TVNZ7 Internet Debate in association with InternetNZ
The TVNZ7 Internet Debate (in association with InternetNZ) will be broadcasted live, 23rd September 2008 9:10pm on TVNZ7 (Freeview).
This will be an organised debate on ICT issues, streamed live to the official website and TVNZ7’s site, directly from Avalon Studios.
The debate involves four politicians quizzed on major areas of ICT policy with questions coming from you through the online chat, a studio audience, and experienced journalists.
The politicians are Labour’s Minister of Communications Hon David Cunliffe, National ICT Spokesperson Hon Maurice Williamson, ACT Leader Hon Rodney Hide and Greens ICT Spokesperson Metiria Turei.
You can participate live through an IRC channel or by posting your questions in our Geekzone forums - we have created a special ICT Policy and Regulation forum specially for this event. There you will find the discussions for each topic (direct links below) and you will be submit questions:
* Broadband (includes infrastructure, productivity, sustainability)
* Convergence (includes broadcasting and mobile)
* Copyright (includes open source)
* Cybersafety (includes privacy and security as well)
* Digital Divide (includes rural and TSO as well)
You need to login to post in the Geekzone ICT Policy and Regulation forums or complete our quick registration to get started.
Mindscape at Microsoft Tech Ed New Zealand 2008
If you follow the folks at Mindscape, then here is a list of sessions they will be running at this year's Microsoft Tech Ed New Zealand:[quote]Overview of SQL Server 2008 (DAT302) - Monday 2:15pm What's New in WPF 3.5 and 3.5 SP1 (DEV... (more in the full post)
F-Secure bets big on 'Wellbeing 2009' security suite - techworld.nl
#tenz8 Notes from the Field at NZ Tech-Ed 08 day 1
Time | Where | Comments |
| 01-09-2008 8:27 | Plenary | in plenary session |
| 01-09-2008 8:53 | Plenary | listening to John Key |
| 01-09-2008 8:54 | Plenary | disintermediate? |
| 01-09-2008 9:03 | Plenary | NZ is an under-performing company. change the management |
| 01-09-2008 9:05 | Plenary | meaningless Global Warming dribble from Labour |
| 01-09-2008 9:13 | Plenary | 2000 IT pros here now |
| 01-09-2008 9:25 | Plenary | Live Mesh = software + services |
| 01-09-2008 9:27 | Plenary | Google = software as a service |
| 01-09-2008 10:44 | WEB301 | Scott Hanselman starting |
| 01-09-2008 12:10 | WEB301 | MVC routing as user interface |
| 01-09-2008 12:13 | DEV215 | Windows Mobile development started |
| 01-09-2008 12:40 | DEV215 | great demo query webservice and create calendar item |
| 01-09-2008 13:00 | DEV215 | Silverlight 4 Mobile is immanent |
| 01-09-2008 14:24 | SOA301 | how to AJAX enable WCF services |
| 01-09-2008 15:10 | SOA301 | ctrl+k+v = auto-format |
| 01-09-2008 15:19 | SOA301 | register web service inside ScriptManager |
| 01-09-2008 15:53 | WEB302 | when scottha mentions poo shout skull |
| 01-09-2008 16:27 | WEB302 | scottha is demo-ing Linq 2 REST |
| 01-09-2008 16:53 | WEB302 | big ups from scottha to Ivan Towlson. prestige! |
| 01-09-2008 17:05 | WEB302 | Scott Hanselman's The Man! |
| 01-09-2008 17:15 | DEV335 | VB2008 Starts |
| 01-09-2008 18:15 | DEV335 | i cannot conceive of any use for anonymous delegates |
| 01-09-2008 18:30 | DEV335 | Nick Randolph Speaks My Language |
| 01-09-2008 20:00 | Dinner | bloggers dinner starts |
| 01-09-2008 20:08 | Dinner | just discovered none of my tenz8 tweats were logged! |
| 01-09-2008 22:08 | Dinner | scottha talks 32 ways 2 make blog suck less |
| 01-09-2008 23:00 | Bar | Plenty of social networking opportunities. A great forum. |
| 01-09-2008 23:30 | Bar | I might have volunteered to assist Mauricio with his GeekZone DB issues?!?!?! |
Google Fixes Terms and conditions for Google Chrome
After many posts and panicked reactions about the following clause in the licence for Chrome
"11. Content license from youOn the official Google blog they have pointed out the following:
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services."
