The point I am trying to make is that the likes of XG.fast suggest the life of copper is going to be rather longer than previously imagined. When we planned FTTP we did so because it was felt the useful life for copper wasn't long. Turns out it can probably do the job for quite some time yet.
Posts by Simon Sharwood, Reg APAC Editor
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It's almost time for Australia's fibre fetishists to give up
Re: Is el reg reduced to trolling for business?
Prats? Hmmm ... not sure I want to wear that.
I'm not suggesting that XG.fast is a WAN substitute. I'm suggesting that if even the most demanding, data-intensive, applications often don't need gigabit, homes and the average business need it because ... why exactly?
By the time XG.Fast comes along, it will be more than mere theory. VDSL's already doing 100Mbps. G.fast's doing better.
It all reminds me of when Nicholas Negroponte wrote off wireless as a carriage medium in Wired in about 1992. And then along came WiFi, 3G ... the rest his is history.
There's so much copper, in so many places around the world that there's massive incentive to figure out how to get the most out of it.
What would you give to create Vulture Sweat?
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Re: For a payroll project?
The problem was that the Health Dept employs all manner of specialist folks and pays people differently depending on hours worked. So a certain class of nurse could be paid different rates at different times of day, then again on weekends. Figuring out all that stuff made for massive complexity. And the goalposts kept shifting ...
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Re: Sounds like a great ride
I'll certainly be posting Strava stuff. In fact I recorded a single ride on Strava with two phones this week, with interesting results. Will try same experiment on longer ride this weekend.
Am also contemplating using Periscope during the ride, to live-stream it from the handlebars. The ride goes through some mobile blackspots,but I'll see what's doable.
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Re: Shameful and unethical.
Robert,
NetApp is a public company. In the data protection business. And for years it has leaked company data into a public forum that I am able to access over RSS without login and without a view of the T&Cs.
All you need to do to see this stuff is look in the right place.
A place, by the way, that has also regularly been spammed by third parties over the years. Often with pr0n. Now >that's< the kind of security I expect from my storage provider. Not.
I have no agenda regarding NetApp. None.
But when I see a company unable to manage its own affairs, and leaking evidence of that, it's the job to report it.
Simon
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Re: Re: Bingo!
Hi all. Author here.
Granted, "doctrinaire" isn't the most common word out there.
But I used it because it was one word that summed up what I was trying to say. Which wasn't quite "bias" and wasn't quite "for political reasons". So "doctrinaire" it was.
A couple of weeks ago another reader took me to task for using "schlep".
Long story short: taking a break next week, expect to come back with further reaches of vocabulary dulled by food and booze.
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Re: Re: Enquiringminds want to know
Google "Amadeus Basin oilfield." I stumbled upon it last year when driving from the West MacDonnell Ranges to Kings Canyon. There's a working oilfield out there. Not huge. But big enough that it's being exploited. And I can recommend a trip to the West Macs. Gorgeous country.
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Re: Did I get that right ?
Not quite. You can have it on-premises, but the dev work for the on-premises version is derived from work that's *already* gone into the cloud version. So the innovation is being done for the cloud version and every so often MSFT gets around to productising some of that for on-premises ops.