Entries by Stefan Helander

Facebook has changed my e-mail address

Recently Facebook decided to hide all other e-mail addresses but your @facebook.com address on your Facebook profile. After all, Facebook is a free service, so you should consider yourself "the product" rather than "the customer". Facebook’s real customers are their advertisers and not you, so they can do more or less anything with your account and […]

Dovado routers with ZTE MF820D 4G modems (Telia)

To be able to use the ZTE MF820D 4G dongle from Telia with Dovado routers, both units need to have updated firmwares. Unfortunately even in stores, those units seems to have outdated firmwares. To upgrade the ZTE MF820D 4G dongle – follow this guide (Telia Sweden): http://www.telia.se/ To upgrade the Dovado router, visit Dovado’s homepage: http://www.dovado.com/firmware and […]

System Check virus – how to remove it

System Check is a virus/trojan pretending to be a system diagonstics tool displaying fake errors. To recover them the user will be fooled to pay for the software. Whatever you do – do not pay for it! When infected, all icons on the desktop will be hidden and the only program in the Start menu […]

Windows Vista hangs on Welcome screen

I had a HP desktop PC running Windows Vista that sometimes hanged on the Welcome screen (displayed after entering the password to login). The problem occured randomly but started to occur more and more often causing trouble for the user. Just waiting for the Welcome screen to dissappear (for hours) didn’t help. I applied different solutions […]

Asterisk streaming music-on-hold

In Asterisk it is possible to upload .wav or .mp3 files to be used as music-on-hold (MOH). Another option is to use streaming audio but using a stream from a Shoutcast server requires some hands on. This is how I did the setup for AsteriskNow 1.7 with FreePBX 2.9. First of all you will need mpg123 […]

Ubuntu 9.10 package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

When trying to do an apt-get upgrade the MySQL package failed with the error message: package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 The problem is that the start / stop script for MySQL fails to stop the running MySQL server before upgrade. Solution: apt-get update ps ax […]

WordPress Media crop button greyed out

In WordPress Media it is possible to edit the images in some basic ways including cropping. To use the tool you must fist make a selection in the image by clicking and dragging across the image. The selection must be wider than the smallest image setting in WordPress. Otherwise the crop tool will stay greyed […]

Navigating with HTC Locations

When I bought my latest smartphone, HTC Desire HD, a navigation software called HTC Locations was preinstalled. HTC Locations is a product by HTC but navigation and maps is powered by the well known Route 66.  It is free to download maps but to be able to navigate in an area you must buy a […]