New update at 5am SAST: So they have initiated the deployment of the ship to the wet plant. That does not mean, though, that the ship is actually is already on its way – it’s deployment is initiated… Official communications from SEACOM have been promised to follow… In addition: SEACOM’s investigations have revealed that an offshore repeater has failed on the cable ...
IOL – the online offering of Independent Newspapers – seems to have issues — only two stories show up – one about Nigeria reversing their ban on its soccer team (and announcing that the football federation said it would disband and rebuild the side) and another after a very strange story about the Gatsby International Health Spa, and the search they performed on the suspic ...
One of my service providers have forwarded me an update to the latest SEACOM outage: According to the update, SEACOM has sent out notification that they are currently localising the fault from both Mumbai and Dar-es-Salaam (in Tanzania). ...
Afrihost, as well as a range of other resellers of SEACOM bandwidth, again had to post notifications today of network downtime: We are experiencing an intermittent International ADSL connectivity problem. Our upstream service providers’ engineers are investigating the cause of the problem. We will post more details here shortly once we have more information. Services such as Instant Messeng ...
Windows Vista and 7, if not before, allow symbolic links — mklink is your command-line friend! Creates a symbolic link. ...
Is it just me or is the new version of Crash Protection which pushed itself via a new release of Firefox up to 3.6.6 marking every instance of Flash as crashed? On the one hand, this may be a little salute to the Flash – Apple situation (though I hardly think it likely). Am I the only one who’s experiencing this? Hmmm… Oh, yes – remember to make sure your add-ons are up-to ...
It’s a simple one-liner that one tends to forget (that is, one that I forget as I untar more than I manually tar). So creating a tar file from directory and all subdirectories is as simple as tar -cvf file.tar directory ...
Well done to #MEX! # #Mex now on their third goal in the #WorldCup against #Fra – 2101st goal!! # #FRA will have to catch up! # Hurray for #Mex for their second goal in the #Worldcup # 2100'th #FIFA #Worldcup Goal! # ...
Assuming you have a Windows machine and you interact with Linux boxen at any stage, chances are high that you have used and interacted with PuTTY at one stage or another. That beautiful, less than 2 sec, 444K download of a tool (currently at version 0.60 beta) allows you to SSH, COM-direct, RSH, Telnet etc from the desktop. Both examples below relate to MySQL port tunneling. SSH Tunnels using the ...
You may not have FTP or FTPS running on your server (either by choice or decision). In order to manage that, there is a simple workaround you can implement. ...