Tag Archives: Tech
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The big media companies and their cronies are getting more and more desperate to try save their totally outdated business model.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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Curse Of Silence
While browsing through hack a day yesterday I found this Nokia smartphone vulnerability. If you go to the link you will notice that it was the Chaos Computer Club that published the vulnerability. I have written about them before and … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Tech, Stuff
Tagged ccc, cell phone providers, chaos computer club, clueless, computer, computers, curse, equipment, hack, hack a day, nokia, nokia smartphone, software, Tech, vulnerabilities, vulnerability
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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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