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 :
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 )
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.
Microsoft SteadyState v2.0, the successor to the Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP was released last month. Available for Microsoft Windows XP Professional, XP Home Edition and Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 2 installed, SteadyState allows administrators to control and protect shared computers (Windows computers that are used by different users in environments like schools, cybercafes, libraries, or at home with several kids). Apart from preventing end-users from altering Windows settings or installing programs, you can restore the computer to its default state after end-users ‘ sessions. This may have benefit to small businesses who don’t have domain controllers and/or have Windows XP Home machines which can’t use Group Policy to lock down the PCs.
Microsoft SteadyState is free and it is a 3-4MB download for Windows Genuine Advantage customers
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx
Worthy of a future TTCS meeting!
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society will be having a meeting on Thursday July 19th, 2007 from 6pm at Pizza
Hut, Roxy Roundabout.
At this meeting, we will be speaking with the Guyana country code (.gy ; http://www.registry.gy/) domain administrator about his experiences with running the .gy top level domain (TLD) and issues related to operating regional country code top level domains (ccTLDs).
Persons interested in computers and related technology are invited to attend. A contribution of $25 towards refreshments is expected. Copies of TTCS OSSWIN CD will be available for $40 TT. Be there or be square!
There was an earthquake yesterday (Sunday 15th July, 2007) around 9:30pm . It was felt in areas of Port of Spain and environs, Lopinot, San Fernando and St. Augustine, Trinidad. Magnitude of the earthquake was 4.0. So far, no reports of damage or injuries has been reported.
Amazingly, when there was an earthquake last year, I discovered that the Seismic Research Unit of the University of the West Indies (UWI) website was updated within the hour of the earthquake with information about the earthquake. Impressive that the seismic unit has a system in place to update their website soon after such an event.
Meanwhile other websites like the Trinidad Metorological Service still hasn’t been updated since 2005 and is still defaced (See TTCS podcast #5) and the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) website also hasn’t been updated since 2005. Neither of these websites can be relied upon to find out information when tropical/wave/storm /hurricance warnings/alerts.
Nintendo is really redefining the gaming audience with the Nintendo Wii and at E3 2007, Nintendo announced the Wii Balance Board (not the final name), a wireless pressure sensitive board that will be bundled with WiiFit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOG3PM_xHA
🙂 I want one. Wonder how much it will cost…
Teracopy is a great utility for Windows XP to copy and move files faster than the standard Windows Explorer . Its features include
Free for home users, there is a pro version with additional features
Added to http://del.icio.us/ttcs/ under software, utilities, windows, freeware
ICTUpdate is a bimonthly printed bulletin, a web magazine, and an
accompanying email newsletter. It is published by the Technical Centre
for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) ACP–EU , Agro Business Park
2, 6708 PW Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Their latest issue #37 is focused on podcasting and features an article about the TTCS
podcasts.
Read “Extending networks with podcasting in the Caribbean“
Our TTCS podcast page is at http://ttcsweb.org/podcasts/
Cable television service on the island of Trinidad was originally provided by several independent cable television companies (AJ Cable, Cableview, Rainbow Cable, Transcable). These companies were eventually merged to form the Cable Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (CCTT). In February 2006, it was annnounced that Columbus Communications Limited, a multi-national telecommunications company with investments throughout the Caribbean, had purchased CCTT. Columbus stated that the island would be upgraded to an all digital cable television service as it prepared to offer “triple-play” service, that is, television, data (Internet access) and voice phone service over the same line. According to its website, several areas were to be upgraded by the end of 2006. There were delays and only now (2007) are those areas being fully upgraded to digital cable television service.
At this time (2007), Flow/Columbus Communications Limited does not provide cable television service on the island of Tobago.
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