The next TTCS pizza lime will be held on Wednesday August 8th, 2007 at Pizza Hut, Valsayn from 7 to 9pm. One of the topics will be the 3rd Caribbean Internet Governance Forum which will held in Curacao, Netherland Antilles from the 16-17th August 2007.
Year: 2007
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TATT publishes “Proposed Costing Methodology for the Telecommunications Sector” for comments
The Telcommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) has made available for a second round of consultation the document : Proposed Costing Methodology for the Telecommunications Sector.
This document has been updated with comments and recommendations from the first consultation phase in December 2006. Interested parties are invited to submit comments on the revised document to the Authority using the prescribed form (DOC ; 107K) and emailing it to policy a.t tatt.org.tt , on, or before Friday, August 24th, 2007.
View/download : Proposed Costing Methodology for the Telecommunications Sector (PDF ; 97 pages ; 591K)
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TTCS OSSWIN CD v1.77 BitTorrent download
Download it here at http://www.ttcsweb.org/ttcsosswincd.torrent . This redirects to the Chip.de webpage about the TTCS OSSWIN CD.
Click on the download link button
This will take you to a page listing download options. There is usually only one download option :
Click on that and the torrent download in your preferred BitTorrent client should start automatically (or your browser will prompt you on what to do with the .torrent file)
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TTCS OSSWIN CD v1.77 available for download
The TTCS OSSWIN CD, a CD of open source software for Windows is available for download.
- Date created : July 23rd, 2007
- File name : ttcs_osswin_cd_v1.77.iso
- File size : 702 MB (736,348,160 bytes)
- MD5 checksum : 2ccc6a19166e355b908b9579ac1bab86 / 2ccc6a19 166e355b 908b9579 ac1bab86
- SHA-1 : c8e70432 5e7b1764 d1d2a03e 5b9bafab e53834c5
- SHA-256 : 93e2a1b6 b02ec1e5 f69fee55 4d22ba84 4c67b83d 5e1ae013 427faeef 8d847970
Changes from v1.76a
- added InfraRecorder
- updated WinMerge, Tux Paint, Portable Puzzle Collection, Sokoban YASC, Pang Zero, Gimp, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Virtual Magnifying Glass, AutoHotkey
First download location is at Filefront ; other download locations and BitTorrent will follow in the next few days.
The TTCS website at http://www.ttcsweb.org/ and the TTCS OSSWIN CD page have their own RSS feeds at http://www.ttcsweb.org/feed/ and http://www.ttcsweb.org/feed/ttcs-osswin-cd/ respectively.
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TATT’s updated procedures for approving cell phone towers
An updated version of TATT’s “Position and Procedures in respect of Non-Objections for Applications to Town and Country Planning Division for Site Approval of Telecommunications Structures” (what a mouthful!) is online.
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InfraRecorder – opensource CD/DVD burning software for Windows
Added InfraRecorder to the TTCS OSSWIN CD which will be released later today, bandwidth permitting.
InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration. InfraRecorder has a task oriented menu similiar to that of Nero Express :
Selecting a task (for example, a data CD) brings you to a interface that many CD/DVD burning users will find easy to use :
- An Explorer view which allows you to browse your computer and select files to add to the CD.
- A Disc Layout view which shows what data is to be included on the CD.
- Underneath the Disc Layout view is a “space meter” which shows the space taken up by your disc layout.
So its very easy to use and I’ve plan to use it to create the TTCS OSSWIN CD ISO and for burning copies for meetings. InfraRecorder is available for Windows 95/98/Me and 2000/XP/Vista.
InfraRecorder : http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/
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Playstation 3 sales reach 1 million in Japan ; console battle for 2nd place
According to this Reuters report, Sony has sold 1.01 million units of the PS3 as of July 15 while Wii sales totaled 2.9 million units as of July 8 and sales of Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 have came to 420,705 units in Japan. Ars Technica has a breakdown of console sales in the US and Japan.
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TTCS OSSWIN CD v1.77 to be released
With the security fix release of Mozilla Firefox v2.0.0.5 , a new version of the TTCS OSSWIN CD will be available online when Mozilla Thunderbird v2.0.0.5 has also been released.
The list of updated applications on the TTCS OSSWIN CD from v1.76a :
- WinMerge
- Tux Paint
- Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection
- Sokoban YASC
- Pang Zero
- GIMP
- Dia
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Virtual Magnifying Glass
- AutoHotKey
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BitDepth column : Bringing broadband into Flow
Mark Lyndersay’s BitDepth July 17th, 2007 column in the Trinidad Guardian talks about Flow Trinidad’s expected broadband upgrade scheduled to take place in October 2007 with the connection of the ARCOS cable from Curacao to Trinidad by Columbus Networks (formerly New World Network). The prices on a Flow Trinidad brochure can be found in this post on the TTCS discussion mailing list.
Sigh….as a Flow Broadband subscriber who gets 20Kbytes/sec on a good day (my area hasn’t been upgraded to digital cable), this can’t happen soon enough.
(Edit Aug 12th, 2007 : adjusted BitDepth link to Mark Lyndersay’s website. Also see later post on Flow’s broadband pricing )
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Draft OSSWIN Poster
Draft suggestion for an OSSWIN poster. The black CD on the right should by rights be a mock up of an MS Office CD – after all we don’t want people to pirate MS Office, now do we? Click on image for full size.
