Recent content by Paul Hjul

Its a stretch but the core is quite teneble. Seville in the 11th century - and particularly a Zadia - links 8th century Islamic aristocratic lines with European ones. The thing that gets glossed over in the emergence of religious persecution is that 13th century Western Europe was identifying...

Yes and no More no than yes

that is what I have done, changing the rule to skip the bin if I can as it clogs the bin. Simply confirming addresses wouldn't actually solve the first leg of the problem namely a script mechanism performing thousands of signups and thereby wasting others resources - the attacker is using...

Okay so this is a slightly odd situation but I suspect somebody else might find it intriguing. https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9308648?hl=en#:~:text=specific%20email%20addresses-,Just%20add%20a%20plus%20sign%20(%2B)%20and%20any%20word%20before,%2Burgent%40solarmora.com. I don't use...

A proper update is coming, just need to take a day or so down and then post something. Had an unpleasant and awkward (but medium to long term good to be honest) day in court this morning. From the press reports Telkom and ICASA have cut a backroom deal to withdraw this application in exchange...

16th respondent ... - mentioned above Letter from Telkom's attorney's and notice of withdrawal received - all after the court has sent out the links for kicking off with argument on Monday. I anticipate that there will be some discussions over the weekend of what to make of it but the poor...

Yep read the press releases - nothing sent to the parties, I've suggested Jan seek comment from Vodacom and MTN. Honestly I am not surprised at Telkom angling to get the 800Mhz (its what they are really after) and there has been lots of wrangling from the department. I have no idea what the...

My point is on the lower end - e.g. where the person buying is for a child or elderly relative, or where somebody is picking up a cheap extra device for media consumption.

The steamdeck might slice a fraction of net market share from the iPad but I don't think Apple are overly concerned. There is a fairly large market for whom the iPad is considered as a portable entertainment device and so the Steamdeck cuts in as another option, but this audience has also long...

what do you mean? Top management of CellC? That was restructured at least 2 years ago. Top management of The Prepaid Company? Or Blue Label? CellC's current "top management" is very different from some years back. I don't think I've ever interacted with Stevenson but throughout his tenure...

Some more context here: CellC will if (and fair disclaimer I am engaged in litigation that will if successful see the ITA set aside) the auction stands be only paying 280 odd million rand on additional spectrum. With that additional spectrum it will be a minor spectrum player but it has...

Sort of, but think of it more like this. CellC had a bunch of credit cards that have a fuckton of fees and interest due. They had some store credit and they like as well. Now they are having those credit cards closed and the credit card companies taking a bath on the balance (20c on the rand...

https://techcentral.co.za/cell-c-recap-plan-announced-all-the-details/208848/ Looks like they've pulled it off. Details as to whether they have funds to secure additional spectrum is missing. Blue Label have certainly taken their bath on this one but kudos on the team at CellC who've managed to...

Looking for details but cabinet has approved amending the policy direction that would lead to setting up the WOAN to scrap the WOAN. There seems to be an idea from some hole of stupidity that this can retrospectively fix the 2021 ITA. The reality is that this proves one of the grounds of review.