Dear Editor, I refer to your headline article, ‘Nasty cyber wars as Kalonzo website is hacked‘ dated Thursday the 22nd of February 2006. In that article, you have mistakenly misused the terms ‘hacker’ and ‘hacking’. You refer to hackers as intelligent computer programmers or idle, often malicious, people with administrator privileges. In your news story, [...]
Discussions on the www
February 20, 2007 By 2 Comments
There’s no doubt that USENET is the primary mode of discussion on the net (or, at least, it was). The problem, however, is that USENET is not part of the www. On the world wide web, discussions are mainly through web forums and mailing lists. A web forum is a facility on the www for [...]
Smart Internet Search with Zuula and Mindset
February 17, 2007 By 3 Comments
This week I came across two new (-ish) but very cool ways to search the www. I simply must share these with you and so this week we’ll focus on sites that search the web. Zuula.com This is a new metasearch engine that in my opinion is quite possibly the best metasearch eninge ever. It [...]
The Illusion of Reality
February 16, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Einstein Once said:“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to [...]
September Never Ends
February 14, 2007 By 4 Comments
This is the month that never ends it just goes on and on, my friends some lusers started posting here not knowing netiquette and they’ll continue posting here they haven’t finished yet-Eternal September Anthem The oldest computer network communication system still in widespread news is USENET (USEr NETwork). It is a distributed internet discussion system [...]
Netiquette: The Ten Commandments
February 12, 2007 By 2 Comments
As I have said before, and as real users of the internet know, the internet is primarily about human interaction. Naturally, this means that there arises disagreements, heated debates and rivalry often requiring moderation and adherence to netiquette.The following are general principles of netiquette, or network etiquette: 1. Remember the human. Keep in mind that [...]
