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Welcome to LazerWikiBlog: This is where you find out what is ringing my chimes. This is also where you get insights into my life. I rant. I rave. I basically let off as much steam as I want here. You will probably find references to CentreLink, Australian ISP, Ombudsman, Religion, Australian Politics, and Globalisation. Mostly, being an INFP, the thing that rings my chimes is discrimination against low income earners. There are too many examples of how the rich make the rules that govern us all. They increasingly make it obvious that democracy is just a cover for the time old tradition of treating us as little more than dumb sheep. Fiascos and coverups are the rule of the day. With special concessions for ‘sick old pals’ who have been proven to break the laws. Politics and the promotion of disinformation is a dirty business. In Australia there is no real difference in the direction of travel that the two major political parties participate towards. When will our political leaders give more than lip service to the need for rural amendments to many of the city legislated laws? Enjoy… Dont forget to leave your comment(s) 2010-08-30 VPSWhat do you get when you sign up for a VPS? After payment.. You should receive an EMAIL similar to this: Hello XXXXX, First and foremost, congratulations on your brand-new Linux-powered vps server. Your server has been successfully provisioned and secured by us. Without further delay, we are pleased to present you with the information you need to access your new server. Important Links:
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2010-08-28 VPS
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I was on twitter and I mentioned that I needed a bargain priced VPS with low specifications. Next thing @BigWetFish? gets me to check this URL. Well, I checked the URL and saw some pretty good deals. In my case I was after the barest minimum nano tiny VPS I could operate with. So I signed up for the VPS 1 deal (as instructed via email) and had it downgraded by the Big Wet Fish staff to: VPS 1/2 (SuperMicro? VPS) * CPU - Equal Share
US $2.50 per month. I think a great deal.. And get this.. Because I was only after an evaluation to determine my requirements. Big Wet Fish Hosting were so kind as to give me 1 months FREE trial! (Don’t everyone expect that deal! I think it was a slow day or something.. You need to talk to them..) I needed to setup OpenVPN?. As a result it soon became obvious that TUN needed to be turned on by the hosting provider. (This is a common issue with VM VPS) However, Big Wet Fish responded to my email request for TUN to be activated rapidly. The VPS seemed nimble and always responded well compared to a few other VPS’s I have used. Downtime was un-noticable during the evaluation. :) In my case.. I was able to evaluate the specifications of the VPS in comparision to my requirements in a very short amount of time. Because of this.. I have no hesitation recomending Big Wet Fish Hosting to anyone who requires an unmanned VPS. See Also: VPS 2010-08-27 LinuxFor anyone looking for fedora yum repositories that work. See: Fedora Version 1-10 yum repositories information Fedora Core 2 (Tettnang) This version of Fedora uses a file called /etc/yum.conf (as they all do) but the repository configuration is done in this file, unlike later versions of Fedora where there are separate .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d. Edit the stock /etc/yum.conf ‘baseurls’ to look like this: [base] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ [updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/i386/ I obtained a yum list a few hours ago from my Fedora Core 2 after editing the yum.conf to the above baseurls. 2010-08-14 Life, the Universe and EverythingGeez.. Must the some weird alignment of the stars or.. Maybe its biorythems.. I dont know what it is.. Maybe I’m just getting sick. Maybe I need to eat better. But the last week or so. I have been very much on edge. Just easily upset. This feeling has been manifesting all over my life. I been getting irrationally upset over small things. Even tho I’m aware of the situation I dont seem to be able to shake this edgy feeling. I feel like a wound up spring all the time. Maybe its this election? Emotionally I do feel drained. I think I’m sick of waiting to see what corrupt side will fleece Australia for the next few years. Anyway I thought I better record that life is wearing me down. 2010-08-12 Plan for Cyber-Safety
…draft.. Year 12 Stage 2 EnglishExpositionA Vote for 'Australian Labor Party' is a Vote against Freedom (by Sarah)So can we really trust our government to only filter illegal pornographic websites? Firstly, a filter cannot distinguish what the definition of pornography is in the context of art. Many sites that contain art and other such content will be inaccurately filtered. Will sites that display historical and infamous art works such as Madonna of the Rocks by Italian renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci. This particular art work features naked children. Will Australians be derived from appreciating this art and expression? A test conducted by the current government, proved one in twenty sites will be inaccurately filtered. But are these sites really ‘inaccurately’ filtered, or do they contain information the Government considers incriminating? The blacklist created by the Government has been leaked on the internet. So it is almost definite that websites will be filtered without reason. Some of these sites include the widely popular Myspace and Youtube . The Government has justified the content of the list by saying “..................”. More than coincidently, the site that leaked this list has now been added to it. The blacklist could cause more harm than it’s intended to prevent. If it continues to spread, children and others will seek it out to purposely access inappropriate sites, if they haven’t already. The government has taken measures to address this problem, such as warning that the distribution of the list can result in fines and imprisonment. But this will not deter careless children with no responsibilities. We live in a democracy, so what happened to our freedoms? Australian’s are born with personal and democratic freedoms. The internet filter will affect freedom of speech and expression, and freedom of information. Stephen Conroy, the minister who has proposed the law, has argued “freedom of expression has its limits.” This completely contradicts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, devised by the United Nations. Civil liberty groups are rightfully contesting this filter, creating campaigns such as “It’s Time to Tell Mum”. This video features