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The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has rejected calls from the IT recruitment industry to ditch changes to the 457 visas made by the Howard government.
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This compact external hard drive packs a lot of speed and storage space into a sleek, stylish package. It's a bit pricey, but well worth the money.
LaCie's latest external hard drive is a winner on price and performance.
The Ethernet Disk offers affordable network storage in a sleek rack-mountable casing. Performance isn't great, but given its target audience this probably isn't a show-stopper. Expansion is an issue though.
Best know for its Mac peripherals, LaCie has joined the handful of companies (Panasonic, Toshiba, and a few others) that are offering drives based on DVD-RAM format.
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