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That sums it up.
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/cockatoos-gnaw-spare-nbn-cables-on-towers-476803
NBN Co is working to encase the ends of cables exposed on its fixed wireless sites after cockatoos stripped the steel braided sheathing, causing over $80,000 in damage.
The network builder is hoping a $14 plastic canister will encase the power and fibre cable ends and prevent cockatoos from stripping the cables to the point they are rendered unusable.
Cockatoos are a long-term problem for telcos; they infamously “munched” through a temporary overland fibre cable of Telstra’s in 2011, causing a sizable outage.
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“They were damaged to the point of not being repairable, which has forced us to rip out the whole lot and completely re-run new fibre and power cables. That costs us about $10,000 every time we have to do that.”
Bresland said cockatoos used the cables to sharpen their beaks. -
That's hilarious.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/lenovo-to-buy-stake-in-fujitsu-pc-unit-for-up-to-348m-476738
Lenovo has reached an agreement to buy a 51 percent stake in Fujitsu's personal computer unit for up to US$269 million (A$348 million), after posting a lower quarterly profit thanks to continued difficulty in the global PC market.Moar sauce: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/02/lenovo_buys_majority_stake_in_fujitsu_sickly_pc_biz/
Japanese tech pusher Fujitsu has finally - as expected - found a solution for its ailing PC business: it will sell a majority stake to Lenovo for up to JPY28bn (£187m) that will be used to form a joint venture.
The pair, along with the Development Bank of Japan, will "focus on the research, development, design, manufacturing and sales of client computing devices for the global PC market," the firms said.
Under the terms of the deal, Fujitsu will offload a 51 per cent stake in its PC unit to Lenovo and some 5 per cent will go to DBJ: the new organisation will be imaginatively entitled Fujitsu Client Computing Ltd (FCCL).Well *****
dang. i liked fujitsu. thought they made good stuff from what i saw
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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/lenovo-to-buy-stake-in-fujitsu-pc-unit-for-up-to-348m-476738
Lenovo has reached an agreement to buy a 51 percent stake in Fujitsu's personal computer unit for up to US$269 million (A$348 million), after posting a lower quarterly profit thanks to continued difficulty in the global PC market.Moar sauce: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/02/lenovo_buys_majority_stake_in_fujitsu_sickly_pc_biz/
Japanese tech pusher Fujitsu has finally - as expected - found a solution for its ailing PC business: it will sell a majority stake to Lenovo for up to JPY28bn (£187m) that will be used to form a joint venture.
The pair, along with the Development Bank of Japan, will "focus on the research, development, design, manufacturing and sales of client computing devices for the global PC market," the firms said.
Under the terms of the deal, Fujitsu will offload a 51 per cent stake in its PC unit to Lenovo and some 5 per cent will go to DBJ: the new organisation will be imaginatively entitled Fujitsu Client Computing Ltd (FCCL).Well *****
dang. i liked fujitsu. thought they made good stuff from what i saw
The used to for sure. Won't touch them now, sadly.
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I wonder if this will impact Oracle's Sparc business.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I wonder if this will impact Oracle's Sparc business.
Yeah we have things to watch, its like a tv show
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My town is in the news: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-has-a-lot-to-lose-if-municipal-broadband-takes-off/. It is crazy the amount of money that is being poured into defeating municipal broadband here.
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@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
My town is in the news: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-has-a-lot-to-lose-if-municipal-broadband-takes-off/. It is crazy the amount of money that is being poured into defeating municipal broadband here.
I cannot find any news articles talking about how much Charter fought my hometown on this subject back in 2007-2008.
I did find a case study by the company that helped the city build their business plan and such.
http://www.spectrumeng.com/case-studies/highland-il-first-municipally-owned-telecommunications-company-in-illinoisThis was something the city never considered. It was started by local businesses tired of having shit internet service. Some local SMB owners got together and started a grassroots campaign to do municipal fiber.
Charter was the Cable company and Verizon was the Telephone company.
There has never been high speed service from the phone company. In fact Verizon never put in a DSLAM to even be able to offer DSL. The plant was too old and would need to much investment was the word on the street.
Charter put in internet service in 2000, but then never upgraded the network later. People could only get DOCSIS 1 speeds.
Then when the city fiber project kicked in, Charter sent people to every town hall meeting to object and sew dissenting views. It finally went to a public referendum. Prior to the vote, Charter flooded the city with trucks upgrading the network so people could get DOCSIS 3. It did not help, the voters approved and HCS was born.
The city has had their share of ups and downs getting things off the ground, but today the service is reliable and fast.
