The so-called Waterkloof Four are to file an application for leave to appeal in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. ... This is after their appeal against their conviction and 12-year prison sentence for murder and assault was rejected by the Pretoria High Court...
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A few days ago, I found myself with corrupted libraries and other insanity after doing a "dist-upgrade". As it turns out, my filesystem was to blame. After running xfs_repair on it, I used a handy short-cut to re-install all...
A few months ago I upgraded my system to 4G of RAM. Blinded by my shiny new DIMMs, I never actually looked at the output of "free". All I saw was that the system-monitor applet now showed lots of free memory. Only recently did...
A while back, I wanted to design some banner pages for a shared network printer that would show the name of the host that sent the request (none of the standard CUPS banners report this). It was easy enough to define a custom...
I've been using xterms forever. Whenever I try to switch to using a terminal with a true-type font, my eyes hurt after a few hours. I've tried changing the various font-rendering options, and gone through lots of monospaced...