CyberKnights

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Local services

CyberKnights are big supporters of the idea of using local services wherever possible. Here are some of the service providers we’ve used in Perth’s Northern Suburbs and found to be good.

ISPs

We use and recommend HostAway because they are big enough to survive but small enough to care and customise. Their broadband plans were highly competitive (before AmCom bought that division out, and AmCom do a pretty reasonable job themselves) and they also offer high quality and economical colocation services.

Our second choices would be WestNet for service (but join them through LinuxIT for even better service and support) or Ocean Broadband for access where ADSL & more traditional broadband is not available.

For truly remote access, we recommend BorderNet’s two way satellite links.

Computer Equipment

We use and recommend PLE in Wangara/VicPark or Navada in Greenwood/OsbornePark for retail-level computer gear.

Photography

For event, people or landscape photography, we use & enthusiastically recommend Jane RF Gibbons-Eyre of Golden Light Photography.

We also do technical photography & are happy to investigate other areas.

Automotive

R A M Automotive of 18 Winton Road, Joondalup have done a competent job of repairing every vehicle that the owners, staff and their families have presented them with. ’Phone them on (08) 9300 1615.

Permaculture

Raise your hand if you were expecting this one? (-:

Our staff have used Permaculture techniques & found them to be simple & effective. Consider phrases like “no dig garden” while contacting Thom or Rosanne Scott at CityFarm, adjacent the Claisebrook metro train station in East Perth. (08) 9325 7229.

“A disgruntled ex-employee who was in charge of making sure we were Microsoft compliant turned us in to the Business Software Alliance,” [Ernie] Ball says. [...] “We were raided by armed Federal Marshals and completely shut down for a day. Then you have to swear you won't touch any data other than what is minimally necessary to run your business,” he says. “I don’t believe you should treat a customer that way.” [...] The company ended up paying a [USD]$90,000 settlement.

Ball [...] decided at that moment his company would become “Microsoft free.” According to Ball, “Everyone said we couldn’t do it. It took us about one year” [to convert to] a Linux-based network and UNIX mainframe.

“I haven’t had to buy XP, and I haven’t had to buy new computers.”

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