Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Ya rly https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46740#post46740 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46740#post46740 International Observer – are you sure you don't have a virus tacking itself onto your attachments? Most services would block those. But a dodgy router could also cause troubles with big attachments. If you lose connection you can't pick up the transfer later with most mail servers.

Problem is, there's…

]]> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:15:39 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46732#post46732 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46732#post46732

slightly off topic — but not very far: what happened to the idea of running optical fibre through sewers? It was talked of quite a bit in Europe a while ago, and I remember seeing a photo of a Swiss robot designed to install the fibre.
Did the economics not…

]]> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:55:59 +1300 Greg van Paassen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46731#post46731 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46731#post46731 Russell,

slightly off topic — but not very far: what happened to the idea of running optical fibre through sewers? It was talked of quite a bit in Europe a while ago, and I remember seeing a photo of a Swiss robot designed to install the fibre.

Did the economics…

]]> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:49:50 +1300 InternationalObserver https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46715#post46715 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46715#post46715

If you use Gmail (hotmail, etc), everything like that is done inside Google's website.

The only way your ISP could affect this process would be if they have some sort of "security" feature that strips attachments out.

Do you get an error when you try and add an attachment, or…

]]> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:51:58 +1300 Yamis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46688#post46688 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46688#post46688 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:35:50 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46662#post46662 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46662#post46662

Does anyone have any clue why I can't send attachments?

Unlikely to be anything to do with your ISP.

Basically, if you use a mail client like Outlook (or Pegasus, etc, etc) when you send an email with attachments, it "encodes" the attachments into a block of text (which is…

]]> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:00:26 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46658#post46658 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46658#post46658 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:56:04 +1300 Yamis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46642#post46642 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46642#post46642 The thing which adds to the "this really bugs me factor" is that he isn't even elected.

Not only was he let into this country by the good grace of the Tangata Whenua but he is let into parliament by the good grace of our electoral system which thankfully now…

]]> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:22:45 +1300 Mark Thomas https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46640#post46640 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46640#post46640 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:15:51 +1300 Yamis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46639#post46639 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46639#post46639 Politician.

OK, so he WAS misquoted. Thanks Prime News, I suspect it wasn't on purpose.

He was asked what do you think of the statistics showing they will number around 800,000 by 2026. To which he replied "they're horrible".

He's still a muppet though.

The defence rests.

]]> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:04:38 +1300 Mark Thomas https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46638#post46638 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46638#post46638 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:01:35 +1300 Yamis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46637#post46637 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46637#post46637 Totally unrelated but the sh*t is about to hit the fan. I need to vent so I can eat my dinner with a slightly lighter mind.

Peter Brown just described (unless there was some awful editing by Prime News) Asians as "horrible".

"They're horrible" he said. Before talking about them…

]]> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:49:18 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46553#post46553 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46553#post46553

It's so geeky ...

Getting amped about an empty cabinet? You think?

]]> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:38:12 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46552#post46552 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46552#post46552

It's amazing how exiting these things are in the real. The tech dude and me got into a huge chin wag the even included this Internet wiring stuff being as much the guts of modern civilization as paper.

Nice. That's the second story I've heard of the humble technicians being…

]]> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:35:53 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46547#post46547 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46547#post46547

Emma: I suppose taking someone up on that etchings line is one quick way to distinguish real from bullshit artists.

Yes, I know of at least one disappointed lady who took up a handsome young man on his bullshit and spent a dull half hour actually looking at some etchings.…

]]> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:22:25 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46539#post46539 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46539#post46539

This is seriously a great result. Seriously, how long before Cunliffe is no. 2 on Labour's list?

About the same time he becomes deputy leader of the labour party I'm guessing.

]]> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:02:37 +1300 Shep Cheyenne https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46535#post46535 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46535#post46535 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:33:22 +1300 davidamstalden https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46532#post46532 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46532#post46532 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:25:51 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46527#post46527 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46527#post46527

Does anyone have any insight as to whether the separation of Telecom Networks might resolve the stand-off over peering?

Yes, it should result in a fairly swift resolution.

Really? Well halle-freakin'-lujah!

It's obvious, really, but it hadn't occurred to me till today that a separated Telecom Networks would behave differently…

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:04:14 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46526#post46526 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46526#post46526 DR: Wow. One well-placed hyphen and the mysteries (and internal class struggles) of the music industry are revealed: Commo-ditties.

Emma: I suppose taking someone up on that etchings line is one quick way to distinguish real from bullshit artists.

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:01:01 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46524#post46524 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46524#post46524 In addition to my post above, I'm going to re-work a famous Ronnie Reagan quote:

"A laissez-faireist reads Adam Smith. A non-laissez-faireist understands Adam Smith."

