[...] Episode 57 of the ZA Tech Show is available early for Easter. I’m leaving for Hong Kong today and wanted to get it up before I left. So it’s not just the Easter love. Call it 50/50 [...]

Regarding the death of Encarta, Wikipedia (without any images) is only about 6 GB. It can be downloaded and used offline if needed.

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It’s interesting how much of your discussion about the choice of Internet Connections in South Africa is similar to what’s going on in Canada. We are often sold ADSL connections and the like that are advertised as up to 16 Mbps, but you’re really lucky to get 4Mbps consistently out of them. My home connection which is supposed to be a 8Mbps is lucky to average 2Mbps – apparently due to the distance of my house from the local Exchange. A CBC show called Marketplace did a test and one of the things that came out is that most of these connections are being marketed at a “theortical” speed not really possible for the consumer to obtain. Combine that with the network “throttling” that goes on by the upstream wholesalers to the ISPs if you’re using too much bandwidth (or using an encrypted connection which really slows down VNP activity from the office), and our connections probably aren’t much better than SA’s – even though they may look better on paper. Great show!

Was there a problem with episode 57′s audio? I’ve never had a problem before but this mp3 recording would pause by itself, then start again while playing it in Winamp. It happened quite a few times. Anyone else had this problem?

I enjoy the show, just thought I’d bring this to your attention.

Nope Peter no problem here with any pausing in the audio, on that note i’m not using winamp but vlc.

No problem with the audio either and I am also (unfortunately) using Winamp