"Whenever we release a product in beta as we just did with Google Chrome, we can always count on our users to come up with ways to improve it. This week's example: several eagle-eyed users and bloggers have expressed concern that Section 11 of Google Chrome's terms of service attempts to give us rights to any user-generated content "submitted, posted or displayed on or through" the browser.And of course they are stating this update will be retro active and cover everyone who has downloaded Google Chrome since its launch.
You'll notice if you look at our other products that many of them are governed by Section 11 of our Universal Terms of Service. This section is included because, under copyright law, Google needs what's called a "license" to display or transmit content. So to show a blog, we ask the user to give us a license to the blog's content. (The same goes for any other service where users can create content.) But in all these cases, the license is limited to providing the service. In Gmail, for example, the terms specifically disclaim our ownership right to Gmail content.
So for Google Chrome, only the first sentence of Section 11 should have applied. We're sorry we overlooked this, but we've fixed it now, and you can read the updated Google Chrome terms of service. If you're into the fine print, here's the revised text of Section 11:11. Content license from youAnd that's all. Period. End of section."
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.
Good on Google, whilst they might not do everything right, and occasionally scare the bejeezus out of privacy advocates / activists,
nobody can accuse them of not being proactive!
Microsoft ActiveX Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access RCE
Microsoft ActiveX Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system. Targeted exploitation was reported on July 7, but X-Force has been monitoring toolkit-related mass exploitation since July 10. As of July 24, exploitation has continued to escalate. See technical description for more details.
Ngai Tahu Silenced Critical Tenants at Wigram
[Article appeared in local newspaper "Western News", retyped for your edification, wouldn't usually reproduce an article in it's entirity but this is from a community paper so I doubt they will mind too much.]
Full facts on airfield not heard, Wigram candidate claims.
By Cullen Smith
National Party candidate for Wigram Marc Alexander claims a gagging clause in Ngai Tahu tenancy agreements has prevented the city council hearin gthe full story on possible aviation initiatives for Wigram airfield.
The council this week accepted a petition of more than 4000 signatures from people opposed to the airfield's planned closure in February to make way for 2000 new houses.
But councillors then voted unaminously to approve a plan change that allows an 84ha portion of the 250ha airfield owne by Ngai Tahu Property Ltd to be subdivided for housing development.
Ngai Tahu Property served notice to all commerical tenants last month that the airfield would close on February 28. It will be closed to all air traffic from next month.
Mr Alexander, a former United Future MP who is standing against the incumbent Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton in the upcoming general election, presented the petition that was formally accepted by councillors on Thursday.
Mr Alexnder said petitioners urged councillors to defer approval for any plan to subdivide Wigram Airfield for housing until all interested parties had been fully consulted and briefed.
He told Western News he believed the council "got it wrong" by approving the plan change without hearing all the facts.
Under a clause in the Ngai Tahu tenancy agreement, Wigram tenants were forbidden to oppose any town planning or resource management submission made by thier landlord.
Mr Alexander said Mayor Bob Parker had reiterated to councillors that it was completely acceptable for landlords to impose such conditions.
"While that's true legally, the point has to be made that by doing so it denies the council getting more information before making an important decision," he said.
The council had been told in submissions that aviation had no future at Wigram and there were no commercial possibilities for the airfield.
"That was clearly misrepresenting the truth because the pilot school wanted to expand byt were unable to do so because Ngai Tahu basically curtailed their activities," he said.
He said he'd been told a gliding company had wanted to "set up shop" at the airfield but had been specifically prohibited.
"Ngai Tahu have every right to do those things, but to withhold that information and to give a false declaration as to the aviation possibilities at Wigram, I think was wrong."
Mr Alexander said he believbed there were some areas of Wigram that could be developed for housing without encroaching onm the possibility of retaining an airfield.
He said councillors should be "extremely sensitive" about the issue of retaining strategic assets for the city in light of the current controversy raging around the council's $17 million purchase of five inner city properties from beleaguered developer David Henderson.
