BrainBeat Productions Multimedia blog

It seems this blog has lately become a record of my server problems but anyway If you tried to access my website during the last 2 days you would not have gotten anything. On Wednesday night we had a power failure and the server and router lost power and it seems that the server changed its IP address and the router kept redirecting the website requests to the old address. I only found this out just now and it is now up and running again and hope I do not have any problems for a while.

Just a quick not to say the website may be down for a bit today as some Telstra guys are once again fixing my phone line for the 4th time in the last 5 months after some workmen who were installing a storm water pipe dug the trench too deep and cut the cable again. I am very hopeful that this will be the last time I will have phone and internet troubles before the fiber cable is rolled out.

This morning the Prime Minister of Australia has announced that the Federal Government in partnership with the private sector will build an Australia wide fiber to the home network. This was a surprise as the general thought was one of the bidding consortium would win the tender to build the network. I do approve of the Governments move to build and hopefully own the network themselves as that way we should not have the problems that we have been having with the current telephone network. I like a lot of people felt that when the previous government sold of Tel$tra they should have sold it as a telephone provider and retained ownership of the infrastructure. By the government owning the infrastructure and not one company then each player in the market has a fair go and not have a monopoly on the market who can force their own way and potentially hinder or exclude their competition.

By going down the fiber to the home approach we gain some big advantages over what some of the other proposals where. Fiber to the home pretty much future proofs the Australia’s communications for the next 50 years at least (maybe more). Australians will get broadband speeds comparable to many countries in the world and not the slow one we have now (dial up and ADSL). True a lot of people do have ADSL2+, cable, and even there are some who already have fiber to the home (mostly in the ACT and some other suburbs around Australia) Fiber links can provide tera bits per second not the ~24MBPS we have now. It will also allow a whole new entertainment revolutions to take place by having such high speeds the general public will be able to whatch HD movies on demand as well IPTV.

I look forward to hearing more about the proposal and I hope they start constructing the network soon.

Edit: you can find the press release here

The website is up (and has been up since 10am) after ETSA was adding a 3 phase power line to our stobey pole. Our hose only has a 2 phase connection but there have been 2 new houses build next door which will be having reverse cycle air conditioning which requires 3 phase.

I am going to be adding some new pages and content to the website in the very neer future so stay tuned.

The BrainBeat Productions website will be down on Thursday morning from 8:45am to 12:pm as ETSA will be cutting our electricity supply to do some unspecified maintenance.

My website has been down for the last few days and may got down again sometime for a while as I have had troubles with my phone line. On Tuesday a guy who was digging a hole to place in a new gas connection dug too deep and totally cut the phone line that goes to my house which meant I lost the land line phone and the internet. It took Telstra until mid yesterday (thursday) to come out and patch the cable back together. I do now have internet and phone again but it is not as good as it has been with some noise on the line and the My ADSL is running slower. Telstra said when i rang them up that they would be sending some more guys today to lay a whole new cable as this one is not up to scratch anymore (being cut twice and damaged by rain will doit). They have not turned up yet (not that i would blame them with 42C heat) but I do hope they do so i can get full speed again.

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and happy and safe new year.

As a new years resolutions I aim to be writing more posts on here next year again and so I hope to see you next year.

Hello everyone I am please to announce that my new website is finished and is now up and running (after a few teething problems transferring the final version from my desktop to the web server). I have decided to move away from the hard coded style website to a cms which should give me less excuses for not updating it as I can update it any ware. The cms I decided to use is Joomla which is a free open source project. I used it to make over the website for Crane Glass and found it very usable and flexible with lots of extra modules and plugins available.

There may still be a few bug to work out but I hope to have the worked out in the next day or so.

Hi everyone It has been a long time since i have posted anything onto my blog. I hope everyone has have a safe and enjoyable time. Anyway I am writing this post to inform you of the reason why my website has been down on and off for the last few days. A bit over a month ago I upgraded my desktop PC to and Athlon x2 4800+ with 2 gig ram new motherboard and a geforece 8600gt, from an athlon xp 2800+ with 1 gig ram and geforece 590tx. I decided over the weekend as it was a public holiday to upgrade the web server with the bits from my computer  and added a new 500gig hard drive this should allow more flexibility with what i host on the website. I am working on a redesign of the website also and I hope to have it up by the end of the week.