There is a limited supply of electricity in RSA. Regularly power is switched off for entire cities for up to 3 hours at a time, on for 2 hours and then off again.
In 1998 as a kid I said the government can not plan for the long-term and they would not be able to uphold the infrastructure as they would not invest in it as that requires seeking long-term rewards rather than short-term rewards.
Eskom is the national supplier of power, that is holding not only software companies back but the whole economy. If there is no power, there is no business at all.
Furthermore, anti-white policies is prevalent, it is so bad that most white engineers have left the country and after 13 years of so called democracy (where people vote based on the colour of their skin for the corrupt ANC) there are not enough qualified engineers to fix the problems.
Viva ANC... (let's * this country up good)
Eating breakfast at work has the benefit that you arrive 15 minutes before everyone else, you plan your day, address significant problems while eating. People see that you arrive early and not that you are actually just enjoying breakfast.
Same applies for the end of the day, plan the next day, take 15 minutes, that way people see you work longer than 80% of everyone else but the 20% which remain see you leave, as you manage to finish all your work in one day.
This is what they were thinking, http://hellkom.co.za/ . It Rand/$ is at 7.22. These are the typical costs.
30GB International and Local (512k account) R989 incl VAT
30GB International and Local (1024k account) R1399 incl VAT
(Both accounts allow for 1 concurrent connection, and have a hardcap at 30GB's)
These accounts work out to less than R50 per GB!
The ADSL line is R413 for a 1Mbps.
So it works out at $250 per month for 30G. Now there are some accounts, where you can get uncapped for R1400 a month in total, that is $193, but these accounts were a limited offer. Internet costs are very expensive, thanks to a monopoly telecommunications industry. Keep in mind these uncapped accounts, will give you about 40kbyte/s on torrents with enough seeds. Think a prison break episode on Pirate Bay seeds.
no, it is not a home, it is more like a bar, with a huge sign and open doors, without a bouncer. a client can not be held responsible for "invading" the property under such conditions. if he refuses to leave when requested then the owners can involve the authorities. if the "bar" was off limits to everyone then they should close the door, hire a bouncer, and clearly state on a sign that it is permitted people only.
At the North-West University of South-Africa we have a course "systems analysis and design methods". We are required to know the theory like parrots and to be able to apply it to create a project of our choice, following the steps outlined in the book. Last year our group of 5 students created an instant messenger, the documentation, design requirements and all that. If you contact me at iwan.pieterse@ "google email address.com" I will send you the email address of the lecturer who instructed us. The book we used is Systems analysis design methods - McGraw-Hill and ISBN 0-07-247417-3. The lecturer wrote a comprehensive study guide also, marking sheets, the works.
wont having a unique identification be the end of anonymity and allow microsoft to force legal copies of windows and other software utilising the unique id?
It is the job of the courts to decide what is racist. I live in South-Africa and it is racist to call someone a "kaffer" but not racist to call someone a "boer". I'm offended when a black person calls me a boer since most of the time its said in a derogatory manner, but most people in South-Africa, which are black, will deny that they can even be racist because they black. Racism is subjective and Google's opinion is not nessarily that of the majority or correct.
I'm not defending the guy, what he did was wrong. If the kid was white and the man black nothing would've come of it though. I think the black community should also just start to ignore remarks like the white community does. In movies, songs and the general media white people are singled out often and it is not regarded as racism.
from an accounting perspective, if a company faces possible liquidation, but has a realistic alternative, ie, they are reasonably sure to make a profit some time in the future, some people see this as a 50% to a 75% chance, then all Sony will need to do is explain the current situation in the financial statements. All this can lead to is a drop in the stock price, but Sony should be able to borrow allot of money to keep a good cash-flow. as others have pointed out, sony has a diverse range of products, if one branch of that product range should fail, the PS3 for example, then they wil be able to cut their losses, sell of those bad sectors, and continue operating, Sony will fade from the spotlight, but it wont be their end.
The technition who installed our wireless hardware, AP, told me the admin is a Linux wizard, bragged that he has 3 screens, 3 keyboards ofcourse, he went on to explain the whole setup to me. He then explained how they manage to identify clients using excessive P2P and clients subletting their connection to other users by using tcpdump. The business contract did not allow more than 5 PCs on the network. We had 3 PCs, all had 2 network cards, plugged in to the LAN, a day passed and the admin told us to get rid of the extra PC, he looked at the MACs. We were told not to run P2P because it made the wireless network slow and used too much bandwidth. When we called him and discussed our problem with him 'breaking' the contract we signed (there was not clause concerning usage) and that we did not want him running tcpdump on our connection. He admited to it and said he was not violating our privacy. Over the course of 2 months we exchanged emails about our 'excessive' use, like downloading 12 Linux ISOs when Ubuntu Dapper came out, since I tested RCs, from the discussions it was clear he knew exactly what we accessed as we browsed, he also sent us sarg reports. Am not witht he ISP anymore.
