Posts by Bubba Von Braun

LUNAR-CY! SpaceX announces a Moon trip-for-two it'll inevitably miss the deadline on

Re: Price looks sane to me

Price for a reused Falcon 9 FT is about 30% cheaper than the new one currently, so around $44M. But given each stage may only get one o two reuses still some way to go on the reuse side.

Not just Bragging and publicity

Think about it for a second, a way to get some funding to cover some of the costs of the development flights. Given the Falcon Heavy has a smallish customer base, well NRO will want to loft some more "ugge" birds soon, this will up the number of flights in the manifest.

Dont forget Crewed Dragon builds upon Dragon they will hit their target for it to go un-crewed to ISS, NASA/FAA will control the certification so we all know govt.. they might miss it.

SpaceX is already on the record as saying they are focusing resources on the Falcon Heavy, so I agree a late 2019 tourist flight is possible after Crew Dragon starts its ISS runs in mid 2018.

And there is already two MCC rooms at ..... <static>... :-)

SpaceX blasts back into the rocket trucking business

Its never easy

The hard part is now reuse, Falcon 9 and Dragon, reuse will be down to how much life they build into the components now. In the past its a shorter life so you engineer it accordingly given your dropping it in the Atlantic.. now its get it back, refurbish and reuse so you can design for a longer service life.

A similar evolution occurred with Jet engines, I will be watching closely the Dragon reuse alter this year, and the re-flight of a Falcon 9 stage, should be interesting to see.

NORKS fires missile that India reckons it could shoot down in flight

All automated, but..

Yes its all automated along with the target carrying a helpful radar transponder, just so you know exactly where it is.

I am sure the "Dear Leader" has plans right now to install high accuracy GPS fed transponders, to announce to the world the current position of his missiles. (come to think of it not so crazy if he really wants to scare the world)

Other aspects like was it a tail chase or a head on interception come to mind. :-)

Reminds me of some of the reporting the US BMDA used to publish after their tests, "selling the performance"

Boeing's 747 to fly off the production line for the foreseeable future

Re: "tuna in a can"

Yes Boeing did develop an SST (Boeing 2707) however like all things American/Texan it had to be bigger and better than Concorde/Concordski.

With 277 passengers and a range of 4200 miles, it was also why the 747 was principally designed as a freighter and hence the location of the cockpit above the main deck as Boeing was concerned the 747 wouldn't sell. The 2707 died due to rising oil prices, noise etc.

With the 747 in its role of freighter the carry capacity vs. fuel burn becomes an equation the twins cant match for now. I miss them on the passenger service over the Pacific and the 787 sardine cans don't work, trading some extra comfort for 10 across seating..

Just as Concorde was one of a kind, as will be the 747 they both change flight.

This goldfish and its steerable robot tank will destroy humanity

Re: I have a theory

No the truth finally comes out.. Its the REAL Donald.. these are the true overlords roaming the White-house one knee-jerk decision at a time. :-)

NASA honors Apollo 1 crew 50 years after deadly launchpad fire

Re: Important nitpick...

If you look beyond the "ignition" most anything will burn in 100% oxygen atmosphere even metals.

There were so many faults in the Block 1 spacecraft, and it goes to the point that bad managers over-rule techs. And Joe Shea had pointed out the way too much velcro ahead of the test, so bad was the Block 1 that the Block 2 redesign was almost a completely new capsule right down to changes in the guidance computer design, everything got touched/reviewed.

The dangers were well known of a 100% oxygen atmosphere, but hubris said we did it for Mercury, we did it for Gemini its simpler and lighter.. were the arguments, much like the cold affecting Challenger or the debris hitting Columbia, we have done it before it will be fine, right up to the point it isnt.

Block 2 spacecraft used nitrogen/oxygen during launch and migrated to 100% oxygen on ascent, with a reduction of pressure from 14psi down to 5psi.

The Apollo 1 test was running at 16PSI as a leak check!! Not only was it 100% oxygen it was pressurized above ambient pressure!!

Tough and Competent..

Its one tough week in history.. Lets hope the lessons are learned, spaceflight has an ultimate response to arrogance and hubris. All three incidents have their root causes embedded squarely in this.

And to the folks watching what comes next, know that risks are necessary and while we should do everything to minimize them, sometimes the ultimate price gets paid.

The next generation coming through are smart and tough, but I am not so certain they grasp the accountable yet.

I keep the following quote on my office wall;

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it.

We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work.

Nothing we did had any shelf life. Not one of us stood up and said, "Dammit, stop!"

