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Knock, knock - anybody there?

I must confess - it's been more than just "a while" that I have posted somthing here. Somehow work can become pretty demanding at times - especially when it comes to available free time, as that just seems to have completely run out within the last 9 months. Good

Learn OOP with Alice - programming in a 3D environment

So you have your problems getting your head around object oriented programming? Well, you're certainly not alone - many computer science students that start with OOP have similar difficulties when turning to languages like Java or C++. One of the reasons may be that between "learning languages" like logo and

perl -e 'print "Happy 20th Aniversary, Perl!\n"'

Time flies - it's 2007, and the programming language Perl already turns 20 years old. Created by Larry Wall, the first interpreter became freely available exactly on todays date - 20 years ago, in 1987. It then took a long and sometimes agonizing 16 years before version 1.00_16 arrived -

Junior Farmer Field & Life Schools manual for free

Or, as international organisations always like to abreviate things, JFFLS (see also the JFFLS flyer) is specifically targeting vulnerable children between 12 and 18 years, giving them a 12 month training program following the cropping cycle. The children attend 3 times a week in open fields. The manual "Getting

Namibia Cricket Board

Another Namibian sports site found while searching through the web is the website of the Namibia Cricket Board, bringing you news from the cricket fields around the country. With currently 12 clubs listed around the country, this website not only offers contact details to each and every one of

Cameroon is offline for 8 days now

As Cameroon Online reports, Cameroon has silently gone offline last week. Aparently Camtel blames a defect in the SAT3 cable 40 kilometers off-shore from Duala for the sudden loss of communication to and from that country. This cable also connects Portugal and Spain with Gran Canaria, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire,

USD 55 billion comitted to connect Africa

In an ITU press release the ITU chief for media relations and public information announced that investment comitments accounting to over USD 55 billion had been made, most of which (USD 50 billion) will be used to upgrade and extend mobile networks. One of the comittments that has been

Less than 4% of Africans are online

As BBC News reports, less than four out of 100 Africans currently use the Internet. Broadband access, a common feature in most European countries which provides both faster as well as cheaper Internet access, is available to less than 1%. These are just two of the findings that the

The "Gutsy Gibbon" is here: Ubuntu 7.10 released

While the unusual codenames for the various releases of Ubuntu Linux probably keep putting a little smile on the face of every "corporate IT"-guy's face, the sheer stability and power of that popular Linux distribution will very quickly disperse that look with one of awe and respect. The new

New mini-Linux Version: DSL 4.0

Damn Small Linux (aka. DSL) has just released Version 4.0 of it small-footprint Linux distribution. Apart from some bugfixes, the new version also incorporates some new pieces of software, including tools for easier network configuration and printing. The really cool thing about DSL is that it doesn't

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