The Invictus premiere

After the poor end to the season...

...this made me feel better!

I was there watching the second test at Loftus.

I've never met a nice South African

(via alexwardie31) Funny from yobbos who don't bath in winter!

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One team, one nation

This is the true story on which Invictus is based.

Downloading ubuntu on iBurst

When downloading ubuntu, the preferred South African site is UCT.  UCT is accessible via TENET which peers with iBurst at JINX.

The download is close to the full line speed of an iBurst UTD at 1 Mb/s.  It is useful to utilize a download manager like DownThemAll!

The traffic measurement for the test used a handy tool called iTraffic Monitor.  This tool was mention before here.

Metoer in Johannesburg

I saw this on Saturday night. We were all well oiled!

Jonk en mooi

"Gedink jy sal dit waardeer. In my jong dae 95/96 rond toe ek betrokke was by die JSE se tokenring upgrade. Madge het op daai stadium net die 100 meg backbone switches gerelease. Moerse deurbraak gewees en die fondasie gele vir die decentralization van die ou mark vloer."

 

Nkosi sikelel' iafrika

Check out an interesting competition over at MYANTHEM!

Great tool for monitoring broadband connections

Check out this great tool for monitoring your broadband connection.

Invictus

A Digitally Inclusive South Africa

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

A Digitally Inclusive South Africa

View more documents from Steve Song.

Great software for a small business (or department)

Preview of new version

Standard Bank major incident

Following on the the major incident at FNB, today I heard on Radio 702 about issues at Standard Bank.

How Complex Systems Fail

The IT Skeptic writes in Great paper on failure of complex systems: "It is not often you read something that completely changes the way you look at IT. This paper How Complex Systems Fail rocked me."

The paper is indeed brilliant and a worthy read.  The author Richard Cook is a medical doctor and his other papers are available here.

Serial GSM Gateway

My mate Jason, has designed and developed a Serial GSM Gateway.  Jason has previously starred on this blog with his home management system.

The device is perfect to use as a fail-safe in a crisis!

Borderless (or brainless)

I had an hour to kill before taking Gomama to St Peter's by the Lake. So instead of reading the Sunday paper as I would have done in the past, I was on Google Reader.

I picked up in my Google Reader, from my old diary farmer friend, that Cisco has released a new set of routers (or wood working devices in this part of the world)

I felt proud of my prediction of a single code versioning. I wonder if the survivors of the Nortantic are smirking?  The jbots also have a view. However, what cracked me up was Cisco's viral video. Far from being borderless it was brainless!  Not unlike, 100% Julias!

The viral video was a real hoot:

• Future shopping in a normal store? - if everything was virtual why is the store still packed to the rafters with normal merchandise?
• Cisco's fashion sense is worse that the blourokkies and would not have been out of place in a George Orwell movie.  The hottest offering of the season? I don't think so!
  
• The worst part of the video?  The total lack of security.  The proposed method of  purchase is totally open to fraud and abuse (no chip and pin).  I would assume a serious information security company like Cisco would be more prudent.
• If this stuff runs on a router then I'll eat my shoe!
  

This video was about as dumb as the telepresence relief aid video.