Gister het my brand spanking new site ZEF live gegaan. Julle kan dit uitcheck by www.zef.co.za
Wat ZEF basies is, is maar net speelgrond vir allerande kak en zef goeters dit gaan ook plek wees waar ek musiek reviews gaan doen oor local Afrikaans bands soos Fokofpolisiekar, aKing, Die Heuwels Fantasties om ‘n paar te noem.
Stelselmatig sal hierdie blog gekill word en omskep word in blog waar ek my persoonlike projekte gaan showcase.
Die heuwels Fantasties het dit weer gedoen na die groot sukses van hulle singles het hulle sopas ‘n kompakskuif vrygestel met 50minute se snitte wat nou beskikbaar is in Musica winkels.
Bo en behalwe dit het hulle sopas nuwe single vrygestel wat hulle saam een kwaai bra Jack Parow gemaak het. Dink aan Die Heuwels se nice unieke klank combined met dutch rap, en die resultaat is “Die Vraagstuk” Nice song ouens, like die collaboration.
Julle kan die tjoon hier luister
During this week I saw a request on my favourite forums MyBroadband about some guy wanting some help in Delphi counting the ocurrance of a certain character in a string. So I quickly put a function together and thought I’d might as well share it with you guys.
function CountChars(const str: string; c: char): integer; // Returns the number of times a character occurs in a string var p: PChar; begin Result := 0; p := PChar(Pointer(str)); while p <> nil do begin p := StrScan(p, c); if p <> nil then begin inc(Result); inc(p); end; end; end;
To use it simply call as follows: CountChars(thestring,thechar);
Where thestring is the string you want to search in and thechar the character you want to count.
Researchers from the Ilmenau University of Technology lead by Professor Andreas Mitschele is atempting to use flying wireless quad copters to create self asembling ad-hoc wireless networks.
The group claims that the copters can be used in disaster areas where standard infrastructure is destroyed
The robots can create a network of radios that can be used for both mobile-phone or standard wireless network access. All this is being achieved with normal off the shelf parts.
The robots can spread themself and deploy a network far more quicker than any on the ground. As with any electric power device there are limitations though.
Having only 20 minutes for flight time the copters can easily fly to a destination and go land to deploy the network.
The quadcopter kits come in at 300 euro (R4000) thats excluding bateries, with batteries being more expensive at 1000 euro (R14 000) capable of only lasting 20min at full load.
Yesterday rumours surfaced about a posible price increase from multichoice on forum threads on dstv.com aswell as mybroadband.co.za
Threads posted on the dstv forum soon got deleted for no reason at all, which made users more sceptical. Today Multichoice decided to confirm the rumors by making an official post on the dstv forums. Multichoice states that these prices may not be final and could change.
The increases are as follows:
The DStv Premium bouquet will be increasing from R 468.99 to R 499.00.
The DStv Compact bouquet will be increasing from R 199.00 to R 219.00.
The DStv Select bouquet increases are still subject to confirmation.
The DStv North Indian bouquet will be increasing from R 222.75 to R 237.00.
The DStv South Indian bouquet will be increasing from R 168.91 to R 179.70.
The combined DStv North and South Indian bouquet will be increasing from R 391.66 to R 416.70.
The DStv Portuguesa bouquet will be increasing from R 222.75 to R 237.00.
All access fees will be increasing from R 55.00 to R 60.00.
Users have expressed their frustration clearly on the dstv forum about the price increases scheduled for April 2009. Users have requested more information about the price increase as to improved viewing experience and content, all Multichoice had to say was that “This information is highly confidential and strictly on a need to know basis. If I tell you, I’d have to kill you.” and another quote saying the following “In terms of HD channels, I doubt that we’re be launching another channel this year, but we are definitely looking at adding value to the current channel.”.
A post-beta version of Windows 7 that includes an updated version of Internet Explorer 8 has leaked to Internet Filesharing sites all over the world.
With Microsoft that halted downloads of the beta version Tuesday, users are again turning to illegal sources to obtain the new operating system.
Doing a simple search on the famous thepiratebay.org torrent tracking site revealed multiple versions of Windows 7 Build 7022, an .iso disk image date-stamped Jan. 15, making it the first leaked build that was completed after Microsoft launched the public beta.
Comments from users who download it confirmed that it is, in fact, a working copy of Windows 7. More details about the build can be found here.
Ever wanted to live your dream of becoming a real pirate? Well Facebook just made it one step closer for you. You can now get to terms with real pirate speak by setting you languange to English(Pirate).
To do this simply do the following after loging into Facebook:
Its that simple to becomming one step closer to a pirate.
Neotel has not officialy launched their NeoFlex service with a press release, but arcording to sources you can simply dial 0860636832 and they will give you the prices for the packages.
For all of you that was waiting for a uncapped option I’m sorry to say that there currently isn’t one, but hopefully by July they might bring out an uncapped package.
The following packages is available:
Ontop of that you must either sign a 24month contract and then add R100 to your monthly premium for the ethernet device or you can buy the device for a once-off cost of R2000.
The packages is data only packages and once customers reach their data cap, Neotel’s out of bundle rates are charged at a nominal fee of 8 cents per Megabyte.
Im actualy a bit disapointed at the prices, as I expected larger caps or even a uncapped option. If you opt for the 10gb package you pay just under the R60 per Gig and on the 15gb package you pay about R54 per Gig, these prices realy dont give much competition but it still beat if you take in account that you have to pay line rental on normal ADSL lines.
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More details available on the Neotel Website
Kalahari.net has gone crazy with the prices on some of their games. The local online store has cut prices to some of their games to almost 70% off.
Titles such as Race Driver GRID was R400 and is now available for only R90 for the pc version. Even the XBOX version is marked down from R700 to R190.
So who said that buying orginal games can be expensive, go check out Kalahari.net for all the titles available.
Neotel is set to launch its new NeoFlex data only broadband offering next week.
Many consumers have been waiting for this day for a while now, and looks like it has finally arived. This will be the first data-only offering from Neotel with the company’s first ethernet based router.
MyBroadband had the privilage to do eary testing of the service and reported that it did well rivaling Telkom’s ADSL service.
The product aimed at the residential market has theoretical downlink speeds of up to 3.1 Mbps and uplink speeds in excess of 1 Mbps, this is all dependant where in the coverage area you lie and how good your signal is.
Neotel will make the product specifications and pricing available on their website next week with a press release. For more info keep an eye on the Neotel website.
