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South Africa can finally create Paypal accounts again

December 17th, 2006 · 4 Comments · general

We South Africans are now again allowed to create Paypal accounts. Go ahead, try it. You will be up and ready to pay/receive money in under 10 minutes.
Seven months ago was the last time I tried to create a Paypal account. I was greeted with the familiar message “because of banking laws in South Africa […]

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Distributed version control: The perfect fit for the bazaar

September 15th, 2005 · No Comments · general

The problem: Client-Server needs a gatekeeper
CVS has been the preferred version control system for Open Source projects for a very long time now. CVS in its current form was created in 1989! It has a number of limitations, most notably in renaming files and directories (you can’t). So some core developers of CVS came together […]

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Using mutt, a very efficient email client

June 14th, 2005 · No Comments · general

Today I felt the need to defend my choice of mutt as an email client. I can not remember the exact circumstances, but mutt was compared
to something broken and horrid to use.
My first contact with mutt was in 1999. At that time, the only email clients installed on the university’s computers were Netscape 4 and […]

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