Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Its been a while since I made a post here and its all a result of not having an ADSL line at home. Why? Well I moved house at the beginning of December and got the phone line installed as soon as possible. Unfortunately our dear incumbent operator Telkom ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
What's up with the South African airline industry lately? All I see lately are reports of problems and I'm considering staying on the ground for the near future. Just take a look at the following headlines taken from The Times over the last couple of days: 07 Nov - ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Jonathan Allen and Chad Boyd have interest blog posts on the new SQL Server 2008 compression features. Row level compression drastically reduces the meta-data needed for variable length columns. Instead of storing the length of each field in 2 bytes, it now takes a mere 3 bits. Fields themselves ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Sometimes I wonder whether our local communications regulatory body has a clue or a backbone at all. When the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) eventually released their ADSL Regulations last year there was a requirement on local bandwidth which stated: Local bandwidth usage shall not be subject ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Sometimes Microsoft knows how to screw things up. Not only were the Visual Studio 2008 (code-named Orcas) Beta 2 Virtual PC (VPC) images rather excessively large for the average South African developer to download and too big to fit onto a single DVD for community distribution, but now they are ...
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
The US might have landed on the moon but South Africa took a huge leap yesterday when the industry regulator, ICASA, announced that four new pay-TV broadcaster licenses had been awarded to Telkom Media, MultiChoice, On Digital Media and e.sat respectively. An interesting note is that Sentech has withdrawn ...
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
For the last few years I've experimented with various blogging sites. I started off with my very first blog hosted by Blogger, but I wasn't too impressed by it. I can't remember how I stumbled upon the local dotnet.org.za community site run by Armand du Plessis but I found my ...
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