Archive for August, 2010

MTN Business Data lines crash – down again


2010
08.30

Last time, generator maintenance in Johannesburg took everything offline.

There was just notification with the subject line “unknown” (referring to the categorisation of the issue) at 14h22:

SYMPTOMS EXPERIENCED: Intermittent Degradation in Service
SEVERITY: Critical (more...)

Afrihost ADSL Uncapped – throttled at 32GB to 0.56Mbps


2010
08.28

So – Afrihost ADSL uncapped… the promise of “Pure Internet Joy” is part of the offering’s headline.

On a 4Mbps line, the offering of the uncapped account is quite good. Then came the warnings — throtteling may occur based on usage patterns. Then came the notification that there would be an hour-to-hour usage analysis to control the access to consistent line speeds for the “other 93%” of users using the IS-resold Afrihost bandwidth.

To my mind, that’s understandable – if someone’s pulling 210GB a month on an “uncapped” account, they should be throttled as that can be seen as excessive. (more…)

Search all files for TEXT in bash


2010
08.09

To find all files by file name containing THE TEXT I SEEK:

grep -lir "THE TEXT I SEEK" *

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WordPress 3.0.1 – I’m sure you’ve upgraded already


2010
08.09

I’m sure you’ve done it already, but WordPress 3.0.1 (a maintenance release) is out since Friday and you should have upgraded (and updated the database) already by downloading the 3.0.1 version.

List of revised files:

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