Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
A Thought about the National Broadband Network
I’ve been involved a number of years within telecommunications as a contract services company. The company is Broadbank Cabling Australia. There’s about to be plenty of cabling work and a lot of training required to recruit new people – I’m currently planning this under Broadbank Cabling Australia.
Broadbank Cabling Australia currently does not have a good website but it will be available shortly as I’m developing it.
I’m thinking about training strategies and starting a sales and marketing effort to start positioning us as an expert in this field. After all Broadbank Cabling Australia comprises of over 30 years experience in the telecommunications and IT field.
Stay tuned…
National Broadband Network: Gov’t Seeks Competitor Network Information
For those that don’t know – the National Broadband Network is Australia’s largest infrastructure project. The Government has allocated AUD$43 Billion for the roll-out of a Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) to cover at least 90% of the population.
I don’t agree with the government trying to buy existing networks and seeking information about networks from current industry players.
In my view, they need to create a completely new network that is independent in every aspect (including technically) that will provide a more level playing field in Australia and hence create competition, not another monster like Telstra.
Links:
Broadband bill introduced – http://bit.ly/9KaMb
Quantum Computing & Teleportation
Yep, it’s coming. The university I graduated from, the Australian National University is making great achievements in quantum computing – at least piece of it.
They’ve got pretty cool facilities, I’ve toured them during my first year at uni while still deciding if I’d chosen the right degree for me. I ended up with a Commerce degree, that’s another story.
What’s more interesting is the potential application for teleportation, I told you so – all those people that didn’t believe me. I knew they started this research way back.
Further Reading:
Australian scientists may have worked out the mystery of teleportation
Scientists to scale up quantum data breakthrough
Google Wave, More Like Tsunami
Google Wave is a new revolutionary way to communicate and colaborate. This thing is awesome you have to watch the video below from Google I/O 2009.
It’s cool how Google have made this open so that organisations can host their own Google Wave server. This is set to put a ding into Microsoft’s Exchange server – that’s only for starters. You’ll know what I mean when you watch the demo.
2012: Contingency Planning and Risk Management
I just switched to history channel and Nostradamus 2012 is on. It’s pretty distrubing stuff. Many end-of-world predictions have come and gone uneventful, but this particular date (Dec 21, 2012) is surrounded with a worrying amount of scientific backing.
Kind of makes you think through all the issues. Keeping with the theme of my blog – I want to focus on our dependence on technology. We are completely surrounded with technology down to the very ‘insignificant’ toaster most use in the morning. They say we are going to have significant shift in cosmic activity – the Sun’s activity will peak around the 2012 date and we are sure to suffer disruption with all our technical systems.
Given the end isn’t a ‘big bang’ and we continue on this path of gradual climate change, natural disasters, disease and the rest – what can we do to survive and manage the risks associated with technological disruptions? I don’t think we are going to just give up.
How many people in their everyday contingency planning and risk management duties take into consideration such events? Are we still sceptical about such predictions and should we be changing our attitude? What can we really do and is it worth it?
That said, what worries me most is famine, extreme famine to the point where even plant species become extinct so we don’t even have the option of going back to basics. Maybe a topic for another time.
Windows 7 – First Take
I’ve been using Vista for the last 6 months, I must say it’s a very poorly constructed piece of software. It’s either errors, bugs, incompatibilities or the inefficient use of system resources that really bogs down your PC.
Now, I’ve downloaded and trying Windows 7 RC. Memory usage hovers at around 30-35% compared to 55-60% under Vista, Videos are playing smoother and the system is somewhat more stable than Vista. It looks promising – but lets see.
Windows 7 Desktop
When installing the inital pieces of software, I did encounter a blue screen of death after rebooting. Windows 7 seemed to repair itself quite well after running through a diagnositc, repair and restore function.
Overall, it seems to be a better operating system in terms of stability, the UI is clean and there are small differences, such as the changes to the taskbar and the standard windows applications, calcualtor, paint etc.
That’s my first take – I’m using it as my primary PC even though not advised by Microsoft. So let’s see how things pan out. I’ll keep you all updated.
What’s you’re experience with Windows 7?
