Sale of Telstra

11th July 1998

ABC News story: Colston set to sink Telstra Bill

10th July 1998

With a lot of puffing and grandstanding it's all happening ... or is it? What's the idea of the of the "sweetener" - untimed local calls?? For who?? And when?? More particularly ... how??? And what happens once Telstra's sold and there's no leverage to keep in place what appear to be little more than grandiose ideas and plans for further investigation?? You'll need more than a touch of Sherlock Holmes to find anything more than political games in this one. But have a look and a say for yourself, but don't blink, or it'll all be over ...

Read the Press Release and have your say.

"...error message is incorrect" says Microsoft

8th July 1998
The "Boys from Redmond" (Microsoft) are at it again. If they're not deliberately trying to get away with mass deception, (i.e they are really being "mis-reported", "misinterpreted" and it's all just a "mistake") then it seems they only open their mouths these days to change feet.

Included in their latest saving grace for the US economy (Win98) is a very embarrasing error message experienced by anyone using the FrontPage Wizard to publish their home page on the web. It suggests the user "might like to try selecting <Other Internet Provider>" (such as Microsoft's own MSN) "from the list" if the users ISP is not running Microsoft's software on their servers.
Read the error message (use your BACK button to return)
Read a humerous ISP's alternative (not ours ... but not bad. Use your BACK button)

As it turns out, the messages do not actually mean customers should choose another Internet service provider, such as Microsoft's own MSN service. Instead, they mean customers should use a different way to load their Web pages, according to Microsoft and Costa.
"Microsoft will absolutely issue an update to the (software) to fix the error message in question," Priscilla Mistele, Microsoft's product manager for Front Page, said in an e-mail to Reuters received Tuesday.

Yahoo! Reuters News coverage
CNN News article
Links to other related articles

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Each friend, associate, business partner, family member etc that joins up with us, and indicates they were referred by you (they need your e-mail address) will earn YOU a $10.00 credit on your account!

Modems We now have found a replacement modem for the Motorola modems we used to sell. We have stocks of the Netcomm V.90 Roadster II modem for $239.00. The modems come with cables and software for IBM compatible computers. Macintosh users will need a different cable and software which we can also provide.
We also have stocks of the Netcomm InPlus56 internal (PC) modem, flash up-gradeable to V90, for $239.00.

Eudora Pro at ALI We have stock on the shelf (literally) of the Eudora Pro V4 email package (Windows; CD only) - with integrated spell checker, advanced filtering, multiple e-mail accounts, multiple address books, html mail support, voice mail and more.

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