So MTN Business’s Datacentre is down (was Verizon Business, was UUNET). JNB issue, but whole network affected. Should sites not resolve, that’s most likely the problem. No indication of source of issue (Telkom ATM link? faulty Cisco router reload?) We await with baited breath… Meanwhile, iol.co.za and FNB, as well as iafrica.com and Standard Bank, to name a few, are down… ...
Not sure whether this is supposed to come as a surprise? From the Business Report on 30 Nov 09: After five years of litigation-filled delays, Telkom is closer to being slapped with a penalty of up to R3.76 billion for anti-competitive behaviour following last Friday’s ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). According to one analyst: “In the five years that it has been able to kee ...
Depending on how tight your handle is on the management of a video-conference, and what your expected outcomes are, there is a danger that the video-conference may become unproductive 🙂 It’s all about the planned and structured way of planning a meeting… The high-def version (so so worth it!!!) is 122MB as an MP4 file 🙂 ...
As you probably know already, a quiet version upgrade of the Kindle 2 has resulted in new functionality for the aA key – Screen Rotation is now an option, through a full 360°! And web browsing on Wikipedia and Amazon work (though a Wikipedia page on Bumble Bees draws 158kB – which is the size of a smallish book..?) Amazing what switching on your wireless now and then allows you to fin ...
Die Zeit berichtet, daĂź DatenschĂĽtzer, auch mittels BuĂźgelder bis zu €50 000, von dem Gebrauch Google Analytics abraten möchten. “Google Inc. räumt sich ausdrĂĽcklich, in seinen beim Einsatz zu akzeptierenden Regularien das Recht ein, die ĂĽber den einzelnen Nutzer mittels einer eindeutigen Kennung gewonnenen Daten mit anderen, bereits gespeicherten Daten” etwa aus Google Mail “zu ...
PBGVVH25US66 They released the Knowledge Tree 3.7 RC Community Edition some time ago, which now runs on the full Zend-Server stack! Infrastructurally, this is the biggest changed; PHP-based setup wizards also feature, and sure – you can now run it on IIS6/IIS7, but that switch to the Zend stack with use of Optimiser features most highly for me on this development. But you knew that already! ...
With the usual eats (ok, the brownies are good – chewey, but not gooey) welcoming those who chose to attend, the presentations at the Cloud Computing Conference 2009 promise three potentially interesting presentations: a case study by iBurst, one by the University of the Witwatersrand, and a presentation about the potential security risks that cloud computing inherently presents. ...
You can get the latest stable version of a Windows compile of nginx (0.7.64) here. Setup is quite straight forward; you’ll need the php-cgi.exe downloaded (copy the libmysql*.dll to the Windows system directory – quickest but dirtiest solution) and tied in; I assume that you can download and run the mysql application yourself? You may need to run the startup as a batch file (f: below ...
So I’ve installed the current beta (for non-production environments) of Drupal 7 on an nginx/php/mysql setup to test speed, interface and ease of use. It was a double-whammy operation, on the one hand testing the server environment, and on the other, the new software. It’s not production-ready, so I don’t expect it to be ready by any stretch of the imagination. So these are just ...
Perhaps it’s just routing — perhaps it’s the network — perhaps it’s Telkom’s upgrade for 2010… But #slashdot.org is offline… Sigh… But you knew that already! Hayibo.com is suffering from 500 Internal Server Errors… Not a good day on the web… ...