Comments on: Book review: Absolute Power

By: r0b

r0b — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:45:01 +0000

Not often I agree with Billy. But if you have the time, there’s lot’s going on in that thread.

By: Billy

Billy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:02:05 +0000

I encourage people to read the comments here:

http://poneke.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/wish-2/

By: Andrew Bannister

Andrew Bannister — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:31:32 +0000

“Tane, if paintergate was a one off i would agree with you .however add on corngate, speedogate, doonegate”

Yes, I see it too. They all contain the word “gate”. Good spotting.

By: r0b

r0b — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:39:55 +0000

What were you doing with so much bandwidth so long ago? No need to answer – rhetorical question – but that’s pretty hardcore geek!

By: lprent

lprent — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:33:24 +0000

Ah but is it at a price I can afford.

Mind you it wasn’t that long ago that I had 2 ISDN’s in here (about 1997 ?). That replaced the 4 phone lines that I multiplexed a link to the net with.

I was really glad to get my first ADSL router – Nokia M1100 (I think that was the number) in 2001 according to the service sticker. Coughs as he hauls it out from under the desk and brushes the dust off. My comms bill went down quite a lot.

By: r0b

r0b — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:21:57 +0000

I hear John Key is going to bring fibre to your home Lynn – that ought to sort it (for a while!).

By: lprent

lprent — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:28:21 +0000

My compliments to the commentators. After I saw this post go up this morning, I was fully expecting to have to be heavy-handed with lots of bold and black sometime during the day.

I wasn’t looking forward to it as I have a bit too much code to do at present. But the comments didn’t step too far over the edge.

But I didn’t have to waste my time once. And I didn’t see any of the moderators having to do it either.

The only problem I have is with the steadily growing size of the 5 backups the site sends to my home server every morning. They ran out to 9:32 this morning which means that they ran for over 4 hours. I’ll have to move them to start earlier or get some more bandwidth….

By: Psycho.Milt

Psycho.Milt — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:05:59 +0000

Guys, read back through Absolute Power’s comments while pondering Dad4Justice’s writing style, cleaned up to disguise the author. Just a thought.

By: Robinsod

Robinsod — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:12:46 +0000

The sad thing is that yes it is indeed worse that my review. And considerably so. It also contains less facts (despite having considerably more words in it) and isn’t as funny. In fact I may yet contact Wishart’s publisher to ask them if they would be interested in signing me for a four-book deal.

By: Harrison

Harrison — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:07:09 +0000

I don’t think the book could be any worse than Robinsod’s review!

By: Matthew Pilott

Matthew Pilott — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:57:59 +0000

HS – hope it all goes well! – it’s hard to get a handle on that dispute actually, and what would consitute a reasonable demand/offer…

There was something on Stuff about broadband today, or maybe the Herald. 1.5 Billion for a fibre-optic rollout maybe. I have an f-o connection – it’s good, but not quite the ducks’ nuts…

Cap: Platz Outreach – I must be watching The Scorpions’ Wind of Change!

By: Robinsod

Robinsod — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:43:12 +0000

Jon – that interest has already been disclosed:

http://newzblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/pig-fucking/

And I can tell you that unlike Luke’s it is strictly professional…

By: randal

randal — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:28:12 +0000

eventually it will find its way like its magazine infestedmate into the family shop pile of free books and if I’ve got a few spare minutes I will tear the pages out of the cover, roll them them up and make artificial LOGS for the fire with it. At present I am reading several other books with more content in the cover flaps than anything I have ever read by wishart and I dont believe anything has changed. He seems intent of letting the average kiwi view himas a congenital idiot so I will not get in the way of his lifework.
As for people who read wishart and then promote him they seem to be lowbrows with low iq’s and low opinions of their fellow man and see their mission as domination of anyone unfortunate enough to fall within their purview.

By: higherstandard

higherstandard — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:26:00 +0000

Perhaps tomorrow I hear National have released some policy around Broadband etc which should be worth debating once I’ve seen it – surprisingly quite at work today expected it to be a fiasco with the JD’s striking, touch wood it’ll stay quite for the next 24-48 hours.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:23:53 +0000

So the credibility of the source has nothing to do with it? We know Hagar’s source is a criminal hacker or thief, whereas Wishart obviously wont name his (unless legally compelled to).

If anyone says they would not be embarrassed by something in their personal emails then they are lying (or confused)
I’m sure Robinsod wouldn’t like anything to be disclosed in his interest in fucking pigs, (and asking Luke if he does it too)