If you remain logged into Evernote’s web interface for long enough, eventually you’ll encounter the situation where attempting to save a note after making some changes will result in a little HTML pop-up dialog telling you that you need to “reload evernote” to access a “new version”. If you click the only button on this [...]
Tagged evernote, failI find my Samsung phone’s auto-complete behavior peculiar: For some months now, when I hit ‘h’ instead of ‘g’ when typing ‘get’, it auto-completes ‘het’ as ‘heterosexual’. Then, just a few minutes ago I was typing ‘it’, and got ‘ostensibly’ (no idea how). These can’t be particularly common n-grams in my writing. In fact, I’m [...]
Tagged auto-complete, randomYou charged me a R114 connection fee, but it’s been six days since I signed a contract with you, and my cellphone number still has not been ported from Virgin Mobile. I paid, but you didn’t do the work. This morning the Virgin SIM stopped working, so now my friends and co-workers cannot reach me. [...]
Tagged cell c, fail, Virgin MobileToday’s launch of the Atlantis marks the retirement of the US shuttle fleet. If you’re wondering what comes next for US space flight, I can suggest reading the articles entitled “WHY THE US CAN BEAT CHINA: THE FACTS ABOUT SPACEX COSTS” and “TAKING THE NEXT STEP | COMMERCIAL CREW DEVELOPMENT ROUND 2″ on the SpaceX [...]
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Today I attended and presented at ZaCon, a local information security conference, with a difference: ZaCon exists without funding (on purpose, don’t offer) or any frills that would make you want to attend other than a passion for infosec. The event was well organized (with impressive amateur AV and video-conference wrangling). The presentations were interesting [...]
Tagged infosec, zaconOne of the weird ironies about this blog has been that although it is focused on networking in South Africa, the web server hosting it for the last ~two years was a Linode.com virtual machine in New Jersey, USA. The server’s IPv6 connectivity was via tunnel to HE.net in New York. Now, thanks to the [...]
Tagged hosting, IPINX, IPv6, WordpressAn open access network (OAN) is a horizontally layered business model for telecoms that has some interesting advantages. It is typically implemented by separating physical infrastructure from services. This creates a virtual market place, where end users have a choice of multiple service providers, and the service providers in turn are freed from having to [...]
Tagged broadband, Neology, open access, tshwaneShortly after my post revealing that RSAWeb (among others) provide hosting for known South African spammers, I got an email from their Technical Director, Mark Slingsby, asking how recent my lookups were1, and requesting me to name the offenders2 so that his sysadmin team can follow up. I replied with a detailed response, noting that [...]
Tagged fail, ispa, RSAWeb, spammersThis morning I read this article on MyBroadband about the ISPA “hall of shame” list of South African spammers, and conducted a quick (somewhat non-scientific) investigation to see where the mail servers for the domains provided on the ISPA list are hosted. After filtering out domains without MX records, MX records without valid A records, [...]
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