We were rolling the dice, hoping that things would come together by launch day, when in our hearts we knew it would take a miracle. We were pushing the schedule and betting that the Cape would slip before we did.

From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough and Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for.

Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.

Time will tell.

Trump's FBI boss, Attorney General picks reckon your encryption's getting backdoored

Re: Back to MD5, et. al.

Ah the encryption war days.. 40bit unless you were a bank and you could get 56bit and back then UK companies did good trade in encryption alternatives not hamstrung by US law.

They don't just want to be able to break the encryption its about doing it as easily as possible. There is a reason the NSA has some of the largest computer complexes in the USA.

Security is also not just around crypto strength but key management, how many folks use the same password for multiple sites.

Weather stops SpaceX from blowing up more satellites

Re: Well researched sir

I agree with you on SpaceX has been in the glare of the media for ages Blue Origin has been the exact reverse, you get more open info from the Russians compared to Beezos

Funny how we demand perfection in all things, seems in days of old we understood things can and do go wrong its part of the learning process.

If an Saturn V had failed we would have redoubled our efforts, today the program would have been cancelled as too risky.

Re: Flight failures

Your right and I went back over the data it certainly contains the Delta/Thor flights, though I cannot confirm the Convair/AF data so on what is publicly available (short of spending weeks at the national archive) that's as good as it will get.

My point without the nit-picking is SpaceX is tracking the industry norm on failure rates, though as previously posted, it is unusual to have a ground handling failure of this type resulting in loss of vehicle.

Re: "Sadly it was a failure"

weather-postponed launches don't result in loss of vehicle and payload. If it makes you happy you can subtract it from the SpaceX count. Reality is, based on time/experience they are slightly below the curve, about overall 10-15% of flights will result in failure.

Re: Not a flight failure

Sadly it was a failure whatever column you wish to place it in.. and rare as ground handling issues are usually sorted by this stage.

Probably the nearest I can recall was an early Atlas hot fire test, engine failure resulted in destruction of the Atlas along with major damage to the launch pad..

Re: Flight failures

Check your source.. :-)

1 1 Falcon-9 v1.0 04.06.2010 CC SLC-40 Dragon Qualification Unit

2 2 Falcon-9 v1.0 08.12.2010 CC SLC-40 Dragon C1 / SMDC-ONE 1 / QbX 1 / QbX 2 / Mayflower-Caerus / Perseus 000 / Perseus 001 /

Perseus 002 / Perseus 003

3 3 Falcon-9 v1.0 22.05.2012 CC SLC-40 Dragon C2 / Celestis 11

4 1 Grasshopper 22.09.2012 * MG (R&D)

5 4 Falcon-9 v1.0 08.10.2012 p CC SLC-40 Dragon CRS-1 / Orbcomm FM101

6 2 Grasshopper 01.11.2012 * MG (R&D)

7 3 Grasshopper 17.12.2012 * MG (R&D)

8 5 Falcon-9 v1.0 01.03.2013 CC SLC-40 Dragon CRS-2

9 4 Grasshopper 07.03.2013 * MG (R&D)

10 5 Grasshopper 19.04.2013 * MG (R&D)

11 6 Grasshopper 14.06.2013 * MG (R&D)

12 7 Grasshopper 13.08.2013 * MG (R&D)

13 1 Falcon-9 v1.1(ex) 29.09.2013 Va SLC-4E CASSIOPE 1 / CUSat / DANDE / POPACS 1 / POPACS 2 / POPACS 3

14 8 Grasshopper 07.10.2013 * MG (R&D)

15 2 Falcon-9 v1.1(ex) 03.12.2013 CC SLC-40 SES 8

16 3 Falcon-9 v1.1(ex) 06.01.2014 CC SLC-40 Thaicom 6

17 1 Falcon-9R-Dev-1 17.04.2014 * MG (R&D)

18 1 Falcon-9 v1.1 18.04.2014 n CC SLC-40 Dragon CRS-3 / OPALS⇑ / HDEV⇑ / ALL-STAR/THEIA / KickSat 1 / SporeSat 1 / TSAT / PhoneSat 2.5 /

104 Sprites

18 2 Falcon-9R-Dev-1 01.05.2014 * MG (R&D)

19 3 Falcon-9R-Dev-1 17.06.2014 * MG (R&D)

20 2 Falcon-9 v1.1 14.07.2014 n CC SLC-40 Orbcomm FM103 / FM104 / FM106 / FM107 / FM109 / FM111 / Orbcomm-OG2 Mass Simulator