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I'm hoping that my fellow residents will follow the same course. I figure that even if the service is terrible and prices are high it will still put competitive pressure on the Comcast/CenturyLink duopoly.
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OpenIndiana 2017.10 has released and now has the MATE desktop.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Odd.
I'm sure the phone cases and apple care + thing are far more profitable for them than building a decently resilient device.
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@rojoloco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Odd.
I'm sure the phone cases and apple care + thing are far more profitable for them than building a decently resilient device.
Man the Galaxy S8+ is absolutely horrible too. I know i only paid like $100 for it, but my screen is all busted up already. Before that, it got scratched so easily too. This is the first phone I've had that the screen got scratched and the screen cracked so easily.
My phone habits have been the same as always. Never a scratch or crack before. This curved screen thing makes it so damn weak it's unreal.
I will never again get a phone with a curved screen. Maybe not even a Samsung galaxy. Now I have to deal with a cracked screen for a couple years as it costs $300 just to replace the screen. I suppose you could do just the glass, but you need specialized equipment well over the cost just to do it.
Big mistake.
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@rojoloco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Odd.
I'm sure the phone cases and apple care + thing are far more profitable for them than building a decently resilient device.
Man the Galaxy S8+ is absolutely horrible too. I know i only paid like $100 for it, but my screen is all busted up already. Before that, it got scratched so easily too. This is the first phone I've had that the screen got scratched and the screen cracked so easily.
My phone habits have been the same as always. Never a scratch or crack before. This curved screen thing makes it so damn weak it's unreal.
I will never again get a phone with a curved screen. Maybe not even a Samsung galaxy. Now I have to deal with a cracked screen for a couple years as it costs $300 just to replace the screen. I suppose you could do just the glass, but you need specialized equipment well over the cost just to do it.
Big mistake.
$300 - WTF? I thought the iPhone 6s was bad at $90
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@rojoloco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Odd.
I'm sure the phone cases and apple care + thing are far more profitable for them than building a decently resilient device.
It seems like Apple is triple dipping right here.
iPhone by itself is already expensive.
iPhone with Apple Care.
iPhone without Apple Care is expensive for repairs.They are definitely making sure that they get their money.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@rojoloco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Odd.
I'm sure the phone cases and apple care + thing are far more profitable for them than building a decently resilient device.
It seems like Apple is triple dipping right here.
iPhone by itself is already expensive.
iPhone with Apple Care.
iPhone without Apple Care is expensive for repairs.They are definitely making sure that they get their money.
Yup, they suck ass alright. But I already knew that and have been avoiding giving them even a penny for a long time now.
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@rojoloco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Odd.
I'm sure the phone cases and apple care + thing are far more profitable for them than building a decently resilient device.
Man the Galaxy S8+ is absolutely horrible too. I know i only paid like $100 for it, but my screen is all busted up already. Before that, it got scratched so easily too. This is the first phone I've had that the screen got scratched and the screen cracked so easily.
My phone habits have been the same as always. Never a scratch or crack before. This curved screen thing makes it so damn weak it's unreal.
I will never again get a phone with a curved screen. Maybe not even a Samsung galaxy. Now I have to deal with a cracked screen for a couple years as it costs $300 just to replace the screen. I suppose you could do just the glass, but you need specialized equipment well over the cost just to do it.
Big mistake.
$300 - WTF? I thought the iPhone 6s was bad at $90
Having the Apple Store replace your iPhone 7 screen is only like $150 without Apple Care. WTF is the reasoning for a $300 screen repair by any other service?
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@rojoloco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Odd.
I'm sure the phone cases and apple care + thing are far more profitable for them than building a decently resilient device.
Man the Galaxy S8+ is absolutely horrible too. I know i only paid like $100 for it, but my screen is all busted up already. Before that, it got scratched so easily too. This is the first phone I've had that the screen got scratched and the screen cracked so easily.
My phone habits have been the same as always. Never a scratch or crack before. This curved screen thing makes it so damn weak it's unreal.
I will never again get a phone with a curved screen. Maybe not even a Samsung galaxy. Now I have to deal with a cracked screen for a couple years as it costs $300 just to replace the screen. I suppose you could do just the glass, but you need specialized equipment well over the cost just to do it.
Big mistake.
$300 - WTF? I thought the iPhone 6s was bad at $90
Having the Apple Store replace your iPhone 7 screen is only like $150 without Apple Care. WTF is the reasoning for a $300 screen repair by any other service?
Because you can't do just the glass, you have to replace the digitizer as well. I did find a German youtube video of them doing just the glass... but that's way beyond what I could do.
