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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
From the provider of formalize.me (consistent styling for forms), Nathan Smith’s presentation from April 2011 about the 960 grid system (960.gs) framework, the rationale and alternatives Refresh ...
The upgrade to 3.0.5 was resleased yesterday. From the release notes: Two moderate security issues were fixed that could have allowed a Contributor- or Author-level user to gain further access to the ...
A new product over at x-pire.net (which redirects to x-pire.de) was unveiled in Germany today, with the aim of embedding expiry times and information into images so that they cannot be viewed after a ...
From the WordPress Development Blog: Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here, is a very important update to apply to your sites ...
… it’s time to go 0-3, I think — WordPress 3.0.3 is out – but the update is really only applicable to remote publishing-enabled systems… WordPress 3.0.3 is available and ...
Don’t forget to upgrade inplace or download! It is a mandatory security update for all previous WordPress versions, and upgrades are easy 🙂 ...
Just a quick grouping of resources relating to Stuxnet resources and analysis after the targeted infections of the frequency converters of the Vaasa, Finland based Vacon (though Vacon publicly denies ...
So that it’s documented… I’m using port 8080 as the default port as the likelyhood of your upstream proxy being on 8080 is high – else, typical proxy ports are, of course, 80, ...
You knew it already – but I keep forgetting – the power of zgrep and zcat both of which behave as their z-less counterparts. So, to search a gzip’d file, you can simply zgrep <ter ...
For self-reference, mainly: For the Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection on an old kernel that doesn’t have the drivers compiled into it – get the driver and make install it ...
Here’s something fun: use Firefox 3.6.9 to have a set of Javascript code in a child frame append HTML code to a text box in the parent frame, and content of the string is modified: what was < ...
To find all files by file name containing THE TEXT I SEEK: grep -lir "THE TEXT I SEEK" * ...
I’m sure you’ve done it already, but WordPress 3.0.1 (a maintenance release) is out since Friday and you should have upgraded (and updated the database) already by downloading the 3.0.1 ve ...