I’ve long been a fan of the Melbourne Coffee Review blog but it’s always hard to remember what’s good where when you’re away from a ‘net connection! So I was pleasantly surprised to hear that they’re going to be releasing “Melbourne Coffee Review :The Guide 2010” in the (hopefully) near future! You can even apparently pre-order it on another site.
Author Archives: Chris Samuel
WordPress 2.8 upgrade – beware SVN!
Just had a rather nasty experience trying to upgrade to WP 2.8 using svn switch to move to the 2.8 tag – it resulted in the whole thing going pear shaped during the upgrade process and complaining about:
Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Widget’ not found in $wordpress/wp-includes/default-widgets.php on line 15
Turns out that the files in SVN don’t match what’s in the 2.8 tarball, and the 2.8 tag in SVN doesn’t work. The fix was to rsync the files from the tarball over SVN. Very very weird (and the first time I’ve had such problems!).
Anti-immigrant Facebook group
The ABC is reporting the depressing, but not entirely unsurprising, fact that 65,000 people have joined an anti-immigration Facebook group.
I’d like to make a suggestion to all that groups members – given that you want immigrants to leave Australia perhaps you would do the rest of us the honour of going first given that your ancestors arrived here with the last 1% of the inhabited time of this continent ?
Thank you for your understanding..
KDE 4.3 beta 2 on its way
Not yet announced on the KDE site, but I see that packages for 4.2.90 are arriving via the Kubuntu KDE Experimental PPA (looks like it was tagged and tar’d up 5 days ago!). 🙂
T-Mobile compromised – data for sale ?
Apparently someone claims to have pinched all of T-Mobile’s data..
The U.S. T-Mobile network predominately uses the GSM/GPRS/EDGE 1900 MHz frequency-band, making it the largest 1900 MHz network in the United States. Service is available in 98 of the 100 largest markets and 268 million potential customers. Like Checkpoint Tmobile has been owned for some time. We have everything, their databases, confidental documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009.
They claim to have hawked it around their competitors (who seem to know better than to buy it) and now are offering it on the open market.. 🙁
(Via ISC)
AF447 lost – thunderstorm/turbulence
From a Google Translation of the official Air France press release:
The aircraft went through a thunderstorm with strong turbulence at 2 am (universal time) or 4:00 GMT. An automated message was received at 2:14 (4:14 GMT) indicating a failure of electrical system in a remote area of the coast.
🙁
Phishing by Phone
This got caught by the spam filters:
To speed up the process, you are required to call us at our free toll free number (+61) 731-235-996 to verify your Commonwealth Maestro Card.
First time I’ve seen a phishing attack that uses (presumably VOIP) phone numbers (in this case allocated to GoTalk in Brisbane, they own 0731230000 to 0731239999 according to the search you can do here) rather than a web site (though I suspect it’s been around for a while).
US-CERT incident report fail
US-CERT has a form for reporting security incidents – I wanted to report a .gov system that had been hacked and used as part of a phishing scam but cannot because it won’t accept my Australian phone number! Sigh..
The email to the technical contact in WHOIS will have to be sufficient then.
North Korea Tests Another Nuclear Bomb (11 kiloton?)
It’s being reported that North Korea has detonated another test nuclear device, and the USGS is showing a magnitude 4.7 quake in North Korea (the previous device test registered as a mag 4.2 one).
Using the code I mentioned when writing about the first test it appears that it was likely to be around an 11 kiloton device, significantly larger than the 2 kt device tested previously.
Mag. Energy Energy TNT TNT TNT Hiroshima
Joules ft-lbs tons megatons equiv. tons bombs
4.2 0.126E+12 0.929E+11 0.301E+02 0.301E-04 0.201E+04 0.134E+00
4.7 0.708E+12 0.522E+12 0.169E+03 0.169E-03 0.113E+05 0.753E+00
USGS image of DPRK nuclear test 2009/05/25
Digikam Problem with KDE 4.3 beta 1
If you’re using the Kubuntu 4.3 beta 1 packages for Kubuntu Jaunty you’ll likely find that you suddenly can’t view your albums any more. I traced it down to the following error in my ~/.xsession-errors file:
Could not open library '/usr/lib/kde4/kio_digikamalbums.so'.
Cannot load library /usr/lib/kde4/kio_digikamalbums.so: (/usr/lib/libdigikamcore.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN6Marble12MarbleWidget16addPlaceMarkDataERK7QStringS3_)
Basically Digikam needs recompiling against the version of Marble in KDE 4.3 to get its symbol names fixed. Doing it isn’t that hard, you need to do:
sudo apt-get build-dep digikam
apt-get source digikam
cd digikam-0.10.0
dpkg-buildpackage
Once that’s done (and it’ll take a while) you’ll have 3 new packages in the parent directory of digikam-0.10.0, the Digikam package, a package for showfoto and a package for Digikams debugging symbols. Just use “sudo dpkg -i ” to install them.