Category Archives: politics

Great Firewall of China gone?

An friend of mine who lives in China recently wrote to me and said “guess what.. the great firewall of China seems to be gone…” My friend advised that you can read anything you like. An example of this is the UK BBC news site, who a few months ago reported that their English site …

June 2, 2008 – 00:25 | By lantrix | Posted in internet, people, politics | Comments (0)

Wikipedia Article creates Circular references

A recent post on SlashDot quotes an IT professor saying: People are unwittingly trusting the information they find on Wikipedia, yet experience has shown it can be wrong, incomplete, biased, or misleading After reading this, I thought it was time to write about a something I found that backs this up. An anonymous user added …

April 19, 2008 – 23:57 | By lantrix | Posted in internet, news, politics, tech | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (4)

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)