Author Archive for: stefan
Entries by Stefan Helander
How to display list items inline and remove the bullet
When using list items in HTML to create a horizontal list (for example in a horizontal menu) you need to display the list items not vertically which is standard, but horizontally. You will probably also want to remove the bullet. This is how you do it. To display the list horizontally, use CSS display: inline […]
Make a weblink (a href) not clickable
Sometimes you have a need to prohibit a visitor from clicking on a link on your site. For example if you are including content from another soruce via Atom or RSS and they contain links. The best way is of course to remove the link tag (<a href="" >) from the content. But if this […]
Joomla 2.5 – suddenly internal links contain Smart%20Search [solution]
In a Joomla 2.5 installation, SEF URLs enabled and URL rewrite using .htaccess enabled I suddenly got internal menu links with URL:s containing Smart%20Search, like: http://www.example.com/some-menu-item/Smart%20Search/some-article The link itself does not work, ending up on an error page. I have no explanation why this occurs. The solution is to go to Menu -> Menus, then […]
Demolition of gas tower in Valby, Copenhagen
The other day I went to watch the demolition of the gas tower in Valby, Copenhagen. The demolition was done by detonating a series of explosive charges in the bottom of the tower. By placing and sequencing the explosions the tower was tipped over to the side with high precision, just like taking down a tree. […]
Unable to login as admin into Joomla administrator after site move
After moving a Joomla 2.5 site to a new URL (i.e. new domain name) the backend (administrator) did no longer let me login as admin (or any other account for that matter). I tried to recover the admin account by setting the password field to a known value directly into the MySQL database described here, but […]
Switching from iPhone to another brand – don’t forget to turn off iMessage first!
A girlfriend to one of my friends recently decided to leave the dark side and replace her iPhone with an Android (good decision!). However when she was using the iPhone she also had enabled the iMessage texting. After switching to her new Android phone her friends, that still was using iPhones, tried to text her. […]
Android mail token files fills up my SD card
I use a HTC Desire HD android mobile. My 8 GB SD card was getting full so I removed photos and videos that had already been copied to my PC. But I became a bit curious because of the 8 GB, the images and videos where not consuming the entire space. To investigate further I connected […]
Error message in Apache log file: “Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden”
The error message "Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden" occured in my Apache logfile and the visitor was displayed an error 403 forbidden error page when trying to access a cgi-script written in Perl. The solution was to add the following for the directory in question to my […]
Remmina on Ubuntu 12.04 problem to connect to Windows 7 with RDP ‘Unable to connect to RDP server’
Suddenly I couldn’t connect to my Windows 7 machine by RDP using Remmina on Ubuntu 12.04. It had worked before and suddenly stopped working. The error message displayed was ‘Unable to connect to RDP server’. Other RDP connections worked fine. For some reason the problem was solved by editing the file ~/.freerdp/known_hosts and deleting the […]