Richard Stallman in Auckland: On copyright in a networked world

I just came back from Richard Stallman's lecture at the University of Auckland. I was surprised by the amazing interest in his talk, the lecture hall being entirely jam-packed full, people standing along the back and all the way out into the hallway.... (more in the full post)

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I just read the confirmed line up of speakers for the Code Camp event happening 31st August just before the Microsoft Tech Ed New Zealand.

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We've finalised the speakers for Code Camp on 31 August -- and I'm very happy to report ... (more in the full post)

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Hello,

As many of you Vodafone internet customers already know, there has been some major down time with connections to international servers over the past few days.
Vodafone users found that many sites (Wikipedia, Yahoo, apple.com, Itunes store, etc) were either unable to load, or took a painfuly long amount of time to load.

There has been some discussion over at vodafones forums regarding this, which now includes a Possible reason for this: The Olympics.

...Secondly we can see the major increase in LAG occurring as the data leaves asianetcom.net, which as we all know is currently handling most of the global data for the Olympic games and at times can and will be susceptible to simple congestion issues over the next week

Link to thread

For the time being, however, the connections have stabalised.
All we can really do now is cross our fingers and hope for the best.

If we don't get many medals this is really going to suck.

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