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 ...
Category Archives: sysadmin
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 ...
Clamav errors on upgrade to 0.96 clamd and clamav-milter
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 ...
Step-by-step virus disassembly
Over at SkullSecurity they’ve done a great job of a step-by-step disassembly of the Energizer Trojan using IDA. Using a sterile/insight environment, they go through the code to give you an insig ...
OpenSSL v1 released after 11 years of development
After a long, hard struggle of 11 years, which started with these two entries: 23-Dec-1998: Released OpenSSL 0.9.1c 23-Dec-1998: Official start of the OpenSSL project we are now at the point of “ ...
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 ...
MySQL Database optimization
Just to have them all in one place, and for posterity’s sake, I’ve pulled together some points on how to optimise your MySQL programming. First off, the result of Session 1 of MySQL Camp 1 ...
KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Document Indexing and Indexer issues (SOLVED)
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 ...
KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 reinstallation site startup failure (SOLVED)
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 ...
KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 – OpenOffice startup script (SOLVED)
Having repeatedly received the error that OpenOffice.org is not running on the standard installation of KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Commercial Edition (the same holds true for the Community Edition), furthe ...
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS now in beta
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 ...
Windows 2008 RC1 Service Pack, Windows 7 SP comes early
Microsoft today announced service packs for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but declined to set a release date or a schedule for getting a beta in users’ hands. There’s no concr ...
Security Summit 2010
Moxie Marlinspike will be at the Security Summit 2010 this year at the Sandton Convention Centre – well, at least he’s on the lineup – and should give some insights; Jeremiah Grosman ...
Internet Explorer 9 will not support XP
While so many corporates are still locked into a Windows XP / IE6 platform, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) looms on the horizon, “now even more compliant” (don’t you just love that: R ...
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 ...
Excel 2007 password, cell and sheet protection removal – unprotect/remove password easily
Elmcomsoft has a variety of really good brute-force and dictionary-based password attacks on the full Office suite, including a distributed version to run in the cloud (which I wrote about some time a ...
And it’s 2.9.2 time
WordPress has upgraded to 2.9.2, which fixes the issue that “logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors”. So upgrade already! 🙂 ...
jQuery 1.4 improvements
Over at jQuery14 the full list of progress, changes and improvements, notably (amongst other things) in the .css and .attr methods, as well as new AJAXian improvements. Also, event multi-binding is no ...
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, requireme ...