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How a Web Design goes straight to hell…
2010
01.20
01.20
Many, many, many can attest to the tail of trauma, pain and suffering, as well as deep, well-meant user input created by an environment which is free-flowing, without pre-set specifications, requirements and design parameters. Pain. Argh.
Well done, TheOatMeal! He also does a really good piece on What not to Tweet about on Twitter…
Oh — and in case you were wondering — here are 10 signs to check to see whether your cat is plotting to kill you. 
Create a new certificate for Ubuntu the easy way (but you knew that already)
2009
06.14
06.14
For the self-signed certificate:
sudo a2enmod ssl
wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7477840/apache2-ssl.tar.gztar -zxvf apache2-ssl.tar.gz
sudo cp apache2-ssl-certificate /usr/sbin/
sudo cp ssleay.cnf /usr/share/apache2/
sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/sslcd /etc/apache2/ssl
sudo apache2-ssl-certificate -days 365
sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/sslsudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/ssl /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ssl
Modify the ssl site-available:
NameVirtualHost *:443<virtualhost *:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
SSLEngine On
# the following lines are links to the certs
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
DocumentRoot /var/www/
Everything else stays the same.
Now all that remains is to restart your server:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
All done!
Found this online
ex-Lightedge vs Ends-On (but you knew that already)…
2008
07.20
07.20
Interestingly, the top search result that pops up on the “Do No Evil” Search is ends-on.co.za (not the stories relating to the Valentine’s Day demise of Lightedge Technology). Go figure. The old lightedge.co.za domain is pointing to the same server as ends-on (at SA Domain) and doing a re-direct.
Hm. lightedge.co.za – paid on 2 June 2008 (still registered to Lightedge / Bobby Richter as Tech Contact at the time through UUNet / Verizon) and changed only on 24 June 2008 to repoint to the ends-on setup. Ends-on, for its own part was only registered on 2 March (to gapsoft@ our favourite telecoms provider’s network) and then updated two months later. Thus nabbing the google position.
Ends-On has lynnm (Lynn Munch’s ?) and grantp (Grant Poulton’s ?) details as primary contacts, and is privately registered in Grant’s name at the domain registry.
Even though there’s not much on the site (and the mailers have been going out), be sure to see some familiar product offerings on the site once the product listing gets updated… Then, too, can we see pricelists etc.
The 2006-registered company (shell, I guess, then renamed?) company has a Micro-Enterprise Exemption giving it a BBBEE Level 4 Contributer and 100% Recognition score until May 2009 (which was issued as a Microsoft Word file!?)
Nothing wrong with that, free trade… But you knew that already…
This is what the Scottie Puppies might look like in a few weeks :)
2008
06.01
06.01
Sooooo cool!!
This is what might happen to poor Baggins!1
On YouTube (original video here) there are repeated problems watching it — YouTube is being odd… So now, just click Play below.
Get the Flash Player to see this content.
- Ok, Baggins is not an Airdale Terrier, but he’s sortof the same colour ↩
Puppies
2008
05.27
05.27
Scottie puppies rock! And there were seven of them!
When we left, the eyes were open, the ears were starting to stand up and even some teeth were starting to show!
It would have been so simple, so easy, to just sneak one onto the plane — SA Express would never have known!
Could have shared the ‘mid-afternoon snack’ bagle and everything! [piclens-lite-link]