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/ 13 February 2004
There is no such thing as perfect software, but there is such a thing as the well-timed response. There has been much talk recently about the latest "critical flaw" in a Microsoft product. But the company has already released patches for the potential security hole.
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/ 13 February 2004
The long break since you last saw Domain content may have had you wondering if we would ever return. But it takes more than a month’s rest to shake off the shackles of technology. Can you hear it bleeping around you as we speak? Is that your cellphone beeping an SMS through, the power-supply fan on your PC making that whirring noise? And did your fridge really just order takeout?
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/ 13 February 2004
The Convergence Bill has raised hackles in the media fraternity and online publishers say it will stifle freedom of expression and will result in the regulation of content for all website owners, including private individuals. The Bill is an attempt by the government to ensure the laws of the country are modernised to keep up with changing technologies.
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/ 13 February 2004
They first detected it at 1.03pm, 15 days ago. An innocuous attachment in an e-mail sent from Russia triggered a minor alarm at the Global Operations Centre of Messagelabs, a leading e-mail security firm. No one paid it much attention. Just another new virus, they thought. But MyDoom was no ordinary virus.
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/ 13 February 2004
It is not Women’s Day, nor am I trying to curry any favour with the new editor of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> who is female, but recognition should go where it is due this week. Women’s sport has been performing wonders so far.
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/ 13 February 2004
The idea of establishing a government fund that is meant to rescue firms from liquidation is one that is best, well, liquidated. It was mooted this week at a meeting of stakeholders in the R18-billion liquidation industry. The idea, presumably, would be to preserve jobs and support new black enterprises, which suffer a high attrition rate.
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/ 13 February 2004
The British government launched an explicit advertising campaign on Monday as part of a drive to reduce the rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Radio advertisements warn of the risk of developing genital warts, and spoof Valentine cards are being distributed in clubs, student unions and other social haunts of young people.
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/ 13 February 2004
The Lion King, dead United States presidents, poets, and struggle stalwarts were all quoted to bring home one point or another during the State of the Nation debate in Parliament. When former president Nelson Mandela opened the first democratic Parliament in 1994, he cited Afrikaner poet Ingrid Jonker’s poem The Child Who Was Shot Dead By Soldiers at Nyanga.
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/ 13 February 2004
Negotiations to settle the countrywide strike by 950 baggage handlers reached crisis point this week as the workers’ employer and their trade union again clashed.
On Monday Equity Aviation Services, a private baggage handler contracted by, among other companies, SAA, gave the striking workers an ultimatum to return to work by 5pm and accept its conditions of employment.
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At the helm of this country’s toughest upcoming challenge — to synchronise, for a day, 20-million South Africans — are two stylish and savvy women: Dr Brigalia Bam, the chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and advocate Pansy Tlakula, IEC chief electoral officer.