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A thrust borer has been here putting in a duct from the street. The fibre will come in. Then it will get connected up. Then it will get plugged in. At the moment you wouldn’t necessarily do it for the Internet because data rates look to be much the same as they are for broadband.…

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3979817/A-mobile-teacher-in-the-palm-of-your-hand Does technological advance have all the answers? NO. Each new technology is a mixed blessing. We should not become carried away on the sea of technological development and become oblivious to its hidden impacts. For me there is nothing that technology can do that can replace the intimacy of spending personal time with family…

No significant record of problems with Aficio 1045 or 3045 either PCL or RPCS. Problems started with using PCL drivers for Aficio MP C5000 colour copier with popup user code customisation by Ricoh NZ. Some users had difficulty printing from Word / Publisher etc but OK when file converted to PDF and printed in Adobe…

Probable (preferred) backup solution: Low end dedicated backup server (Intel entry server SC5299, S3210 board, Xeon, max 8 GB RAM, RAID-1 disks, Promise EX8350 8 port SATA disk controller) – $2000 – $2500 Stardom SOHOtank 4 tray removable disk array (eSATA) Evaluating DPM for 180 days. Automated agent deployment unsuccessful so far (probably firewall problems).…

Use DBAN (www.dban.org) The old version 1.0.x doesn’t always work but there is a newer version 2.2.6 beta available which works well (tried on Toshiba S200 so far). If installing Server 2008 on a box that needs RAID drivers the process is vastly improved from 2003 which could only access a FDD. 2008/R2/Vista/7 can load…