21 4 Falcon-9R-Dev-1 01.08.2014 * MG (R&D)

22 4 Falcon-9 v1.1(ex) 05.08.2014 CC SLC-40 AsiaSat 8

23 5 Falcon-9R-Dev-1 22.08.2014 *F MG (R&D)

24 5 Falcon-9 v1.1(ex) 07.09.2014 CC SLC-40 AsiaSat 6

25 6 Falcon-9 v1.1(ex) 21.09.2014 CC SLC-40 Dragon CRS-4 / RapidScat⇑ / SpinSat↑

26 3 Falcon-9 v1.1 10.01.2015 r CC SLC-40 Dragon CRS-5 / CATS⇑ / Flock-1d' 1↑ / Flock-1d' 2↑ / AESP-14↑

27 4 Falcon-9 v1.1 11.02.2015 n CC SLC-40 DSCOVR

28 7 Falcon-9 v1.1(ex) 02.03.2015 CC SLC-40 ABS 3A / Eutelsat 115 West B

29 5 Falcon-9 v1.1 14.04.2015 r CC SLC-40 Dragon CRS-6 / Flock-1e 1, ..., 14↑ / Arkyd 3-Reflight↑ / Centennial 1↑

30 8 Falcon-9 v1.1(ex) 27.04.2015 CC SLC-40 TürkmenÄlem 52E

31 6 Falcon-9 v1.1 28.06.2015 F CC SLC-40 Dragon CRS-7 / IDA 1⇑ / Flock-1f 1, ..., 8↑

32 1 Falcon-9 v1.2 22.12.2015 CC SLC-40 Orbcomm FM105 / FM108 / FM110 / FM112 / FM113 / FM114 / FM115 / FM116 / FM117 / FM118 / FM119

33 7 Falcon-9 v1.1 17.01.2016 r Va SLC-4E Jason 3

34 2 Falcon-9 v1.2 04.03.2016 r CC SLC-40 SES 9

35 3 Falcon-9 v1.2 08.04.2016 CC SLC-40 Dragon CRS-8 / BEAM⇑

36 4 Falcon-9 v1.2 06.05.2016 CC SLC-40 JCSat 14

37 5 Falcon-9 v1.2 27.05.2016 CC SLC-40 Thaicom 8

38 6 Falcon-9 v1.2 15.06.2016 r CC SLC-40 Eutelsat 117 West B / ABS 2A

39 7 Falcon-9 v1.2 18.07.2016 CC SLC-40 Dragon CRS-9 / IDA 2⇑

40 8 Falcon-9 v1.2 14.08.2016 CC SLC-40 JCSat 16

-- - Falcon-9 v1.2 (01.09.2016) F% CC SLC-40 AMOS 6

41 is the AMOS 6, though not in flight I counted it as a failure.. (hair splitting if you dont, and the FAA etal agrees :-) and Grasshopper belongs in the Falcon 9 family according to folks that touch the hardware :-)

Falcon 1 record is;

1 1 Falcon-1 (dev) 24.03.2006 F Om FalconSat 2

2 2 Falcon-1 (dev) 21.03.2007 F Om Demosat (LCT2 / AFSS)

3 1 Falcon-1 03.08.2008 F Om Trailblazer / PreSat / Nanosail D / Celestis 07

4 2 Falcon-1 29.09.2008 Om Ratsat

5 3 Falcon-1 14.07.2009 Om RazakSat 1

The flight failures of the three main USA orbital launcher lineages;

Atlas - 650 flights, 98 Failures (Includes Atlas-5 - 68/1 Partial success)

Delta - 756 flights, 68 Failures (Includes Delta-4 - 34/1 Partial success)

Falcon - 41 flights, 3 Failures

Antares - 6 Flights, 1 Failure

Does not include development flights/failures as Atlas/Thor/Delta/Taurus failures are not available, so I excluded the Falcon 1 stats for balance. Partial fail is counted as success in all

Elon burning to get Falcon back on the launchpad

Re: Feeble troll, but anyway...

Only one issue.. LOX is LOX because of a balance of temperature and pressure (as is H20), take one away and it becomes a gas real fast..

While the "magic bullet" wouldn't travel far the sparks on the penetration of the tank would be a possible source..

A good fault analysis considers every possibility no matter how crazy even just to eliminate it as crazy..

