Optus downtime in Australia is very embarrassing.
The Optus outage is very embarrassing, hopefully they learn from this.
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The best Australian computer shops. Upgrade to new tech today.
Buy new computer hardware today, nice new hardware to run the latest games.
Read MoreStream any radio or TV station in Australia online.
How to stream television or radio in Australia from overseas. This is very useful indeed.
Read MoreGreen power policies in Australia are not the way to go.
The Australian government is going crazy. They want to implement green power policies that will result in rolling blackouts and dependence upon renewable energy solutions that are intermittent and not dependable for base load power in 2022. How will industry function with no power to run power-hungry machines? This is…
Read MoreCorona virus app a big success. 1.8 million installations in Australia.
The Corona virus app is live and is becoming a big success. This new app for Apple and Android is a proximity app using Bluetooth is intended to alert a person if they have been in close proximity to another person who has been diagnosed with the Covid-19 virus. Google…
Read MoreNew encryption bill would force app developers to put backdoors in HTTPS connections.
The new bill passing through parliament in Australia, would force app developers to put backdoors in apps intended for communication that use SSL to encrypt communications from one person to another. One of the ways #AABill gets access to systems is by commandeering employees of companies to write backdoors. But…
Read MorePoliticians still talking about banning encryption on the Internet.
Politicians are still talking about banning encryption on the Internet, this will allow them to monitor all communications that would otherwise be unreadable due to the encryption used, whether SSL or GPG encryption, but SSL is necessary for securing banking sites, validating a website so that the user knows that…
Read MoreAverage Internet speeds in 1st quarter 2017.
Find more statistics at Statista This is the average of Internet speeds for the first quarter of 2017. Australia is lagging far behind other countries such as Asia. This is not good in 2017. Especially when the uptake of streaming services such as Netflix is rising. We need a faster…
Read MoreAustralia does not need an NBN network for faster network speeds?
The head of the NBN company has claimed that Australians would not even need or use super fast NBN download speeds, even if it was offered for free. This is despite the massive adoption of online gaming and Netflix video streaming. As well as downloading 10 gigabyte game patches. Steam…
Read MorePrivatization in the public sector, why is it necessary?
The global phenomenon of privatization was embraced around the world during the 1990s by all forms of government with disparate political aims, with Australia “setting the pace for privatization around the world” (Mead and Withers, 2002, p. 7). Privatization can defined as the “full or partial transfer of ownership of…
Read MoreAustralian Internet is slower than Korea.
Updating the sources.lst as I write this, it is taking a long time, but I am using the Town Library connection with WIFI and it is only about 64K per second, so updating the aforementioned file with apt-get update takes quite a while to run. I wish Australia could get…
Read MoreAustralian government considering draconian anti-terrorism data retention laws.
The Australian government is planning to bring in tough new laws to combat home-grown terrorism. This involves Internet Service providers being forced to hold customer data for two years. Prime Minister Tony Abbots new National Security Committee has signed off on the roll-out of controversial mandatory data retention laws which…
Read MoreAustralian piracy to be curbed with large fines for illegal downloads of Game Of Thrones and other shows.
This is the beginning of the end for the Internet if the Attorney-General George Brandis gets his way. There are a large number of people downloading the latest episodes of Game Of Thrones, but this is a massively popular TV show. The battle at the wall was well worth watching….
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