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Soul Pattinson purchases Comindico

Very interesting. You may have heard the name before, Soul Pattinson Telecommunications is the company that SACS uses for their internet connection.

Comindico have their own national internet network and this should greatly boost SPT’s internet connectivity service. Currently they use optus for their bandwidth but now since they own Comindico they should have full control over their network.

Comindico overage:
http://www.comindico.com.au/dynamic/main/network_map.htm
Whirlpool article:
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1381

Obligatory Monthly Network Statistics

Bit late, been doing some physics study today. Plus some random people decided to take me to lunch which was very nice and unexpected.

Bandwidth usage (please note any values over 1GB are rounded to the nearest gigabyte):

[root@core /]# ipacsum -t "last month" -f RED -z
IP accounting summary
Host: core.dalegroup.net / Time created: 2004/11/02 20:51:17 EST
Data from 2004/09/30 23:00:00 EST to 2004/10/31 23:59:59 EST
Incoming RED (PPP) Direct : 6M
Incoming RED (PPP) Forward : 5G
Outgoing RED (PPP) Direct : 8M
Outgoing RED (PPP) Forward : 2G
[root@core /]#

Mail Server:

Processed approximately 2700 emails this month. 200 of which were tagged as SPAM.

Uptime was recorded at being 99.17% although it is higher for users within Australia.

Thank you that is all. For individual site statistics please see the awstats page for each.

Cool

A laptop.....a....mac laptop?!?!

A laptop…..a….mac laptop?!?!

Right well I’ve been a bit absent from the old web site lately.

I had Physics last week on Wednesday which was surprising not too bad, considering I only started doing work in physics after we’d finished our school classes ;) But yeah I was fairly happy with it. I’ve been pretty happy with all my exams, there hasn’t really been anything that I wasn’t expecting and everything seems easier than the trials. Nice. My last exam is on Friday (last day of the HSC), which happens to be ITF (crappy computer course) so I’m not planning on studying until latterrrr.

Council clean ups + Lan

We all know about them, a great way for a cheap techie like myself to pickup some free stuff! It seems to run in my family.

On Monday father told that council clean up was on and that I should be on the look out for stuff. Anyway later that day he found a few computers lying on the side of the road. With screw driver in hand I went to check it out. Pity the fastest thing there was a Pentium MMX (I’ve since out grown these, Pentium 2s or higher :p)

ICANN

The ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers), the people that handle many of the domain registrations (including .com and .net) have decided to change their domain transfer policy. The new system is absolutely crazy.

A domain transfer is when you change from one company that handles your domain to another. So for most of my domains I run through joker.com, although there are many others.

WEGO – The Web Ego Project

What am I doing here? Well, Matthom has come up with this idea, WEGO. What is it? well…

HSC 2004

Now officially over. Congratulations class of 2004 and good luck to people doing the HSC next year. :)

Hero + HTML

After being told not to (http://www.joahua.com/blog/2004/11/05/dont-see-hero) I went to see Hero today.

Personally I didn’t think it was that bad, although admittedly I didn’t have high expectations of it.

Email clients and secure mail

I really dislike outlook 2003. It has some nice features but some of the things it does is just crazy.

When you send an email from your account (I have 2 different email addresses setup with it) all sent items appear in the local folder. So my sent items are not stored on my IMAP server. That is pretty lame. I have no idea how to get around this.

The other big problem is it has trouble if it cannot connect to all the mail servers. It will lock up and die. Then I’ll need to restart the program and it will need to cache all the headers again. Biggest annoying thing ever. I don’t like it.

ipod - update, mini review.

Weee I got an ipod today, day early birthday present. It’s a 20gb model. Very funky. I also went shopping, which is very out of character for me ;)

I’m going to play around with the ipod and I’ll update my thoughts on it later.

oh. What format do people use with their ipod? AAC, MP3 etc and what bitrate?? tx

added

First impressions of my new ipod.

schoolies

We’re off on schoolies in a few minutes. So I’ll see you all in a weeks time. Enjoy 8)

Back

Hello everyone, I’m back from schoolies!
I’ll post more later but here are some photos:

http://blog.dalegroup.net/photos/album1/

(using a dodgy buggy version of photostack, it has bugssss)