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2 unusual facts about Connect.com.au


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From the early 1990s to the early 2000s the domain was managed on behalf of the Republic of Kiribati by an Australian ISP, Connect.com.au with the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, based in Honiara, Solomon Islands as original sponsor, then transferred to the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development of Kiribati and finally to the Ministry of Communications, Transport, and Tourism Development.

Connect.com.au

In 1995 Connect was sold to three major investors: National Australia Bank, Sirius Technologies and AAPT.


A35 autoroute

On the German side of the frontier, plans to build a final stretch of Autobahn to connect the French A35 directly with the German A65 at Kandel were not implemented during the 1990s when the focus of Autobahn construction switched to the eastern side of the country.

Al Noor City

A new highway connecting the cities to Dubai is proposed, though there are no plans for roads to connect sparsely populated Djibouti with the population centers of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia or Khartoum in Sudan.

ALOHAnet

The goal was to use low-cost commercial radio equipment to connect users on Oahu and the other Hawaiian islands with a central time-sharing computer on the main Oahu campus.

BioSLAX

Their aim was to effectively create a "BioSLAX CLOUD" where students and staff may instantiate any number BioSLAX servers dynamically for research and education (conduct bioinformatics practical labs by having students connect to the servers via suitable X Window clients such as X-Win32, VNC, Exceed and NoMachine NX) or deployed in such a manner which when used in conjunction with the UD Grid mpagent may be used to form a cluster for processing large jobs.

Changping Line, Beijing Subway

After a second phase of construction, the Changping Line will be extended further north to the Thirteen Tombs Scenic Area, and will connect central Changping District with Beijing subway network.

Chuvashia

The Volga and Sura Rivers connect Chuvashia to a national and international water network.

Dayton, Newark

The stop was built in 2001 to connect NJT's commuter lines and Amtrak's Northeast Corridor services with the AirTrain at Newark Airport.

District of Alaska

In 1902 the Alaska Railroad began to be built, which would connect from Seward to Fairbanks by 1914, though Alaska still has no railroad connecting it to the lower 48 states today.

Easthampton, Massachusetts

Recently, the Manhan Rail Trail bicycle path was built over an old railroad line, and there are plans to connect the path to others in the area.

Evelyn Aubrey Montague

His son, after reading screenwriter Colin Welland's query article in a London newspaper, offered them to Welland — who used them, and Montague, as a means to introduce scenes and connect events in the movie.

FIT Issue Management

It features a proprietary flat file database, but can also connect to any JDBC compliant database such as Oracle, MySQL and MS-SQL with the optional database module.

Frankfurt Airport loop

A regional rail project called Regionaltangente West (regional tangent west) is being developed which would connect Neu-Isenburg with Bad Homburg and the NordWestZentrum shopping centre through the western fringes of Frankfurt.

Garsdale railway station

It is the long term aim of the Wensleydale Railway to extend their rails along the former route from Redmire to connect with services here, allowing through journeys to Northallerton on the East Coast Main Line.

Gawler Central railway line

The line was constructed in 1857-58 to connect the Adelaide with copper resources at Kapunda and Burra, as well as to provide passenger and freight services to the new town of Gawler.

Ho Chi Minh Highway

It is a two-lane highway and is planned for 8-lane highway and will connect Cao Bằng Province by the Sino-Vietnamese border to Cà Mau Province with the total length of 3,167 km.

Hospital train

Such trains were able to connect with hospital ships at French channel ports in order to repatriate wounded British soldiers during the first world war.

Instant computer support

This was made possible due to the remote software available to the technician that allowed them to remotely connect to any company PC at any time and the fact that the employees’ computers were all on a LAN (Local Area Network) which could provide sufficient bandwidth for a remote connection to function properly.

Jasidih–Dumka–Rampurhat railway line

The new railway line takes off from Dumka towards the north and will connect with Bhagalpur railway junction.

KenRadio

Produced in Los Angeles and occasionally on location at big trade shows and other important events, Ken Rutkowski and Andy Abramson's audio and video shows cover media, technology, and entertainment topics as well as regurlarly highlight events to help connect individuals and companies with key relationships they need in the entertainment and technology worlds.

Kiev Metro

Possibly one of the most ambitious projects, but nonetheless a very important one, the fourth line of the Kiev Metro will connect the northern Troieschyna districts of the left bank with the future business centre of Rybalskiy Island on the Dnieper River, from there it will continue into the Podil region.

Kollam Junction railway station

Trains from here connect the city of Kollam to major cities of India, including New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Indore, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Madurai, Vizag, Jammu, Howrah, Guwahati, Madgaon, Hubli, Ahmedabad, Gwalior, Nagpur, Pune, Kota, Bhubaneshwar, Gorakhpur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Vijayawada, Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore and Mangalore.

Kostandin Çekrezi

In 1946, he was the one to receive a delegation headed by Tuk Jakova in New Yorker Hotel, and the second meeting with Mihal Prifti, where Costa suggested that the Albanian government should find the way to connect with the Western powers, especially USA, and abolish the "friendly" relations with Yugoslavia of Tito, drawing parallels with King Zog-Nikola Pašić agreements.

