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One of my colleagues found this very useful Apple knowledge base article.
"How to pick up and carry your iMac G5" (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86816)
I pray that this it is a joke.
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I'd like to nominate VNC for this fictional award. I just logged into one of our webservers in Terminal Services and it didn't even break a sweat. Afterward I logged into it using VNC and it ground to a halt and sat at 100% CPU usage for about 15 minutes.
This machine is a dual Operton with 4GB of RAM and WD Raptor SATA hard drives. Does anyone know what sort of machine one would need to use VNC without trashing the machine we're logging into?
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Any episode in my study on what passes for "insightful" commentary at Slashdot:
in response to this article:
Right wing Australian Christian political party Family First wants an annual levy of $7 to $10 on all internet users in Australia to fund a $45 million mandatory national internet filtering scheme aimed at blocking pornographic and offensive content at server level. (Read Family First's Policy Statement on Internet Pornography and Children (pdf) ) Great firewall of Australia, here we come!
I'm not sure that I agree with the comment - these people can't accurately be described as fascists. They are already marginalised. They won't be able to take away our freedoms.
This issue emerged a few years ago, back when the Liberal government was trying to get Senator Brian Harradine's vote on the GST tax amendments and the further sale of Telstra. Harradine managed to convince government henchman (and Federal Minister for Communications and IT) Roy Alston to push a bill called the "Broadcasting Services Amendment Act".
To begin with, introducing legislation with the sole aim of appeasing Tasmanian lunatics is a bad idea. But the original BSA went beyond traditional notions of 'bad idea' - it was insane. It planned to hold ISPs responsible for the content that their users view. It would have given the Office of Film and Literature Classification and the Federal Police broad powers to prosecute / fine ISPs if they allowed users to access naughty materials outside of Australian broadcasting guidelines. It is frightening how far into mainstream politics this crazy piece of legislation made it. Luckily, intense widespread opposition to the bill caused it to be amended into something workable.
The demerits of forcing this responsibility on ISPs have been discussed at length already, so I won't reprint them here.
After the sensible legislation was passed and Harradine left the Senate - both great moments for Australia - I hoped that the crazy idea of making ISPs responsible for enforcing censorship had gone away.
Unfortunately, it looks as though the Christian right has managed to throw the scheme back in the spotlight. With the upcoming election looking painfully close, the Liberal party must be getting edgy. I desperately hope that they don't align themselves with these lunatics for the sake of a few votes.