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Review: The Square, The Vineyard, Cape Town

Restaurant The Square Location The Vineyard Hotel, Claremont, South Africa (@Vineyard_Hotel) Date of Visit 27 September 2014 Overall rating generous 2/5 Perhaps the fact that the phone remained unanswered and was redirected to the switchboard should have been a warning. But with a Saturday morning breakfast rush, it’s possible that no-one could take the call. Having left my details, I was assured ...

Screenshot on a Mac (MacBook, MacBook Air or iMac)

It’s so simple, it’s almost not worth typing, but for the sake of those of us who need this as a reference point, capturing the screen and saving it as a file, or to the clipboard to use the screenshot later, there are only a few steps involved on a MacBook or iMac. This works on all Apple Mac machines that aren’t tablets or phones (where you just the home and power button toget ...

`Shellshock` bash vulnerability fix and update in case of slow or unavailable repositories

Updated to latest kernel patch bash43-30 You’ve heard of ShellShock, and the bash-exploits that are currently doing the rounds, across platforms, that make use of these bugs (CVE-2014-6271 and the volumes of additional updates including CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187 and CVE-2014-7169, but to name a few). Proofs of Concept are being collected here… The below works as a vu ...

How to block or drop attacker with null route

Quick note to myself, as I keep forgetting the syntax, though it is so easy — to block an incoming connection by null routing or rejecting the connection is as simple as route add -host IP reject To apply this to a whole subnet range, use the -net as you would with the /24 mask (or the appropriate subnet, /29 or smaller should do), eg route add -net IP/RANGE reject To undo this, route delet ...

Some quick updates

Time for some housekeeping – WordPress, plugins etc all patched and back to where they should be (taken long enough) — some more updates on PHP, scheduler integration and large data transfer info coming up soon! ...