Australia’s Education Queensland: “We spy on your kids’ school laptop!”
Oh dear – Looks like Education Queensland is in a pickle over the latest incidents involving their Government-handed-out Laptop per student scheme. The Courier Mail exposed the issue, in this article, that some laptops come equipped with a “security” screenshot program, that will regularly take screenshots of the laptop’s desktop, including Skype windows, web browsers, and other things.
Quoting the article:
VPS back online. Lesson learnt.
As an update to the post below, I’ve managed to bring the VPS back online. However, we already had set up camp with another VPS, this time located in Tokyo in Japan. This new VPS is hosted on a 1Gbit (yes, that’s one gigabit) line which absolutely smokes the first VPS (located in Sydney) we have as well as this main websites’ server, which is hosted in USA.
Sh*t breaks. VPS gets suspended, Coburn rages.
tl;dr version: VPS gets killed, I rage.
VPS Hosts have the dumbest of reasons to suspend VPS accounts. I mean, I’ve been using my VPS to run an IRC Network and also testing grounds for a new project. Our VPS, perrine.coburndomain.net, was frozen in ice this morning because it apparently was ‘spamming’. The one that I’m pointing the gun at, Exigent, the company that the VPS is hosted with gave a really blunt reason, quote:
Sending out SPAM.
Review: SATA3 Corsair Force 3 GT Series SSD – “Holy sh*t, that’s fast!”
I battled Corsair Force 3 Series SSD for some time, in which it turned out that the SSD had some odd quirks with the internal controller causing all sorts of random things to happen including complete system freezes, blue screens, etc. Having returned the SSD to my local PC store under warranty, I got notification yesterday that a replacement had arrived. To my surprise, the replacement was one of the faster Force GT Series – not the normal Force 3 series. Both SSDs are from the same family, however the GT series are optimized for speed with a better controller.
Iconia Tab 3G Owners Rejoice: Custom AOSP ROM brings ICS to the tab plus 3G support!
Let’s face it. When your tablet’s manufacturer updates the WiFi-only version of a tablet generation (we’re talking about the A50x series) to ICS, the 3G Models apparently get overlooked.
Not anymore, thanks to the bright sparks that are XDA-Developers, shchers has completed his first build of ICS for the A501 Iconia Tab.
However, installing this little gem is not for the newcomers – you will need to follow instuctions on installing a unlocked patched bootloader to enable ICS booting and installing a modified ClockworkMod recovery before attempting to install this.
Turn your twitter timeline into 4 rolls of toilet paper with Sh*tter!
Credit to @Amon_RA from Twitter for finding this interesting new startup company.
Four developers, spread across Sydney (Australia, that is) and New York (USA) started a company called “Collector’s Edition”, a new-breed entertainment group that seems to craft nifty websites and services. This time, for a mere $35, they will turn your timeline (or maybe someone else’s timeline…) into 4 rolls of toilet paper, ready for your bidding. Can’t get much better than that, can it?
Super Smash Land, a GameBoy remake of Super Smash Bros, hits PCs today
It may be chunky pixels but hey, you can’t blame a PC port of the beloved Super Smash Bros series that graced the Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii consoles.
Dan Fornace’s Super Smash Land is what you’d expect to see on the original GameBoy or even a GameBoy Pocket. It features 11 stages, 6 characters, Arcade mode, 4-person multiplayer and even online leaderboards.
Piki Geek has the scoop, so get cracking and polish up your Super Smash Bros fighting skills.
Coburn’s Domain preorders a ‘Pi. Lead time is absurd along with Factory LAN Port mess-up…
Well, we just pre-ordered a Raspberry Pi through the Australian branch of element14, one of the resellers that are selling the Raspberry Pi (that $25/$35 PC that we’ve covered in our past articles). What could possibly go wrong?
You’ll cringe at the lead time – which is the timeframe they expect to have the units ready to ship from the warehouse. That timeframe is 143 days, apparently. Groan.
Raspberry Pi is on sale, Raspberry Pi Foundation’s website melts under the traffic
Well, at the launch of another mini computer that we’ve been hyped up about, the Raspberry Pi, it’s not common for the web servers to melt under the load that guests put on the server as they flock to read the annoucement.
That being so, the Rapsberry Pi website server was overloaded and as a fail-safe measure, the foundation has replaced the site with a temporary static page explaining the show.
Gearin’ up for the Raspberry Pi: We have the release date!
Wednesday. 29 Feburary 2012. 6:00AM GMT.
A new chapter in the life cycle of the Raspberry Pi begins at 6:00AM GMT tomorrow. Since Coburn’s Domain is based in Australia, this roughly translates to 4:00PM our time. A exciting annoucement is brewing for the R-Pi Foundation, what could it possibly be? You’ll have to find out via jumping on the Raspberry Pi website when the show begins.