[UPDATE] SEACOM down again: A ship, a ship…
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 ...
Author Archives: Sven Welzel
IOL with some issues?
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 ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM down again
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 Mu ...
SEACOM down again – cable break in Kenya
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 prob ...
Symbolic links in Windows
Windows Vista and 7, if not before, allow symbolic links — mklink is your command-line friend! Creates a symbolic link. ...
Firefox 3.6.6 Crash Protection – crashing?
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 s ...
Create a Tar file from Directory and all Subdirectories
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 ta ...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20
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' ...
Secure SSH Tunneling – at no extra cost
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 s ...
Upgrade and update WordPress without the FTP/FTPS options
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. ...
#Twitter taking #WorldCup strain during matches like #FRA v #MEX
http://status.twitter.com/ is reporting the High Error Rate on Twitter.com since yesterday already, and #Trends have been temporarily disabled since the 15th of June. On Monday the 14th of June, #Twit ...
WordPress 3.0 is out!
Just a quick note – remember to upgrade now! But you knew that already! 🙂 218 people helped fixing the 1217 bugs, with a new default theme called Twenty Ten and a whole lot more. ...
[SOLVED] phpSysInfo – failed to open stream on Ubuntu 10.04?
phpsysinfo eval : 2 Message : parse_ini_file(/usr/share/phpsysinfo/data/distros.ini): failed to open stream: No such file or directory File There is a simple fix for this in version 3.0.5: ...
[SOLVED] mysql-server5.1.5.141-3ubuntu12.1 hangs on upgrade
There are a lot of words about the MySQL upgrade on Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit specifically, perhaps the 32bit version too?) — it just hangs: You get the hopeful message: Preparing to replace mysql-se ...
And now for something completely different
The Hippopotamus Song Words by Michael Flanders Music by Donald Swann and Michael Flanders A bold Hippopotamus was standing one day On the banks of the cool Shalimar. He gazed at the bottom as it peac ...
2 days, 18hrs to go – tickets for Cape Town matches plentiful
That place on the web that sells tickets to the foot-operated sport worth billions taking place in a country featuring cities like Cape Town and Johannesburg this year – FIFA.com – has tak ...
Adobe Flash and Adobe PDF zero-day critical vulnerability in the wild.
From Adobe‘s advisory: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll comp ...
Ticket sales improving? 15:53 SAST vs 18:24 SAST Cape Town FIFA Ticket availability
Seems like tickets are flying… check the usage at 15:53 SAST on 5 June below. Now compare this with the availability at 18:24 SAST today same time (ie 2hr 31 min later), below. Seems like ticket ...
6 days to go… tickets available again for the Soccer World Cup
So the big ticket shuffle has started again, and tickets that were “currently not available” this morning, at least for the Cape Town matches (France – Uruguay) are available again & ...
Maverick Meerkat Alpha 1 (Ubuntu 10.10) is out
Quick note – Ubuntu 10.10 – Maverick Meerkat is out. Mark Shuttleworth had already given a vision for it back in April 2010. Let the “light”ning commence! 🙂 “Maverick Mee ...