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Something just occurred to me this evening and it has to do with software companies and the monopoly ‘lock in’ tactics that some use.  Microsoft was pulled up over forcing Internet Explorer on people in XP many moons ago now and I’m sure we’re all completely happy with how it eventually turned out, most of us use Firefox and Windows now recognises something called a ‘default browser’.

Fast forward a few years and we’ve seen Apple since day one, ram iTunes down the throat of every ipod owner in the world. This was understandable, after all

So, earlier today while bashing our heads against a wall we were trying to locate some information on the SVEC FD7419 KVM Console Switch. This piece of hardware has been installed in the office for quite some time now and since then we’ve been through about 3 or 4 sys admins and nobody really knows how to configure it.

Today we watched some presentations from Microsoft on Windows Presentation Foundation, while it was nice to see some of the technology and how it can be used, theres no way this was presented anywhere near as good as it could have been.

What a great day, a big thanks to everyone involved with the organisation of the event as the quality of topic was great. Big thanks to Robin Hilliard from Rocketboots for spending his own money to come and present over here, i loved your presentation on CFINTERFACE

So we’ve all read it no doubt, but google aren’t releasing a Gphone, but rather ‘Android’ an open platform for mobile phones co-developed as part of the Open Handset Alliance. Video follows.

No surprises here as telstra seem to have fastest and most robust mobile network in the country, now we can only hope some nice package deals come that involve unlimited data plans, because telstra’s current offering of data plans is a bit ridiculous.

How many of you read more than 10 forums you like to be on top of? If you’re anything like me and have a very scattered hobbies, you more than likely find yourself reading through upwards of 10 forums, the difficulty of this task is directly proportionate to the number of forums you read.

First let me lay down the back story on my plantronics headsets for you. Back in June 2007 i purchased a plantronics audio 550 dsp headset, for half price ($75AUD), 2 months later the headphones died. After realising i couldn’t find the the receipt, i purchased another set at full price ($150AUD) and made sure to keep the receipt, 2 months later (last week), the left headphone cup stops working.