Computer Zen

27/02/2021

If only they spent this money on making the internet work.

26/02/2021

https://jalopnik.com/this-ancient-laptop-is-the-only-key-to-the-most-valuabl-1773662267

This is a Compaq LTE 5280 laptop from the early 1990s, running a bespoke CA card. In 2016, McLaren Automotive—one of the most high-tech car and technology companies on the planet—still uses it and its DOS-based software to service the remaining hundred McLaren F1s out there, each valued at $10 m...

06/02/2021

https://www.theverge.com/22252590/maytree-a-ca****la-group-windows-10-singing

The Windows Vista song is spot-on.

05/11/2020

Anyone else tired of Apple products not being repairable? Do they think consumers have unlimited cash to keep on buying new Apple tech?

iFixit tore down an iPhone 12 and Phone 12 Pro not too long after they launched and give it a slightly positive score. That, however, is based only on factual and technical merits and it may be con…

23/09/2020

High-speed internet on the way for millions under major NBN backdown

Millions of Australians are set to get access to ultra-fast broadband under a $3.5 billion upgrade to the NBN, expected to be finished by 2023, in a backdown by the Government from its original plan for the network's rollout.

02/09/2020

Holy heck! 54,000 nsw drivers licenses been hacked. Pics of front and back sitting on amazon cloud. Edward saw a photo of a driver's licence in a data breach story. He quickly recognised the kitchen bench

A Sydney health worker believes he is part of a 108,535 document data breach involving NSW driver's licences after recognising his mother's kitchen bench in a photo published by the ABC.

30/08/2020

This is scary stuff!!!

The Home Affairs Minister is proposing new laws which would make it a crime to refuse to provide mobile phone and computer passwords to authorities.

27/05/2020

The roll out of 5g to commence soon starting with the Goldcoast and Paramatta. A Telstra 5g wifi dongle scheduled for 2021 at $599 will be available also.

Telstra has launched public trials of its 5G evolutionary technology called mmWave, which offers download speeds three times faster than the speediest NBN connection.

23/05/2020

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/internet-speed-world-record-fastest-download-a9527236.html?fbclid=IwAR0SDPkcg3cgUV9be4jb0gYM3RPXkpMIZtXc5ynW-fqJdqGLvMxcb7kh30w

A rate of 44 terabits per second is fast enough to download 1,000 HD films in a single second

20/04/2020

This is seriously wrong! This article states that the government could put me in jail if I am asked but refuse to crack somones password for them. Stick this up your arse Peter Dutton! Wakeup Australia!

The Home Affairs Minister is proposing new laws which would make it a crime to refuse to provide mobile phone and computer passwords to authorities.