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Now, Radio New Zealand, bless their souls, are running a live National Radio stream especially for coverage of the David Lange memorial service (and bless him, too). Now, this setup is the prime example of the effects of peering -- the primary server hosting the full rate stream is pretty much firewalled to anyone off a Telecom- or TelstraClear-sourced Internet feed. I'm getting the United States-based feed that's a vastly lower rate on both Xtra and Paradise.
The ironic thing about this setup -- and Computerworld has suggested that this is it -- is that Xtra license some Radio New Zealand content on their streaming media page. Perhaps they'll be nice to their customers and host a mirror of the live feed. Unmetered too, if we're lucky, maybe?
There's so many potentially political issues I'll just leave it there. But it'd be nice to get a universally accepted access arrangement.
I don't know why people don't patch their machines so regularly, but it seems my, uh, paperwall is picking up a lot of port 445 attempts, as well as the usual naughty behaviours on port 138.
Come on, the bloody outbreak is happening, people. Really, it is. There's even a rival infection going around, too.
Oh well. Back to the idle monotony of homework.
Originally uploaded by Jonathan Ah Kit.
Well, I decided to work from home today instead of in the SCM cabin, so here's a tribute to another (far more famous) landmark at school, the Hunter Building. If I recall correctly, that's a view of the stained glass window of the former library, which is now the council chamber.
View of Frank Kitts Park, Wellington.
Originally uploaded by Jonathan Ah Kit.
Well, I wish I were there right now. Yes, I posted this here at the end of May, but I want to be sitting down there. Right now.
Even though tonight it's rather windy.
So, Diebold is definitely in New Zealand. Yay -- that is, in their perennial ATM business (not their other business in voting machines, I should add). Well, if anyone hadn't noticed, anyway -- at your favourite Kiwibank machine, at least. They're also it seems arrived in Victoria, Australia, too:
The above Flickr photograph also links to a machine at Carnegie Mellon University turned into a Windows Media Player box.
Then, of course, there's the inevitable Windows boot screens and diagnostic screens that apparently instill confidence in some. Me, I'm not sure what to think.
Anyway, it's not the best of photographs of the back of automatic teller machines, but it does clearly say 'Diebold' on the back screen of this Kiwibank one in Civic Square, Wellington:
[Listening to: dig Jazz: "Music With Depth" -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation]
Update: naturally, I'm not the first to notice and post pictures of Kiwibank machines with errors or other (supposedly, I'm told) tell-tale Diebold stuff labelled on them.
Now, I couldn't resist the pun in a BBC news item I just saw: apparently it appears that Japanese parliamentarians have gone postal.
...musical (dairy) chairs! Oh, and geothermal power might be a saviour
. Right...
I wonder what does under scrutiny
and up for a rethink
mean in this particular context?
No, not the Monsanto pesticide, but a summary of the icons I haven't got around to deleting off my OS desktop:
Nine Roman Catholic women have been unofficially ordained as priests and deacons in North America, risking excommunication by the Vatican.
The personal secretary of the late Pope John Paul II says he has not burned the former pontiff's personal papers as the Pope had requested.
The premier of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, has made a shock resignation announcement.
Secret codes enbedded into pages printed by some colour laser printers pose a risk to personal privacy, according to the Electronic Frontier Fundation.
Traditional owners at Ngukurr in Arnhem Land have become increasingly hostile towards white workers including police, who are the only people allowed to drink.
The decision effectively ends the defence team's opportunity to produce new evidence that someone else planted the drugs which were found in Corby's bag last October.
Scientists say it is three times as far away as Pluto, in an orbit at an angle to the orbits of the main planets.
it takes more than 204,000 days to orbit the sun.
Commitment is a big thing, not to be taken lightly. With something this big, it is normal to have these feelings, as long as you keep them in check. It is okay to be cautious, but there will come a time when you will have to change your "yellow light" to green and take that chance. If it doesn't work out, it is okay. Obviously they weren't the one for you, but you would have never known had you not taken that chance.
Our second ranking of the World's Most Powerful Women illustrates how fleeting power is. Megawati Sukarnoputri, the former president of Indonesia who lost her re-election bid, dropped off the rankings. Gone, too, is Carleton (Carly) Fiorina, booted from Hewlett-Packard.
And for the historians -- from 1999: Preamble shamble.
More links from the 'backlog' of icons later in the week.
I've been working on a few GEND-related projects and assignments lately, so while the scanning is related, that's been put back a little. So, if anyone's looking for a reason why I've decided to leave the InternetNZ council, there you go.
Anyway, one's a short 20-shot photographic essay of supermarket shopping, which I've titled I Promise I'll Be Gentle. More about it once I hand it in.