Re: Oxygen is not flammable

Most everything burns in a 100% oxygen atmosphere, once you have a spark you have a problem with rising pressure and rapid disassembly. The resin and CF composite are likely sources the explanation of breaking fibre in the composite is interesting, though any buckling in a composite would be not good, given the propensity for it to de-laminate if the mechanical stress caused by the buckling was not cater for in the layup.

Lockheed had a problem with its composite tanks back in the X-33 days, but seems using composites for Liquid Helium needs a little work. Most have been using titanium spheres to manage the liquid helium.. Maybe more insulation or rigidity required (likely both).

The Life and Times of Lester Haines

Thanks for the memories

John thanks for the obit, my dealings with Lester were on Lohan, and it doesn't surprise me his mischievous nature goes back to his earliest school years. Like some of us we never quite out grew that disdain for authority.

It does go to show, the most precious thing we own is time, and Lester did so very well touching many in his journey..

One day, maybe Lohan can slip the surly bonds of earth and slap Lester in the face. ;-)

Bubba Von Braun

Top tech company's IP was looted by China, so it plans to hack back

Simon, seriously jealous even being a fly on the wall is enlightening.

Who killed Pebble? Easy: The vulture capitalists

Re: Sigh

Thought about that, but I think I will just let it slowly get dementia (a bit like the rest of us) and then finally put it back in its box for its final cremation under a large rocket motor. Lester would approve of that me thinks.

Its called end of the accounting year for some US orgs. Having worked for a number of them, change always starts around the End-Nov/Early Dec time frame.

I am just going to boycott FitBit,, a goodwill move would be to simply say yep we will keep the current environment alive, now they have alienated an entire user base.. Can see most being an Anything But FitBit.

New Zealand carrier says Cu later, copper: we're giving customers a glassing instead

Re: When you consider the per-capita costs of the overland telegraph line…

Sorry but NZ was running around touting their FTTN solution years ago.. nice to see reality bites copper in a lab doesn't match copper in the streets.

Fortunately for our NZ cousins, they go t to realize just how rubbish the copper solution is..

The law is an ass: Mooning banned at arse end of the world

Daniel Andrews announces new number plate slogan..

The new slogan to be applied to all Victorian number plates will be; "Victoria.. The Nanny State"

The Premier is quoted as saying, "We know you cant be trusted with mature decisions, leave it up to the Labor Party and its Union mates we will protect you from yourself."

In late breaking news, Labor Party, Greens and Hipsters force vote on 30Kmh maximum speed limits in inner Melbourne.

SpaceX: Breach in liquid oxygen tank caused Falcon 9 fireball ... probably

Re: "...one tenth of a second..."

Sampling is occurring at 200ms or faster. Telemetry comes off the rocket (ie: no black box) they will know what happened. right now they just don't know what caused the breach.

Aircraft longer flight times, slower recording, though advances in solid state recorders have helped the future will be off aircraft recording via systems such as ACARS.

United States Air Force grounds F-35As after cooling kit cracks up

"the US Air Force's first “combat-ready” squadron of the Toothless Tiger Moths."

Forwarded this to a buddy of mine and ex Viper pilot out of Hill AFB, and he promptly spat coffee all over his screen. Very funny, and it would seem quite accurate. As he points it its a game of numbers and the only group wining that game is Lockheed..

Former comms minster Stephen Conroy to leave Parliament

Re: Bye...

Simon, only a C+ for your answer.. Any Senate replacement must be approved by a joint sitting of the relevant state parliament and given the school yard antics are not limited to Federal politics Victoria also has a challenge that the replacement may go unapproved until the Labor Head of the Upper house returns from a six month suspension.

So process is.. Labor Party Committee selects who, the nomination goes to the Victorian State Govt for approval at which point it is submitted to the GG for swearing in. GG doesn't get to approve the process is governed by "Constitution Alteration (Senate Casual Vacancies) 1977" that amended Part 2, section 15 of the constitution.

My Dell merger wish list

Re: as a former dell customer

"(Sonicwall customer, not sure if that division is spun out from Dell or not yet)"

Sonicwall is being spun out as part of the Dell Software divestment see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/20/dell_sells_off_software_arm/

Living in one of Dell's acquisitions (soon to be divested) Trevor you get what Dell does 100%. Sadly I am not sure it wont be a larger repeat of what has come before, for my remaining friends I hope not.

It will be interesting to watch.

Defuse census outrage with independent oversight of data-handling

Re: Census night tonight

Malcolm can afford to keep us all. ;-)

Just say NO

I think Bill McLennan's article sums it up well.. https://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/ABS-Census_2016_and_Privacy_v8.pdf

They don't have the statutory authority to ask for your name, and further the risk is government will just change whatever rules, to suit itself.. usually in the name or protecting us from some threat.

for those who don't know who Bill is he is a past Australian Chief statistician (ie the Head of the ABS!!)

