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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Sunday in ape Town
I started the day with a French doughnut, had some Cuban doughnuts for lunch followed by peeling labels off a few beer bottles for dinner. Food of champions. Spent the day with friends and had a few good laughs. We … Continue reading
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The Third World Dog Lives
While swimming tonight I was brewing over today’s FUD stunt by the cockroaches. A while ago somebody emailed me and asked me to write a followup to an article I wrote at the end of 2003 about The African Internet … Continue reading
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FrogRunner
..some artwork for the Design Indaba background banner 2.5×1.8m. Join us at the Design Indaba 23-25 Feb. You can also get it as a wallpaper image. Decard was a frog, this is obvious from the frog dream and the origami … Continue reading
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Blio PBX Progress
Blio is busy building an IP PBX. It will run Asterisk, but the main thing that differentiates it from your average Linux PC with Digium cards is that the hardware is designed from scratch.. right here in Cape Town and … Continue reading
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Radius Day
Today was Radius day.. we concocted an interesting new config for our ADSL related Radius systems with FreeRadius, Postgres, LDAP and some Perl. Even though Radius can be a bit of a dark art with a long list of mostly … Continue reading
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Valentines Day 2007
Today was romantic consumer spending day, 14 Feb. This is a strange day. You can feel the expectations created by the media. The first weird thing was that out of the blue two girls wanted to Skype chat. This never … Continue reading
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Jobs at Frogfoot
Frogfoot is looking to employ more passionate, fast learning people with attention to detail. If you feel you can keep up with the pace of a fast growing Linux focused company please contact us. I can guarantee it will be … Continue reading
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Quick News
A quick list of news items from last week. Yes, I was a bit lazy at the end of last week so I’m only adding them now… Cape Town 27 Dinner – I’ll be there. WAPA and ICASA Meeting – … Continue reading
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Getting closer to a Teraco logo
Many designs later this is the new favorite: ..by now you must be getting an idea what Teraco will be doing
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Building 50 Debian servers in a week
Frogfoot is busy assembling 50 Linux servers to be installed around the country as branch servers for one of our bigger clients. Servers are made up of an Intel P4 CPU, GigE LAN, RAID1 disks and our very stylish metallic … Continue reading
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Frogfoot in the News
Whoot! Frogfoot was mentioned on Tectonic as the only company (which James could find) who sells (proudly) pre-installed Linux PCs. Read the Tectonic Story. We’ve also been looking for Notebooks we can sell with Ubuntu installed that don’t require us … Continue reading
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Logo idea for the New company
As mentioned before our new venture for 2007′s name starts with a T. It’s all still uber top secret and you’ll just have to live in suspense a bit longer. Here is one of the latest logo ideas for the … Continue reading
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