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I’ve been very lucky, I got a paper accepted for the Australian Computers in Education Conference which is being held 2-4 October in Cairns, Far North Queensland. So I’m heading North, about 1850 km, as I live in Brisbane in South-East Queensland. Cairns is a great place, I actually lived there for a while. It’s [...]
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The domain registrars are making more money again, this time with .mobi. Naturally, people with a trademark or other (like .com) domain will be wanting to grab their .mobi so noone else can nick off with it. But what’s the practical purpose of all these additional toplevel domains?
As far as I can tell, it’s just [...]
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The MySQL Users Group in Brisbane (QLD, Australia) now has 100 members, after starting less than 2 years ago! We’ve had pretty much regular monthly meetings since the beginning, with a decent variety of speakers and topics. Brisbane also has strong PHP and Linux groups, so there’s some competition and overlap…
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Registration is open for the AUUG 2006 conference, which will be held 11-13 October at the Rendezvous (formerly Duxton) Hotel in Melbourne, with tutorials on the 10th. Here is the Tutorial/Program Overview
I’ll be teaching a tutorial on Optimising MySQL by learning about the different available storage engines (there are more than you think!) and using [...]
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It’s been reported that Rob Levin, known to many as “lilo” on the freenode.net IRC network, has died. Apparently, he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle (the car didn’t stop) in his home town of Houston TX.
Sources:
http://www.tonystreet.com/lilo.txt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Levin
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/09/16/2152243.shtml
This is really sad news. I only knew him from the email, IRC and phone conversations [...]
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See this article on InformationWeek.
Looks like an excellent development.
I just hope the EFF has picked the case carefully…
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…is a pain. Most hotels “kind of” have broadband Internet access, where broadband is defined as an Ethernet cable or wireless. Usually it’s ridiculously expensive, like $5 per hour or $20 for 24 hours. It bears no relation to actual cost. It makes dining from the minibar look cheap
I was just browsing for [...]
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