Hi everyone,
hope you’re well and had a great weekend!
Just a quick notice to let you all know about some scheduling for this week with respect to Delimiter. This week we’re going to be initiating a ‘slow week’, which means we’ll post 2-3 limited stories a day, a fair bit less than the normal 5-6. Delimiter 2.0 will likely have one major story published. This is primarily to give your humble editor a bit of a break after a very busy period, while still keeping an eye on the important stories ;) We usually do this once or twice a year.
However, it’s not just a break: Over the past few months or so a bunch of things in the back-end of Delimiter, with respect to administration of our technical hosting platform, finances and so on have built up, so we need some time to sort through that this week. One of the things we’ll be working on is that one afternoon this week, we’re shifting our site hosting from a WordPress/Apache/PHP/MySQL base to a WordPress/Nginx/PHP-FPM/MySQL base. The aim of this is that our site performance will radically improve, and that we’ll be better able to deal with all those huge spikes of traffic we’ve recently been getting. So watch out for that ;) Hopefully it’ll all go off without a hitch, but there may be a little bit of turbulence until we get things settled.
It may not seem the best time to have a slow week, during an election campaign, but the truth is that both sides of politics’ policies are very well-analysed at this point, and the debate happening right now is mainly just political fluff around the core policies. We’ll return next week with a final look at what the various parties are offering in terms of their technology policies. And, we’ll venture an opinion as to who should receive your vote.
In the meantime, we’ll leave you with this image of Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull above. Just what, precisely, is the Earl of Wentworth doing in this photo? One for the ages, we suspect ;)
Cheers,
Renai LeMay
Editor + Publisher, Delimiter
Image credit: Twitter account of Malcolm Turnbull
*obligatory post about complaining to your editor*
Complain all you want — I just saw him walk out the door with his surfboard, leaving me to do all the work!
What a jerk! :)
I know, right! Total slacker.
One day, when you’re editor Renai, you can engage in luxury activities like “sleeping”, “eating”, and “leisure time”. Until then you need to remember your place: chained to your desk producing articles.
I can only dream of such a luxurious existence :(
would be very interested in seeing some stats when you move from apache to nginx…
“This is primarily to give your humble editor a bit of a break after a very busy period, while still keeping an eye on the important stories”
Given the rate at which you churn out articles, I was under the impression you were a synthetic human, or at the very least an augmented cyborg from the future with no need for sleep, food or relaxation. Pretty disappointed to find out you’re just another human like the rest of us :(
Dose this mean you’ll be moving to Disqus here too?
In the meantime, we’ll leave you with this image of Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull above. Just what, precisely, is the Earl of Wentworth doing in this photo? One for the ages, we suspect ;)
That photo is `kin gold!!
It is of course MT blowing his own horn.
It is Turnbull testing the very latest in copper-based communications.
I think Malcolm is demonstrating how close you’ll need to be to a node to get 100mbps.
Is that a photo of Turnbull demonstrating a key component of the Coalition FTTN endpoint equipment? I seem to recall something about their policy making use of ‘good enough’ preexisting technology for communication… Does anyone recognise the model he’s using there? Is it an off the shelf rebadge, or do you think that might be an early engineering sample of a custom design? What performance can we expect we’ll be limited by as a result of that? Will it be end user upgradable, or will we be forced to use the supplied unit? Will the cost of the equipment be borne by the user, or will it be funded by the rollout project as it is for the existing FTTH network? Any speculation on energy efficiency?
I don’t know about energy efficiency, but I think there will be a lot of hot air generated… :-)
(I was going to say “greenhouse gases”, but that might be construed as saying that politicians are all blowing it out of their a****, and that might be deemed offensive ;-)
I think it is, it only manages comms over a few hundred metres :o)
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