You can access the load shedding lookup tool for Cape Town to your mobile phone so that you don’t have to type the link, open a browser, or even navigate! You can simply add the page to your hom ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 < ...
In the story relating to release upgrades for Ubuntu, below the end-of-life table for the Ubutu Releases from the Ubuntu Wiki – just to have it all in one place; I’m only including the LTS ...
Is it just me or is the new version of Crash Protection which pushed itself via a new release of Firefox up to 3.6.6 marking every instance of Flash as crashed? On the one hand, this may be a little s ...
phpsysinfo eval : 2 Message : parse_ini_file(/usr/share/phpsysinfo/data/distros.ini): failed to open stream: No such file or directory File There is a simple fix for this in version 3.0.5: ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
Some updates to the yum-sent clamav-milter.conf and (to a lesser extent) clamd.conf may be necessary. After an automatic yum-update of the clamd family on RHEL, there’s a disparity in the way cl ...
Argh. Well, it’s really not quite out of the box, at least on Ubutu Server 9.10 (after reinstallations required after initial failures…), so this is just a selection of the fixes that made ...
OpenOffice.org startup failures, indexing issues and other niggles forced me to re-install KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Commercial Edition (the same holds true for the Community Edition) more than once durin ...
Ubuntu 10.04 went beta yesterday afternoon, with downloads at http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/, otherwise from the download mirrors. Lucid Lynx, as it’s called, enjoys LTS support (ie 5 years ...
Google Gears is reportedly being relegated to the bench by the Campus (Google, that is, as mentioned in a range of comments before) in order to allow the fun-filled featues of HTML5 to replace the fun ...
After a few reported issues with prior WordPress version upgrade 2.9, 2.9.1 is here to save the day (full version, not even RC 🙂 From the source: This release addresses a handful of minor issues as we ...