After a reboot the web interface on a QNAP TS-420 NAS was not accessible over SSL. A nmap showed the NAS was not listening on the SSL port and it was configured to force SSL connections over the standard 443 SSL-port. So trying to access it over the non-SSL port just directed me to https://<ip-address […]
When you share a video on Youtube you can select to start the shared video at a certain point of time in the video. Like this (selected to start at 0:40). This option however is not availible when embedding a video. It can be solved manually though. The embed code from Youtube looks something like […]
When protecting the administrator folder in Joomla using Apache htaccess to increase the security of the website (which by the way is a good thing to do to prevent too interested individuals to peek where they shouldn’t), you might get an error 404 message when trying to access administrator and the expected password prompt never […]
A server I am maintaining stopped during boot on the "Stopping userspace bootsplash" or "Configuring network interfaces". If Ctrl-Alt-Del was pressed the machine rebooted so it was not completely stuck. I tried booting in rescue mode and checked the /etc/network/interfaces syntax but no problem visible there. The solution was quite simple. Boot in rescue mode […]
I made a customized theme by copying the PrestaShop default-bootstrap theme in version 1.6.0.6. After an upgrade to 1.6.0.9 the theme will no longer show the dropdown submenus. The reason is that after the upgrade, the default-bootstrap has been updated but my customized copy hasn’t causing some needed JS files not being loaded. The quickest […]
Here is the documentation on how to add attributes / combinations to a product in PrestaShop -> http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS16/Managing+Product+Attributes If you plan on using multiple attributes for a product, like size and colour, do use the combinations generator and select both the possible sizes and colours at the same time. If you add them by hand one […]
This is a litle trick I use when I travel and hook up to a wifi network in a crowded wifi environment. Sometimes the network performance over wifi is really bad and the problem is that it can be caused by heavy traffic (like file sharing) on another wifi network sharing the same channel as yours. […]
To install Ubuntu 14.04 on a Samung Ultrabook Ativ Book 9, this is how to do it. I decided to keep the factory installed Windows 8.1 beside my Ubuntu install using dual boot. Thanks to enrish for the basic info. I found out there is no need to shrink the Windows 8.1 partition as long […]
I’ve found out that the 802.11n high speed wifi / wlan mode (300 Mbps theoretically) tends to cause more harm than good, i.e. the performance in many, especially crowded, wifi environments will be really poor and it is a better option to turn it off. My Compaq 6910p laptop comes with an Intel Wireless WiFi Link […]
On a rather new Samsung Ultrabook series 5 we had intermittent / sporadic connection problems on some wifi networks. The status for the network shifts forth and back between ok and “No internet access”. This doesn’t happen on all wifi networks. It seems the problem is the 802.11n mode, especially in a crowded wifi environment. The […]