Media7 episode on Fyx's "global mode" internet

holloway · 1 day

Back Benches is my favourite NZ tv show out there. I'm planning on attending their finale episode but I'm really hoping it isn't their last.

nzgizmoguy · 15 days

Unfortunately the metal hinge inside has actually snapped, I've posted a better picture here: http://imgur.com/KLLpe

nzgizmoguy · 15 days

Cheers, saved me a google :)

nzgizmoguy · 15 days

Might have to investigate how much a new hinge costs.

I've found the instruction manuals great for thinkpads in the past so might have to give this ago when I get some time (or when the problem gets worse...)

nzgizmoguy · 15 days

I'm still using it at the moment just the screen likes to fall open or closed if held at the wrong angle.

I'll definitely keep it and turn it into a server or fix it when it finally becomes unusable, sorry!

nzgizmoguy · 15 days

Here's a much better picture of the damage: http://imgur.com/KLLpe

PhoenixBlack136 · 16 days

I'm in New Zealand and got the update from Acer this morning.

Hopefully you guys will get it earlier than 17 may as well.

nzgizmoguy · 16 days

I've had this laptop since the t500 model came out. Oh well guess it's time for a new thinkpad!

iltl32 · 1 month

From known good install media as well, mirror copies of that drive could be compromised as well.

twentygreen · 2 months

Who told you the secret?

twentygreen · 2 months

Well we deal with a lot of IT voodoo magic... so...

twentygreen · 2 months

Point of Interconnect. Where all the fibre ethernet aggregation stuff occurs on a UFB city network, so where your LFC (Local Fibre Company) and RSP (Retail Service Provider) are joined. The UFB stuff has so many awful acronyms.

twentygreen · 2 months

twentygreen · 2 months

From the Crown Fibre book:

GPON Residential Entry (the standard plan most people will be on) has a PIR of 30mbit/10mbit and a CIR of 2.5mbit/2.5mbit.

Which is many orders of magnitude better than ADSL

twentygreen · 2 months

That's just when ultrafast fibre are turning on the Hamilton UFB POIs, nothing to be alarmed about :)

twentygreen · 2 months

It started as an academic project from a research group at the university called WAND now it's run separately to the university by some very smart guys.

Also you're pretty spot on with the whole thing about lecturers wanting a better internet connection in rural areas. Lightwire started out as a thing called CRCnet

(Disclaimer: I work for WAND)

twentygreen · 2 months

It really isn't... $1.33/GB and no phone line costs.

WeaponsGradeHumanity · 2 months

How else do you think PCs can talk to Apple MACs? Since they have incompatible addresses you need 2 per computer.

CYCLADES · 2 months

+1 openflow, hoping to get some openflow switches at work to play with soon

radiolive · 2 months

Well I can't laugh through this, this is really sad because Davy Jones... the lead singer... cracks up laughing

This is when I lost it, thanks for posting that great snippet of audio radiolive

walrus0 · 2 months

Clean install from known good install media. Accept no less because when a machine is compromised there is no way for knowing for sure you've restored it to a non-compromised state.

mwilcox · 3 months

Yeah I realise usenet uses NNTP as the backing protocol and would be willing to bet people turned on encrypted sessions around that time.

Since nntps uses TLS I would assume libprotoident would pick it up as simply 'encrypted' but I'd need to have a read through the source to be sure.

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