I came home at about 2am to find a letter on my bed (thanks Mom), it didn't look like any of my usual bills, so I opened it. It turned out to be a legal threat from Telkom and JM Attorneys claiming I owed then R1350. I assume it related to a Telkom account as the opening sentence contained:
Due to your account, that relates to SP_Telkom_Gauteng_Region, being in arrears, this matter is being dealt with by us on instruction from our client.
The name at the top of the letter was mine, and the address was for the flat next to mine, close enough, although they claimed to have contacted me several times already, which was news to me.
Continue reading "Telkom, JM Attorneys, Meiring & Company Inc."
I just went through a laptop rotation at work. I was upgraded from my Dell D600, 1.6Ghz, 512MB RAM machine to a Lenovo (ex-IBm Thinkpad) T60, 2.1Ghz, 2GB RAM machine.
What makes this machine so great is really the 2GB of RAM. As much as new processors, faster HDs, and better graphic cards claim to improve speed, and often do, I have found that this RAM increase has provided the biggest speed increase on a subjective level.
If it's in your price range I really recommend it. The only down side is that there is no s-video out.
Ubuntu also runs perfectly on it :)
While at University, never having had it any other way, I took holidays for granted. Three months here, ten days there, they were great. Now that I am part of the 8hrs a day workforce, the 13 days I now have over Christmas is literally a Godsend. I've never appreciated time off more.
This is a bit of an unimportant ramble, but I find it appropriate for these carefree holidays.
Oh wow, I am in privacy nut heaven. Check out the following Firefox extensions for avoiding 'the man':
- Scroogle search plugin. Scroogle is a Google screen scraper without the cookies, javascript redirection, no search records.
- NoScript. I have been using this for a while. Given the recent developments in JavaScript attacks (see my summary as an example), you want to block Javascript on sites you don't trust.
- Cookiesafe. For those of you that want to relieve the tedium of cookie whitelists. Like Noscript, but for cookies.
- KeyScrambler. This looks promising but I have yet to test it. It encrypts keystrokes going to and from your keyboard driver to thwarte keyloggers. It won't work against Javascript or XUL keyloggers though.
- SafeCache and SafeHistory. These plugins segment your cache and history to prevent browser history attacks.
- Temporary Inbox. Disposable e-mail addresses for one-shot registrations integrated into your browser.
- Bug Me Not. No need to register for those sites that don't need it. There used to be a plugin, but drag this link I put together: "Bug Me Not" to your toolbar and click on it when a site asks you to register.
- Vidalia. This will set up The Onion Router (TOR) and Privoxy to allow near fully anonymised browsing. I find it slow and a bit of an overkill.
- Multiple Firefox profiles. Create a separate Firefox profile for those 'invasive' services like Google's GMail, Calendar, Groups etc. Profiles can be managed by starting firefox with the "-p" switch. Use the below script to run multiple instances simultaneously:
@echo off
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
start "" "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -p
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=0