There has been a fair bit of mention of RFID (radio frequency identification) tags in the technology press recently. RFID is a technology that allows cheap ID...
Hi all I have received a request from a teacher who would like to borrow an external CD drive, and a PCMCIA card that will allow the external drive to connect...
If anyone is interested in what is claimed as "the world's-biggest-copyright-case for the Internet's most-downloaded-program-in-history", its being blogged...
Students looking at the role of Open Source software in enterprises may find this useful. "The Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) in Canberra is considering...
Some time back TASITE ran a series of sessions on blogs in education. At the time the blog concept was not particularly well-used in education and a sigificant...
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=52600733 has a nice article giving the results of polling a range of experts and advisors on...
Just out of interest West Launceston Staff are exploring the use of this particular service to support staff use of ICT in class programs. Early days yet but...
It's that time of year when a little light-heartedness might be useful. Here's something that might provide a bit of humour (but unfortunately there are some...
Thanks Ivan A couple of people have noticed that the Microsoft Spaces filtering of questionable content and blog titles is not particularly successful: there...
Cute!! Reminds me of the Plucker handbook - downloading web-sites using more than 50 levels (including external links) is likely to exceed the capacity of your...
In ideal language - we should take 3 clicks to get to what we want. I have managed that in most cases on my site but I have folders 5 deep. Which does the...
Gill Murdoch
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Dec 6, 2004 11:29 pm
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Martin Chambers, a Tasmanian teacher involved in the NetAlert organisation, has forwarded some information about the CyberSafe Schools program....
Did anybody else catch Paul lennon mention government negotiations regarding state-wide wireless broadband? (7:30 report) Do you think he's getting ready to...
Hi Eric and others, wireless broadband has been around for a while, in fact it is operational in Tasmania, http://www.broadbandwireless.com.au/ Other big ISPs...
G'day Eric, various communities in other parts of the world have undertaken this in the past, though largely on a commercial basis. Korea and the centres of...
Sorry Eric, I think it looked more like our Paul conducting a face saving exercise because he forgot to get down and dirty in their little gas trenches around...
Gill Murdoch
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Dec 8, 2004 9:41 pm
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Better still why not turn off the Internet? www.turnofftheinternet.com/ The effect does not work with a firefox browser though! Ian ... From: Andrew Fluck...
Williams, Ian G
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Dec 8, 2004 9:48 pm
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... Opera: no sound, but click on button and it works... IE: click on button, nothing works... Temporarily allow popups, click on button, nothing works......
Richard Lawler
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Dec 8, 2004 9:56 pm
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The wonders of online learning "HARRISBURG, Pa. - An online university that supposedly granted a graduate degree in business to a pet cat was sued Monday for...
I have found a very good site for Internet hoaxes: http://216.247.9.207/ny-best.htm SINA; however, has blocked this site for pornographic reasons. The only ...
Williams, Ian G
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Dec 9, 2004 2:39 am
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For anyone who is not receiving technology news feeds or who is unable to access the technology press: IBM (the company that invented both the personal...
"Next year, new US passports will have a chip slipped under the cover, containing biometric and personal data. But privacy advocates worry about surveillance. ...
The sender would like to recall the message, "--->TAS-IT Passports and RFID". CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER Information in this transmission is...
Oh dear Another report of a major study that links computer negatively with mathematical achievement. "Students who use computers a lot at school have worse...
The US FDA (the folks who approve the safety of additives in food and drugs, and other stuff you stick in your body) have just approved a Radio Frequency ID...
