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The White Pages will now not be delivered by default in Sydney and Melbourne. Also, the residential book no longer supports the way consumers are searching for information, they're increasingly going online or using mobile phones and personal address books to search for residential information. You can still order some if you like.
AusCERT was on at the Gold Coast this week. The 10th annual Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) conference started today. The exhibition floor seemed unusually roomy, and regular attendees agreed that the conference seemed much quieter than usual.
Meanwhile the PM has switched on the first mainland NBN test site in sunny Armidale, describing this as making history. NBN preparations for Arimidale took 10 months with 105km of fibre being laid. Around 3000 premises will be able connected to the network but only a small number will gain access to the NBN at launch. More customers will be able to connect to the fibre network in the coming months.
Google's chairman has said they will fight an anti-piracy bill, even if it passes, with more info here. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt on Wednesday said the search company would fight legislation aimed at shutting down access to file-sharing websites that offer pirated content. He argued that it would set a “disastrous precedent” for freedom of speech worldwide.
The Guardian have an article about science videos on YouTube, with a few interesting channels highlighted. I have been recognised four times now. Four times! I knew you would be impressed. And what has brought me such notoriety? Is it my fancy suits, my outrageous tabloid lifestyle, or is it my world famous impression of a teapot? No. I make videos about maths on YouTube.
von Stalhein sent in this Sysadmin Flogger, in case someone needs a little extra motivation in the office.
ZXR meanwhile noticed that the Centre for Disease Control have a page about surviving a Zombie Apocalypse. Wait, that scares me more than reassures me. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.
Here's a massive 111 Gigapixel explorable image of Seville in Spain. The result of several months of work is the biggest panoramic photograph of the world; a 613,376-pixel wide by 181,248-pixel high photograph, consisting of 9,750 images, taken at an altitude of 60 meters from the highest platform of Torre Schindler, in Isla de la Cartuja.
Today's timewasters are this NZ Army shooting game spotted by Boyd, and a very NSFW Duke Nukem promo game, which is definitely Not Safe For Work at all, and did I mention not safe for work? I think I did. Fun, though.
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