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has made a hash of the census

Re: Power outage, Internet down, Illness

Nah Proximity Tourette Syndrome.. go near the website, a census form, or a census collector and a stream of abuse starts flowing ;-)

I refused to work on a project many years ago that would link ATO, Social Security, Land records, Customer and Immigration, Veterans affairs, ABS pretty much the whole alphabet.. The objective to be able to data mach from a single console across the organizations. At the time I joked I should buy shares in a fibre company.

25 years on and it seems nothing has changed.. well the tech now exists to do it, but the lessons haven't been learned.

Remember a census taken in 1933, government needs the information "allles gute", and a few short years later it was an index that enabled genocide. And then you add the Five Eye's to this, I can see Donald ordering Drone strikes in Australia to target Muslims and Jedi's :-)

I wont be completing the census.. for some reason the site is always down for me ;-)

Giant Musk-stick test-firing proves a rocket can rise twice

Re: Splitting hairs

Well if we are splitting hairs, sorry, but there are a number of Amateur rocketeers (CSXT) who like punching the boundary.. Then you can add Spaceship One and it was re-usable (and carried humans too something Bezos has not done yet)

Mr. Amazon is just riding coat-tails, sub-orbital is a dammed sight easier than slowing a stage down from an orbital launch. Watch the speed gauge on the SpaceX feed if you want some idea of just how fast its traveling.

Re: Good Job

Yes they did, back in Jan of this year on Pad 39A sent a correction through earlier seems some folks must have had a "big weekend" ;-)

Lester Haines: RIP

Truly sad news.. I have been trying along with others to smooth the way for Lohan.. I am deeply saddened that we were not able to make this happen for Lester.. sodding government folks.

Fly high mate, and know that those you touched will remember you always.

God Speed

BubbaVonBraun..

SpaceX winning streak meets explosive end

Falcon 9 has no redundancy on the landing currently. either the three motors light or its not going to recover. Falcon 9 is single engine out capable on launch only.

Not a trivial thing to just turn on another engine it would be asymmetric, so more likely it needs two to be lit in the ring and the center.

ALP promises 'fibre' NBN as 'NBN defenders' return with new petition

Re: Survey?

Thanks winkypop, I used your kidney well and have full fibre to the home. No more scheduling downloads, click and go.. Full Centos dist download in 4 minutes.. But it did take 7 years of putting up with sub-standard DSL, and nearly a year of negotiation with NBN for the actual installation in a Multi Dwelling Unit, that they seem to have great difficulty dealing with.

So mate thanks for the kidney, the fibre runs great, and your welcome to drop over anytime to ride on it.. Least I can do given it cost you a kidney ;-)

Optus cable can't connect 500,000: NBN CEO Bill Morrow

About right

I am with SkyMesh as my RSP on their 100/40 plan and I see about an average of 80ish day to day.

Still allot better than the old copper dsl, but sadly seems hard to find a real RSP that gets a small business needs, SkyMesh is best placed for home users.. Good plans, no longer term commitment and from my own experience that works both ways.

SpaceX Falcon 9 set for fourth launch attempt

Re: Please launch tonight!!

Its called COLA.. Collision On Launch Assessment and dictates the length of the window as much as other factors.

Start thinking in three dimensions between lower orbit traffic, the growing levels of junk as well this has been part of orbital operations for years,

Re: "onboard computers dramatically shut down the rocket"

Three meters up it becomes engine out. Not shutdown all nine.

Like the Shuttle, Saturn etc.. last seconds are about checking engine performance if all as expected its launch commit, from that point on unless your configuration cant tolerate loss of an engine (aka Orbitals Antares) it goes up to either a bad orbit or to be destroyed for a severely sub-optimal trajectory.

Falcon 9 has up to two engine out capability, though I think more than a single engine out on initial boost, would result in the aforementioned rapid disassembly process.

NSA data centre brings 300 million daily security scares to its Utah home

Re: But on the bright side...

Drug dogs do during the snow season.... all that white powder!!!

30 years on from Challenger, NASA remembers the fallen

If you want to truth..

It was NASA/Thiokol's arrogance that killed the seven astronauts. STS-51L is a study in how not to make critical decisions.

It shows clearly the sort of corporate bullying that occurs when engineers/technicians say this is unwise or unsafe and then overrule the concern only to have the whole thing blow up. How many of you have had that situation in IT hang the consequences I needs this done now.. or don't worry about security, privacy doesn't matter anymore.

