If you have your contacts exported into .vcf files, they can easily be imported into for example iCloud, Google or your email program. However, if you have a couple of hundreds or thousands of contacts, and equally amount of .vcf files it will be very inefficient to import each contact one by one. A solution […]
When trying to upgrade Magento from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 I got a windows saying Update in progress and the last line from the system log says “./composer.json has been updated” then nothing more happens for quite a long time. Finally an error screen displays “Error in Update!”. To restart the update process while trying to […]
When running the Magento readiness test it failed with the message that always_populate_raw_post_data should be set to -1 since it is running under php 5.6. Even though I tried different methods of setting it to -1 and I could verify it by calling phpinfo(); Magento still complained. The way I solved is a bit rough and […]
First of all, check the Magento guide on this problem here. In my case, at first I didn’t get any errors in the cron logs in <web-root>/var/log. When running the scripts by hand as the website user I got the not so informing “Cron readiness check failed” in the <web-root>/var/log/update.cron.log. The reason the “Cron readiness failed” was […]
Greylisting is a way of reducing the amount of incoming spam and virus emails, in addition to other counter measures. Postgrey is a good choice if you are running postfix. However, to be able to recieve emails from senders using outlook.com you need to whitelist it. This is because outlook.com is using a different host […]
There is no built-in function to export the mailinglist subscriber in mailman. If you want to migrate to another software or move to another mailman installation you are in need to export the subscribers. I found this to be the easiest way: Log in to your mailman mailinglist administration panel, like http://hostname/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/mylist Replace “admin” with “roster” […]
There are several third party products available to connect a Windows client to a WebDAV drive. This guide will explain how to do it with using native Windows and has been tested using Windows 7 but should work for other versions too. For Windows server 2003, Windows XP and Vista users, you first need to […]
Sometimes the Joomla Update component is missing in the Components menu in the backend. A workaround has been to use the extension manager and paste the update package URL and make the update that way. But when updating to Joomla 3.5.0 that method is not possible. A quick solution, if the Joomla Update component is […]
From a command shell (cmd) issue the command: netstat -a | find “:3389” | find “ESTABLISHED” This will a result in a list of all remote IP-addresses connected using RDP to the server. If the server is using a non-standard port for RDP, replace 3389 with the non-standard port.
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