Since this is South-Africa we have limited options when it comes to wireless ISPs. In our town, there is only, one. Landlines are very expensive, $100 for a 3G hard cap. Telkom, the monopoly phone operator, charges R50, around $10 per gig an ISP sells to their clients. After markups ect there are no real alternatives. The wireless option was a good deal, though because of their business practices I'm back to a land line.
I started to use TOR when I realised my 500 user large ISP's admin was using tail -f access.log on the transparent proxy, running sarg with all output switches and tcpdump. Don't answer me that I should sue him, it is not that easy here to sue someone or worth the settlement. I used TOR to keep my gmail and even slashdot comments private.
Futher, do you close your curtains when it gets dark? Even when you are doing nothing 'interesting'? Am sure you want some measure of privacy.
you are getting paid to mark the papers, to identify problem areas and to solve those problems for the students, you have to provide feedback to them. if you want to be lazy and skip on doing that please dont ever accept a teaching responsibility, i had to teach several friends how to program in java since our lecturer was lazy and incompetant. somewhere someone will have to take the responsibility. work out how much those students pay per class and per evaluation and you will quickly realise you are trying to screw them over. i am a student.
I'm currently studying Bcom IT in South-Africa, it is Financial and Management Accounting, basic programming of excel and java, system analysis and design, both theory and practical, and oracle sql databases. Because it is a Bcom degree we have a few other business subjects. Hopefully I will find good employment with this degree when I leave this country.
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Some RSA news: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010_05_28_archive.html http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010_05_21_archive.html Make up your own mind: http://www.news24.com/Tags/Topics/crime Why waste resources on this bill and not on real issues?
Half of South Africa's young have AIDS from rape:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/264771
There is a limited supply of electricity in RSA. Regularly power is switched off for entire cities for up to 3 hours at a time, on for 2 hours and then off again. In 1998 as a kid I said the government can not plan for the long-term and they would not be able to uphold the infrastructure as they would not invest in it as that requires seeking long-term rewards rather than short-term rewards. Eskom is the national supplier of power, that is holding not only software companies back but the whole economy. If there is no power, there is no business at all. Furthermore, anti-white policies is prevalent, it is so bad that most white engineers have left the country and after 13 years of so called democracy (where people vote based on the colour of their skin for the corrupt ANC) there are not enough qualified engineers to fix the problems. Viva ANC. .. (let's * this country up good)
Eating breakfast at work has the benefit that you arrive 15 minutes before everyone else, you plan your day, address significant problems while eating. People see that you arrive early and not that you are actually just enjoying breakfast. Same applies for the end of the day, plan the next day, take 15 minutes, that way people see you work longer than 80% of everyone else but the 20% which remain see you leave, as you manage to finish all your work in one day.
South-Africa is number 1 for homicide in the world, it is safer in Iraq, than in South-Africa. Go figure why so many South-Africans flee the country.
This is what they were thinking, http://hellkom.co.za/ . It Rand/$ is at 7.22. These are the typical costs. 30GB International and Local (512k account) R989 incl VAT 30GB International and Local (1024k account) R1399 incl VAT (Both accounts allow for 1 concurrent connection, and have a hardcap at 30GB's) These accounts work out to less than R50 per GB! The ADSL line is R413 for a 1Mbps. So it works out at $250 per month for 30G. Now there are some accounts, where you can get uncapped for R1400 a month in total, that is $193, but these accounts were a limited offer. Internet costs are very expensive, thanks to a monopoly telecommunications industry. Keep in mind these uncapped accounts, will give you about 40kbyte/s on torrents with enough seeds. Think a prison break episode on Pirate Bay seeds.
