Interesting Links for 26-01-2015
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andrewducker- Saudi Arabia has been holding reformist daughters of the late king under guard for over a decade
- Landlines: The tech that just won't die
- The Story Behind The Xmas Kings Cross Problems (Fascinating story of project-planning gone wrong)
- Knitting - with PVC pipes
- The Secret Douglas Adams RPG That People Have Been Playing for 15 Years
- My wife seems to think this isn't a puppy. I don't really understand why...
- Given the same science-related CV with different genders on it, universities will offer $4000 more to the men.
- This is pretty-much why I'm not interested in things like Torture Garden
- Germans have a right to pee while standing up
- Is Scotland actually getting "Home Rule"?
- Clifford D Simak: The anti-Lovecraft
I love Way Station. Lovely novel, in a style I don't really see any more.
- It was not illegal for women to act in Shakespeare’s time
- How Google's upcoming paid streaming service is going to work
- American Sniper is doing a great job as propaganda. I wonder if the creators know.
- How to grow a beard
- Scientists Figure Out How To Unboil Eggs
- The five tribes of UKIP
- Lifespan depends on month of birth
- Syriza and Independent Greeks agree anti-austerity coalition
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Date: 2015-01-27 11:20 am (UTC)The Isle of Eigg has a small BT exchange but it, together with the island's limited trunk cabling, is in such a terrible state and so poorly maintained by BT (the economics of getting a van across on a ferry that sometimes only runs once per day or two hours apart, combined with accommodation for an engineer - against a very small population) has resulted in many of the households going without a working landline for weeks, evens months, at a time. Thanks to the arrival of metro-area wireless broadband via masts at Arisaig and Skye, distributed via local line-of-sight Access Points on the island (and made possible with the island's largely self-sufficient community electricity project) many of the islanders, sick of BT's inaction, have migrated to IP phones, typically Vonage, with the 'last mile' now completed via wireless - making the BT's crumbling landline infrastructure increasingly redundant.
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Date: 2015-01-27 06:47 pm (UTC)