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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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Maverick Meerkat Alpha 1 (Ubuntu 10.10) is out
Team Blog - Fri, 06/04/2010 - 22:50
Quick note – Ubuntu 10.10 – Maverick Meerkat is out. Mark Shuttleworth had already given a vision for it back in April 2010. Let the “light”ning commence! “Maverick Meerkat” is the code name for Ubuntu 10.10, scheduled for release on 10 October 2010. See the Maverick release schedule. A quick sketch-up roadmap is over here.
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MongoDB – the best features of Document Databases, RDBMSs and key-value stores – and PHP
Team Blog - Fri, 06/04/2010 - 22:07
MongoDB has been around for a while now, with the current version of production-level code at 1.4.3. Full integration to PHP is available via PECL, across platforms, or precompiled binaries. And yes, it’s Open Source. From the site itself, MongoDB puts itself out there as a database that bridges the gap between key-value stores (which [...]
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Symlinks (symbolic links) in Samba Ubuntu for Windows
Team Blog - Fri, 06/04/2010 - 15:02
To enable symlinks in Samba for filesharing across platforms inWindows, modify /etc/smb/samba.conf and add in the [global] section: follow symlinks = yes unix extensions = no There has been some discussion about wide symlinks = yes However, due to the attack vector on Samba servers from Windows allowing file traversion, back in February 2010, you [...]
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Samba cheat sheet – Ubuntu
Team Blog - Wed, 06/02/2010 - 00:03
Samba. Whopping goodness. Here are a few notes that help in the setup – from user creation, to directory settings etc This blog post contains a few lessons learnt and thus by extension a migration plan from a Windows file server to a Samba-based one running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I look at users, system [...]
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Upgrade your Ubuntu Distro from the Command Line – Server or Desktop
Team Blog - Tue, 06/01/2010 - 13:02
What release / version are you running? cat /etc/lsb-release or cat /etc/issue But you knew that already — to upgrade the version of the Ubuntu installation you have is quite simple – just storing it so that I have it somewhere sudo apt-get install update-manager-core sudo do-release-upgrade And you’re done! Just give it time (about [...]
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Install Webmin on Ubuntu
Team Blog - Mon, 05/31/2010 - 08:58
Just a quick note (as I keep forgetting, and a cut-and-paste solution is a quicker time to market) – but you knew that already. Installing Webmin is quite simple (download directly, or from the mirrors). Currently, 1.510-2 is the latest version – check on www.webmin.com for further details. As an aside, the book Webmin Kompakt [...]
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FIFA Ticket Sales – update – 30 May 2010, 11 days to go
Team Blog - Sun, 05/30/2010 - 20:51
So the booking system came back online on Friday – late afternoon; after it crashed in the morning, thus shifting online booking advantage drastically… Sigh. And now it’s “Sold Out” in all the good ones. Weren’t they going to release 160 000 tickets? And then it came down to 90 000 tickets…? Perhaps they reported [...]
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Goodbye Facebook
Team Blog - Sun, 05/30/2010 - 20:22
That’s it – I’m out – got to wait for the 14 days now before the account is deleted from Facebook. As promised, I was asked whether I’m really sure that I want to delete my account – have to enter your password and the 2 CAPTCHAs before getting the confirmation: Doesn’t quite end there: [...]
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Google services now hosting in South Africa and whois.co.za
Team Blog - Sun, 05/30/2010 - 20:12
Google.co.za is doing it, Gmail is doing it — resolving to 196.23.168.147 – hosted by Internet Solutions, and reverse-IP’ing to za196-23-168-147.cache.googlevideo.com (which suggests the implemenation of local youtube caching (youtube.co.za is in the offing for some time now)) – full rundown here. Youtube.co.za — registered by MarkMonitor on behalf of Google – was last updated [...]
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Soccer Ticketing 2010 – continued woes
Team Blog - Fri, 05/28/2010 - 12:31
So more tickets went on sale today. Or did they? When I visited the http://lmsfwctickets.fifa.com/LMS link yesterday, I got an IIS7 welcome screen (Welcome to IIS7 — is that the new Icelandic Soccer Federation? which was then fixed about 30 minutes later. That was after the IIS7 ASPX BSOD about their web.config file. Bad omen. [...]
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Completely removing and deleting your Facebook account
Team Blog - Wed, 05/26/2010 - 07:12
Assuming you don’t have any link shares in place (Digg, OpenID, MySpace etc), the process should be quite simple: Go direct: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account (you have to be logged in to use the link) and then don’t access the account for 21 days. Some say 14 days, but what’s the hurry? Some recommend no interaction with Facebook at all [...]
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Soccer ticketing 2010
Team Blog - Sun, 05/23/2010 - 14:13
The counter at the top of the page shows that there are 18 days (and 9 hours) to go before kick-off to the world cup. Have all the tickets sold out? Well, currently, there are signs that some matches are currently unavailable, but in the last 30 minutes, the selection screen has dropped down – [...]
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