I forget sometimes that the sites I read and the stories I follow are not entirely mainstream. Thus while there is a huge group of people that already know about The Khan Academy, there are even more people that don’t. For those that don’t know about Khan, the best thing to do is to watch …
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Could NZ cope?
DDos Attacks, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. The largest denial of service attack year peaked at 100 Gbit/s. That’s more than the bandwidth usage out of NZ. Chart Source: Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report 2010, Arbor Networks.
The trains don’t arrive
Auckland’s train operator Veolia provides their performance statistics – which is a good thing. The problem is that actual figures themselves, which show just how poor the service actually is: The first column is how often trains are 5 minutes late or less. The second is how often trains arrive at all. So if you …
FlowerPower donates $5050 to Earthquake Fund
PowerKiwi’s FlowerPower has donated $5050 to the Government’s Christchurch Earthquake fund. Like everyone we were shocked and dismayed at the devastation and loss, firstly to individuals and families and secondly to businesses and buildings in Canterbury. We are also humbled and proud of Cantabrians, of New Zealanders, of those who were and are visiting here, …
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Meeting the high resolution challenge
(Also posted on Pacific Fibre’s blog) The iPhone retina display is awesome – not quite perfect, but incredibly high resolution that you can look at for a long time. It has 326 pixels per inch, and 0.614 total megapixels. That’s not a lot of megapixels when we compare to the latest cameras with well over …
Family First Survey – the missing questions
You may or may not have seen the 2011 Family First survey (link borked) on Family Issues. It seems that not all of the answers were published, and I received the following from unnamed sources. If you come across any other missing questions then please post them into comments or send them through. <update: It …
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Let’s ignore ie6 already
<UPDATE – I’ve created a page on the tab above – if you send me information then I’ll add to the HALL OF SHAME> Microsoft’s new ie6 countdown site records ie6 usage of just 3.1% in New Zealand. The overall number is now small enough for almost all local sites to ignore. I’m guessing that …
Lance Wiggs 