simke

This would come in handy

Yes next to a school, not a skateboard park. Btw, I've been living at this address for 5 years.

Now I don't want to sound like a grumpy miserable b*stard, but the problem with noise from skateboarders on school grounds is getting ridiculous. And all with blessing from school under the excuse of "skateboarding class". We live on the ground floor of an apartment building, with school's netball courts being right next to us, which gets converted to a skateboarding park, with makeshift ramps. The problem being that this "skateboarding class" is happening less than 5m from our balcony, usually on friday afternoons (but not limited to fridays). As you can imagine, this creates intolerable levels of noise. I have spoken with the principal, he doesn't seem interested one bit. I have spoken with Auckland City Council, they have sent noise control inspectors on few occasions, they have also talked to the principal, who again wasn't interested. So city council told me to monitor the situation over the next few weeks and make note of all disturbances, and then they'll talk to school board. Somehow I don't think this will resolve the issue. What are my other options? Make video recordings and get a lawyer? Any ideas are much appreciated

Thank you Glenn

True, but you won't get kicked off this one - it was created specifically as a reaction to Swedish government bringing similar sort of law to our NZ one. And its actually run by Pirate Bay

iPredator encrypted VPN service sorts the problem. http://www.ipredator.se/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPREDator

Nice find I'll be submitting my routes under nickname Simke.

Well took us 7 hours to get to Napier yesterday, still same old story with a*holes doing 80 then accelerating as soon as passing lane comes, saw a few idiots overtake on double yellows, etc, etc. So no improvement in general driver behavior, what a surprise.

^ and the guy that was comparing internet to skynet? Why do we have such retards in parliament?

Not really, if you get accused of downloading you get a warning, 3 warnings and you're disconnected from the internet. For each warning it is up to you to prove that you are innocent.

The main problem is that now you are assumed guilty until you can prove otherwise. So if you get accused of downloading copyrighted material, it is you that needs to prove your innocence, not the other way around where they have to prove that you are guilty. Say if I connect to your network, and then download copyrighted content, then it is YOU that has to prove that you are not guilty - since they go after the ISP account holder.

Black Out This Facebook page has been set up for those who oppose the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill being rushed through Parliament. Furthermore even if you do support copyright the government passing bills like this is rather outrageous especially as this one was rushed through under "Emergency Christchurch Earthquake Recovery Measures" We think this is wrong. Don't get me wrong, I'm not pro-piracy, but this bill is just ridiculous. Whats next? And no its not my page.

Agree. When time comes to replace windows laptop I'll be getting vaio again.

Have a look at this XBMC on Apple TV As I mentioned earlier I use xbmc on my netbook and find it to be quite good.

I'll describe my setup, probably close to what you're after. Acer Inspire One (?) netbook, connected to LCD tv via VGA (HDMI would be nice, but its a netbook ) 1GB ram, windows 7 starter, works perfectly fine as a media server. 2 1.5TB external drives connected to it for my media, can also stream to ps3 and xbox360. I've also installed XBMC media center onto netbook, and can control it using XBMCRemote for iPhone - quite cool. This netbook sits behind tv and is not used for anything else. Picture is good (as good as VGA can be) and sound is not too bad - yes it using in-built audio card, but the output goes to marantz amp, can't really complain about the sound quality. And lastly, to control media server remotely, I use VNC. As a main computer I've got sony vaio, well nowdays only used for development and "real" work, got a macbook pro a month or so ago to use as a main laptop - highly recommended if you can live without windows.