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 resolving, but not responding… PING afrigator.com (69.162.110.42) from coolserver : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 42-110-162-69.static.reverse.lstn.net (69.162.110.42): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 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, now things have become interesting – registering domain names through non-Chinese registration authorities has been suspended since mid December: We've disabled the registration of new domain ...
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: Use EXPLAIN to profile the query execution plan Use Slow Query Log (always have it on!) Don’t use DISTINCT when you have or could use GROUP BY Insert performance Batch INSERT and REPLACE Use ...
Well, as I said in the previous posting on this matter, Google decided to ‘close’ operations in China – to relocate to Hong Kong as www.google.com.hk. In addition, there is no self-censorship in place anymore – anything goes, according to reports. The Chinese Government is ‘disgusted’ at these developments and reiterated that foreign firms need to stick to Chin ...
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 the import and indexing of the 160 000 files at 102GB possible. So for KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Commercial Edition (the same holds true for the Community Edition), the following should help: Use the be ...
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 during setup. I was met with this delicious error notification which killed all further activity on the site (and prevented the startup of /setup/wizard/, control.php, browse.php, login.php — well, ...
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), further investigation was necessary. The key area of investigation must focus on the dmsctl.sh file, particularly from line 47 onwards, but more of that further down below. This is on Ubuntu (9.10 Server). ...
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 out the box). This version promises as a better (and faster) boot experience, new themes, version 2.6.32 as the Linux kernel, Firefox as default browser — with default browser page changed to Y ...
From the agency that put together the retrospective for Tim Burton (of Beetlejuice, Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride — visit his site for a seriously cool interface!) at the Museum of Modern Art, as well as the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show comes a collection of pre-loaders. You know, that typically twirly swf or flv loader filling up to 100%. But they’ve opened it up to collect the ...
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 concrete roadmap (or tar one, for that matter) yet, but it’s good to see that, if Redmond sticks to it, the 22 month deployment cycle will be revised with a view toward tied-off user systems patched ...