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NATS update – closed until 19 Apr 0700 BST
Futher to previous information about the volcano impact on air travel, another update will follow at 21h00 BST, but the latest is below: Based on the latest information from the Met Office, NATS advis ...
Volcano Update: UK Airspace review only at 0300 BST, Apr 18
The Icelandic Weather Office summarises it nicely: “After a few days of quiet in Eyjafjallajökull volcano, a new and much more forceful eruption has begun west of Fimmvörðuháls, under the ice-ca ...
Virus Removal: Quick list of Rootkit Scanners
With the Alueron rootkit out and about, even the Microsoft patches can now detect whether it’s installed: Microsoft on Alueron rootkit A range of useful links below: Patch notes for Microsoft se ...
clamav 0.94 finally reaches end of life
clamav finally sent the end-of-life payload yesterday evening – 0.96 is the current version, so it’s been a good run 🙂 Possible symptons you experienced: Repeated notifications:WARNING: ge ...
ZA Registrar for domain registrations back up and running
www.co.za is all up and running and back in business again after their issues on April 7, 2010. whois.co.za, co.za Domains and the South African Domain Registry in general is all back in business. But ...
co.za and whois.co.za updates on server recovery
They’ve been working hard! Well done!! 🙂 Function Status Comments CAPTCHA whois Not affected http://captcha.coza.net.za Port 43 whois Not affected whois://whois.coza.net.za Primary Database Not ...
iPad vs the HP Slate
With the iPad having sold its first 300 000 units, some of which, according to Core, are being imported as grey products into South Africa as we speak, the HP Slate priced at around $550 makes its cau ...
Update on .co.za and whois.co.za outages
There’s an update on www.coza.net.za on the system outages they’ve experienced: CO.ZA Service Outage Status 07 Apr 2010 Original announcement here Current Status of co.za services. Functio ...
.co.za and whois.co.za offline
[South Africa – Apr 8. 2010] Both www.co.za (South African co.za Domain Registry) and whois.co.za (The .co.za Domain homepage and the co.za Whois Server (Registration Details)) are offline (at l ...
synch.cc has just launched systemsaudit.co.za
It’s up – the full network and business system audit and asset tracking service by synch.cc, tracking hardware, software and assets using a background scheduler – more at systemsaudi ...
Afrigator.com down?
No access to afrigator.com, afrigator.biz and blog.afrigator.com – whole system, it seems… and no news on their twitter feed… Just early for Earth Hour at 20.30pm today? It’s r ...
Domain registrations in China – turning .cn to .can’t
I’ve been through the domain name registrations in China, in addition to the full documentation to be submitted to the Chinese authorities in order to not have the .cn account suspended. However ...
Google.cn relocated to Hong Kong
Well, as I said in the previous posting on this matter, Google decided to ‘close’ operations in China – to relocate to Hong Kong as www.google.com.hk. In addition, there is no self-c ...
Pretty Loaded…
From the agency that put together the retrospective for Tim Burton (of Beetlejuice, Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride — visit his site for a seriously cool interface!) at the Museum of Modern Art, as w ...
Google will shut down Chinese google.cn
Google is going to shut down google.cn with a likelyhood some webhosts give as their uptime guarantee. With a reported 99.9% certainty, google.cn is going to power down, not due to business, but, as E ...
Search-engine experiment reaches 100th post
And many more will follow, cos this is quite fun! 🙂 Let’s see how the social spidering kicks in… ...
Cracking passwords fast with rainbow tables on SSD
A Swiss firm, Objectif Sécurité, makers of Ophcrack_Office (for Word and Excel files) and Ophcrack Open Source (over at sourceforge.net), has tweaked their application to crack XP passwords with up to ...
jQuery UI new 1.8 FINAL release imminent
So twelve days after jQuery UI 1.8RC3 was released, which followed the release of the previous release candidate – 1.8RC2 after less than 2 weeks, the release of the final jQuery UI 1.8 is only ...
Bhisho’s Health Department – Unplugged
News from the Eastern Cape: Bhisho’s Health Department headquarters have had their telephone lines cut thanks to the department’s unpaid Telkom bill of more than R23 million This is what the Daily Dis ...