The arrival of the smartphone (iPhone, Android) etc is a blessing for the true nerd who now can be constantly online and up to date with important things (aka the Internet). On a professional level it is a way of giving good service to your customers be being able to quick reply to emails etc. […]
I recently went on a trip to Italy and in order to keep up to date with work I decided to find some prepaid mobile Internet for my stay. I stepped by a Wind (www.wind.it) store in Verona on a friday afternoon. The attendant explained that my best choice would be their "Mega unlimited" offer which included a […]
Suddenly my VMware vSphere client version 4.0.0 started to crash when I try to upload a file to the datastore. This happens on both my Windows Vista and XP boxes running the VMware vSphere client. The problem is similar to the one described in this KB article concering Windows 7 clients. However, the solution is […]
If you get the error message "An error occurred while updating object. lang ()" when updating a language in PrestaShop, this is caused when the system doesn’t have permissions to write in the .htaccess-file in your root directory. If the file does not exist, just create an empty .htaccess-file and make sure it is writeable by the […]
When moving a PrestaShop version 1.4 webshop to a new domain name (from a development server to a live site for example) you must do the following: Make sure all directories are writeable according to the PrestaShop installation instructions. Don’t forget that the files in config directory must be writeable as well as the entire […]
A while ago I decided to start fresh with my HP Compaq 6910p laptop so I installed a new harddisk and Windows 7. My 6910p has an internal 3G/GSM modem (HS2300). When visiting the HP Support & Drivers page for the 6910p and Windows 7 I discovered there are no drivers or software for this […]
In most cases when creating a site in Joomla!, the first choise on the menu is something like "Start" or "Home" that brings the user back to the landing page of the site. Normally you will also link the website logo to the start page. But sometimes when creating a site in Joomla, it is not […]
The PHP flock() function is good when the file locking method is used the same way by all programs that will lock the file. However, you can’t check if any process in the system is actually using the file or not. If you for example are monitoring an incoming ftp folder, you don’t want to start […]
This is a cool mouse from emmys.dk for all of you brainiacs. If not for yourself, maybe as a gift for your nerd friend. They also have some funny female shaped mouses, which you of course has no need for as a cool nerd. Everybody knows that nerd is the new sexy and women stand […]
The Ktools PhotoStore software (www.ktools.net) automatically generates thumbnails, sample and large images with watermarks of the images in the database. If you change the settings regarding the image sizes only newly added images will get the new sizes. The following simple script regenerates / resizes the thumbnails, sample and large images from the original images. […]