Archive for May, 2007

Well since I didn’t like Ubuntu I decided to try the other “hot” linux distro,  PCLinuxOS 2007.

Just run “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl”. Absolutely crazy use of telnet. About the only thing telnet is good for :p I hope the RIAA doesn’t bust them… It’s apparently about 2 years old but I only saw it now so :p There’s some more stuff on on telnet.org but that’s about the best of it.

I’m not particularly interested in advertising for them or anything, but the Vodacom specials page has a “birthday special” this weekend only, N95 R999 on business call. Now that seems like a pretty good deal to me if you’re already on business call or similar contract. Otherwise I’m not quite sure why anyone would get […]

There’s one extremely long (but worth the read) article over at Business 2.0 magazine about a few of the big players in the domain name squatting game.
I thought that this was a business that didn’t really exist too much anymore. Apparently I was wrong. With auto-complete features of browsers and bookmarks etc I hardly ever […]

Facebook appears to have taken off in South Africa. It seems that it’s likely to be bigger than MXIT… I don’t know if it’s just within the broader network of people I know or what. The South Africa “network” is just over 52,000 users now. My University’s network is in the 7,000’s out of probably […]