The relationship between the world’s biggest web company and Australia’s communications minister appears to have broken down entirely.
Category: Technology news
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BYO Linux router to the NBN
Customers will have complete freedom to use their own homebrew Linux routers to connect their premises to the National Broadband Network instead of using a standard router from the likes of Netcomm or Netgear, internet service provider Primus revealed last week.
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Aussie broadband: How unlimited is ‘unlimited’?
Australia’s broadband fanatics must be licking their lips as the country’s Internet service providers (ISPs) increasingly embrace unlimited ADSL2+ plans. Hardcore downloaders have now been given the license to run amok and “download the whole Internetz” as one user delicately described it on the popular Internet discussion forum Whirlpool.
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Pirate Bay sunk by Hollywood injunction – for now
The Pirate Bay has (briefly) vanished beneath the internet waves again, after several Hollywood film studios won an injunction against its bandwidth provider CB3ROB via a court in Hamburg.
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Linux now makes ice cream. Can your OS do that?
Before I get a bunch of angry comments, I want to say I’m aware that Linux powers all sorts of computers outside of the PC market, but this particular example was too, well, cool not to share.
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Ubuntu 10.04 – Perfect
Check out this review of Ubuntu 10.04
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Australia to sign international cybercrime treaty
The Federal Government has announced plans to sign an international treaty designed to facilitate the identification, extradition and conviction of cybercriminals around the world.
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iiNet completes $40m Netspace buy
ISP iiNet has completed its $40 million acquisition of Netspace courtesy of an extended cash advance facility from Westpac.
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Warning: Why your Internet might fail on May 5
Network managers are being urged to run a series of checks on their routers and firewalls to ensure their users will still be able to connect to internet sites in the wake of a major change to the internet’s domain name system next week.
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Pirate Party: Circumvention promotion offence like Iran, China
The Pirate Party Australia has likened the idea being discussed by the Federal broadband department that promotion of circumvention of the internet filter could become an offence to opporessive censorship regimes in Iran and China.