis, subject to normal policy rules. For the first 5 days after release, the names will be charged at the 2005 ballot fee of $825 (inc GST), plus the registrar's registration fee. After 5 days, the names will be charged at the normal registry fee of $21.45 (inc GST), plus the registrar's registration fee.
Brisbanites have been pelted with hail, resulting in some interesting pictures being posted on the forums. Hello All, Thought you guys would like to see what happened in brisbane this arvonoon, my house is now filled with water becuase of the sudden down pour. It happened at 5.00pm and went till about 5.15. I am located in Cashmere on the north side of brisbane, about 30 mins from CBD
Facebook is being used to rally support for Burmese monks, thanks Paul. A young Toronto man's modest Internet campaign to support Burmese protestors has exploded into an international forum for tens of thousands typing around the world. Since its creation 10 days ago, 19-year-old Alex Bookbinder's Facebook group, "Support the Monks' protest in Burma," has amassed more than 160,000 members. The social networking page has become a newswire on happenings in the governing junta's violent crackdown, a mouthpiece for nearly 200 discussion topics and a planning space for demonstrations from Vancouver to Hong Kong.
An iPod has caught fire in a mans pocket, thanks Fester and Mindy. The nearly two year-old iPod caught fire in the pocket of Danny Williams at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where he is employed, according to Williams' mother, Elaine. The flames lasted 15 seconds and fire reached up to his chest, she said in a telephone interview.
The rock band Nine Inch Nails is no longer signed by Universal music, possibly due to conflicts over the bands encouragement of the downloading of their music and other criticizms of the industry, thanks Mindy. Hello everyone. I've waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate.
Mindy send in word that Jammie Thomas is set to appeal her $220,000 fine for music downloading. A woman ordered to pay US$222,000 for downloading and sharing music files has decided to appeal the case. A happy Jammie Thomas said on her Myspace.com blog that the appeal was announced by her lawyer, Brian Toder, in an interview with CNN. "My attorney announced, on national television, with the RIAA watching I'm more than certain, we're going to appeal," she wrote in the blog entry. Winning the appeal will "stop RIAA in their tracks," she wrote.
TechARP have posted details of the upcoming Intel 45nm mobile procesors. The new Penryn processors will continue to use the Core 2 nomenclature, with new model series of 9000 and 8000. The 9000 series Penryn processors will have a 6 MB L2 cache while the 8000 series processors will only have a smaller 3 MB cache.
The console war is set to heighten during the holiday period, thanks Mindy. MANOEUVRES leading into the games console Christmas sales wars have begun, with Sony crafting a cut-price PlayStation 3 and Nintendo landing its Wii console on Harvey Norman's shelves for the first time. This Christmas will be the first in which next-generation offerings from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all battle for the consumer wallet. While Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox 360 were on sale last Christmas, Sony only launched the PS3 in March. On Thursday, Sony will launch a 40GB PS3 that costs $700, down from $1000 for the original 60GB PS3 sold here.
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