Just a quick note (as I keep forgetting, and a cut-and-paste solution is a quicker time to market) – but you knew that already. Installing Webmin is quite simple (download directly, or from the mirrors). Currently, 1.510-2 is the latest version – check on www.webmin.com for further details. As an aside, the book Webmin Kompakt – by Holger Reibold – is available for download!
So here’s a simple step-by-step: (more…)
So the booking system came back online on Friday – late afternoon; after it crashed in the morning, thus shifting online booking advantage drastically… Sigh. And now it’s “Sold Out” in all the good ones. Weren’t they going to release 160 000 tickets? And then it came down to 90 000 tickets…? Perhaps they reported it incorrectly on the news? (more…)
That’s it – I’m out – got to wait for the 14 days now before the account is deleted from Facebook.
As promised, I was asked whether I’m really sure that I want to delete my account – have to enter your password and the 2 CAPTCHAs before getting the confirmation:
Last step before account deletion?
Doesn’t quite end there: next, I get an email, Subject: “Account scheduled for deletion”, as below (just that WordPress handles the incorrect <br/> tags sent via mail correctly, corrects, and compensates):
Hi Sven,
We have received a request to permanently delete your account. Your account has been deactivated from the site and will be permanently deleted within 14 days. (more...)
Google.co.za is doing it, Gmail is doing it — resolving to 196.23.168.147 – hosted by Internet Solutions, and reverse-IP’ing to za196-23-168-147.cache.googlevideo.com (which suggests the implemenation of local youtube caching (youtube.co.za is in the offing for some time now)) – full rundown here. Youtube.co.za — registered by MarkMonitor on behalf of Google – was last updated on 15 May 2010, so it’s not far away – well, at the moment, it’s just redirecting to http://www.youtube.com/?gl=ZA&hl=en-GB They weren’t that lucky with gmail.co.za though 
While we’re on domain names – did you know that whois.co.za is no longer functional? You need to browse directly to http://co.za/whois.shtml – I’ll put a little something together for that…
Just kind of interesting
So more tickets went on sale today. Or did they? When I visited the http://lmsfwctickets.fifa.com/LMS link yesterday, I got an IIS7 welcome screen (Welcome to IIS7 — is that the new Icelandic Soccer Federation? which was then fixed about 30 minutes later. That was after the IIS7 ASPX BSOD about their web.config file. Bad omen. This after previous hitech hitches…
So tickets went online today at 9am SAST. Connection timed out. Connection error. But that has been fixed 3 hrs later:
How disappointing… Sigh… At least there’s consistency in terms of ticket day launches…
Perhaps there may be another few tickets on the horizon at some stage…
Assuming you don’t have any link shares in place (Digg, OpenID, MySpace etc), the process should be quite simple:
Go direct:
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account (you have to be logged in to use the link) and then don’t access the account for 21 days. Some say 14 days, but what’s the hurry? Some recommend no interaction with Facebook at all (pages, groups, public content) – this is related to cookie updates and FBCDN backtracks.
Once completed, that should move from “deactivated” to “deleted” status.
Is anything going to be really removed? Facebook alone know(s)…
More? See WikiHow and a variety of other sources using a Google Search (hmm…) or the Bing equivalent…
I’ve written about this before on blog.sven.co.za, though
The counter at the top of the page shows that there are 18 days (and 9 hours) to go before kick-off to the world cup. Have all the tickets sold out? Well, currently, there are signs that some matches are currently unavailable, but in the last 30 minutes, the selection screen has dropped down – from all matches, to just the first 14, to just the opening match in Johannesburg – which has not tickets currently available…?
No options, no tickets, no sales… Hm…. I guess that’s one way of creating a demand…
The entire ticket purchasing system is not available at present, please try again later…
Only a few days to go before the end of my use of Facebook — 31 May 2010.
I’ve written about it before. The New York Times has written about it.
With security loopholes that allow any (non-)user to search any user’s content, what security model is in place, anyway (with full-size profile picture)? Want to know who commented about the “Good Food and Wine Show“? How about “I hate my boss“? (more…)
So the Security Summit 2010 has come to an end. Featuring speakers such as Moxie Marlinspike, Joe Grand and Jeremiah Grossman (again), it’s a pity to say that there wasn’t much new that was presented. With repeated concerns about input- and output-validation, as the OWASP Top 10 for 2010 highlight and were used as a repeated example, and a call for a holistic approach to a company’s security posture, the idea of making the thought (and practice) of security part of the organisation’s culture came through over and over again. (more…)
So, it’s that time of the year again – Security Summit 2010 in Sandton, Johannesburg. Items on the agenda include:
“SEACOM’s backhaul service provider link is down from Mtunzini to Johannesburg due to an unusual failure on both primary and secondary routes due to circumstances beyond our control. SEACOM is in the process of reprovisioning customers onto a tertiary route.” is what SEACOM announced today. Some ISPs confirmed that SEACOM connectivity was restored at around 15:24 SAST, though links were only stable around 16:20 SAST.
So – there are mixed reactions to the World Cup Song.
Wait – is it just me or is “Waka waka” not a registered catch-phrase of Fozzie Bear from the Muppet Show? (more…)