![]() Official Club Brochure We have received delivery of our new club brochure. The publication was supported by a number of businesses in the Highlands and will be distributed locally with some copies going to Sydney. The brochure shows Bowral Golf Club at its best with photos by professional photographers and members. There are copies available in the clubhouse. A digital copy is available on the website - please click here to view Our financial results for the first 6 months of the year are now available. These accounts are prepared by our Treasurer Warren Ryan. The six month result shows the continuation of a promising trend. At the completion of our membership year, some members change categories and retire from golf. As members will note from emails sent from the office, we have a strong intake of new members this year. The membership pathways that we offer, especially provisional membership, has been a real success with the majority converting to 6 or 7 day membership. | ![]() Summer Program. - We are putting together an activity program for when daylight saving starts. Over the summer period last year the Friday activities were well received and we will build on it this year. The plan is to have something on every (or most) Friday nights with (say) a free sausage sizzle for members once a month, a 'bring your own to BBQ' on another Friday and then a pizza another night. These are some ideas so far. We've also got 2 more Trivia Nights coming this year with Geoffrey Hammond. Sunday Roasts have also been mentioned as a possibility for members (and their guests) - perhaps once a month during the remainder of winter and then perhaps Sunday lunches that could tie in with the golf medley events. |
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And a little bit about the Website and Computers.
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I thought a little explanation about how our website works and to explain some jargon. The internet is a large collection of networked computers spread right around the world. Each of these computers can be accessed by a unique address (called the IP address). Rather than address each computer by a number, they are referenced by a name, e.g. bowralgolfclub.com.au . There are computers on the internet called Domain Name Servers that translate the name of, say, bowralgolfclub.com.au, into a number such as 199.34.228.100. So to explain this, when a name is typed into your browser (eg Microsoft Explorer or google chrome), the first thing that happens is the browser queries a domain name server; to get the ip address then the browser knows where to request data from. It similar to a phone book - a name is translated to a number. In the case of bowralgolfclub.com.au, which is our website, the information comprising the website is hosted or resides on a computer in San Francisco, California. (Qantas is also hosted on a computer there) The computer in California is located on a "server farm" which comprises tens of thousands of computers. When you type in the address of the club's website, that request travels across the Pacific in a fibre optic cable and is streamed back to your computer. The cables that network these computers around the world, have got multiple paths so that if one fibre optic cable is damaged, data can be routed around another way, e.g. it may come from the US through Japan to Australia. A large server farm can consume about the same power as a large town or small city. . At the club we also have a computer that is a data server that holds all of the golfing and membership information. The information is access when one of our members makes a golf booking. The data is stored concurrently on multiple hard disks (called a redundant array) so that if one fails the data is not lost. In our case the data is backed up continually and an off-site backup of all the data is held away from the club.
The number of websites in the world exceeded 1 billion back in 2014 and the number continues to grow. It is estimated that there are over 10 billion devices connected to the internet. Just in case this question comes up in Trivia or it could just be regarded as another useless piece of information, Microsoft are just commissioning a new server farm in Iowa at a cost of over 2 billion Australian dollars - interesting for some.
One of the services that we use in our website is called Tumblr - it is a blogging site, sort of like an on-line diary, where people can post items of information. This service is used to put the golf course conditions on the website as well as to host the results of the day's play, i.e. the result sheet. Tumblr is owned by Yahoo which is a very large internet company which does the same sort of thing that Google does. In recent years they have been in financial trouble and for a company of this size, trouble comes in quite large pieces - they made a US$4.5 billion loss in the first three months of 2015. The worth of Tumblr was also written down from US$1 billion to US$550 million in the last few days.
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I thought a little explanation about how our website works and to explain some jargon. The internet is a large collection of networked computers spread right around the world. Each of these computers can be accessed by a unique address (called the IP address). Rather than address each computer by a number, they are referenced by a name, e.g. bowralgolfclub.com.au . There are computers on the internet called Domain Name Servers that translate the name of, say, bowralgolfclub.com.au, into a number such as 199.34.228.100. So to explain this, when a name is typed into your browser (eg Microsoft Explorer or google chrome), the first thing that happens is the browser queries a domain name server; to get the ip address then the browser knows where to request data from. It similar to a phone book - a name is translated to a number. In the case of bowralgolfclub.com.au, which is our website, the information comprising the website is hosted or resides on a computer in San Francisco, California. (Qantas is also hosted on a computer there) The computer in California is located on a "server farm" which comprises tens of thousands of computers. When you type in the address of the club's website, that request travels across the Pacific in a fibre optic cable and is streamed back to your computer. The cables that network these computers around the world, have got multiple paths so that if one fibre optic cable is damaged, data can be routed around another way, e.g. it may come from the US through Japan to Australia. A large server farm can consume about the same power as a large town or small city. . At the club we also have a computer that is a data server that holds all of the golfing and membership information. The information is access when one of our members makes a golf booking. The data is stored concurrently on multiple hard disks (called a redundant array) so that if one fails the data is not lost. In our case the data is backed up continually and an off-site backup of all the data is held away from the club.
The number of websites in the world exceeded 1 billion back in 2014 and the number continues to grow. It is estimated that there are over 10 billion devices connected to the internet. Just in case this question comes up in Trivia or it could just be regarded as another useless piece of information, Microsoft are just commissioning a new server farm in Iowa at a cost of over 2 billion Australian dollars - interesting for some.
One of the services that we use in our website is called Tumblr - it is a blogging site, sort of like an on-line diary, where people can post items of information. This service is used to put the golf course conditions on the website as well as to host the results of the day's play, i.e. the result sheet. Tumblr is owned by Yahoo which is a very large internet company which does the same sort of thing that Google does. In recent years they have been in financial trouble and for a company of this size, trouble comes in quite large pieces - they made a US$4.5 billion loss in the first three months of 2015. The worth of Tumblr was also written down from US$1 billion to US$550 million in the last few days.