Australian Technology

Archive: 11-2012

• Quit serving text with images already

  In 2012, we shouldn’t have much need to serve up what appears as text on a web page with an image.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | November 27, 2012, 9:54 PM PST

• Ryde your way to disaster-recovery success

  The City of Ryde’s disaster-recovery tests showed that comprehensive documentation is essential, covering everything from software licence keys and hardware DIP switch settings to staff...

  Posted by Stilgherrian | November 18, 2012, 2:08 PM PST

• Starting life with the Surface

  Tony McSherry goes through his first week of using a Microsoft Surface.

  Posted by Tony McSherry | November 15, 2012, 8:31 PM PST

• Amazon Web Services comes to Australia

  For Australians, the wait for a local AWS node is over.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | November 12, 2012, 6:55 PM PST

• Australia free from filter threat

  The Australian government has canned the idea of a mandatory internet filtering scheme.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | November 8, 2012, 8:16 PM PST

• FreeBSD takes another step toward GPL escape

  The Apple-backed Clang compiler is now the default compiler in FreeBSD.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | November 7, 2012, 8:49 PM PST

• Aussie event watch: November 2012

  JSConf Australia and OpenAustralia Hackfest are due to happen this month, with OSDC and RubyConf Australia appearing in the coming months.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | November 4, 2012, 7:50 PM PST

• The Windows 8 upgrade experience

  Tony McSherry details his experience of upgrading one of his Windows 7 PCs to Windows 8.

  Posted by Tony McSherry | November 1, 2012, 3:41 PM PDT