On the first of July 1984 Helena Theron started working at Sabinet. 01 July 2009 marks her 25 years at Sabinet.
Warm wishes and congratulations from all at Sabinet and we look forward to another 25 years with her.

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What is “tethering” ? Read this comprehensive article on Wikipedia. It explains it very well. It is something that was not previously possible with an iPhone. Fortunately that restriction is now a matter of the past.
 
With the upgrade of your iPhone 3G’s firmware to version 3.0 it is possible to enable “tethering” and [...]

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It is sometimes necessary to reflect on the past J My colleague Hannes Mitchell discovered a few images of some of our infrastructure from the past. The image in this post shows the servers in our data center exactly 10 years ago. In those days we used Hewlett Packard servers running the HP-UX [...]

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Just last week I was blogging about Twitter, Facebook, etc.  Now Sabinet has joined the online social media! Yes, they are officially Tweeters.Although still in an experimental phase, Sabinet has created a Twitter account especially for SabinetLaw. The idea is to quickly tweet any newsworthy information and updates from SabinetLaw.  Thus, if you want to [...]

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To empower individual libraries and to highlight the programmes initiated by libraries for the benefit of their communities, Sabinet Chairperson’s Fund held a Metro Communities Library Competition from 01 April 2008 – 30 March 2009. Community libraries from Tshwane, Ekurhuleni and City of Johannesburg were requested to participate.The criteria for the judging:

to provide a brief [...]

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I was thinking about all the Internet communication mediums this weekend - sites such as Facebook, Twitter and myspace - then I saw that there was an article about Twitter in yesterday’s news…  These sites have made it so easy to keep in touch with family, friends and colleagues.
The CEO/Finder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, was on the Oprah show recently, [...]

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Being one of those people that mainly uses my cellphone for phoning (obviously), taking pictures (occasionally when I left the digi camera at home) and the odd Internet access to update my Facebook status (yes, we are all shamelessly addicted to that), I can’t always see the excitement of waiting in a queue – sometimes [...]

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This is an update to the post I made yesterday about my ADSL problems. Refer to the post for all the detail. Well, I was pleasantly surprised. It appears that it was not the Firmware update that caused the problems; but in fact a faulty power-supply. What a coincidence… ?
I got to work yesterday morning [...]

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