http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2 Rants and Raves about Technology by the Grumpy Old Techie Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:39:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About 6 years ago I started installing advertisement monitoring systems in Africa for a small media company. A media company of course has good relationships with their customers i.e. television and radio stations. [caption id="attachment_939" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Kampala"][/caption] The first installations I did was in East Africa, Dar es Salaam, Nairobi ... http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/08/26/africa-from-the-rooftops-east-africa-trip-1/ About two weeks ago I googled for info on "Saturday Voices" (Saterdagstemme) at "Die Boekehuis" in Johannesburg. "Saturday Voices" is a regular event at "Die Boekehuis" where well known (and not so well known) authors, poets, critics or academics launch and discuss their work.  To my surprise I found lots of ... http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/08/12/do-you-need-the-web-to-sell-4000-year-old-technology/ I get lots of e-mail, about 300 messages a day (excluding spam). Ok admittedly I don't really have to deal with all of it immediately but if you let it go you very soon have thousand of e-mails waiting in you INBOX. For years I used a mail client called Mutt. ... http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/08/06/all-mail-clients-suck-this-one-just-sucks-less/ I guess everyone that has an interest in matters internet related already know that there is a new kid on the block in the search engine market. Go have a look at http://www.cuil.com if you haven't done it yet. Cuil claims to be the world's biggest internet index. I don't ... http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/07/29/cool-new-search-engine/ Hack a day serves up a fresh hack each day, every day from around the web and a special how-to hack each week. Have fun reading, I certainly do. [rsslist:http://www.hackaday.com/rss.xml] http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/07/26/cool-tech-from-hack-a-day/ Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day You may ask "What is a System Administrator?" The answers you will find at http://www.sysadminday.com/ are as good as any. Being a System Administrator is a somewhat stressful job and turns you into a cynic very quickly (see http://www.sysadminday.com/time.html ) and you start hanging out ... http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/07/25/if-you-can-read-this-thank-your-sysadmin/ Yesterday Andrew McGill posted the message below on the Gauteng Linux User Group mailing list. Because he is not blogging I'm doing it for him. What he is describing is one of the biggest frustrations people have with so called new and improved software.  Andrew is a very competent sysadmin and ... http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/07/23/running-those-legacy-apps/ If you have a look at the page "Where I've been" you will see that I have traveled in most of Sub Saharan Africa.  I travel in Africa for work, which is installing advertisement monitoring systems for one of my customers. Because the systems monitor radio and television broadcasts there is ... http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/07/22/africa-from-the-rooftops/ [rsspara:http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot] http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/07/07/slashdot/ [rsspara:http://docs.info.apple.com/rss/macosx.rss] http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/07/07/apple-support-knowledgebase/