Posts by Juha Saarinen
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Light up some of that murky fibre...
It's interesting to read the material on the REANNZ site which proudly proclaims the following:
REANNZ (Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand Ltd) is the Crown-owned company set up to establish, own and operate a high-speed telecommunications network for the research and education sectors.
Our $43 million plus contributions and user-pays charges from academia and CRIs bought a high-speed network, albeit very belatedly? Well, I'm not quite sure about that, because according to this PDF document REANNZ is just leasing capacity on KAREN, a network built, owned and operated by... step forward, TelstraClear and Sytec!
Nationally REANNZ has leased a wavelength of light from TelstraClear to carry data traffic between dedicated KAREN switches and routers in each region. Internationally, REANNZ uses capacity from Verizon Business.
An Aussie company owns the national network, and REANNZ sends the data overseas across a US company's fibre. Humm.
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Works fine in FF, Opera and Maxthon. IE7 loads _blank in a new window, just to be like that.
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Gravatars make PA System slow to load, especially for threads with multiple pages of comments. I think if you're going to have avatars, they need to come from the local server, or an Akamaised one.
For me, Gravatar is 200ms+ away but Telecom's Global-Gateway likes to drop packets en route, so Gravatars often don't load. Slow load times was one reason I removed MyBlogLog, as the Avatars there too several seconds each to come down through the tubes.
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Right, noted, thanks.
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No, I can safely say it doesn't need 4GB. 1GB is fine, 2GB is better. Due to the way x86 processors work, it would be a waste to get more than 3GB of RAM for a 32-bit OS.
Get a 64-bit OS however, and you don't have to worry about the 4GB limitation for the OS at least.
I had 8GB of RAM in a Mac OS X box once. The kernel saw all the memory, but the apps didn't. Was kind of cool nevertheless, but Apple took the box back and now they don't give out review gear, just machines for film and TV placement. Bit sad that.
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"and here i was, thinking 'peaty' was a good thing for whiskies."
I peaty you, Che N00bie.
Yeah, I don't know anything about whiskies either. Well, single malts don't taste too good witih coke (liquid variety) and I tend to put water in them. Lemmy drinks a bottle of Jack Daniels a day still, although don't know how true that is or if JD counts as a whisk(e)y as such. Gives you nasty hangovers either way.
So what's worth getting in the duty free then either in Auckland or Australia?
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NOOO!! BUCHANAN! NOO!!
Not to use reams of Javascript to hack around a single, very useful attribute.
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Russell means add target="_blank" or similar tag :)
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CY2008?
Whazzat?