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For what it’s worth: an alleged SEACOM cable break a few kilometers from Alexandria – eta of 2.5hrs or so… ...
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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' ...
#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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Back from Tanzania and Kilimanjaro 2010!!
Made it back safe and sound from Tanzania — an amazing country! Went all the way to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro (Uhuru Peak, 5895m) on Jan 30, 2010 at 06:10am :o) Pictures are up at http://www.kil ...
Now on Technorati too
Wow, that took long! The authority process does take its automatin’ time! And the count-down to Kilimanjaro is on — only a few more days to go to before heading to the top – and Tanz ...
Y2K vs 2010 vs 2016 — year rollover still an issue
Ain’t that a kick in the head! Rollover from 2009 to 2010 has not been processed correctly on many systems, including Symantec’s Endpoint Protection Manager, they have confirmed in a state ...
Happy 2010!
Another year, another at least 730-odd opportunities! All the best for the next 8760 hours! 🙂 ...
news.bbc.co.uk looping includes, broken
It seems that a looped include error has broken http://news.bbc.co.uk, creating repetitive nestings -- or just a whole whack of emphasis on the Copenhagen climate change story which is self-included 5 ...
MTN Business goes down – Network Outage over
Seems as though systems are being restarted / links restored, 1hr 10 min later… Whole of South Africa was affected by the network outage. Running commentary here. To quote the WebAfrica forum &# ...
MTN Business goes down
So MTN Business’s Datacentre is down (was Verizon Business, was UUNET). JNB issue, but whole network affected. Should sites not resolve, that’s most likely the problem. No indication of so ...
Unproductive Video Conferences
Depending on how tight your handle is on the management of a video-conference, and what your expected outcomes are, there is a danger that the video-conference may become unproductive 🙂 It’s all ...
Serving video off the cloud
The website for Love never Dies features three videos, one of the Coney Island Waltz, and the other of the press release of the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. However, the video, run via the jquery p ...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-04
status.twitter.com says nooooooothing about it, but links are being dropped by #twitter… ho hum… # #Twitter seems to be timing out from Texan servers' connections – what's up ...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13
Now also on #siliconcape – http://synch.cc is represented! 🙂 # New ClamAV / clamscan / freshclam on old Ubuntu (Feisty or the like) http://r.sven.co.za/u/17 # ...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30
¿umop apisdn upside down? # ...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23
OK, so the newsfeed stuff is quite cool 🙂 # Generating some traffic on twitter — more wasted bytest traversing the web… # ...
Another old favourite is back
http://www.synch.co.za is back (after a sabbatical of some time) so everything’s all happy again on the site, as well as on http://synch.co.za — in the meantime, only the URL synch.cc had ...
Almost forgot about the tweet!
What would a search-engine say if I didn’t add the basic link to the source of tweets (that comes back here if all goes well): http://twitter.com/svenwelzel But you figured that out already 🙂 ...