Larvatus Prodeo’s Last Post
As of today, Larvatus Prodeo will cease publishing: the blog began to wend its way through the online world on March 17, 2005, so it’s a very old beast in internet years. We collectively feel seven years is enough.
This post brought to you by the letters N, B, and N
When I found out that Schloss Merkel was located in the NBN trial site in Brunswick, Victoria, it wasn’t a hard decision to sign up.
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The technology world has just lost another giant, though one without the towering public persona of Steve Jobs. If you’re not actually a programmer, you’ve probably never heard of Dennis Ritchie. But the vast majority of software you use was [...]
Skilled graffitist makes the front page
Oh Noes! The NBN ha5 been hax0red! The police have saved us from “…what could have been Australia’s biggest hacking attack.”
The Global Village still has idiots
WA’s Attorney General wants to give parents legal rights over their children’s Facebook pages. Miranda Devine, in her typically careful way with words, describes social media as “barbarism, unleashing the worst elements of human nature, with no restraints” and quotes [...]
Quicklink: partial web censorship starts in July
Telstra, Optus to start censoring the web next month
The coming triumph of communism
Now that I’ve grabbed your attention and driven Graeme Bird apoplectic with the over-egged title, I’d like to share a video with you.
Grubby Police Work
Fairfax journalist Ben Grubb was briefly arrested by Queensland Police yesterday after writing an article about a security expert who bypassed Facebook’s privacy controls.
NBN bills passed: Sky remains in place
ABC Nyooz is reporting that the NBN bills have passed the Senate. Naturally, the first thing Aunty reports on this momentous event is what the Opposition Spokesflunky has to say about it. Later this week, I’m attending a seminar on [...]
Were you online in ’95-ish?
If you, like I was back then, were using a Windows 3 box, then you almost certainly used the Trumpet Winsock program to access the internet via your modem, probably via a giveaway from either a PC magazine or your brand new ISP. Sadly, the unsung programmer who created Trumpet Winsock, Tasmanian Peter Tattam, didn’t get paid for most of those copies; millions of free give-aways that saw hardly a brass razoo come back to him.