In particular, these little gems from Smith's The Wealth of Nations:

Monopoly...is a great enemy to good management. (Book I Chapter XI Part I)

The…

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:25:59 +1300 Shep Cheyenne https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46523#post46523 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46523#post46523 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:21:01 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46521#post46521 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46521#post46521 Does Mr Sheppard seriously think that broadband is something that keeps his pants from falling down? I'll give him credit for helping to extract the $27m out-of-court settlement from Fay Richwhite, but he really should save his energy for recovering the remaining $240 million-plus from them.

The best, if not…

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:12:14 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46519#post46519 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46519#post46519

Pssst: I don't know if you guys were aware of this, but often, an offer to see someone's etchings means you end up examining *so much more* than you bargained for...

Or so much less. I quite like etchings.

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:59:53 +1300 davidamstalden https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46518#post46518 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46518#post46518 Oh, Russell, how could you have ever fallen into the notion that a 'spokesperson' would ever consider 'the truth' more valuable for dissemination than 'what's best for the creepies who have crawled up my arse and are talking out of my mouth.'?

I thought only the NZ Herald was that…

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:45:47 +1300 Mark Thomas https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46511#post46511 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46511#post46511 this should give you tech geeks wood

40 gigabit internet connection

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:50:42 +1300 Matthew Poole https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46507#post46507 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46507#post46507

Does anyone have any insight as to whether the separation of Telecom Networks might resolve the stand-off over peering?

Yes, it should result in a fairly swift resolution.

Peering was originally stopped, according to the multitude of cynics in the NZ internet operators' community (of which I am one), because…

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:59:27 +1300 Shep Cheyenne https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46506#post46506 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46506#post46506 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:44:29 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46504#post46504 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46504#post46504 Tom, that would be a highly geared portfolio

Danielle, I'm thinking you've probably got a purse in your portfolio.

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:33:30 +1300 Tom Beard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46502#post46502 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46502#post46502 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:21:31 +1300 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46493#post46493 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46493#post46493

That's where he keeps his etchings. Wanna see?

Pssst: I don't know if you guys were aware of this, but often, an offer to see someone's etchings means you end up examining *so much more* than you bargained for...

Everyone's got a portfolio. $20 in your wallet is a portfolio.…

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:19:21 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46490#post46490 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46490#post46490 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:05:34 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46484#post46484 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46484#post46484

You have a *portfolio*?

That's where he keeps his etchings. Wanna see?

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:23:01 +1300 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46482#post46482 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46482#post46482 From Mr. Shepard's utterance's over the Auckland Airport offer from the Canucks I concluded he was probably an unreconstructed Bourbon of the Rogernomics era. His latest comments only reinforce that.

And while we are at it about this mornings Morning Report, why must my morning 6.50am shower be disturbed by…

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:06:47 +1300 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46481#post46481 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46481#post46481

MY PORTFOLIO IS F@#KED

You have a *portfolio*?

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:04:35 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46480#post46480 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46480#post46480

Does anyone have any clue why I can't send attachments?

Email attachments?? That's real strange. Your ISP (I'm assuming XTRA) can't help?

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:01:39 +1300 Mike Graham https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46478#post46478 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46478#post46478 I think I heard Bruce Shepherd say something along the lines of: 'it might be good for the customers, but it's no good for the shareholders".

I guess most of us are customers, not shareholders of Telecom, so we are happy with the changes. He is representing the shareholders, but…

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:52:22 +1300 Gary Hutchings https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46475#post46475 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46475#post46475 Maybe he was thinking about this thing he heard of called Wimax, that was, like, you know, really really fast, and would give blazingly fast internet everywhere, for like nothing,

Perhaps he should talk to Buzz Comm in Aust. they appear to have a different take on it.

http://www.commsday.com/node/228"

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:13:31 +1300 InternationalObserver https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46469#post46469 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46469#post46469
Does anyone have any insight as to whether the separation of Telecom Networks might resolve the stand-off over peering?
Does anyone have any clue why I can't send attachments? It's been this way for years, even when I switched to Orcon. If I switch 100% to Orcon (ie ditch Telecom's homeline)… ]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:31:42 +1300 insider outsider https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46468#post46468 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46468#post46468 I think the $1.5 b loss in share value is what motivated him.

I've never understood why councils haven't insisted on the installation of cable ducting every time they dig up the roads or laid a new one, which they can rent out to fibre layers. Seemed like a potential…

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:18:12 +1300 Grant McDougall https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46466#post46466 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46466#post46466 I was astonished at the man's ignorance. He clearly failed to realise that the reason the gov'ts splitting T/com up is because T/com has been far too monopolistic and have sat on its arse.

As a result, the public's had to suffer a mediocre IT system, despite it having the…

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:09:54 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46465#post46465 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46465#post46465 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:58:21 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46463#post46463 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46463#post46463 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:52:30 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46462#post46462 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-ya-rly/?p=46462#post46462 Discussion from blog post.

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:52:29 +1300