Feeding off the sun

The Internet is buzzing about the video image of an unidentified flying object taken by NASA and ESA (European space agency) space vehicle called SOHO. After the video went viral…

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IT News roundup

Want to register .something or maybe .anythingelse and have a spare few million rands? ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has released the intended date that the TLD…

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Handy PostgreSQL examples

Quickly count results: Just a count - SELECT COUNT(*) from tablename Count unique entries in table: select count(columnname) from (select distinct columnname from tablename) as x; Create a new table…

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Broadcasting on the Internet

Broadcasting is an interesting word. The 'casting' part is taken from fishing, where one casts a net the purpose of which is to catch many fish at the same time,…

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it news roundup for Wednesday

Top it news story is that Twitter is refusing to deliver user data to a USA criminal court. The New York court case involves Malcolm Harris who is being criminally…

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NewMe makes waves

Google sponsored initiative, NewMe held a demonstration at Google offices in San Francisco where they demonstrated how they developed, designed and launched new startup companies. Present at the demo were…

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Tech news roundup

Google vs Oracle a Jury in San Francisco found that Google did infringe on Oracle copyrights. The jury was deadlocked 6 people to 6 people, about whether the infringement constituted…

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Out phishing early on a Monday

The catch of the day is definitely this phish: Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) Received: from mail.texxa.net (ns1.personalcomputer.net [173.184.121.2]) Received: from User (unknown [184.22.45.176]) by mail.texxa.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id…

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Does Google search make us stupid?

It web published an article saying that Google search makes us stupid. Written by Ivo Vegter it is an opinion piece about Google search making us stupid (yes, in so…

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