Dear Google Australia, Firstly, I would congratulate your efforts to purchase & install a monorail car in your Sydney offices. To some it seems like an extravagance that Google can’t afford, but it’s a neat bit of geekery that made me smile. Since there has been a change in government, I feel it only fair…
One of the disturbing trends with this government is to underestimate the required bandwidth in future years. Any suggestion that we may need faster connections is met with “we can’t predict 5 years in the future” from the likes of Ziggy Switkowski. This is at odds with the Strategic Review that was produced, as it…
When reading Big Mal’s “Strategic Review”, one cannot help but be struck by two things: One, the amount of redaction of figures to do with HFC, as I covered yesterday, and two, the amount of information that doesn’t match up with NBN Co’s 2013-2016 Corporate Plan. The latter is concerning, as the review’s supporting “Independent…
You can tell from the title and my previous writing I’m not much of a fan of Hybrid Fibre-Coax (HFC), any more. Two decades ago it was one of the most interesting, promising technologies to deal with people’s insatiable desire for bandwidth. We geeks all wanted a 10Mbps cable connection, it was light-years ahead of…
That’s it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do? -Pvt. Hudson, Aliens Bill Paxton’s now famous quote rings true after the joke of a strategic review was released by the Vandal of Vaucluse. Not only is this filled with factual errors (namely that…
With the release of the PS4 and Xbox One now behind us, I’ve been receiving many tweets from people with and without FTTP explaining their experiences. From what I can gather, we’re seeing a massive increase in data use from these new high(er) powered beasts. From the start, we can just look at the media…
The incoming government sure is making an impression on people. Secrecy, lies, and misinformation are the order of the day, pointing to the very real fact we have a fascist government. Many think that fascism can only take a hold via military coup d’etat, similar to how Pinochet did. However we quickly forget many fascist…