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Welcome to the
Hacker's Corner. This will be the
first of probably monthly
features, depending on the
Editor's response and your
feedback. The idea behind
this column is to update
our valued consultants and other
readers on technical happenings
inside Brainware and some
interesting things we encounter
in our daily travels.
Please feel free to email comment
and contribution to
johanns@brainware.co.za. We will
not include any of
those Internet jokes and scams
here, which brings us to the
first point. This one is a bit of
a lemon because we are all guilty
of it to some extent. I think we
will all agree that email is a
wonderful thing. It took about
four years to become commonplace
and anybody without an email
address nowadays must be from
another planet. This great
technology and its growth
is attributable almost entirely
to the availability of a thing
called network bandwidth, which,
by the way, was also fuelled by
the popularity and general
use of email and the www.
However, bandwidth is not
entirely free and has really
become a scarce commodity.
Even when new technology provides
extended bandwidth, we project
that it will always remain
over-utilised to some extent.
It has become fashionable
nowadays for people to circulate
literally thousands of jokes,
pictures, executables and even
video content via their email
accounts. This not only kills our
precious bandwidth, but most of
this is sent and read during
business hours, not to even
mention unauthorised surfing of
the www. As we all know, these
hours are paid for by our valued
clients. C'mon guys and girls,
lets save our bandwidth and be
honest to the clients. Consulting
is after all a very professional
thing. Now on to some more
interesting stuff.
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Many technocrats and
hackers are avid readers and here
we discuss or refer you to some
of the more interesting things we
encountered over the past month.
Books need not be IT related,
just interesting and web sites
get mentioned not necessarily for
their visual appeal but rather
for content. Please email your
feedback and suggestions.
Recommended
books:
The Microsoft File by Wendy
Goldman Rohm, Pub.Times Business
1998
ISBN 0-8129-2716-8
Chaos by James Gleick, Pub.
Mandarin 1988
ISBN 0-7493-8606-1
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Interesting www:
http://www.redhat.com for its
Linux links (more about Linux
next month)
http://www.amazon.com for its US$
750 million turnover in the last
quarter of 1998
Until next
month! Johann Swart.
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