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VMWare console and Firefox 3.6.6 – Workaround
Team Blog - Tue, 07/06/2010 - 08:17
As the VMWare plugin does not work with Mozilla‘s Firefox 3.6.6 – and as it cannot launch a virtual machine console – you’ll have to use a workaround. This post results from the error I kept receiving: Cannot access virtual machine console. The request timed out. The paths are applicable to your OS and version [...]
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[UPDATE] SEACOM down again: A ship, a ship…
Team Blog - Tue, 07/06/2010 - 07:32
New update at 5am SAST: So they have initiated the deployment of the ship to the wet plant. That does not mean, though, that the ship is actually is already on its way – it’s deployment is initiated… Official communications from SEACOM have been promised to follow… In addition: SEACOM’s investigations have revealed that an [...]
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IOL with some issues?
Team Blog - Mon, 07/05/2010 - 20:13
IOL – the online offering of Independent Newspapers – seems to have issues — only two stories show up – one about Nigeria reversing their ban on its soccer team (and announcing that the football federation said it would disband and rebuild the side) and another after a very strange story about the Gatsby International [...]
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[UPDATE] SEACOM down again
Team Blog - Mon, 07/05/2010 - 19:11
One of my service providers have forwarded me an update to the latest SEACOM outage: According to the update, SEACOM has sent out notification that they are currently localising the fault from both Mumbai and Dar-es-Salaam (in Tanzania). There seems to be a repeater of theirs that has issues which has resulted in them running [...]
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SEACOM down again – cable break in Kenya
Team Blog - Mon, 07/05/2010 - 14:08
Afrihost, as well as a range of other resellers of SEACOM bandwidth, again had to post notifications today of network downtime: We are experiencing an intermittent International ADSL connectivity problem. Our upstream service providers’ engineers are investigating the cause of the problem. We will post more details here shortly once we have more information. Services [...]
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Symbolic links in Windows
Team Blog - Mon, 06/28/2010 - 16:16
Windows Vista and 7, if not before, allow symbolic links — mklink is your command-line friend! Creates a symbolic link. MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target /D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file symbolic link. /H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link. /J Creates a Directory Junction. [...]
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Firefox 3.6.6 Crash Protection – crashing?
Team Blog - Mon, 06/28/2010 - 10:22
Is it just me or is the new version of Crash Protection which pushed itself via a new release of Firefox up to 3.6.6 marking every instance of Flash as crashed? On the one hand, this may be a little salute to the Flash – Apple situation (though I hardly think it likely). Am I [...]
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Create a Tar file from Directory and all Subdirectories
Team Blog - Mon, 06/28/2010 - 10:11
It’s a simple one-liner that one tends to forget (that is, one that I forget as I untar more than I manually tar). So creating a tar file from directory and all subdirectories is as simple as tar -cvf file.tar directory To compress it on the fly, pipe it to your favourite compression application (compress, [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20
Team Blog - Sun, 06/20/2010 - 10:04
Well done to #MEX! # #Mex now on their third goal in the #WorldCup against #Fra – 2101st goal!! # #FRA will have to catch up! # Hurray for #Mex for their second goal in the #Worldcup # 2100'th #FIFA #Worldcup Goal! #
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Secure SSH Tunneling – at no extra cost
Team Blog - Sat, 06/19/2010 - 11:20
Assuming you have a Windows machine and you interact with Linux boxen at any stage, chances are high that you have used and interacted with PuTTY at one stage or another. That beautiful, less than 2 sec, 444K download of a tool (currently at version 0.60 beta) allows you to SSH, COM-direct, RSH, Telnet etc [...]
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Upgrade and update WordPress without the FTP/FTPS options
Team Blog - Fri, 06/18/2010 - 18:19
You may not have FTP or FTPS running on your server (either by choice or decision). In order to manage that, there is a simple workaround you can implement.Add define(’FS_METHOD’,’direct’); to your wp-config.php file and the data access will be filesystem-direct. Good show, Random Tech Solutions!
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#Twitter taking #WorldCup strain during matches like #FRA v #MEX
Team Blog - Thu, 06/17/2010 - 19:38
http://status.twitter.com/ is reporting the High Error Rate on Twitter.com since yesterday already, and #Trends have been temporarily disabled since the 15th of June. On Monday the 14th of June, #Twitter blamed the site availability issues on the failed enhancements to their #Timeline Cache. At that stage, it took them a good 5 hours to restore [...]
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WordPress 3.0 is out!
Team Blog - Thu, 06/17/2010 - 19:05
Just a quick note – remember to upgrade now! But you knew that already! 218 people helped fixing the 1217 bugs, with a new default theme called Twenty Ten and a whole lot more. Matt puts it bets in the release notes: Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, [...]
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[SOLVED] phpSysInfo – failed to open stream on Ubuntu 10.04?
Team Blog - Tue, 06/15/2010 - 17:57
phpsysinfo eval : 2 Message : parse_ini_file(/usr/share/phpsysinfo/data/distros.ini): failed to open stream: No such file or directory File There is a simple fix for this in version 3.0.5: Copying the data directory from the source .tar.gz (available from http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/) to /usr/share/phpsysinfo and that fixes the error (so you get a new /usr/share/phpsysinfo/data directory). Simple.
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[SOLVED] mysql-server5.1.5.141-3ubuntu12.1 hangs on upgrade
Team Blog - Tue, 06/15/2010 - 09:34
There are a lot of words about the MySQL upgrade on Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit specifically, perhaps the 32bit version too?) — it just hangs: You get the hopeful message: Preparing to replace mysql-server-5.1 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.1 but then nothing happens and everything just hangs. Seems like the issue is related to the install script — it’s [...]
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And now for something completely different
Team Blog - Thu, 06/10/2010 - 22:43
The Hippopotamus Song Words by Michael Flanders Music by Donald Swann and Michael Flanders A bold Hippopotamus was standing one day On the banks of the cool Shalimar. He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay By the light of the evening star. Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair His fair Hippopotamine [...]
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2 days, 18hrs to go – tickets for Cape Town matches plentiful
Team Blog - Tue, 06/08/2010 - 21:42
That place on the web that sells tickets to the foot-operated sport worth billions taking place in a country featuring cities like Cape Town and Johannesburg this year – FIFA.com – has taken the count-down clock off-line – so I had to find other sources to give the 2 day, 18hr count-down. Meanwhile, there is [...]
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Adobe Flash and Adobe PDF zero-day critical vulnerability in the wild.
Team Blog - Sat, 06/05/2010 - 22:32
From Adobe‘s advisory: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems. This vulnerability (CVE-2010-1297) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to [...]
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Ticket sales improving? 15:53 SAST vs 18:24 SAST Cape Town FIFA Ticket availability
Team Blog - Sat, 06/05/2010 - 18:30
Seems like tickets are flying… check the usage at 15:53 SAST on 5 June below. Now compare this with the availability at 18:24 SAST today same time (ie 2hr 31 min later), below. Seems like tickets are near to the “sold-out” definition – but let’s wait for the re-shuffle to proceed… TimesLive reports that 58 [...]
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6 days to go… tickets available again for the Soccer World Cup
Team Blog - Fri, 06/04/2010 - 23:47
So the big ticket shuffle has started again, and tickets that were “currently not available” this morning, at least for the Cape Town matches (France – Uruguay) are available again – if only in Category 1. An overall view shows tickets available across the board (especially in Polokwane and Rustenburg…) If you’re keen on getting [...]
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