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Y2K vs 2010 vs 2016 — year rollover still an issue

Ain’t that a kick in the head! Rollover from 2009 to 2010 has not been processed correctly on many systems, including Symantec’s Endpoint Protection Manager, they have confirmed in a statement An issue has been identified in the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) server whereby all types of SEP definition content [AV/AS, IPS] with a date greater than December 31, 2009 11:59pm ...

Kindle Easter Eggs

Igor Skochinsky at Reverse Everything has some fun Easter Eggs for the Kindle (tested them on the Kindle International Edition). All the below is Igor’s work and time and effort. From the Home Screen: Alt-Shift-M Minesweeper Alt-Z rescan picture directories Alt-T show time Alt-Shift-R reboot Kindle Alt-Shift-. restart GUI Alt-Shift-G make screenshot due to an implementation bug, screenshots ...

Kindle format “cracked open”

So the Kindle format conversion from .azw to OTHER format was already something out there in Python some time ago, now it’s hit the news again. 828 lines of Python (posted 16hrs ago) thwarte the Kindle’s proprietary format (allegedly) to switch to the .mobi format. Seems that the new approach does not require the Kindle’s unique ID (unique decoding and encoding keys are used whe ...

And it’s time for 2.9!

As also noted on the blog, it’s time to upgrade (if you haven’t already) to version 2.9 of WordPress. There are a huge whack of benefits and improvements (over 500 bugfixes), like the online image editor and easier video embedding that’s included now. Well done, guys!! When doing the upgrade, just make sure all the /pomo/ files and wp-settings are updated appropriately… ...

Meep – a blatant attack on Freedom of Speech?

Meep. A word we all know and treasure as spoken by the inimitable Beaker (that long-necked scientist’s assistant from the Muppet Show, always the right-hand “man” of Dr Bunsen Honeydew). However, according to the Salem News and other sources, schools are now threatening their students/learners/scholars/pupils (what does one call them nowadays?) with immediate suspension should t ...

Processing large data volumes

So a compressed text file that ends up being 72GB sounds like a lot, right? Especially if you have to data-churn it with per-line processing. Fine. Wow. A lot. That pales in comparison to the (reported) volumes of data processed by Google and Facebook: In December 2007 (!) Google was processing 400 PB (petabytes) per month, with an average job size of 180GB. Facebook’s volumes have been ste ...

news.bbc.co.uk looping includes, broken

It seems that a looped include error has broken http://news.bbc.co.uk, creating repetitive nestings -- or just a whole whack of emphasis on the Copenhagen climate change story which is self-included 5 times - no wonder the poor BBC Apache server reports "[an error occurred while processing this directive]" -- seems that there is an incorrect citing or link... ho hum... happens to all of us :) ...

MTN Business goes down – Network Outage over

Seems as though systems are being restarted / links restored, 1hr 10 min later… Whole of South Africa was affected by the network outage. Running commentary here. To quote the WebAfrica forum “Is this “network issue” anything to do with the power failure (and generator backup failure) that occurred at MTN moments ago bringing down the entire Hetzner hosting facilities?R ...