>Question for the more politically-savvy amongst you: Why can't we vote for
>who gets what portfolio? Why can't we insist that someone with half a clue
>technically be put in charge of the IT portfolio?
Or even better, that someone with 0.5*clue is in charge of departmental
decision making. After all, Richard didn't pick out Colloqui, that would
have been in the department.
That said, and notwithstanding the history of one of the founders, shouldn't
the "mining company-owned dotcom" have been a hint? Or are there actually
mining company dotcoms that are successful that we haven't heard about?
Richard Chirgwin
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Littlejohn [mailto:darius@bofh.net.au]
Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 0:42
To: link@www.anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: [LINK] Talk is cheap
>>> Howard Lowndes wrote
> I went to both colloqui.com and chatstack.com looking for information.
>
> There is no mention of any standards, other than for the need to be
> running M$ Netmeeting, and the ports are all oddball up around 14000+/tcp
> and 15000+/udp
MS Netmeeting vaguely adheres to the H.323 standard for voice-over-IP.
So there's half a chance they're vaguely just re-implementing netmeeting
- in which case .au govt is funding someone to go into competition with MS -
always
a good business plan. Gotta wonder whether the business plan for colloqui
involves being bought out by MS in a year, and what sort of return the .au
govt expects to see from that.
>
> It strikes me that someone has sold the village idiot some snake oil. Now
> that really makes my blood boil.
Heh. See, the difference is, you could always slap the village idiot in the
stocks and pelt them with rotten fruit...
Question for the more politically-savvy amongst you: Why can't we vote for
who gets what portfolio? Why can't we insist that someone with half a clue
technically be put in charge of the IT portfolio?
KevinL
-- Internet techie Obsidian Consulting Group Specialising in proxy servers and traffic measuring/billing. http://www.obsidian.com.au/ darius@obsidian.com.au
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