Digital Data Exemption?
In light of the previous story, we have, since relocating to an area which has a local federal member
in the ALP who has taken an interest in this for us and written to the Minister on our behalf seeking
the return of the DDE, legalising again the average citizen doing ethernet cabling, we will keep you informed
on how this goes, we should prepare that the minister may agree with it's removal, but at least he is now
considering it.
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Wasting money on Software?
MS Office 2007 PRO oem (system only, no cd) $449
-V- OpenOffice $0.00
Win XP PRO oem (system only, no cd) $279,
Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit oem (system only) $249,
Windows 7 CD (non -oem) $468.
MS Small Business Server 2008 (Std w/ 5 clients OEM) $1149,
MS Server Ent. 2003 $4599
-V- Linux - Laptop, Notebook, Desktop, Server (DOWNLOAD/CD/REDISTRIBUTE) $0.00
Microsoft MSSQL Server Ent Edition 2008, 25 client lic $20,690
-V- MySQL or PostGreSQL both $0.00
So, how much money are YOU wasting?
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Oz Ethernet Cable Madness
Are you an Aussie? Are you making your own cat5/6 patch leads that are used
anywhere at all on a network where the Internet is directly or indirectly used?
Then sorry, but you're breaking the law! A law that most hobbyists, System
Administrators and Network Engineers also break, a law most people are
not aware of even exists. This used to be legal, so take a stand, help get the previous Digital Data Exemption re-instated.
Read more...
Cast your vote on this here
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Oz Internet censorship
Despite being almost universally condemned by the public, ISP's, State Governments, Media
and
censorship experts, Minister Conroy and PM Rudd are determined to force a no opt-out mandatory filter upon every citizen.
Micro$oft to blame for Spam
"Botnets are comprised of compromised Windows systems". Thus, Microsoft's constant massive
security failures are at the very core of the worlds spam problems. Protect yourself, there are alternatives.
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