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I designed and built my own DSL router: component selection, PCB design, and so on. When NBN upgraded the link to my home I simply went and bought a 10Gbps ethernet router. Despite…

Consider that Boeing once had no European rival. Europe is bulding consensus on what technology sovereignty means. This is a self-interested statement within that discussion. At so…

Then this is to misunderstand the customer. Administration in universities is a service to the teaching and research faculties (or departments, names vary). It's these faculties wh…

Yeah, that's an odd claim when it is more the adequate to say that MIT is closely observed by other technical institutions worldwide. The difference in approach, outcome and size o…

Films used roman numerals in copyright notices because books used roman numerals in copyright notices. Books used roman numerals in copyright notices because the copyright notice w…

The Australia Card. This was a unique identifier for residents of Australia, for which the legislation did not proceed after nationwide protests. Protests marches featured depictio…

There's a trend that writing is for readers, rather than dictated by company PR. If you are writing for readers, then follow the usual rules for proper nouns where the word is a no…

It feels pretty much the same, except there's no second car. The first problem is that housing stock takes a lot of modification to get to modern energy usage (essentially, 0 joule…

Having worked on Australia building sites I'd like to say that even at distances of 10m you still want to cut with a precision of 1mm. So it's common to hear that cut described as …

The Canadian experience is probably the short distance from the USA. Contractors in metric Australia use millimetres. If mm get a bit ridiculous then we use metres. The translation…