Search and view gzip’d files
You knew it already – but I keep forgetting – the power of zgrep and zcat both of which behave as their z-less counterparts. So, to search a gzip’d file, you can simply zgrep <ter ...
Category Archives: sysadmin
Intel Gigabit Ethernet Card on an old kernel?
For self-reference, mainly: For the Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection on an old kernel that doesn’t have the drivers compiled into it – get the driver and make install it ...
Your Kindle, PDFs, EPUBs, file and format conversion and you
There are two irritations when it comes to the Kindle. First of those is your collection of PDFs you bought or own that you’d like to read as a ‘book’ on the Kindle (without going t ...
Firefox: Paste HTML code from one child frame to parent text-box – src stripped
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 < ...
MTN Business Data lines crash – down again
Last time, generator maintenance in Johannesburg took everything offline. There was just notification with the subject line “unknown” (referring to the categorisation of the issue) at 14h2 ...
Afrihost ADSL Uncapped – throttled at 32GB to 0.56Mbps
So – Afrihost ADSL uncapped… the promise of “Pure Internet Joy” is part of the offering’s headline. On a 4Mbps line, the offering of the uncapped account is quite good. T ...
Search all files for TEXT in bash
To find all files by file name containing THE TEXT I SEEK: grep -lir "THE TEXT I SEEK" * ...
WordPress 3.0.1 – I’m sure you’ve upgraded already
I’m sure you’ve done it already, but WordPress 3.0.1 (a maintenance release) is out since Friday and you should have upgraded (and updated the database) already by downloading the 3.0.1 ve ...
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…) ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM cable back up (for now)
Notification at 20:04 on 23 July 2010 read that the link was back up and stable. For now. ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM – finally, a light of hope after cable outage and line down: 23 July
SEACOM expects all connectivity to be restored to full pre-crash conditions by 23 July 2010. The repairs are not complete yet, but, officially, “in the final stages of completion”, with on ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM operational update re repairs and down time
Finally, SEACOM has posted new (well, another) report regarding the undersea outage off Mombasa, which, though initially projected to be completed by 11 July will most probably only be finished by 22 ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM still eyeing the 22 July as targeted restore date
Nothing much new, there is not even an operational update from SEACOM. However, unofficial reports are still pointing to 22 July 2010 as the targeted completion date forthe service to be restored for ...
On the fly compression of a tar-ball or mysqldump
Just to jot it down lest I forget: Tar’ing the local directory and streaming the tarball straight to gzip: tar cvf - . | gzip > target.tar.gz MySQLdump’ing directly to gzip: ...
[SOLVED] qlikView installation on Windows 7 – installation error
You may encounter the following error on installation: Installation ended prematurely because of an error when trying to install 32-bit or 64-bit qlikView on Windows 7. With or without UAC (User Acces ...
End of life for Ubuntu versions
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 ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM – no news is good news?
Since their last update, SEACOM – via their news section or the SEACOM Blog which are ostensibly the same (sort of very weak SQL coding and gaping holes asking for SQL injection) – has not ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM cable outage update – new ETA: down until 22 July
There has been a flurry of updates relating to the repairs to the SEACOM cable. In short – don’t expect anything before 22 July – previous expectations of “5 – 8 daysR ...
[UPDATE] (no) News on SEACOM down due to router off Mombasa
So the site’s back, but there’s no news. No news is good news? Please note that our News module is currently unavailable, due to a security patch implemented by Hosting – we are work ...
[UPDATE] SEACOM down – now their website, too
The official source for SEACOM press releases, www.seacom.mu has decided to follow suit on the router off Mombasa that has decided to crash, with a very boring bog-standard JET Database error message ...