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Rating the ratings
The Fifth Estate today looks into recent claims by the HIA and The Australian that the NatHERS sustainability rating scheme is inconsistent and that there is a, “lack of correlation between actual energy performance of houses and their star ratings”. The CSIRO, developer of NatHERS-accredited Accurate software, says that they weren’t rating the ratings software correctly – “apart from a few minor glitches with the way the software was running, the main issue was due to errors made by assessors and incorrect interpretation of the results.”.
28.10.10 in sustainability computing
Bill Mitchell, 1944 - 2010
Melbourne alumnus William J. Mitchell died last month after a long fight with cancer. He was 65.
22.07.10 in computing
iPhone uPhone we all Phone
I have a new toy phone to replace my overheated Nokia. It’s called iPhone, and I’m temporarily addicted to it. In order to make this addiction feel slightly productive, I write this post…
24.12.09 in computing
Shared nothing architecture
This caught my eye… “Shared Nothing Architecture”. I thought it was the name of a new and rather nasty architecture practice. Then I thought it was maybe the opposite of urban design. But no, it’s, “a distributed computing architecture where each node is independent and self-sufficient, and there is no single point of contention across the system.” Phew.
07.08.07 in weird-wonderful computing