Endlich wieder neue Bücher bestellen, stöbern und online bestellen – es gibt wieder einen deutschen Buchladen in Kapstadt, wie schon auf Englisch berichtet. Zwar is Gruffel.com komplett online, ...
Hurray! Finally there’s a German bookshop in Cape Town again, albeit online. Gruffel.com allows you to order German books anywhere in South Africa and ships them to you. Or allows you to pick up your ...
Nigel, the Cape genet, at supper time Night sky over Algeria Night sky animation created with the help of Time Lapse Assembler. ...
You can access the load shedding lookup tool for Cape Town to your mobile phone so that you don’t have to type the link, open a browser, or even navigate! You can simply add the page to your hom ...
Another quick update to the Cape Town loadshedding schedule site has been included – for quick and easy consolidation of what the City of Cape Town, Eskom and City of Cape Town Alerts are thinki ...
You may have discovered the Cape Town loadshedding lookup tool, with geolocation, areas, suburbs, stages and more that has been referred to in previous posts. With its home at http://ldsd.co.za or, if ...
Load shedding Cape Town lookup tool updated The loadshedding lookup tool for Cape Town has been updated! You can now select your suburb by name, and the schedule will switch to the new, updated 16-day ...
A lookup tool for the new loadshedding schedule for Cape Town from Feb 2015 is now available at https://blog.sven.co.za/shed. Day is autoselected, choose your area and choose the stage. Beyond that, yo ...
Some images from the N7 – 800km along the highway, with only a 40mm pancake lens. And a camera. But you knew that already. ...
Depending on the mobile network provider you use (MTN doesn’t seem to be affected in ZA at the moment, Vodacom in ZA leaks this information), and device used, your IMEI and MSISDN (mobile number ...
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 unansw ...
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 t ...
Recently, I made the script to patch your BASH environment available on this site, but that meant a need to copy and paste. Using a user with the appropriate rights, you can now pipe directly using a ...
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 t ...
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 rejec ...
Repeatedly getting this error on this Twitter.com site: ...
It’s been a rocky start to the year of DSL connectivity with EASSY and SEACOM, among the major uplinks from Southern Africa, all were affected by outages. After a network outage between Abu Tala ...
So you have a snapshot of data on one drive, and the current state of data on the second drive. How do you copy the difference between the two drives into a third directory? Rync comes to the rescue h ...
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 transf ...
Windows 7 won’t boot up, Safe Mode hangs (typically at CLASSPNP.SYS), the System Recovery can’t fix (Bad Patch and AutoFailover errors) and there are no recovery points to revert back to. ...