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Establishment of a Catchment Monitoring Network Through a Participatory Approach in a Small Rural Catchment in South Africa

The establishment of a catchment monitoring network is a process, from the inception of the idea to its implementation, the latter being the construction of relevant gauging structures and installation of the various instruments. It is useful that the local communities and other stakeholders are involved and participate in such...

Tags: Monitoring, South Africa, Establishment

White papers 2007-10-16

Virtualisation Gets Top Honours From New South African University

North-West University is one of the larger universities in South Africa with approximately 43,000 students. The new educational establishment is the result of the merger of three former institutions, and this has created a complex organisational structure spread across four rural campuses up to 300km apart. Creating an IT infrastructure...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Establishment, North-West University, Utility Computing, Blade Servers, Virtualization, Servers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Storage Management, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware, Investment, Finance, Storage

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Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreement

Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreementI agree with your points and your questions...Way too many "loopholes" and bad decisions have been put into this bailout bill. Not the least of which is absolutely no accountability.To use Mr. Krigman's IT project analogy it would be like seeing that poor decisions...

Tags: Taxes, Team management, Leadership, Free trade, Financial services, Economic Meltdown, insanity, disagreement

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

2009 Mazda MAZDA5 Grand Touring

Photo gallery:2009 Mazda5 Grand TouringIt seemed like everyone who we spoke to about Mazda's Mazda5 said the same thing: "It's a mini-minivan." As cheesy as that sounds, there isn't really a better way to describe what Mazda has created with the Mazda5. As fuel prices soar and its full-size MPV...

Tags: GPS, Mazda5 Grand Touring, Mazda Motor Corp.

Product reviews 2008-09-29

Oracle Fires A Booming Shot Across The Bow Of The Storage Vendor Establishment

Yesterday at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison announced the database giant's first foray into the hardware realm, unveiling the HP/Oracle Database Machine, branded as Exadata. The Exadata system is a combination of Oracle's 11g database engine using Automated Storage Management ASM to manage a grid of HP Proliant servers with 12 SATA...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Performance, Exadata System, Storage Server Grid, Larry, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Andrew Reichman

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Microsoft trumps Apple in battle of the brands

The iPhone maker languishes in 24th place in the Best Global Brands 2008 survey, while tech companies including Microsoft and Google chase the No. 1 brand, Coke. Apple may currently be king of consumer gadgets but the company is failing to hit similar heights in a list of the...

Tags: Google Inc., Brand, Interbrand, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., iPhone Maker, Branding, Marketing, Tim Ferguson silicon.com, brands, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Google

News items 2008-09-22

A tribute to Pop

A tribute to PopNot bad questionsFortunately, he had enough in reserves to hire a private ambulance service to bring him up here. An EMT was with him the whole time and he was able to come up to his favorite place. He traveled up here frequently when he...

Tags: Benefits, tribute

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Creation in science classes? Maybe...

Creation in science classes? Maybe...The Last QuestionIf you really want to confuse people about this issue, have them read Asmiov's "The Last Question". Then see if they think about this issue the same way.Take care............WayneWhy is there necessarily a conflict?As a former science teacher, I handled the topic of...

Tags: creationism, science class, theory

Discussion threads 2008-09-14

What are we breathing now? Let me guess...

What are we breathing now? Let me guess...AIRSO!please stop using my AIR hold your breath so we can get clean air. you are messing it all up for usGET A REAL JOBBreathing deeplyconfident in the fact that the human system is excellent at filtering out all manner of substances...

Tags: Food & Beverage, political establishment, Dude

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

Reviewing an IRS web services report

Reviewing an IRS web services reportWhere's Anton?This is a great example of his "empower the users" by letting them run whatever M$ software they "need" on their PCs. To hell with those big bad IT admins - we'll just do it ourselves! Unfortunately now the security of the entire IRS...

Tags: Web servers, Servers, Web service, server, Web server, Murph, Internal Revenue Service

Discussion threads 2008-09-10

Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...

Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Should political postings stay or go? A survey.

I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...

Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Bid to stop Large Hadron Collider fails but EU, US suits move forward

Bid to stop Large Hadron Collider fails but EU, US suits move forwardHere's what's going to happen:Here's what's going to happen:Someone will turn on a switch and we'll learn something new. What's going to happen in the LHC happens [i]trillions[/i] upon [i]trillions[/i] of times every day. If the...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, move forward

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder

Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coderAll makes senseIf I was running a large open source project with thousands if not millions of people all over the world depending on me to get it right, I think I'd do things in much the same way.Certainly it makes sense to...

Tags: Strategy, Torvalds, Linux, vision, Linux coder, open source, chef, picnic

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Expensive Oil, Stupid Trade Groups, and Pending Enterprise Software Growth

USA Today had an interesting article today that calls into question a few of the doomsday scenarios that have dominated US policy-makers and those for whom policy has been made over the last decade or so. And in the process America's newspaper debunks some stupid policy issues on the subject...

Tags: Oil, Enterprise Software, NAM, Manufacturing, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Technology top tips for students

Technology top tips for students11. Buy a Mac and not a Windows PCThe Mac will give you the flexibility to run either Mac OS X and excellent version of UNIX with a great GUI and/or Windows XP or Vista from the same machine. With an inexpensive add-on, it can also...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

Gabetti Property Solutions Deploys Applications to Support Internationalization and Diversification

Gabetti Property Solutions wanted to replace existing legacy system with a latest generation integrated management system and implement a flexible, robust, secure multi-language and multicurrency system. The challenge was to support internationalization of the group with a centralized system that is easy to manage and maintain and implement a system...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Real Estate, Hardware Upgrade, Business Operations, Hardware

Case studies 2008-08-01

Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World

The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon. Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're...

Tags: Photovoltaics, Oerliklon, Chris O'Brien, Oerlikon, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-30

The killer apps of academia

Mary-Jo wanted to find the killer-apps of Vista, but I think I've found the killer applications for students. Regardless of educational establishment status, we have to consider multiple things in a killer-app (defined as an application which you essentially "must have"), such as open-source where possible, available across...

Tags: Killer Application, Student, Audacity, Paint.NET, Notepad++, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war's expense

Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war's expenseThe AP Deserves Some ProtectionWhen you consider how much $$ the AP spends to collect the text and photos it distributes, it's hard to argue with the fact that they want bloggers who don't pay for it to be...

Tags: Blogging, restrictive A.P., A.P.

Discussion threads 2008-06-16