So yes killed is a strong word, but to belittle it as an accident, doesn't do the loss of seven fine astronauts justice, the Rogers commission showed willful intent by some folks in the launch decision.

An interesting read is "Truth, Lies and O-Rings" written by Alan J. McDonald look it and him up.. and it will give you an insight to what transpired both on the evening prior to the launch and the weeks that followed.

No escape: Microsoft injects 'Get Windows 10' nagware into biz PCs

Re: Time to get the popcorn yet?

"happily on Vista"

Oxymoron shirley?

Nope Vista came out of the Special Project Division also known as "The Dungeon" it was a special time when all M$ guru's played with their sadomasochistic dark sides. (cross between Darth Vader and 50 Shades of gray") While Steve B went on his "Hit me, Whip Me, Beat me tour.."

Re: I am not a fucking product.

Agree 1000% I stopped being a Microsoft promoter some years ago.. Having made a great career implementing their products this cash grab has lost me.. So I will run Windows 7, and Exchange 2010 locally, I don't need the "new" features.. Nothing compelling in Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and go back to my roots tinkering with Unix..

May 2016 be their annus horribilis

It's almost time for Australia's fibre fetishists to give up

Plain wrong

Simon I have read many of your articles with interest this one I am afraid I have to throw the Bravo Sierra flag on this one.

Yes I have fibre to the premise on the NBN network, prior to that I had crap copper so old the pits still had the PMG imprint on them. The copper inside was total rubbish and we all know that the copper network has not been maintained for the last 20+ years. (ADSL2 that was so slow it was ADSL speeds!!)

After nearly 40 years in the IT business in AU I have seen it hamstrung by these sort of short sighted decisions, we all know lots of technologies that worked fine in the lab, but never make it out into the real world situations eg: v.fast wipes out ADSL when run in the same cable bundle!, using your logic we should all still be on acoustic couplers or heck lets all do wireless not like the airwaves are congested that was Malcom's last alternative...

Sadly the decisions are driven by "I cant be seen to be doing what the other guys suggested, even if it is right" Reality is FTTN will benefit from the work done already to build the back haul network, the one thing that should stop is the deployment based on political considerations.

I have FTTP because most of my locals voted Green for the last few elections, so thanks for that, but this was a chance for Australia to do something big and again we balked and kicked the can down the road in the "hope" it will be better and cheaper..

Last I checked labor costs here have only gone in the other direction.

Proudly a fibre fetishist as I was an Email, Internet, etc.. in the face of those arguing for expensive maintenance of the status quo. ;-)

Sysadmins rebel over GUI-free install for Windows Server 2016

Re: Growing up is tough

And a perfect business opportunity for those who want to sell a wizard to do the configuration work for you. Granted harder with the base OS, but easy for things like Exchange.

NBN must limit downloads to 12 Mbps downloads until copper handover

Sped up nothing

FTTP fibre in the wall, all ready to go and still 2 months later still waiting for NBNco to turn us on as RFS. Even request for a when will it be there, take 10 business days to get a response, and then its a non-response of "we will tell you when it will be ready, whens its ready."

So no Mal we are not there yet, and god knows when we will be.. The change of technology has been nothing but a major distraction for an organization that conducts itself like the Telecom Australia of old.

But what does one expect from Ziggy and the other escapee's from the original telco monopoly.

Apple to devs: Watch out, don't make the Watch into a, well, a watch

Re: Well, well, well, well...

It certainly is by any definition a monopolist within its eco-system. It is removing freedom of choice for the device owners this is no different to the way M$ conducted itself..

I mean to say you wont allow someone to sell and App that tells the time in a unique way.. You only have to look at the new Pebble Time and see the innovative ways folks are playing with presenting the time to reserve that for yourself is monopolistic.

Their obstructive conduct their ebooks settlement shows they haven't learned anything.. time for DoJ to act.

Australia mulls dumping the .com from .com.au – so you can bake URLs like chocolate.gate.au

Chris must need more cigars

AuDA supply of Cuban's must be running low.. Just a sad money grab, as those with existing .com.au will of course register .au's so AuDA gets the growth they want.

Address bar search queries have obsoleted guessable addresses..

Dallas Buyers Club doubles down on Oz Torrenters

And there confirmation of the approaching sunami

By their own admission they will engage in speculative invoicing, rather than try and recover the actual cost of the copy..

Great catch Reg hacks..