comedian Akmal Saleh explaining the disadvantages of internet censorship. This video convinced over 14, 000 people to ‘tell their mums’ twenty-four hours after its release . Civil liberty group, Electronic Frontiers Australia is conducting a petition which was tabled in the Senate in June, with over 19,000 protestors of the censorship. Furthermore, one purpose of the filtering is to protect children from being exposed to inappropriate material. It should be the discretion of the parents to filter their personal internet connection. If filtering is implemented in Australia, we will be joined along with nations such as communist China as one of the few nations in the world to be controlled by an internet filter. A recent Netspace survey found that 80% of its customers disagreed with any internet filtering scheme. Surely these people are not all wanting to access child pornography, right? They are average people like you or I, who are concerned about what actually is going to be filtered and why. This filtering will affect more than freedoms, it will affect Australia’s economy. The internet filtering scheme will cost 84 million dollars . This is because the testing proved an 83% decrease in internet speed . This is particularly worrying for dial-up users, especially those in remote areas that cannot upgrade. This will provide difficulties for the 10% of total internet subscribers in Australia . Telecommunication providers will face widespread disconnections and consequently generate less income, therefore less service. The predicted speeds of internet after the installation of the filter will be:______ which is a ___% decrease from the average speed of ___now. Australia already has poor internet speeds compared to Europe which has an average speed of _____. Upgrades have been promised, but this is not possible when this filter will decrease speeds by 83%. Federal Labor’s proposed internet filtering policy needs to be stopped. By not supporting this scheme we are not condoning pornography, we are rightfully contesting this discrimination, in this democracy we call home. Too many negative effects will result from this proposed policy. Just a few are; breaching our god-given democratic rights and freedoms, affecting Australia’s already unstable economy and how this bill does not serve its intended purpose of eliminating child pornography. References:
2010-08-12 Life, the Universe and Everything
Michael Jackson Sonnet by Sarah
2010-08-08 Website PromotionUNDER CONSTRUCTION This is all Wikipedia (currently) says about website promotion: “Website promotion is the continuing process to promote a website to bring more visitors to the website. Many techniques such as web content development, search engine optimization (also known as SEO), and search engine submission, are used increase the traffic to a site.” Well obviously they havn’t heard of Top 100 lists. Otherwise known as Top Sites lists. The idea is that a webmaster will find an interesting list and join it. A small percentage (depending on the webmasters promotion of the link) of visitors to that webmasters site will click the link to the Top sites list. A ‘vote’ for that referring website results at the Top sites list. The visitor is then shown the Top Sites Ranking. Where they may (and do) click on other (related subject?) websites that are also members of the list. And so the circle continues. To the benefit of all. Webmasters and Visitors. There are many many many of these lists already running. I think you will find that most subjects are already covered. Just do a search for Top 100 and your subject. If not. You will most likely find a site where you can setup your own list on any subject you desire. (a damn good stategy) When looking for a decent Top Sites list to join.. Because there are so many to choose from.. Look for an active webmaster.. (ie: Not just the standard Top Sites Layout) Also look at how many hits per day/week/month the site is generating for its members. (The better Top site lists provide this information) Warning: Dont join lists that have websites you really dont want to be associated with. For example. If your a strictly G rated site. Try and join G rated lists. If your adult rated. Do us all a favour and stick to your adult rated lists. The search engines and other bots etc. can and do make assumptions based on this data. Also as a warning. Making a page just for your Top 100 links is a bad idea in my opinion. The reason being.. Incoming visitors to your site are presented with a confusing page that only seems to consist of (animated?) Top 100 links? (Too easy to hit the back button and pick another site methinks..) Plus if a visitor wants to vote for your site. They have to find the page. Find a link they like the look of.. It’s really off putting. Much better to have your ‘voting’ links on a select few ‘interesting’ pages.. or Sidebar perhaps.. Footer? As a webmaster, if your internet image is important to you. I suggest that you do not make this mistake. Even though it seems to make perfect sense to just stick all your voting links on one page. I dont recomend that you do it. :) Here are some pointers to signing up for a Top sites list: Have a banner for your site available. Banners can be as simple or complex as you wish. (Note: You may need to resize it to accomodate the Top sites list you selected) Dont forget to install your voting code onto your website! Otherwise you may get a short term benefit from random hits. But most Top sites systems will automatically flag your site as inactive and eventually lock you out. Well I hope this posting has prompted a few webmasters into action. For those that get involved.. Have fun joining and setting up the code for your new Top Sites Website Promotion! To the others I say.. Better luck next time. :) Recomended G rated General (anything) Top sites list? try http://seo-au.com/links/ UNDER CONSTRUCTION 2010-08-08 Politics
Want to stick a copy of this poll on your website?
Enjoy! 2010-08-05 Politics
BarkerElection.. Ho Hum.. Lets see who I have to vote for… Find the link to the electorate I live in.. Barker.. http://aec.gov.au/election/sa/barker.htm Now.. what have we got here? House of RepresentativesProspective Members of Parliament for Barker 2010
SenateProspective Senators for South Australia 2010Wow what a mess! Many wannabe Senators.. Lets see if we can sort this out a bit.. Greens
Independent
Australian Democrats
Australian Sex Party
Australian Labor Party
Liberal
One Nation
Democratic Labor Party
Christian Democratic Party
Careers Alliance
Senator Online
Building Australia
Shooters and Fishers
Socialist Alliance
Secular Party
Liberal Democrats
Family First
Climate Skeptics
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