Symbolic links in Windows
Windows Vista and 7, if not before, allow symbolic links — mklink is your command-line friend! Creates a symbolic link. ...
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#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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Samba cheat sheet – Ubuntu
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 ...
Upgrade your Ubuntu Distro from the Command Line – Server or Desktop
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
SEACOM cable issue resolved?
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 ...
Update on slow Internet – South Africa – due to SEACOM maintenance
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 ...
SEACOM maintenance extended until 30 April – South African Internet slow
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 ...