Goodbye Facebook
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 ...
Category Archives: sysadmin
Google services now hosting in South Africa and whois.co.za
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 ...
Completely removing and deleting your Facebook account
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 (yo ...
Delete Facebook Account
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 ...
Security Summit 2010 Wrap-Up
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 wa ...
Security Summit 2010
So, it’s that time of the year again – Security Summit 2010 in Sandton, Johannesburg. Items on the agenda include: The business of security – Threat horizon 2010 and beyond, legislation (P ...
SEACOM link was down again, stable now
“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. SEACO ...
Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) LTS is out
They’ve passed their RC status and have moved into full Long-Term Release for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx — local mirrors are still showing the RC version, but it’s out! What’s new? F-Sp ...
SEACOM cable issue resolved?
The latest notification received from SEA-ME-WE 4 indicates that the repair work on the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable is expected to be completed by 22.00 (UTC) on 28 April 2010. That’s the update from SEAC ...
Update on slow Internet – South Africa – due to SEACOM maintenance
An update from Afrihost which echos what’s happening to IS-resellers of DSL bandwidth in South Africa: IS have removed ADSL users from emergency SAT3 backup and thus you will not be able to acce ...
SEACOM maintenance extended until 30 April – South African Internet slow
MTN Business (in their NOC notices) have confirmed what SEACOM had alluded to – the maintenance windows (and hence the high latency and traffic redirection via the SAT3 cable rather than the SEA ...
Testing POP3 and IMAP servers from the command line in CMD or bash
It’s quite simple, really: POP3 (Exchange, dovecot etc) you know, IMAP (Exchange, dovecot, courier etc) you know — so this is just a recap, right? You know how to telnet into the machine & ...
How to remove yourself from Facebook by deactivating your account
Facebook — now will accounts up for sale ($25 / 1000 where there are less than 10 friends, and $45 / 1000 where there are more than 10 friends) – has again changed their privacy approach & ...
Windows cannot find FILENAME from Outlook or Thunderbird – Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
You double-click an attachment in Outlook – or Thunderbird – or any mail client or third-party client, for that matter – and you can’t open the file in Office (in my case Excel ...
Activate Windows XP by phone in South Africa toll-free – what number to use?
Windows XP – got to love it. We have all reached the spot where we need to activate XP over the phone for some reason or another. On the activation screen, there’s a phone number – w ...
Virus Removal: Quick list of Rootkit Scanners
With the Alueron rootkit out and about, even the Microsoft patches can now detect whether it’s installed: Microsoft on Alueron rootkit A range of useful links below: Patch notes for Microsoft se ...
clamav 0.94 finally reaches end of life
clamav finally sent the end-of-life payload yesterday evening – 0.96 is the current version, so it’s been a good run 🙂 Possible symptons you experienced: Repeated notifications:WARNING: ge ...
Remote Desktop vs Local Desktop
CTRL+ALT+DEL Local: CTRL+ALT+DEL Remote: CTRL+ALT+END RESTART Local: Start -> Shutdown -> Restart Remote: Start-> Run -> shutdown -t 0 -r I just keep forgetting it… ...
co.za and whois.co.za updates on server recovery
They’ve been working hard! Well done!! 🙂 Function Status Comments CAPTCHA whois Not affected http://captcha.coza.net.za Port 43 whois Not affected whois://whois.coza.net.za Primary Database Not ...
If you’re itching for those GNU apps from Linux on Windows…
You’re stuck on a Windows box. But you don’t want to install MinGW32? Can’t dual-boot to run Ubuntu or Debian on your Windows machine for some for that GNU happiness that sed, groff, ...