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Pretoria User Group Meeting

We have user group meeting on Wednesday and the topic is Serialization by Mario Lionello.

Date: Wednesday, 29 June
Time: 18h00
Topic: Serialization
Speaker: Mario Lionello

Venue: GijimaAST, Midrand, Building C (leftmost), Indaba Room (MAP)

Please RSVP here...

Posted: Jun 27 2005, 10:59 AM by Thea Burger | with 3 comment(s)
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Erotic Application???

In a search for a solution to a problem, I came across this post which I thought was quite funny:

application behaves errotically if IP address used in URL

From now on I'm just gonna use IP addresses as URL's!!

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Posted: Jun 14 2005, 09:31 AM by Thea Burger | with 3 comment(s)
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Comrades - good luck Armand & Prieur

I just want to wish Armand and Prieur good luck with the Comrades that they are going to run for the first time on Thursday!!!

I know it takes a lot of training and guts to do this - getting up early every morning (ok, almost every morning), going out in the cold, running 10-12 km... A couple of times they even skip going out on a Friday so they can go run a race Saturday morning!! (If you know Armand, you'd know that takes a lot of willpower  ) Nope, it is not just anyone who has the determination to do this!!

Ps: and I think you have to be just a little bit crazy

Anyone else going that I don't know of? If so, good luck to you too!!!

Posted: Jun 14 2005, 08:06 AM by Thea Burger | with 4 comment(s)
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Telkom ADSL just got cheaper

From Finance24.com:

“South Africa's fixed-line monopoly Telkom (TKG) will, with effect from August 1, cut ADSL and data prices - with the entry-level internet access product down to R270 a month, the dual-listed telecommunications giant announced on Thursday. “

“HomeDSL 384, middle-level solution for residential customers, is set to be reduced to a flat rate of R359 a month from R449. “

At least it's something ;)

Posted: Jun 02 2005, 11:19 AM by Thea Burger | with 2 comment(s)
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The reason why I love Microsoft products #1

SUPPORT!!!! Hell, I need to send mails to Groupwise and be able to track them. (We're on a Novell network). So I found the Groupwise Object API and started to code against the GroupwareTypeLibrary. Searching for this object in Google only return 1 1/2 pages of results. Now start searching for properties, methods etc... you get nothing, niks, nada!

Now sending works perfectly, but when I try to get any other info on the messages I sent is where the problems start...
The mail object has properties like DeliveredDate, Opened, Read, etc. When I send a mail to an existing account it looks like all of these works fine, BUT when I send the mail to a bogus account, it actually gives me a DeliveredDate, and the properties Opened and Read are both True. Now I ask you with tears in my eyes, how is this possible? Maybe it was delivered to a badmail mailbox or something like that, I don't know, but my problem is that I can't find a place where I can find out these stuff!!!

1. When I search Google I don't get anything that can help me
2. Posted my question to Cool Solutions - no reply
3. Posted my question to Novells Developer forum - no reply

Now you can tell me that it may be because less people use it, but I think this is a huge factor why I will not use a product. It is frustrating, to say the least.

So thank you Microsoft for a decent library which I can use to see how to do stuff!!!

Ps: I need to add that some of the other questions in the mentioned forums were answered quickly and was of high quality, but mine didn't get any responses, so I'm just ranting a bit.

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Posted: Jun 01 2005, 01:55 PM by Thea Burger | with 10 comment(s)
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