Things to do when your cap runs out

moggie said:
Site listing locally hosted links...

http://www.theherald.co.za/article.aspx?id=459135

Written by: Esté Coetzee HERALD REPORTER - 2009/08/18
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Nice spotting! The full article will come out in the Tech Supplement later this week. But just for you I will post it here now...

Esté Coetzee
HERALD REPORTER


Port Elizabeth raised Jason Adriaan, created the first and only South African Internet directory that lists locally hosted content.

Local list is a free service that allows users to browse local sites even after they used up their international Internet 'allowance' (bandwidth).

"This promises to be a big development in South African Internet, as it enables those who do not have international Internet access with an extensive list of alternative websites." said Adriaan.

According to Adriaan, the directory is a way of making Internet more affordable, "promote local content" and increasing the number of Internet users in South Africa."

Adriaan, 20, who is currently studying medicine at the University of Cape Town, founded Local list in November last year.

In its first month alone Local list received 240 000 site views, colouring a clear interest from South Africans.

When visiting the site, you can expect to find links to anything from government sites and online banking to listening radio or watching online videos.

Adriaan said that international Internet access is very expensive, making it difficult for everyone to afford.

"This alienates about 90% of South Africans from one of the world's biggest educational and financial resources."

Buying local Internet access is much cheaper and has no limit on the amount of browsing allowed.

Until Local list, 'users had no official indexing website which they could use to navigate the Local Internet and never knew which websites they could access with their local cap.'

"Many local users were surprised when the website announced that popular international websites like Comedycentral.com, mtv.com, vh1.com, NASA.gov, and many more, were all accessible using local Internet."

In 2009 their goal is to index all South African web sites and increase awareness around local-only Internet amongst things.

"We are constantly updating the directory with more links to web sites, validating them and removing spam."

"Internet Solution Labs (ISLabs) have now given us our own server to work from, creating a bigger and better platform." Jason added.

Greg de Chasteauneuf, Co-founder ISLabs, said "IS Labs was launched to create an ideas incubator to identify great projects that need to be supported either with money or resources to improve the state of the South African Internet."

"Jason is a young dynamic South African and we see some great things coming from him and Local list."

Local list has been featured on 5fm's Sureshni Ryder's show as well as ClassicFm's Reuben Goldberg's Internet Economy, just to name a few.

"Local-Only Internet is very powerful and the Goal of Local list is to bring it to the masses and empower more South Africans to use the Internet." Adriaan concluded.
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Surveyor General

Seeing as I am experiencing "LOCAL" for the first time I tried to visit the SA SG site

I will spell it out here

http://w3sli.wcape.gov.za/

OK fair enough you can access the main page

BUT

links point to

http://cdsm-www.wcape.gov.za/ms_internet/default.asp

This is the error message I get ............ /

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The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://w3sli.wcape.gov.za/surveys/MAPPING/gps-base.htm

The following error was encountered:

Unable to determine IP address from host name for w3sli.wcape.gov.za

The dnsserver returned:

Name Error: The domain name does not exist.

This means that:

The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.
Check if the address is correct.

Your cache administrator is webmaster.
Generated Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:29:10 GMT by iproxy1.gov.za (squid/2.5.STABLE14)
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This is what a tracert looks like

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>tracert w3sli.wcape.gov.za

Tracing route to iproxy1.gov.za [163.195.16.74]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.xxxxxxxxx

2 37 ms 39 ms 41 ms dsl-146-136-01.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.136.1]
3 61 ms 62 ms 63 ms wblv-ip-lir-1-gig-4-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.8.190]
4 62 ms 63 ms 61 ms 196.43.25.206
5 65 ms 61 ms 62 ms internet-solutions-gw.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.247.26]
6 61 ms 62 ms 63 ms css2-ctn-gi0-2.ip.isnet.net [168.209.6.15]
7 65 ms 62 ms 61 ms mi-za-cpt-br1-gi0-3-108.ip.isnet.net [168.209.28.42]
8 75 ms 71 ms 72 ms mi-za-sitactn-pe1-gi0-1-2.ip.isnet.net [168.209.20.245]
9 66 ms 67 ms 68 ms 168.209.20.246
10 168.209.20.246 reports: Destination net unreachable.

Trace complete.

C:\>

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WHAT is going on here :confused:

Was going to add this to the local-list -- but looks like it is BROKEN

Would it not be quite ironic if "LOCAL" broke SA GOV depts :erm::D


MW
 
Sigh. You guys are doing excellent work. Many of the first posted links no longer work, the main page will open, then nothing, no streaming from Kfm here in the Cape or anything. Do they take them down to be spiteful I wonder? Good idea to go outside to do gardening or read a book. I need to kick this internet addiction, it's made me fat and lazy.
 
Gumtree

I could also not get into Gumtree. :rolleyes: I managed to get into Sterkinekor.com without a problem and have been playing on the only game site I could find from you guys, which I won't mention (points upwards) but I've been having a lot of fun so thank you so much. PC Format won't load for me either.
 
manicmaggi said:
I could also not get into Gumtree. :rolleyes: I managed to get into Sterkinekor.com without a problem and have been playing on the only game site I could find from you guys, which I won't mention (points upwards) but I've been having a lot of fun so thank you so much. PC Format won't load for me either.
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Not all sites are entirely local. They contain code which link to international servers.
 
its all good and well using locallist but try to open sites or download stuff from brothersoft and see how far you get.
 
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