Please head over to the PS3ZA forum (even if you are an XBOX/WII fanboy) and support us to make SterKinekor/Sony to provide us with our local Playstation Network server as well as locally hosted game-servers.
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It’s quite fascinating to note, that the inauguration party alone of our new president will cost R 75m. This excludes any ancillary spendingby police or security agencies, government communications, the Presidency or any other department on the event. While the United States had every reason to host the Obama inauguration as a global event, I don’t see the need to waste unnecessary funds (after all, you could easily provide 500 DRP houses or improve medical facilities across the country).
Makes you wonder why there is no money available to fix our broken roads.
Ex-president Thabo Mbeki’s second inauguration in 2004 probably cost about the same, while his 1999 inauguration cost Foreign Affairs R43,3-million. Good thing we are not copying the US, where the total cost for the inauguration of Obama cost USD 170m and for Bush USD 40m.
BTW: If I had the misfortune to be president, there would be no inauguration. Some ceremony in parliament during a break in a normal session and that’s it. Then, off to work with everyone. No time to waste. And how the hell do you, as a politician, party if your people are suffering? They elected you to improve their lives, FFS.
I have been playing quite a lot of Battlefield Bad Company and did notice a small amount of lag when having the PS3 connected via wireless. I needed a quick fix in the form of the Zyxel GS105a 5-port gigabit switch:
I had a gigabit cable running from the office to the Airport Express to which the PS3 and any other wireless device in the lounge connects. The drawback of the Airport Express is that there are no additional ethernet ports and I was forced to connect everything wireless. This was never ideal, as media-streaming was not very reliable on the PS3.
There is nothing magic about a switch, other than getting something decent for a reasonable price. I got the Zyxel as it has many of the “business-type” switches for a mere R 600:
- 5 Auto-sensing 10/100/1000 Mbps Full-duplex (up to 2000Mbps on each port), Auto MDI/MDI-X Ports
- Intelligent power-saving technology (instead of providing full power to a port, the switch will detect the cable-length and output sufficient power per port)
- Full Wire-speed Store-and-Forward Technology Support
- Non-blocking switching technology (you will feel the lack of it, when you play and someone pulls down a DVD-movie)
Having done some tests, I did notice that latency has improved by 10-20ms — which is not much for the casual websurfer, but for a gamer this is the difference between winning or loosing a game.
Watch the viral Samsung Omnia video below, and let me know how they did this:
The hint is after the break.
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It was an early start to the day for many to avoid long queues at voting stations. We wanted to get the voting out of the way, and joined a queue of 50 people at 6:30am in Pretoria. The voting station was very well organised and by 7am a queue of over 800 people formed outside the primary school.
Within 40 minutes voting was over and the waiting for the final election results starts.
What really irks me is the disregard of the ruling party on any rules, such as the complete disregard of the Electoral Act 73 of 1998:
Paragraph 108 states: On voting day no person may engage in any political activity other than casting a vote
While I am pretty certain that the ANC made sure that they are outside of the boundary of the voting station, they still put up their displays and posters a mere 5 metres away from the entrance of the voting station (and in plain view of the voters) – not playing nice on free and fair election day, aren’t we.
It is only 48 more hours till election day and South Africa is rallying to convince people to vote for their favorite party. There is no doubt, that the ANC will get majority ruling and Zuma will become the country’s president. Regardless of the lack of ANC’s service delivery and the outrageous conduct and subsequent rape of the constitution by Zuma, one has to honor the democratic voting process.
Nonetheless, I stumbled across the following letter on News24:
Living the high life:
“Dear Editor, I am a white guy living in Cape Town. I have been thinking about who I should be voting for in the next elections, and I have decided that I will vote for the ANC. I think I need to explain to everyone out these in cyber land how I came to this decision.
As a white boy, living under the apartheid regime was not all that great, I mean I had this huge guilt complex about what the NATS were doing to my fellow South Africans.
I voted YES in the 1989 referendum and I thought things would be a lot better in SA after 1994. But in reality, they are not so great. We all know all the problems in SA. I don’t need to spell this all out again.
I read this forum regularly, and I see that the ANC supporters (the Kolobes, CTKs, Calvins, etc) have such blind hatred for anyone not supporting the ANC (and especially us white “counter revolutionary colonists”) that frankly I don’t get it.
After 15 years of “freedom” and ANC rule, how do we end up having such blind racial hatred? What has really changed in 15 years?
So I have decided to vote for the ANC. And this is why: The ANC has done a lot more to keep black people poor and living in tin shacks than the NATS could ever have done in the same 15-year period and without any sanctions.
They have squandered vast sums of money – more than the NATS ever did. The have made the divide between rich and poor wider. They have lowered the standard of education to such an extent, that hardly any South Africans tertiary qualifications are internationally recognised. The standard of high school education is dropping year by year.
We have a lot of foreign qualified people working in SA earning vast sums of money due to AA and BEE. The BEE wealth is not being distributed; it goes to the elite few. Companies are not training AA folks, they rather hire foreign contractors.
I am better off under ANC rule than I ever was under apartheid. I earn more, live in an exclusive area, have private medical aid, private health and a private security company keeps me safe. My kids go to a private school.
Under ANC rule I keep all of this and I no longer have to suffer the shame and guilt of being a racist apartheid supporter. If I vote for another party, things will change.
More people will be qualified, and my kids will have competition trying to find jobs. More people will have jobs, and more exclusive areas will spring up, and I won’t feel so exclusive anymore.
I won’t be able earn a vast contractor salary as more local people will be trained and able to do the work. I won’t be able do the work that is given to a BEE company (and sub contracted to me) as they will be able to do the work themselves.
I will lose money on the shares I have in the security companies, as we will no longer need private security firms if the SA Police actually stop the crime wave.
So, as a white guy, the best party to vote for is surely the ANC. I get to keep living the high life while I watch the poor supporters of the ANC live in tin shacks and struggle.
Future is bright.”
Before you spam me with your political views — DON’T BOTHER — although the above is of great satire, the truth is that all public enterprises (telecoms, transport, utility/electricity, education and health) are in a shocking state. Hopefully the new government will finally earn up to their promises and WOW us all and make this country a better place.
Life really is going south in SA – now even short skirts are prohibited according to this national program:
While it is too late for an April fools joke (I noticed the first ad in the Sunday Times and this morning on the radio), it would be a sad day, that all rest-room signs have to adopt to display an appropriately dressed woman. They even offer temporary stickers to extend the skirts on existing signage.
This so smells like an Axe advertisement – let’s see when they let the cat out of the box.
Update: Now it is even causing carnage on our streets:
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