ProjectX Technology

Two headlines from the herald today:

• One million NZ households now online
• Broadband infrastructure needs $1.5B investment

Now reading these two articles there seems to be a real disconnect.

The article states that 50% of all connected households have “broadband” (if you can call what we have in NZ broadband!) And Telecom says that it will cost $1.5B to enable 90% of NZ to get 5mb broadband.

1.5 BILLION DOLLARS ???? Are the putting fibre to every door ? This doesn’t make any sense at all. (They’re acting like the big tobacco companies who sponsor “research” on the benefits of tobacco!) We can really trust Telecom to tell the truth about the cost. I mean they’re spending $1m per month on Ferrit, so they’re really are how to use their money wisely

As an online business, we are frustrated at the lack of speed and high costs of hosting in NZ. Low cost, high-speed infrastructure opens the door to a new range of services, eg. streaming tv, integrated telephony. (I need more bandwidth for Joost)

So how about it Telecom, why not make the internet better for all NZ?!?! Spend your Yellow pages bounty on something worthwhile!

Update:Rod has run the numbers and has estimated it will cost $270M a year to build and maintain the broadband network. Food for thought.

Dell has release 32Gb flash hard disks into their new range of laptops.

* Sigh * Looks like I’ll be waiting a bit longer until I can upgrade my laptop. I’ll have to wait until apple includes them into their powerbooks….

Saw this on youtube – Simpsons poking fun at google maps.

Hilarious!

I installed ubuntu fiesty (7.04) last night, in order to prepare to migrate all our debian boxes over to ubuntu.

I struck problems when I was trying to install mongrel. After a lot of Yak Shaving trying to figure out why mongrel didn’t install . I got in a stupid dependancy loop. mongrel needs libstdc which needs lib6c-dev which needs lib6c 2.5-0ubuntu14 which hasnt even been released as a package.

Its pretty lame that I can’t even install standard compliers and libraries!

End result. Have to defer rolling out Ubuntu until they sort their s**t out. It will teach me for install a new release of a distrubution!

We’re going to through lots of changes at ProjectX.

Staff

We’ve had a few additions to the team with Tom, Daniel and Tim officially joining the team. Tim and Daniel have joined after successfully completing the Summer of Code.

ProjectX is on the move

We’re flying the coup from Creative HQ. We’ll be moving from into our new office in a couple weeks. We’re moving downtown to the 4th floor of VSA House. We’ll be sharing the floor with Effacy and CBDrealty.

New ProjectX site

We’ve been working on a fresh new ProjectX site. We’re just putting the finishing touches on the site and we’ll be making it live soon.