Recent content by magicfoot

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    SIM Swap fraud

    According to my web research, you are correct susefan. It appears as to be a combination of MTN and Nedbank frauds. Nedbank appears to have know this for some time but have never corrected their vulnerability with the SMS profile hack. I changed my bank account from Nedbank to another bank 2...
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    Authenticated with MTN?

    Mine was a SIM swap as well, not by myself. It was for a another phone on my contract. It was an official MTN SIM swap by someone at MTN, located in a city far away. Within 45 minutes I was at my local MTN store to reverse the SIM Swap back to my ownership. This reversal did not happen and my...
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    SIM Swap fraud

    Today was my first direct experience with an illegal SIM Swap problem. I have several phones on my contract and one of these generated an official order number SMS from MTN, The next SMS stated that my new SIM(for that other phone) had been activated. I rushed off to the local MTN store in...
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    Nvidia unveils new GPUs for data centres

    I am lamenting the fact that for the last five years I have been working with GPU facilities at EC2, Google, CHPC, Juelich, etc, but these are all projects for research and scientifically funded institutions only, not commercial. The only game in town for the use of GPUs at commercial...
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    Nvidia unveils new GPUs for data centres

    GPUs are cool for numerical processing such as ML training routines, but what tasks are they doing in a data centre? GPUs do not run generalized software such as MS SQL, Apache, or IIS, so what is their function in a commercial data center. I do like Nvidia GPUs but this article sounds like hokum!
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    Need SIM cards provisioned by MTN

    This is correct.
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    Need SIM cards provisioned by MTN

    The SIm cards have been supplied, are specific to our APN, but have not been activated to allow use on the APN or even connect to the MTN network.
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    Need SIM cards provisioned by MTN

    I have been waiting for 6 weeks to have 100 SIM cards provisioned by MTN, but they do not appear to be able to do this. Does anyone know what is going on or could advise on a course of action to move this forward. We use Echo as a comms motel and they appear to be able to move this forward...
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    SIM card provisioning

    I have been waiting for 6 weeks to have 100 SIM cards provisioned by Vodacom, but they do not appear to be able to do this. Does anyone know what is going on or could advise on a course of action to move this forward. We use Echo as a comms motel and they appear to be able to move this forward...
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    3G Omni antenna install in Gauteng

    I have a few 3G Omni antenna installs here in Gauteng. Entails travel to site, take before readings for MTN and V, drill holes, fix pole to wall, climbing, attach Omni and carefully lay 15m shielded cable, take after readings for MTN and V. Anyone interested please message me.
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    Changes from 3G to Edge and back

    I have a variety of 3G routers and dongles and find that the protocol suddenly changes from 3G to Edge, the back again, change again, etc. The duration of the change could be hours or minutes. The received signal strength is constant. Experienced for all of the MNOs. Is this a response to a...
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