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		<title>Facebook scales to 500 million users</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few of the big numbers Facebook deals with:
* 500 million active users
* 100 billion hits per day
* 50 billion photos
* 2 trillion objects cached, with hundreds of millions of requests per second
* 130TB of logs every day
Remember, there are only three numbers in computer science: 0, 1, and n. This is what scaling horizontally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2010/07/29/facebook-scales-to-500-million-users/</link>
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		<title>Hacked MediaTemple sites inserting javascript malware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my friend&#8217;s sites recently had some javascript hacked, which cunningly hid the contents of what it wrote to the screen so that searching through the files with normal means didn&#8217;t even show what files were affected.
So here&#8217;s a script which shows possibly hacked files. Assuming you have ssh access to your server, save [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2010/07/27/hacked-mediatemple-sites-inserting-javascript-malware/</link>
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		<title>Ignore Julius</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know this is a geek blog, but sometimes I&#8217;ve got to step into some of South Africa&#8217;s public issues (I guess there&#8217;s some lesson in here about the relationship between technology and the public sphere). So here goes&#8230;
Much of the fear Julius Malema has managed to inspire is not because of his vast intelligence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2010/04/08/ignore-julius/</link>
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		<title>Unite South Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part of a blogging campaign to Unite South Africa, given the recent events in the country, which show a disturbing increase in violent rhetoric and alarmist reasoning. You can follow the conversation on twitter as it unfolds here: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23uniteSA

South Africa stands at a crossroads &#8211; a time in which racial tensions run high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2010/04/06/unite-south-africa/</link>
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		<title>Bloggers for a Free Press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is a call by Sipho Hlongwane for bloggers to join in the protest against the tactics the ANC Youth League are employing to try and destroy the freedom of the press. The Twitter hashtag for this is #SpeakZA
Last week, shocking revelations concerning the activities of the ANC Youth League spokesperson Nyiko Floyd Shivambu [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2010/03/24/bloggers-for-a-free-press/</link>
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		<title>Comparison of worldwide Apple prices &#8211; South Africa comes in 2nd highest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The world is flat!&#8221; Thomas Friedman proclaimed in 2005, meaning that the world has become a global village, where all players have a equal opportunity. I wish he was right, because that would mean that we in South Africa would have the same access to Apple computers as the rest of the First World.
Thanks to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2010/01/13/comparison-of-worldwide-apple-prices-south-africa-comes-in-2nd-highest/</link>
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		<title>Javascript in Drupal 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kat Bailey has posted an excellent overview of the changes in javascript usage between Drupal 6 and 7. Particularly relevant is AHAH usage, which she sums up in Drupal 6 as follows: &#8220;AHAH forms make people want to jump out of the window of very tall buildings&#8221;!!! which is SOOOO true (I struggled for about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/11/05/javascript-in-drupal-7/</link>
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		<title>Snow Leopard, Drupal, Macports and php</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The short story is this: Snow Leopard has php 5.3.0 in, and although Drupal 6.14 now runs on that version, all previous drupal versions run on 5.2. [Solution? Manual compile - instructions below]
Mark Liyange&#8217;s php package has all of the nice stuff (like GD and mysql support) built into it, but it just doesn&#8217;t run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/09/25/snow-leopard-drupal-macports-and-php/</link>
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		<title>South Africans: it&#8217;s legal to add people to your newsletters without their permission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turns out it&#8217;s legal to spam people if you&#8217;re South African.

The Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002 of South Africa states that
 1) Any person who sends unsolicited commercial communications to consumers, must provide the consumer
 a) with the option to cancel his or her subscription to the mailing list of that person; and
 b) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/09/21/south-africans-its-legal-to-add-people-to-your-newsletters-without-their-permission/</link>
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		<title>Import the correct package for Actionscript 3 functions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning: geeky rant follows. If you don&#8217;t care about Flash and Actionscript, don&#8217;t bother reading. Go and play in the sunlight, or whatever you people do for fun.

Dear Adobe
Your actionscript 2 migration documentation sucks. It&#8217;s written for people who already know what to do and so therefore wouldn&#8217;t make mistakes in the first place. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.macgeek.co.za/2009/09/19/import-the-correct-package-for-actionscript-3-functions/</link>
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