Topic: driving

Would you drive a taxi in South Africa?

December 10, 2008 by evl

So the gov ee ment wants to make a public transport system of some kind. I really have no idea and couldnt care less because I wont use it anyway.

My thoughts are just that these taxi drivers was all over the news since it has to do with the 2010 world cup.

Now if I was from another country I would in no way drive a South African taxi after seeing that news all over.

Imagine being used to the tubes in London and now you planning to come to South Africa and check this stuff out on the news. I'd be like - staying home for the 2010 world cup.

Entrance to Matjiesfontein Lord Milner Hotel

December 3, 2008 by evl

Matjiesfontein is one of the best places I've had a holiday at. As you drive in the only thing that basically reminds you that you are not in the 18th century is maybe your cellphone or the cars standing outside. Everything about Matjiesfontein's look and feel is like you are back 100 years.

Even the entrance as you can see here is something out of a Victorian movie.

GTA IV (4) will use DRM

December 2, 2008 by evl

Here is part of the FAQ on the installation process and it says

- Activation via Internet (1x per system, no limits, Fallback for systems without web access)

- Copy protection Securom: The original disc is required for playing (Execpt: Download version of GTA 4, for example from Direct 2 Drive)

- Requirements for playing (singleplayer): Games for Windows Live account for saving/achievements (1x free creation), original disc, Securom runs in the background

- Requirements for playing (multiplayer): Active internet connection, Games for Windows Live account, For uploading videos: Rockstar Social Club Account.

- If you don't have web access or don't want to connect your gaming PC to the Internet, Rockstar wants to offer a not yet specified system to activate GTA 4 via another PC with web access. Details are supposed to be available on launch.

- For the normal GTA 4 (PC) version with disc installation, activations are unlimited. But the original disc is required for playing.

- This does not apply for legally downloaded versions of GTA 4: Depending on the vendor the following is possible: Five parallel installations with the possibility to revive a "free

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Another reason to keep your data off the cloud and get your own hosting Aol to nuke content

October 22, 2008 by evl

theodp writes "Blaming an unquantified decline in usage, AOL has notified users it's decided the best thing to do is delete all of their blogs and files on October 31st. Want to save that precious blog of yours? AOL not-so-helpfully suggests: 'The quickest and easiest way to do this is by copying and pasting your content into a word processing document such as Microsoft Word, Notepad or even into an email and mailing it back to yourself. If you have any images we suggest you save them separately by right clicking on the image, choosing "Save Picture As" and allocate the drive on your PC where you would like to save them to.' Gee, thanks. And don't get too smug, Google users - the search giant has put its users on notice that Google Page Creator will be a thing of the past by year-end, although details of the transition have yet to be provided."

See how you should not put your stuff on free places and rather spend that R80 or $10 and getting your own domain? Depending on the cloud for a blog or rather anything is just not that bright.

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