"Retaining Wigram as an airfield is much more in the strategic long term interests of Christchurch than those buildings would be," he said.
[Article Ends]
Sunny weather + camera = new cellsite pics
A few photos taken today of new NZ Comms + Telecom sites in the Hutt Valley.
Upgraded Telecom Lower Hutt site in the foreground and Woosh + NZ Comms gear on the back building. This Telecom site was one of the first in Wellington to be upgraded for GSM 850 + UMTS 2100. The Woosh site has been in existance for several years now but the panels for NZ Comms have been in place for a couple of months now but are not live.
GSM is still live today on Telecom's site even though the GSM network has now been canned, obviously those sites that did have GSM gear fitted will still be live until it's removed and replaced with the UMTS 850 cards. I guess we'll be seeing some cheap 850MHz GSM equipment on Trademe soon! :-)
Main Vodafone site in Lower Hutt. 900 GSM + 2100 UMTS + 1800 GSM panels.
This site = M3gA Fa1L and should be used as a textbook example of how not to deploy a cellsite.
When the 2100 gear was added the sectorisation of this site was changed and neither of the 3 sectors now face the Westfield Queensgate mall right opposite. As a result inbuilding coverage in the mall is absolutely terrible with no coverage in large parts of the mall. Microwave links exist to several other sites including Petone, Ava and Mt Fitzherbert.
Waterloo Railway Stn site with both Telecom and Vodafone sites. Telecom panels are in the front left with the grey one on the left being a trial CDMA panel installed on several sites (Waterloo, Hutt CBD and Hutt VIC Corner) several years ago that can automatically pan & tilt to optimise the network depending on traffic load. Vodafone 900 & 2100 panels are in within the cream cylinderical enclosures at the other end.
This particular site has featured in the Hutt News this week as NZ Comms have applied for council permission to mount their gear there and some of the anti-cellsite people have jumped onto the bandwagon. Some of these anti-cellsite campaigners really should do their homework before they make idiots of themselves talking to the media when equipment for both Vodafone & Telecom as well as numerous council links for the smartlinx3 network already operate.
From the Hutt News 2/9/08
Some residents in the Knights Road area are concerned that they haven't been consulted over a proposal to erect a telecommunications microwave tower and related equipment on top of the Waterloo Interchange building.One resident believes the Hutt City Council has only sent information to a select few properties right opposite, including Omega Wigs at 214 Knights Road, Take Five and the dairy adjacent.
"This seems totally wrong and several homeowners/residents in the area who have learned of the application are concerned at the implications for them, their families and their property values if that application is approved and the towers and other equipment pods proceed."
Another concern is for the many pregnant women and children who regularly use the railway/bus station. They want to be assured this equipment is safe.
New NZ Comms site at Avalon
A closeup of the panels. NZ Comms don't appear to be painting any of their panels (special paint has to be used so it doesn't affect the RF properties) so this site stands out like a sore thumb. The mast has been painted green to fit in with the surroundings. Looking at the cables still coiled up below I'm guessing a microwave horn is still to be fitted for backhaul.
Vodafone site right next to the NZ Comms one. Bit hard to see detail due to the sun but it has 2100 UMTS panels on top and 900 GSM panels in the middle. Site and panels are all green but the microwave horn is still white (links to Avalon studios site).
Closeup of existing Vodafone 2100 UTMS panel (left) and new NZ Comms 900 GSM panel on the top of the Avalon TV studios tower block.
Upgraded Wingate Telecom site. One of only a handful of sites around Wellington still using omni aerials. This site was one of the last in the Hutt Valley to be upgraded before the Telecom rollout seems to have been temporarily halted. Also one of the only upgraded sites that never had a live 850 GSM signal - maybe this was only going to be a 2100Mhz site.
Closeup of the panels - this site is one of the original Telecom Mobile designs and dates back to ~1990. Note the south facing UMTS panel is a lot smaller since it's facing directly into a hillside that you can see in the picture above.
New Telecom CDMA + GSM 850 + UMTS 2100 site at Naenae. This site replaces the one below that used to be in Naenae Primary School.
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