Ain’t that a kick in the head! Rollover from 2009 to 2010 has not been processed correctly on many systems, including Symantec’s Endpoint Protection Manager, they have confirmed in a state ...
Another year, another at least 730-odd opportunities! All the best for the next 8760 hours! 🙂 ...
Igor Skochinsky at Reverse Everything has some fun Easter Eggs for the Kindle (tested them on the Kindle International Edition). All the below is Igor’s work and time and effort. From the Home S ...
So the Kindle format conversion from .azw to OTHER format was already something out there in Python some time ago, now it’s hit the news again. 828 lines of Python (posted 16hrs ago) thwarte the ...
As also noted on the blog, it’s time to upgrade (if you haven’t already) to version 2.9 of WordPress. There are a huge whack of benefits and improvements (over 500 bugfixes), like the onli ...
Meep. A word we all know and treasure as spoken by the inimitable Beaker (that long-necked scientist’s assistant from the Muppet Show, always the right-hand “man” of Dr Bunsen Honeyd ...
So a compressed text file that ends up being 72GB sounds like a lot, right? Especially if you have to data-churn it with per-line processing. Fine. Wow. A lot. That pales in comparison to the (reporte ...
It seems that a looped include error has broken http://news.bbc.co.uk, creating repetitive nestings -- or just a whole whack of emphasis on the Copenhagen climate change story which is self-included 5 ...
From Hetzner‘s Website: “All new websites and servers hosted in SA are housed in the Johannesburg MTN Business facility.” Yikes – that’s the wonky one that went down earl ...
Seems as though systems are being restarted / links restored, 1hr 10 min later… Whole of South Africa was affected by the network outage. Running commentary here. To quote the WebAfrica forum &# ...
So MTN Business’s Datacentre is down (was Verizon Business, was UUNET). JNB issue, but whole network affected. Should sites not resolve, that’s most likely the problem. No indication of so ...
Not sure whether this is supposed to come as a surprise? From the Business Report on 30 Nov 09: After five years of litigation-filled delays, Telkom is closer to being slapped with a penalty of up to ...
Depending on how tight your handle is on the management of a video-conference, and what your expected outcomes are, there is a danger that the video-conference may become unproductive 🙂 It’s all ...
As you probably know already, a quiet version upgrade of the Kindle 2 has resulted in new functionality for the aA key – Screen Rotation is now an option, through a full 360°! And web browsing o ...
Die Zeit berichtet, daĂź DatenschĂĽtzer, auch mittels BuĂźgelder bis zu €50 000, von dem Gebrauch Google Analytics abraten möchten. “Google Inc. räumt sich ausdrĂĽcklich, in seinen beim Einsatz zu a ...
PBGVVH25US66 They released the Knowledge Tree 3.7 RC Community Edition some time ago, which now runs on the full Zend-Server stack! Infrastructurally, this is the biggest changed; PHP-based setup wiza ...
With the usual eats (ok, the brownies are good – chewey, but not gooey) welcoming those who chose to attend, the presentations at the Cloud Computing Conference 2009 promise three potentially in ...
You can get the latest stable version of a Windows compile of nginx (0.7.64) here. Setup is quite straight forward; you’ll need the php-cgi.exe downloaded (copy the libmysql*.dll to the Windows ...
So I’ve installed the current beta (for non-production environments) of Drupal 7 on an nginx/php/mysql setup to test speed, interface and ease of use. It was a double-whammy operation, on the on ...
Perhaps it’s just routing — perhaps it’s the network — perhaps it’s Telkom’s upgrade for 2010… But #slashdot.org is offline… Sigh… But you knew th ...