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The internet is a scary place!
If you are an IT professional providing customers with Internet connectivity solutions you know that the internet is a scary place. Back in the dark ages (before 1993) when things started out everyone using the internet trusted each other. Unfortunately … Continue reading
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Tagged e-mail, glug, internet, internet connectivity solutions, linux, linux users group, local network, luser, mail, mail list, man in the middle attack, network, software, Tech, website, windows
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Will they ever learn?
The big media companies and their cronies are getting more and more desperate to try save their totally outdated business model. Modern computers make it ridiculously easy and cheap to copy and distribute any media. The media companies are however … Continue reading
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Tagged bittorrent, blog, business model, commercialise, computer, creative commons licenses, decent money, downloaders, e-mail, free art, internet, jamendo, mail, musicians, network, ogg vorbis, pirate bay, share, Tech, three strikes laws, unauthorised copies, war
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Africa from the rooftops – East Africa Trip 1
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. The first installations I did was in … Continue reading
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Tagged advertisement, africa, computer, computers, dar es salaam, east africa, internet, kampala, linux, monitor, nairobi, radio, rooftops, south africa, systems, Tech, technology
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Do you need the web to sell 4000 year old technology?
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Boekehuis, bookshops, e-mail, international booksellers, internet, johannesburg, Literature, mail, mail list, niche, old technology, Saterdagstemme, small buisiness, south africa, Tech, technology, website, work, world
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Cool new search engine?
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 really care as long as I can get relevant results from them. Unfortunately the few searches I did, did not come close to giving me relevant (enough) results. There was also a problem that the same search would give different results on different occasions or even worse it would give results with say six pages and one of the pages would suddenly say We didn’t find any results for “foo" but all the other pages would have some results. Hopefully they will sort out these issues. more....