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Nicholas Bolton

This is vaguely computer related, so bear with me. You may have heard of this guy- he is the one who bought a whole lot of Bris Connections shares and then tried to get out of paying the installment obligations that came with the shares. In fact he organised a meeting of shareholders ostensibly to wind up the company and

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Cisco Dealer

Buymax is proud to announce that we have been chosen by Cisco to be part of their Registered Partner Program.  Cisco  are the worldwide leader in networking and communications products. Some years ago it was estimated that if you are connected to a site on the internet, there is an 80% chance that your packets travel through Cisco gear.   

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Fitness

I’ve trained with Matthew Reid for 5 years now, initially losing about 20kg, but now I do it for other benefits. I feel better, I’m able to work harder and I’m much healthier. In fact last year I did my second City to Surf and easily beat my earlier time-  from 1982! I made a conscious decision to eat what

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Telstra Dealer

We are extremely pleased to announce that we have been appointed a Telstra dealer. This means that when the new iPhone is actually available we can sell you one…… Also if you have a laptop and work outside (or would like to) we can sell you a usb modem so you can be connected anywhere! Now it’s a pretty popular

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Drobo!

We’ve recently been testing the Data Robotics Drobo Data Storage Robot. They call it a robot because it handles all of the complex stuff behind making a RAID. It’s a black box with flashing lights, some of which work as a capacity indicator, and it looks very cool. It’s a struggle to get people to back up at all (less

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Hacintosh!

During the Christmas holidays last year I decided to attempt to install Mac OS X on standard PC hardware, and this is what happened. I started by looking at compatibility lists on the internet, then proceeded to buy a bunch of hardware. I wasn’t too concerned at this stage to plan things down to the last bolt, as I figured there

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