Anyone got this client working on 64bit machines running Ubuntu edgy?
no, it is not a home, it is more like a bar, with a huge sign and open doors, without a bouncer. a client can not be held responsible for "invading" the property under such conditions. if he refuses to leave when requested then the owners can involve the authorities. if the "bar" was off limits to everyone then they should close the door, hire a bouncer, and clearly state on a sign that it is permitted people only.
they also need further education in business management and writing skil1z
At the North-West University of South-Africa we have a course "systems analysis and design methods". We are required to know the theory like parrots and to be able to apply it to create a project of our choice, following the steps outlined in the book. Last year our group of 5 students created an instant messenger, the documentation, design requirements and all that. If you contact me at iwan.pieterse@ "google email address.com" I will send you the email address of the lecturer who instructed us. The book we used is Systems analysis design methods - McGraw-Hill and ISBN 0-07-247417-3. The lecturer wrote a comprehensive study guide also, marking sheets, the works.
wont having a unique identification be the end of anonymity and allow microsoft to force legal copies of windows and other software utilising the unique id?
twisted transistor..
It is the job of the courts to decide what is racist. I live in South-Africa and it is racist to call someone a "kaffer" but not racist to call someone a "boer". I'm offended when a black person calls me a boer since most of the time its said in a derogatory manner, but most people in South-Africa, which are black, will deny that they can even be racist because they black. Racism is subjective and Google's opinion is not nessarily that of the majority or correct.
or youtube, or a torrent site, or name it "debby does dallas.avi" and it will be sure to reach people.
How is this different than browsing an actual book store and flipping through the pages?
I'm not defending the guy, what he did was wrong. If the kid was white and the man black nothing would've come of it though. I think the black community should also just start to ignore remarks like the white community does. In movies, songs and the general media white people are singled out often and it is not regarded as racism.
*possibly Intel laser on a silicon wafer!*
from an accounting perspective, if a company faces possible liquidation, but has a realistic alternative, ie, they are reasonably sure to make a profit some time in the future, some people see this as a 50% to a 75% chance, then all Sony will need to do is explain the current situation in the financial statements. All this can lead to is a drop in the stock price, but Sony should be able to borrow allot of money to keep a good cash-flow. as others have pointed out, sony has a diverse range of products, if one branch of that product range should fail, the PS3 for example, then they wil be able to cut their losses, sell of those bad sectors, and continue operating, Sony will fade from the spotlight, but it wont be their end.
The technition who installed our wireless hardware, AP, told me the admin is a Linux wizard, bragged that he has 3 screens, 3 keyboards ofcourse, he went on to explain the whole setup to me. He then explained how they manage to identify clients using excessive P2P and clients subletting their connection to other users by using tcpdump. The business contract did not allow more than 5 PCs on the network. We had 3 PCs, all had 2 network cards, plugged in to the LAN, a day passed and the admin told us to get rid of the extra PC, he looked at the MACs. We were told not to run P2P because it made the wireless network slow and used too much bandwidth. When we called him and discussed our problem with him 'breaking' the contract we signed (there was not clause concerning usage) and that we did not want him running tcpdump on our connection. He admited to it and said he was not violating our privacy. Over the course of 2 months we exchanged emails about our 'excessive' use, like downloading 12 Linux ISOs when Ubuntu Dapper came out, since I tested RCs, from the discussions it was clear he knew exactly what we accessed as we browsed, he also sent us sarg reports. Am not witht he ISP anymore.
Since this is South-Africa we have limited options when it comes to wireless ISPs. In our town, there is only, one. Landlines are very expensive, $100 for a 3G hard cap. Telkom, the monopoly phone operator, charges R50, around $10 per gig an ISP sells to their clients. After markups ect there are no real alternatives. The wireless option was a good deal, though because of their business practices I'm back to a land line.
I started to use TOR when I realised my 500 user large ISP's admin was using tail -f access.log on the transparent proxy, running sarg with all output switches and tcpdump. Don't answer me that I should sue him, it is not that easy here to sue someone or worth the settlement. I used TOR to keep my gmail and even slashdot comments private. Futher, do you close your curtains when it gets dark? Even when you are doing nothing 'interesting'? Am sure you want some measure of privacy.
my desktop PC is my media centre, i listen music on it, watch TV series, scrubs friends whatever, i dont need a TV, the roles have converged
if i was the remote user i would just invert everything again
you are getting paid to mark the papers, to identify problem areas and to solve those problems for the students, you have to provide feedback to them. if you want to be lazy and skip on doing that please dont ever accept a teaching responsibility, i had to teach several friends how to program in java since our lecturer was lazy and incompetant. somewhere someone will have to take the responsibility. work out how much those students pay per class and per evaluation and you will quickly realise you are trying to screw them over. i am a student.
I'm currently studying Bcom IT in South-Africa, it is Financial and Management Accounting, basic programming of excel and java, system analysis and design, both theory and practical, and oracle sql databases. Because it is a Bcom degree we have a few other business subjects. Hopefully I will find good employment with this degree when I leave this country.