On the cards for a while now, it seems it’s finally happened; “Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion [...]

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EnvironmentalGraffiti‘s 10 Most Diabolical Fish On Earth is a scary look at some of the water’s deadliest and most terrifying swimmers. Seriously, I’m staying out of the water.

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It’s official, Wednesday April 22nd is the day South Africa will hit the polls to decide which party will take the reigns. Following Easter weekend, it will potentially be delayed depending on the outcome of several court issues surrounding the voting rights of expats. Personally, my opinion is straight forward: if you are temporarily out [...]

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As if Febuary 13th wasn’t going to be bad enough seeing its Friday the 13th; UNIX time will reach “1234567890″ at 11:31:30pm UTC. To check (on a *nix box) when it will happen in local time for you run:  perl -e ‘print scalar localtime(1234567890),”\n”;’ “Over at Linux Magazine Online, Jon maddog Hall writes that on [...]

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While everyone was watching the Presidentual Inauguration on CNN yesterday, something incredible was happening behind the scenes. A complete wiping of one legacy and creation of another. Yesterday morning when the Bushes left for the ceremony he left the White House, when the Obamas left the party they arrived at the White House. That means [...]

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As someone who does a fair amount of work on GUI’s for users, I know how important a good looking as well as functional website is. iMod has brought to my attention the latest disaster to come from government. In November last year IEC chief information officer, Libisi Maphanga, said that the organisation planned to [...]

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I’m a Sony fanboy, I won’t lie so the fact that they may post a huge loss makes me a bit sad. The reprocussions of the potential loss across their gaming sector are all speculative at the moment, but with a price drop for the PS3 being rumoured, you can be almost certain there will [...]

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The latest twist that is the share killing saga of the Microsoft Yahoo buyout hit us today – with news that Yahoo is close on closing a deal to merge with AOL. “The latest twist: The WSJ is reporting that Yahoo is close to signing a deal to combine with AOL. This at the same [...]

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A recent vulnerability in phpBB (forum software) has led to the years biggest single hack (afaik). ItNews and Slashdot have updates/commentary on it. Unfortunately for the hackers, but fortunately for the public it appears that instead of exploiting some browser problem (the wisest move in my opinion) it tries to trick the user into installing [...]

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If this isn’t the best idea ever then I’ll hand in my best idea ever deciding badge immediately.

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