Install Webmin on Ubuntu
Just a quick note (as I keep forgetting, and a cut-and-paste solution is a quicker time to market) – but you knew that already. Installing Webmin is quite simple (download directly, or from the ...
Monthly Archives: May 2010
FIFA Ticket Sales – update – 30 May 2010, 11 days to go
So the booking system came back online on Friday – late afternoon; after it crashed in the morning, thus shifting online booking advantage drastically… Sigh. And now it’s “Sold ...
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 ...
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 ...
Soccer Ticketing 2010 – continued woes
So more tickets went on sale today. Or did they? When I visited the http://lmsfwctickets.fifa.com/LMS link yesterday, I got an IIS7 welcome screen (Welcome to IIS7 — is that the new Icelandic So ...
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 ...
Soccer ticketing 2010
The counter at the top of the page shows that there are 18 days (and 9 hours) to go before kick-off to the world cup. Have all the tickets sold out? Well, currently, there are signs that some matches ...
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 ...
Waka Waka Time for Africa
So – there are mixed reactions to the World Cup Song. Wait – is it just me or is “Waka waka” not a registered catch-phrase of Fozzie Bear from the Muppet Show? ...