Category: Other

  • Some recent pictures

    Nigel the genet
    Nigel, the Cape genet, at supper time

    Night sky over Algeria
    Night sky over Algeria

    Night sky animationย created with the help of Time Lapse Assembler.

  • Kindle Firmware upgrades

    Remember to upgrade your Kindle from Amazon – there’s a new firmware upgrade available, taking the system to version 2.5.2 (24.3MB – you may want to transfer via USB…) (more…)

  • How a Web Design goes straight to hell…

    Many, many, many can attest to the tail of trauma, pain and suffering, as well as deep, well-meant user input created by an environment which is free-flowing, without pre-set specifications, requirements and design parameters. Pain. Argh.

    Well done, TheOatMeal! He also does a really good piece on What not to Tweet about on Twitter

    Oh — and in case you were wondering — here are 10 signs to check to see whether your cat is plotting to kill you. ๐Ÿ™‚

  • Create a new certificate for Ubuntu the easy way (but you knew that already)

    For the self-signed certificate:

    sudo a2enmod ssl

    wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7477840/apache2-ssl.tar.gz

    tar -zxvf apache2-ssl.tar.gz

    sudo cp apache2-ssl-certificate /usr/sbin/

    sudo cp ssleay.cnf /usr/share/apache2/

    sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl

    cd /etc/apache2/ssl

    sudo apache2-ssl-certificate -days 365

    sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/ssl

    sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/ssl /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ssl

    Modify the ssl site-available:

    NameVirtualHost *:443

    <virtualhost *:443>

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    SSLEngine On

    # the following lines are links to the certs

    SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem

    DocumentRoot /var/www/

    Everything else stays the same.

    Now all that remains is to restart your server:

    sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

    All done!

    Found this online ๐Ÿ™‚

  • ex-Lightedge vs Ends-On (but you knew that already)…

    Interestingly, the top search result that pops up on the “Do No Evil” Search is ends-on.co.za (not the stories relating to the Valentine’s Day demise of Lightedge Technology). Go figure. The old lightedge.co.za domain is pointing to the same server as ends-on (at SA Domain) and doing a re-direct.

    Hm. lightedge.co.za – paid on 2 June 2008 (still registered to Lightedge / Bobby Richter as Tech Contact at the time through UUNet / Verizon) and changed only on 24 June 2008 to repoint to the ends-on setup. Ends-on, for its own part was only registered on 2 March (to gapsoft@ our favourite telecoms provider’s network) and then updated two months later. Thus nabbing the google position.

    Ends-On has lynnm (Lynn Munch’s ?) and grantp (Grant Poulton’s ?) details as primary contacts, and is privately registered in Grant’s name at the domain registry.

    Even though there’s not much on the site (and the mailers have been going out), be sure to see some familiar product offerings on the site once the product listing gets updated… Then, too, can we see pricelists etc.

    The 2006-registered company (shell, I guess, then renamed?) company has aย  Micro-Enterprise Exemption giving it a BBBEE Level 4 Contributer and 100% Recognition score until May 2009 (which was issued as a Microsoft Word file!?)

    Nothing wrong with that, free trade… But you knew that already…

  • This is what the Scottie Puppies might look like in a few weeks ๐Ÿ™‚

    Sooooo cool!! ๐Ÿ™‚

    This is what might happen to poor Baggins![1. Ok, Baggins is not an Airdale Terrier, but he’s sortof the same colour ] ๐Ÿ™‚

    On YouTube (original video here) there are repeated problems watching it — YouTube is being odd… So now, just click Play below.

    [flashvideo filename=”https://blog.sven.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/airedale_babysitting_scottie_pups.flv” /]

  • Puppies

    Pint-size!How cool is this puppy!!Scottie puppies rock! And there were seven of them!

    When we left, the eyes were open, the ears were starting to stand up and even some teeth were starting to show!

    It would have been so simple, so easy, to just sneak one onto the plane — SA Express would never have known!

    Could have shared the ‘mid-afternoon snack’ bagle and everything! [piclens-lite-link]