Posts by David

Aussie firewall blocks Wikileaks

Read between the lines

Australians need to read-between-the-lines on this fiasco.

This whole internet filtering mess is due to the current government needing to appease the loony-right wing christians, in particular Senator Fielding, to help get their legislation through the senate.

I reckon that Conroy et-al, don't have a deep personal commitment to the filtering.

Of course, the delicious irony is that Senator Fielding recently voted against the governments alco-pops tax, leaving them with a major budget hole.

I expect there will be a major push on the internet filtering front very quickly by the government, to get Senator Fielding on-side for a 2nd attempt at getting the alco-pops legislation through the senate.

Hyperic charges after disgruntled Ubuntu upgraders

RE: Yea but....

Of course, I find having only linux OS's at home is good,

for 2 reasons:

1. Because then there is no PC that can be used for serious gaming.

It helps keep a couple of teenagers from becoming game addicts,

2. It allows me (a computing professional) to play dumb when people ask for help with problems with their windows PCs. I just tell them I don't use windows and that they should probably just reinstall. I got sick of having to deal with peoples malware laden PCs. and then have them ignore simple safe computing rules and end up infected again.

Also, while ever installing and running a linux OS does require some nous, it will limit the number of noobs using it, and won't attract the attention of the exploit writers who target those noobs.

YMMV