Insights and Rants

News and general opinion, often privacy, security or computer related, but could be about anything really, including religion, politics, the environment, business or audio books. "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence/stupidity/neglect." -- Hanlon's Razor

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

File Compare made easy and fast

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File comparison is not a trivial programming task, so I have learnt to rely on the efforts of others. The text editor I use, EditPad Pro , h...
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

WebHost4Life breaks FishWisePro web site for 12 days

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FishWisePro is a web site that provides information on all known species of fish. It is published by the author of www.fishwise.co.za , De...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Tax Collectors and Sinners

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I used to think that when the bible refers to "tax collectors and sinners" it implied they were different, but after recent dealin...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Backups? Who needs backups?

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I make backups. Regularly. I have learnt the hard way, and rescued years of data as a result, in spite of two laptop hard drive failures. I ...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

WebHost4Life domain registration fiasco

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Readers of this blog will know that I recently registered www.rate-my-biz.com in order to give customers a voice . How ironic that my ow...
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Another Perfect Disk

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" Raxco Software has launched the latest version of its award-winning PerfectDisk disk defrag and optimization product family. The new...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

FBI chief states the obvious over cyber-threats

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FBI director Robert Mueller says cybercrime by militants, foreign states and criminals pose a growing threat to US security. Hollywood could...
Monday, March 08, 2010

The news: explained and relevant

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I am not easily impressed by news sites, particularly South African ones. Noseweek is terrific, but too narrow. The Mail and Guardian has g...
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