ZA Tech Show: Episode 12
In this week’s episode we’re giving away copies of Norton Antivirus, so take a listen for the details. We also discuss:
- The release of Windows XP Service Pack 3.
- The slow performance of Outlook in Vista.
- WINE finally releasing version 1.0.
- Mac4Lin.
- Progress of the Linux desktop.
- Pzizz - software that makes you sleep. Literally.
- The possibility of a fibre-to-home solution from Neotel. And another slow but uncapped offering too.
- World of Warcraft - and the new ZA Tech Show guild on Whisperwind, US. Send a message to ‘Rootsmanoova’ for an invite…
- InfraCo’s West Coast cable and how it fits into the bigger bandwidth picture.
- New, bigger caps coming to Telkom.
- The first DSTV channel to go HD.
- Noxious Nigel’s attack on local IT professionals and Internet privacy laws.
- Bolton Deventer.
- CNET being acquired by CBS.
- Microsoft and Yahoo! revisited.
- Jon and Google. Not a loving relationship.
- Online verification and why captures are dead.
Durban is probably the best place to live for Fibre… go figure.
FYI, WoW patches from clean BC are just under 2GB. I did them couple of weeks ago and know the pain