Author: Darryl Smith

Some might say this is too early to be concerned, but the SMH is starting to report on the a Year 2038 Problem. This problem affects most systems programmed in ‘C’ who count times as the number of seconds since …

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BusinessWeek has an article on how to do Industrial Espionage. And how to stop it. The story is Here. But they have a slide show giving details of a dumb device from Brickhouse Security that detects even if the government …

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What is wrong with WhitePages and Sensis. Ok, well, yes, they are part of Telstra, but that is not all of it. Looking at their WhitePages web site I needed to do a search. I knew the street and the …

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There is a strange one in the SMH. The givernment is being asked to Subsidise lingerie to save marriages. What more can I say about that? And in the UK comes news that some of the UK prisoners in Guantanimo …

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Just a small correction to the SMH. In the Obituary for Harold Cottee [Yes, That Cottee!] (http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/businessmans-untamed-taste-for-the-new/2006/10/02/1159641260759.html) it states that he was involved with the purchase of the nations first satellite. It may have been the first COMMERCIAL satellite, but …

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Telstra have come up with something called ‘Next G’. The thing is that I have no idea what it actually is. I think it is some type of Phone Network but who can tell. There is no content. Unfortunately this …

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I dont think I actually got much work done today. What with getting fed up with GPS and hardware. And then phone calls and deliveries. Maybe tomorrow will be better….

I have NOT had a productive day today. Like friday afternoon I have been in a battle with a GPS receiver. The problem is that I have a few of these for a customer, and need to get them working. …

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I have been really busy for the last few days. Some links. The BBC has a story on where old planes go to die. One of the places is actually in Tucson, Arizona where I was a few weeks back. …

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It looks like LG has been caught misleading consumers about the energy efficiency of their units. So much so that they have been ordered to repay up to $430 to consumers!!! In one case the A/C unit was advertised as …

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Upselling is endemic. Take the case of Australia Post. I wanted some postpacks. I go through a heap in the business and normally pick them up in lots of 10. Today I visited another of the post offices in the …

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Carl Scully, Police Minister of NSW is in trouble. The idiot decided to break a tradition that goes back to the English Civil War and brought a weapon into parliment in contravention of the directions of the speaker. He brought …

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Just before I went away I had an interesting meeting with the central office of an organisation I am involved with. This organisation is locally managed, and only has oversight from the central office. Anyway, the central office used strong …

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I am really really exhausted. It is now 9:30pm, and the first meeting of the evening started at 5pm. And these were rather complex, stressful events. The first at leasst was called at really short notice. Right now I have …

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Pymble today. And because of some external issues I have not got much done… A couple of quick links… Firstly, according to the NY Times, Google is looking at 12V inputs to motherboards as a way to save money on …

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