June 2005

Radio NZ soon to broadcast via internet

According to Computerworld, in two to three weeks’ time Radio New Zealand expects to webcast 60 hours every week over the internet. Radio NZ has deployed content servers in the Auckland, Wellington and Palmerston North internet exchanges to transmit around the New Zealand internet. A server in California has also been deployed to serve content [...]

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Canon Photo competition for Kiwis

Open note to self: Canon’s photo competition for Australians and New Zealanders is now open. It closes on 30 September 2005. Since I had so much trouble last time recalling the URL, here it is before I even enter the competition. The other thing to remember is that it uses a combination of Flash and [...]

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Lions cruise ship

I went downtown to a meeting this evening and realised there was large cruise ship (the Pacific Sky, which apparently holds 1200 passengers) tied up at the Overseas Terminal. This is pretty unusual as a) it’s the middle of winter and b) cruise ships don’t often tie up there any more — they generally go [...]

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Hot issues in IT for businesses in Wellington

From the Welmac newsletter: Away from the public view, where it has established itself as a market leader with the iPod and iTunes Music Store, Apple has also been quietly rolling out an enterprise-level business strategy that is beginning to turn some corporate heads. Based on a foundation of open source software and rock-solid UNIX, [...]

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666? 777? About file permissions

Will Bontrager’s Unix / Linux File Permissions: The essentials for grasping an understanding of Unix / Linux file and directory permissions.

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You visitors

I was looking at my server logs for June, and thought some of the stats were interesting. My visitors use these operating systems. The percentages are of my total visitors. 0% reflects 5 or fewer visits, insufficient to reach 1%. I’m not really surprised that there are so many Mac users, given the content of [...]

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