And we've so sorely needed one for so very long,too. However have we managed without one for all these years, why people have been simply gagging for a space minister for decades now.

And its not as though we have homeless people or beggars in the streets is it, or anyone in desperate need of  health care from an overstretched system..


The man's a complete fuckwit (sorry admin, no other way to express it!) & shameless with it, prepared to promise anything at all in order to gain votes. It wouldn't surprise me if that lot said they'll bring back the sodding death penalty in order to gain votes from the vindictive & uninformed. Unfreakingbeliebvable!





https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politic...e-minister



"Speaking at Rocket Lab HQ, National leader Christopher Luxon has promised to create the role of Minister for Space if he's the next prime minister.


The National Party's space policy document said the Minister for Space would "promote space and advanced aviation in New Zealand and improve the performance of regulators".
ÔÇ£New ZealandÔÇÖs commercial aerospace industry employs 12,000 people and contributes $1.7 billion to the economy. New Zealand is one of only 11 countries with active launch-to-orbit capability, with Rocket Lab launching more than 30 times from the Mahia Peninsula," he said."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...ertificate

Decided to trial Open-m2m.com SIMs. They can use CAT M1 aka LTE-M. SIMs arrived after a couple of weeks. All was looking good so I activated the 1st one. Also put a small amount of funds in the Open-m2m account to begin testing.

But it didn't work. So I researched and double checked all the spec and settings. I put my Skinny SIM in the TK319-L tracker and confirmed it was working.
Finally I emailed Open-m2m helpdesk. They were helpful and checked all the settings their end also confirming no data usage.

Their suggestion was to put their activated SIM in a phone and trial it for internet access. It worked and was connected to 2degrees network.

I need to configure the APN to iotapn.net which I'm struggling to understand how to do. I believe it uses SMS.
But don't I need the device to connect before I can send SMS to it?

Thanks.



Open-M2M response:
To help you out, I've first checked some things on our end

- The sim card was activated properly

- The sim card is allowed to connect to our network (and that of our partner operators)

- New zealand does fall within our standard Discover coverage

- We indeed have not seen any data usage on this sim yet

- I don't see any other issues with the account that would indicate there would be a connection issue.



From what I can tell is that your device connects over LTE-M and Narrowband.

Within New zealand we offer LTE-M coverage.

I would suggest:

- to check if the device is set in a "connection mode" that allows it to connect to LTE-M (sometimes devices prefer NB/Narrow band protocol or are set to only connect to narrow band, which we don't yet support in nz)

- Quite often a device can have connection issues if the APN is not set correctly, consult the manual of the device and make sure you've set the APN to iotapn.net if you havent done so already.

- If this fails, you could perhaps try to put the sim card in a phone (do set the APN, and turn off synchronisation + make sure roaming is allowed), and briefly try to see if you can access the internet.

He was arrested at gunpoint.



https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/133057854/...-in-prison

He's either brave or foolhardy. The Labour party began on the Coast....


They don't tend to be very right wing & have been a law unto themselves to a great extent. But as his Mum was apparently born there, he should be aware of that.

That'll learn them...

Bugs:
The chat keeps disappearing from chat list. The workaround has been to save chat as a favourite in Chrome. A friend has the same issue with this chat and he's using Apple-mac.

In the same Chat, when I click a pic to blow it up, it goes to blank page. Apple mac friend has exactly same issue.

W10, up to date except for (KB5030300)
Chrome, as I write I see it has an update so about to install it.

Thanks.

Online shopping. What I want is for Google to default display an exchange rate amount from US dollar to NZ. At the moment if I Google a dollar amount, it shows me NZ>AU but I want US>NZ
A small thing I know but I'd like to fix it so I don't have to keep selecting from dropdown boxes each time. What am I missing ?

Example:
   

Looks like it got broken into two at an after party, white powder found on it and a player arrested!
https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/provin...eld-broken

As MSD shifts focus.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/3...1#cxrecs_s


"The number of prosecutions for benefit fraud has steadily declined in recent years ÔÇô to a level on par with that for tax fraud. But one researcher says that could change if there is a new government after the election.