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Comment on Kalahari Ebooks .acsm .epub – Using Adobe DRM – Talk about the Dark Ages by Anon

Anon — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:58:53 +0000

Have a look here

http://www.epubee.com/remove-drm-from-epub-on-adobe.html

Comment on Kalahari Ebooks .acsm .epub – Using Adobe DRM – Talk about the Dark Ages by Marlizette

Marlizette — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:02:14 +0000

Hi there,
I was also thorougly disgusted when I saw that you can’t read Kalahari’s books on the Kindle, and there will be times that you’ll need to buy from Kalahari, especially if it’s local and in Afrikaans. You mentioned that you can convert the epub files to Kindle format (mobi). Would you mind telling me which software you’d use? I tried it with the AVS document converter, but didn’t work. I suspect it’s something to do with removing the DRM that you also mentioned? Any help would be much appreciated!

Many thanks,
Marlizette

Comment on Kalahari Ebooks .acsm .epub – Using Adobe DRM – Talk about the Dark Ages by Jubs

Jubs — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:38:00 +0000

I had the same experience.

Added to it you are limited to three downloads. This means you will have limited period ownership. After your third upgrade and/or replacement of your device/s, you would not be able to download to a new device.

Also, you are not able to make a backup of the book.

Comment on Google takes on Facebook with Plusone (+1) by Morpheus

Morpheus — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:58:22 +0000

Take the red pill .. take the red pill

Comment on Google takes on Facebook with Plusone (+1) by ANON

ANON — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:50:00 +0000

All these things are designed to keep us fixated on screens while the governments of the world run off with all our freedoms and money

Comment on Google takes on Facebook with Plusone (+1) by James

James — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:30:35 +0000

So true. I have a friend who spends almost every 5 minutes of his day tweeting about everything he does, it became so annoying I just unfollowed him because he was filling my inbox with tweets at an alarming pace. I really don’t care that he’s sitting in front of a toaster making himself marmite on toast, I mean really, is this what conversation has degraded into? What’s funny is that he will sit there with his wife next to him and will tweet this crap to the world but won’t turn to his partner of 15 years and tell her how he enjoyed the marmite on toast. It’s sad to see our world decline into this garbage that we call “social”.

Comment on Joburg Metro Cops are USELESS and LAZY (Hendrik Potgieter Road) by Sally

Sally — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:21:57 +0000

I live just off Hendrik Potgieter and it has become a total dog’s breakfast. I live 7km from work and it can take me sometimes 45 minutes or more just to get to work. Now I also see a new mall is going up across from the Christian Centre and the road cannot even handle the traffic its got now. There’s a lot more wrong with Hendrik Potgieter than just moving violations and I hope to see you blog more about it. The entire JHB Metro, not just the cops, are utterly useless.

Comment on Joburg Metro Cops are USELESS and LAZY (Hendrik Potgieter Road) by MikeW

MikeW — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:17:51 +0000

Good on you for posting this. I drive this road daily and I pull my hair out in frustration at the utter disregard for the law.

Comment on Joburg Metro Cops are USELESS and LAZY (Hendrik Potgieter Road) by Anon

Anon — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:31:01 +0000

Here’s an article I found which relates back to 2007 where they concentrated on these offences but only up at Gordon Road. I drive this road daily and it’s insane at the level of offences taking place. The article below tries to shame the cops for doing something about it but you know as well as I do that these people who violate the road laws do so knowingly and do it daily. I agree the metro cops are lazy and if they spent their time prosecuting these offenders our roads would be a lot less frustrating to drive and it would make others think twice about transgressing the law. The Metro Cops would make much more money in fines dealing with moving violations than they do on speeding and license checks.

Here’s the article:

Metro Police getting strict
Post by gonedown on Nov 15, 2007, 7:16am

I say good for them – here the News24 report. The stupid woman who is cross because of what happened when she made a wrong turn could have taken one of us out or someone out!

I say that if this is ongoing – good!! Will make the roads safer for all!!!

Well done the Metro Police!!!

Drivers locked up
14/11/2007 23:29 – (SA)

Johannesburg – Traffic offenders were made to spend the day in police cells on Wednesday after being arrested for “minor” traffic offences.

Seventeen motorists were caught at the President Fouche Street-Malibongwe Drive intersection in Randburg, and another six at the intersection of Gordon and Hendrik Potgieter roads in Florida.

Those who were taken to Florida police station were freed late on Wednesday afternoon on bail of between R800 and R1 200, while others still were being detained at 20:00.

Johannesburg metro police spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said the motorists had been arrested for ignoring traffic signs and direction signs, turning where they weren’t supposed to and driving on the yellow-demarcated shoulders of the road.

‘Like a hardened criminal’

Stephanie Bentley, who had to have trauma counselling after her “nightmare day”, said she was dumbstruck when she heard at 07:00 on Wednesday morning that she was to be locked up for turning where she wasn’t supposed to.

“I’ve had one speeding ticket in my whole life and now I’m locked up for something minor like this as if I’m a hardened criminal,” she said.

She was released at 16:30 by Florida police.

A furious Jon Dare, whose fiancee Kirsty Nicholas had been locked up by Randburg police, said it was madness for motorists to be locked up on such minor charges.

“Taxi drivers hop across two traffic lanes at a time, without signalling, and nothing happens to them.

“Now, our loved ones are treated like animals for an innocent, minor mistake,” he said.

The father of another woman who was locked up added: “We had to feed them through the bars, like monkeys. They weren’t even given water, the whole day.”

He asked to remain anonymous.

Pralin Naidoo, who was arrested for making a wrong turn at a robot, said he was pulled out of his car and thrown into a police van.

Thought they were joking

Melanie Jansen, his friend who was left stranded at the robots, said she did not have a driver’s licence, but metro police continually ordered her to move the car, or it would be towed away.

“I thought they were joking with us,” she said at Randburg police cells.

Naidoo’s sister finally moved the car.

Police and family and friends drove some of the cars of those arrested to the police stations.

Lawyer Felix Majoni, who was at the police station to secure the release of his client, Flanagun Mapayaenda, said such arrests placed an unnecessary burden on South Africa’s justice system.

“You don’t have to have a law degree to know that you can’t just lock someone up for goodness knows how long for a minor traffic offence.

“There are murderers and rapists out there, and this is how they’re wasting the state’s resources.”

Zero-tolerance policy

Minnaar warned, however, that similar arrests could be expected on Johannesburg’s roads, on an ongoing basis.

“We’re making it clear that we’re adopting a policy of zero-tolerance for traffic offenders this festival season.”

He said every case would be heard on merit and the decision lay with the courts to fine offenders or jail them.

Those arrested were due to appear in the Roodepoort and Randburg magistrates courts on Thursday on charges of reckless, negligent, or inconsiderate driving.

Comment on Microsoft Office (duh) 2011 for Mac OSX – Fails to Import .PST (Microsoft Format) Files (duh) by IT

IT — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:54:15 +0000

Thanks for the links scribbler, I will try to contact those lazy ass Microsoft Office Mac 2011 support staff to resolve those missing attachments from imported .pst files.

I can’t believe they never tested the quality and content of importing .pst files from all MS Office versions. . .