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 ...
Monthly Archives: April 2010
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 ...
How many clowns fit into a Mini Cooper?
There are important questions, and there are more important questions. Wolfram|Alpha positions itself as a computational knowledge engine. Questions such as “What is pi?” are quickly resol ...
NATS update – closed until 19 Apr 0700 BST
Futher to previous information about the volcano impact on air travel, another update will follow at 21h00 BST, but the latest is below: Based on the latest information from the Met Office, NATS advis ...
Volcano Update: UK Airspace review only at 0300 BST, Apr 18
The Icelandic Weather Office summarises it nicely: “After a few days of quiet in Eyjafjallajökull volcano, a new and much more forceful eruption has begun west of Fimmvörðuháls, under the ice-ca ...
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… ...
ZA Registrar for domain registrations back up and running
www.co.za is all up and running and back in business again after their issues on April 7, 2010. whois.co.za, co.za Domains and the South African Domain Registry in general is all back in business. But ...
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 ...
iPad vs the HP Slate
With the iPad having sold its first 300 000 units, some of which, according to Core, are being imported as grey products into South Africa as we speak, the HP Slate priced at around $550 makes its cau ...
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, ...
Update on .co.za and whois.co.za outages
There’s an update on www.coza.net.za on the system outages they’ve experienced: CO.ZA Service Outage Status 07 Apr 2010 Original announcement here Current Status of co.za services. Functio ...
.co.za and whois.co.za offline
[South Africa – Apr 8. 2010] Both www.co.za (South African co.za Domain Registry) and whois.co.za (The .co.za Domain homepage and the co.za Whois Server (Registration Details)) are offline (at l ...