Well, you all remember the old classic, again, browsing YouTube found some cool Stop Motion videos with Lego characters, and some babies doing tha GREASE THING.
Grease Trailer
Babies
Lego Stop Motion
Michael Gannotti posted this very informative Sharepoint video(s) about Sharepoint and Collaboration elements.
Image from Wikipedia Commons
It is that time of the year again, IT Personality of the Year
(taken from http://www.itweb.co.za/events/itpersonalityoftheyear/2008/ )
One of the more known candidates to me is Vinny Lingham from Synthasite.
The 5 finalists have been announced and the winner will be announced on the 5th of November 2008.
I must say from the list I just know about two of them, which is Vinny and Rob from Integr8, just shows need to get more in touch of what is going on in the South African IT industry.
Well, after being abit bored as this is a long weekend for me, I decided to go through my study and get rid of all unnecessary stuff lying around.
What I came up with was a heap of cd’s with old or deprecated software, even found 7 different versions of Linux lying around on CD’s which is outdated.
One of the treasures I found, was a mouse which I bought in 2000 and used up till 2007 before it started giving problems.(didn’t want to click anymore).
As you can see from the pictures, the mouse was really USED. And for a purchase under R100 bucks for 7 years of trustworthiness! Thanks SAHARA!
So I decided to throw it out, don’t know why I kept it in my drawer anyways…
Ian this morning, fell asleep after he had his breakfast 😉
After I ordered my DivX player I found a few reviews for the product and realized that the product won’t fit all my criteria, so I cancelled my order from WantItAll.co.za , and ordered another model from eShopper.co.za and also after some research found this to not meet all my criteria AFTER I ordered it…. so again I cancelled my order.
So eventually I decided to go for the MVix780D which I ordered on Monday(last week) afternoon around 17h00 from Nivo.co.za, and picked it up on Tuesday(the day after I ordered) afternoon as they are on my way to work in Montgomery Park.
I’m still playing around with my new MVix, and found a restriction that it does not support the new MKV format which is starting to come more and more visible these days. After visiting their site I found that they publish regular updates of the firmware and downloaded the latest firmware which has a beta release of MKV support.
All n All I’m happy so far, so when I’ve got some free time, I’ll try to publish a proper review of my MVix.
I checked MVix.co.za’s site and found that they already have a firmware update for MKV‘s which is in BETA but it’s cool to now have a device where there is constant Firmware updates.
After reading Imod’s post on his DivX player I just had to get me one too.
After doing some research I decided to go with the D-Link Div X Connected player(uses DivX connected technology), which provides much more than just playing movies, viewing pictures, but also has vast amount of expandability, as the player connects to your PC and all the work is done there, conversion, GUI processing etc. This also means you don’t have to worry about Firmware upgrades, you just upgrade the server.
I ordered mine from WantItAll.co.za and should probably receive it next week. Will post some feedback after I’ve taken it for a spin then.
Highveld Sterero (94.7) Rude Awakening Team have had a friday song which plays every friday morning.
For long we’ve nagged at them to give it to US !!!!
At the moment, part of my work involves data integration from various sources, formats and locations into one major central database where important decisions are made from all the data ‘mined’.
I’ve evaluated a couple of products, from large enterprise scale level products(which does come with a big price tag) and down to simple macro/automation tools to perform ad hoc tasks(simple functionality and data reading like CSV files) on desktops and servers which can be used by normal non-programmer people.
One product I particularly found very powerful and useful is Talend Open Studio, which is an open source product but does come with company backing support just like MySQL does with their products as well. It is abit more advanced for a normal user, but programmers will find it quite a breeze.
With a powerful GUI with nice workflow modelling makes this very powerful, click and drag the connections and what actions you want to perform into place and welll….Bob’s your uncle. With a PERL/JAVA(you decide) backing you can build quite powerful data integration procedures and processes. I haven’t checked how, but I’m assuming as well that the extensibility could also be very powerful.
Google Maps UK has finally added live traffic data to the major roads in England*. As with other areas in Google Maps that have traffic data enabled, you can also let Google predict what the traffic situation will be like on any day at a specific time.