Monthly Archives: April 2008

Telstra ADSL2 upgrade complete

Telstra announced yesterday that their ADSL 2+ (what’s with the plus?) upgrade has now been completed Australia wide. What does this give the average end user access to? The Telstra PR and discussion site explains: The ADSL2+ upgrade of 907 telephone exchanges serving 2.4 million homes and businesses announced in February is now complete. This …

April 11, 2008 – 19:29 | By lantrix | Posted in internet, politics | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

The state of Broadband in developing countries

Australia is a mixed bag at Broadband. In some ways we resemble the US, and in no way do we resemble the Japan style FTTN networks (yet). But the infrastructure is starting to be there. What sucks is that sometimes to get the 30 Mbps connections you have to pay quite a bit for it …

April 6, 2008 – 22:36 | By lantrix | Posted in iphone, mac, politics, tech | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Storms and Power outages

We’ve had some stong winds in Melbourne yesterday. Up to 130 kph! These winds were good enough to cause a 24 hour extended power outage in my area, meaning my provider had upstream outages and the internet connection was down. Add that to the errant html comment in my last post which made the whole …

April 3, 2008 – 12:57 | By lantrix | Posted in Musings | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Mailing attachments from the Solaris Shell

I needed a quick way to send some files from the command line when logged into a Solaris server via ssh. This assumes the server is already configured to deliver your smtp mail. I also used mailx for the sending client. Here is how I did it, for your geeky reference. First write your message: …

April 1, 2008 – 18:00 | By lantrix | Posted in unix | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)