Love Connection

Love Connection is an American television game show, hosted by Chuck Woolery, in which singles attempted to connect with a compatible partner of the opposite gender.

Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Its villages include Aquashicola (locally pronounced "ack-wa-SHIK-la,") Christian Corner, Hazard, and Little Gap (which hosts the Blue Mountain Ski Area.) Its highway access is via Route 248, which extends through the southern gorge of the river to connect Lehighton with the Lehigh Valley and has nearby interchanges in Palmerton and Bowmanstown.

MSN Internet Access

MSN was provided by Bell Sympatico, and has been included in older Windows editions (9x, Me) to easily create and connect with dial-up or broadband using a modem.

NeoModus Direct Connect

NeoModus Direct Connect was a file-sharing client for Windows and Mac users that provided file-sharing capabilities for any type of file within a hub-centric, peer-to-peer network and contained adware.

Ngawi Regency

Ngawi also the main gate to enter East Java province since there are intersections that connect Surabaya-Madiun-Bojonegoro-Solo-Jogja-Bandung-Jakarta.

One SeaGate

The underground tunnels also connect the building to the Wyndham Hotel (formerly Hotel Sofitel) at Two SeaGate, Four SeaGate (the former home of Fox Toledo joined WTOL in 2012 and relocated to the WTOL studio), a parking structure across Summit Street, and Imagination Station.

Ontario Highway 531

Highway 531 is a short highway east of North Bay which serves to connect the community of Bonfield with Highway 17, the Trans-Canada Highway.

Quilicura

Transantiago public buses connect Quilicura to the centre of Santiago these run frequently in each direction.

Railroad Tycoon 3

Rhodes Unfinished: Eastern Africa, 1902–33 Mission: Connect the cities on the Indian Ocean coast to the inland cities

Salim Group

The proposal for a bridge across the Hooghly River from Raichak to Kukrahati, which will connect Haldia to Kolkata, has been hanging fire for many years.

San Francisco LGBT Community Center

Its mission is "to connect our diverse community to opportunities, resources and each other to achieve our vision of a stronger, healthier, and more equitable world for LGBT people and our allies."

Shelby Iron Company Railroad

The Shelby Iron Company Railroad was built to connect the Shelby Iron Company in Shelby, Alabama, to the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad at Columbiana, Alabama, a distance of about five miles.

Sitarampur

Many local and passenger trains connect Sitarampur with Dhanbad, Gomoh, Chittaranjan, Asansol and Bardhaman and to Madhupur & Deoghar in Deoghar district of Jharkhand and various other parts of Jharkhand and Bihar.

SMS banking

Depending on the volume of messages that are require to be pushed, means to connect to the SMSC could be different, such as using simple modems or connecting over leased line using low level communication protocols (like SMPP, UCP etc.) Advanced SMS banking solutions also cater to providing failover mechanisms and least-cost routing options.

St Martin, Ludgate

Some legends connect the church with legendary King Cadwallo (now usually referred to as Cadwallon ap Cadfan, father of Cadwaladr.

Storrow Drive

For example, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has proposed covering Storrow Drive near the pedestrian Arthur Fiedler Bridge, replacing the old overpass with a wide, ground-level park space that would better connect the green space of Boston's Public Garden with the Esplanade.

Suikoden Tierkreis

By using the DS' Wi-Fi function, two players each with their own game card can connect to each other to exchange characters and items, as well as gain access to unique battle scenarios.

Swan Hill railway line

Options discussed include the return of passenger trains on the existing railway between Ballarat and Mildura, or via an extension the extension of the railway from Swan Hill to connect to the Mildura line at Ouyen.

Tangerang–Merak Toll Road

In mid-2012 the toll road operator, pt marga mandala sakti, a subsidiary of PT Astra International Tbk, said that construction of all parts of the road to connect with the port of Merak was almost complete.

Tirur railway station

Though no trains originate from this station, trains halting at the station connect the town to prominent cities in India such as Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Coimbatore, New Delhi, Mangalore, Pune, Jaipur, Jammu Tawi, Okha, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and so forth.

Voguéo

After 15 minutes of travel from its base, it reached the second stop at the twin Nelson Mandela Bridges which connect the communes of Ivry-sur-Seine and Charenton-le-Pont via the D154 autoroute.

Webster Street Station

The Swedes in Omaha used the Webster Street Station to connect with their ethnic communities in Oakland, Pender, Wakefield, and Wausa.

Westin Building

The facility has a pair of "Meet-me Rooms" on the 19th floor, which are used by telecommunication carriers and internet service providers to cross-connect their individual networks.

Wireless repeater

Some wireless range extending devices connect via a USB port.

Würzburg Hauptbahnhof

First, in 1861 construction started on a nearly 90 kilometre-long link between Würzburg and Ansbach station, where it connected with a line that had been built in 1859 by the town of Ansbach to connect with the Ludwig South-North Railway in Gunzenhausen.


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