MongoDB has been around for a while now, with the current version of production-level code at 1.4.3. Full integration to PHP is available via PECL, across platforms, or precompiled binaries. And yes, ...
To enable symlinks in Samba for filesharing across platforms inWindows, modify /etc/smb/samba.conf and add in the [global] section: follow symlinks = yes unix extensions = no There has been some discu ...
Samba. Whopping goodness. Here are a few notes that help in the setup – from user creation, to directory settings etc This blog post contains a few lessons learnt and thus by extension a migrati ...
What release / version are you running? cat /etc/lsb-release or cat /etc/issue But you knew that already — to upgrade the version of the Ubuntu installation you have is quite simple – just ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sven Welzel
May 14, 2010
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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’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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...