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That made me laugh...

No# 27 Sleepy time - says I should be asleep.

I already knew that.

I haven't slept in 34 hours.

Thanks Mr Bill.

I don't know what I'd do without you

Things I now know that I didn't last month...


1. My local chicken shop now sells Campylobacter, and it comes with a free chicken!

2. If you vomit up all your medication for 10 days you get really, really sick.

3. Silver perch (large) don't need any care at all for 4+ weeks.*

4. 4 weeks on steroids make you really fat and grumpy. If you meet a fat, grumpy man, don't judge me too quickly.

5. As a result of having some time on my hands, and watching all the cooking shows ever produced, I can now sharpen a knife so I can shave with it. I might add that to my skill set on the member skills thread





* Bam! Back on topic!

It's fun getting a knife to a razor edge, I've got some japenese whet stones. Are awesome.

I got the same reaction from one of the supermarket chickens. But on the plus side, it's counteract the weigh you put on from the steroids!

I dont know how much weight I lost when I was sick, but I've gained 4kg in 4 weeks. That's 4kg less that I can float up the River Murray on my epic adventure.

I had a horrible realisation about my solar river boat adventure. At the border between states, I will have to dump my garden (the plan is to grow salad greens and tomatoes in circulated river water NFT aquaponics style using the river water (the other plan is get fined to attract attention to the fact that the water exiting the system is toxic, even though it's slightly cleaner. I'm guessing it's illegal to have a trickle of polluted water dripping out the back of a boat on the river) because we have fruit fly control areas in Australia between South Australia and Victoria/New South Wales.

That means I'm going to need to come up with a replacement plan on the other side of the border.

Lets see...

Dear Bunnings Hardware store near the border, please start growing mature plants for me and I'll say nice things about you on my blog. I'll need some herbs, fifty (or so) mature, repeat harvest salad greens plants, and a few different tomatoes. I want them for free because your shade houses dissolve exactly two years after being exposed to the elements.

Boomshanka,

-Bullwinkle.

That should do it.

I just signed up for the NBN (Australia's new highspeed network) which actually made it to my area.

Yay!

Interestingly they install a battery backup in each home (obviously, because you cant send power to your phone over fibre) rather than the existing centralised power backup that I understand involves a few very large farms of 2.5v batteries to keep the phones working if there is a power outage. There's going to be some awesome bargains for people wanting to make off grid systems when all those batteries hit the second hand market.

Now my 404 page error screens will load much faster!

Bully, the cut down version of the NBN that the Coalition govt is rolling out only has fibre to the node (FTTN) rather than fibre to the home (FTTH) so I would have thought that the power for the phones could be supplied via the green 'node' street cabinets over the last few hundred/thousand metres of copper wire. From what you have said I take it this is not so?

I have no idea about the roll-out schedule of the (sort of) NBN but am not expecting to get anything better than wireless broadband in my area any time soon.

Yeah, I have a feeling I'm a little lucky to live where I do and be already signed up to the good stuff. We were one of the first suburbs for the rollout that were not new housing developments. Someone must have already paid the deposit

I hope that any change to the original plan is slow enough to get everyone connected. I think decent connection speeds are inevitable everywhere, but I suspect the government wont pay for the connection.


I presume it's fibre/fiber to my door because of a diagram that was junkmailed to my letterbox today from NBN co telling me what I get for free as far as my connection goes. It includes the battery backup box).

Luckily my existing plan has run out so the timing was perfect. I've been getting lots of free badwidth [accidental pun - I (c) the word "badwidth" if nobody has ever said it before ] each month from optus. My 4 (mbps) down .6 up plan with optus is meant to shape to 256k after 120 gig, but in reality it's 1 down and .6 up at best, and shapes to zero. I ring every month and get unshaped for free because they keep stalling (4 months now) with the upgrades to stop the congestion. I think because they were waiting for the NBN rollout (it's going to be very hard to sell your shiny new ADSL bandwidth next month in my suburb, especially now that there will be all those vacant slots like the one I'm abandoning.. During that 4 months I changed to another company and got the same stall (Adam internet) I joined Adam a zillion years ago on my 2400baud modem when it was a BBS before they got connected to the net (the first provider in Adelaide I think) but my latest fun with them wasnt. If they were honest with me I'd have signed up with them regardless of the delays, but for eg they claimed the delay was because they couldn't contact the owner of the existing line (me) and similar other nonsense.

I should get a moderator to move this to the rant section

Anyway...


Yay!

I guess it's equally possible that the PM just forgot about the order for 10 million UPS batteries, and is connecting me with copper after all.

I'm sure I'll find a home for it in my aquaponics system if it turns out to be a copper connection

The max speed available with my isp is 100/40. Can copper do 100 mbps???

Anyone living in Adelaide should go outside right now and kill all the snails that are forming some kind of rebellion.

They are 100% up to something!

They even have some slugs involved.



and...

Does anyone know how much a 40cm silver perch would eat if it had access to as much food as it wanted through a summer?

Aww, I'm jealous about the nbn

Where in Adelaide are you?

I had assumed it was fibre to the node then coax to the home, could be wrong though; we got bypassed because of the rabbit hutch developments.

I thought they were still in planning for that. All estimates were blowing out horribly, and with Rupert Murdock sticking his nose in to slow it all down until his expensive Foxtel equivilent of netflix is up and running.

I think the fibre to the premise was still rolling out until they sorted their stuff out.

Hi all

Here in Modbury North they are upgrading and adding new pits, unblocked the underground conduits and are putting pull lines in for the fiber. But it could still take a few years.

We don’t have any at all,i did enquire but i was told there are trees in the way..... The other side of the road has it,just up the road has it but we can’t...
I am stuck to using a Sim card in my iPad and using that as my Personal Hotspot for the computer,if the winds in the right direction i can get 30 KBS...whoop whoop.