Author Archives: The Elite Geek

This Christmas-New Year period on Australian roads has been better thus far then previous years, with the road toll down to 2 from 7 last year in New South Wales. That’s great news in the face of the busiest period … Continue reading →

I feel like I have driven 150Ks in just 1 day. Oh wait. I did! None the less, the trip today was a safe trip to a nearby location celebrating Christmas with much of the extended family (as is the … Continue reading →

As we start to apporach the end of 2007, a few things occurred to me. 1. The year is flying faster than most broadband connections. 2. The next year is going to be more interesting, but not as interesting as … Continue reading →

.. and much more is likely to be possible in 2010. This is a little old news (from IT Wire, Thursday), but I thought it was worthy to revisit, mainly because it’s all likely to be second nature to us … Continue reading →

Some fool decided to park directly in front of my house on my way back from a celebration tonight. There was a row of cars parked in front of our place, so I couldn’t get a park. Not even in … Continue reading →

….so, Merry Christmas. For those who are going to have one, and aren’t affected by the Chrisco problems, resulting in 30,000 Christmas Hampers being undelivered (yes, I know I’m a bit slow in catching up in the news, well, posting … Continue reading →

Telstra has approached the ACCC to legislate against Optus’s usage of ULL networks, where they refuse to connect buildings such as flats, units, etc. Optus refuses to connect such customers, but will happily connect them to ULL based infrastructure where … Continue reading →

In a move that might see rapid deployment of WiMAX technology on the Unwired network, Seven has finally finished its takeover of Unwired. They reached the 93 percent threshold where they could perform a compulsory acquisition of the remaining 7% … Continue reading →

The ACCC decided today to reject the G9 proposal of offering FTTN at realistic prices to the Australian public. The rejection wasn’t due to prices. It wasn’t due to technology. It was due to a simple issue identified in the … Continue reading →

Ever had a McDonald’s Big Mac? – What a stupid question, I’m sure you’d have had one by now. Anyway, McDonald’s Big Mac has been increasing in price, repeatedly. One thing remains to increase, and instead, sees a decrease, and … Continue reading →

Exetel have come up with a great idea to help an endangered bird from hitting extinction. The bird being the Gouldian Finch, is currently facing extinction, to remove the threat, it would cost an approximate $100,000 a year in donations … Continue reading →

It seems that no matter what is dangled in front of Telstra, they won’t have a part of it. And whatever moves are taken to control Telstra’s unlawful actions in the industry, they simply push harder for more. They seemingly … Continue reading →

It’s almost certain that sooner or later, the ISP market will cave in on top of itself and pave the way for a stack of consolidations. Companies buying other companies, and building up huge customer bases. A recent false news … Continue reading →

Telstra has publicly confessed to its dirty tricks that it tried to play against the Howard Government, and in a pure demonstration of its clear greed to rid the industry of competition and charge its own excessive prices, which would … Continue reading →

I’m not sure if I posted it here before, but a while back, we lent someone some money to get himself out of strife (get his licence back, get himself out of crap with his real estate). Essentially we lent … Continue reading →

A problem that is identified with Labor’s broadband plan is they plan to use FTTN technology. So, the government has chosen a technology to deploy. FTTN isn’t the best technology for providing services to users. In fact they might have … Continue reading →

There’s two key providers lined up to get involved on the bidding for FTTN. Those two are none other than Telstra, the company that expects a extremely high margin from what is essentially a VERY basic communications service, and the … Continue reading →

At least on climate change. Kevin Rudd started work on Climate Change on Sunday, and we haven’t seen much follow on from there yet. However, he does seem keen to get some action happening, trying to bring together his government … Continue reading →

What on earth happened over the last week? Not heavily packed, but packed none the less. Monday, we had to get my server back online, and change systems around, and set up my partners machine. That task carried over through … Continue reading →

The winner of this election isn’t the Coalition as originally anticipated (though I did indeed second guess Labor). The winner of this election definitely isn’t the Labor party. They didn’t win the election, they might have got voted in, but … Continue reading →