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posted by kris @ 11:31 AM 0 comments

Orcon's Free Home Line

For the first time in New Zealand history, Kiwis can get their basic home phone line for free for a year. 100% Kiwi owned telecommunications provider Orcon is celebrating receiving access keys to Telecom’s Ponsonby and Glenfield exchanges by announcing 5000 free home lines for New Zealanders.

“Kiwis are fed up with having to pay $40+ a month for a phone line, fed up with Telecom raising their line rental costs. Orcon is offering 5000 free home lines to all of New Zealand,” says Orcon Chief Executive Scott Bartlett.

“This is an invitation to every home in New Zealand to stop giving Telecom $40+ a month for your basic home phone service,” continued Bartlett.

New Zealanders spend over $1 billion a year on their home phone lines and calling, making the Telecom home phone service a significant household cost.

Orcon's offer is priced at $79.95 per month. This includes a 20GB Broadband plan and an unlimited number of New Zealand landline-to-landline calls. Orcon then give you the basic home line rental free for 12 months, saving you over $450 for the year.

http://www.orcon.co.nz

posted by kris @ 6:38 PM 0 comments

Joost

In case you missed the hype recently, Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.

Joost is made by the same people who made Skype and Kazaa. it provides full episodes of popular programs in perfect picture and perfect sound. Full screen is really quite impressive and perfectly watchable. Best of all its free..
The interface is very Web 2.0 with transparent backgrounds and shiny buttons with great number of widgets and interactive extensions.

Checkout the Channels here. Comment for invites.

posted by kris @ 9:01 PM 0 comments

Virtualization

Virtualization is the technique of managing and presenting storage devices and resources functionally, regardless of their physical layout or location.

Virtualization allows multiple virtual machines, with heterogeneous operating systems to run in isolation, side-by-side on the same physical machine. Each virtual machine has its own set of virtual hardware (e.g., RAM, CPU, NIC, etc.) upon which an operating system and applications are loaded. The operating system sees a consistent, normalized set of hardware regardless of the actual physical hardware components.

Virtual machines are encapsulated into files, making it possible to rapidly save, copy and provision a virtual machine. Full systems (fully configured applications, operating systems, BIOS and virtual hardware) can be moved, within seconds, from one physical server to another for zero-downtime maintenance and continuous workload consolidation.

posted by kris @ 11:24 PM 0 comments

Back to blogging..

Finally got the chance to get back to blogging on things i like. Been busy for the last couple of months with work.

I am working on cool stuff. Just to name a few, SAN storage, Netapp, Coraid(ATA over Ehternet) - can create a shared storage system from a few Terabytes to multiple Petabytes for under $0.93 per Gigabyte.

So keep an eye out on my blog as I will be posting on all these cool technologies.

posted by kris @ 10:41 PM 0 comments

Microsoft Office 12 Beta

Microsoft last week released the first version of Office 12 Beta and offered Beta 1 software to pre-approved testers around the world, I was one of the Beta Tester selected by microsoft. Microsoft is promising a final version of Office 12 for the second half of next year, around the same time as the company releases the Vista upgrade to its Windows operating system.

So far i found few bugs but iterface completely redesigned. I will be adding review later on but for now attached few screenshots

Word Screenshot
PowerPoint Screenshot
Excel Screenshot

posted by kris @ 7:12 PM

ANZ Graduates Site Hacked

Breaking News -

I received text this morning about 9.30am from my friend that the anz graduates website(http://www.anzgraduates.co.nz/) was hacked. First I didn't beleive it but when I saw it, I was shocked.

This (www.anzgraduates.co.nz) link can be accessed from (www.anz.com/nz/about/opportunities/) under (New Zealand - Student Opportunities Program)

Pictures as of 12pm 27/Aug/2005.

posted by kris @ 11:49 PM 0 comments