I heard there was a feature request to make Mars rover interface with Uber eats...
Interesting project crossovers... Cheers Stephen ________________________________ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> on behalf of Greg Low <g...@greglow.com> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2019 9:43:32 AM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: Re: [OT] Fines Victoria crisis deepens Yep MyKi chewed up $2.6B locally, and yep we note that NASA put Curiosity on Mars for $2B, but worth also noting was that within that budget, NASA invented and deployed the Sky Crane. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low SQL Down Under Pty Ltd Mobile: +61419201410 Office: 1300775775 ________________________________ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com on behalf of David Connors <da...@connors.com> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2019 11:02 am To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Fines Victoria crisis deepens Dunno how you spend 1.5 bln on an 'off the shelf' solution. Speaking of IT stuff ups, they just installed NBN in our building in Spring Hill (CBD Brisbane) last week. The fibre comes into the building probably 5-6 metres max from the pit. They pulled the fibre into the MDF which is at the front of the building. Then they ran the fibre all the way to the back of the building to put the DSLAM in a store room that is the maximum possible distance from where all of the copper in the building terminates. Then they ran a bunch of pairs of copper from the back store room to the front of the building to the MDF so you can jumper FTTB off that and into the MDF frame. The tray they used to run the copper from the back of the building to the front has MASSIVE three phase cables in it that power 6 A/C units. The copper runs exactly parallel to this for almost entire length of its run. Should be nice for drop outs when the various compressors kick in / turn off. There were two guys here for three days doing the job. The FTTB DSLAM is about the size of a fridge. There are only 8 tenancies in the building. Everyone in the building already has fibre except for us as we use microwave that's faster than anything NBN sell anyway - so they should get zero subscribers. Your tax dollars hard at work. David Connors da...@connors.com<mailto:da...@connors.com> | M +61 417 189 363 Telegram: https://t.me/davidconnors LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 09:53, DotNet Dude <adotnetd...@gmail.com<mailto:adotnetd...@gmail.com>> wrote: Myki is another product bought from overseas I heard. From one of the Scandinavian countries I think. Managed by NTTData from memory, could be wrong, don’t quote me. On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 10:42, David Connors <da...@connors.com<mailto:da...@connors.com>> wrote: Myki in Vic should get a notable mention... ticketing system for trams and trains that was the same price as building sending a couple of Opportunity Rovers to Mars. David Connors da...@connors.com<mailto:da...@connors.com> | M +61 417 189 363 Telegram: https://t.me/davidconnors LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 19:50, Grant Maw <grant....@gmail.com<mailto:grant....@gmail.com>> wrote: It's not just Victoria. The QLD government IT projects 9ver recent years have also been rolled gold catastrophes On Wed, 23 Oct. 2019, 11:24 am Greg Keogh, <gfke...@gmail.com<mailto:gfke...@gmail.com>> wrote: Interesting front page article in The Age newspaper today<https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/fines-victoria-system-collapses-leaving-massive-hole-in-state-budget-20191022-p5333d.html> about a Victorian government IT disaster. IT disasters are routine (I'm sure we've all caused a few!) but it's interesting that they actually name the software as VIEW from a company called Civica. The article is a bit vague about what's actually wrong, it just says "[it] doesn't work", "the system was absolute chaos" and systems are not "talking to" their computers. Does anyone have inside gossip about what really happened? There was another vast IT disaster a few years ago related to the education system I think, where dodgy contracts were being awarded to mates, and I think the loss ran into the hundreds of millions. That story vanished from the news and I never found out what happened. Greg K
