Problem: In the front system (FS) Prestashop is not showing the Categories box. In the back system (BS), clicking on the Catalog tab shows just a blank page, or an error message saying the page is unavailible. The probable reason is that your Home category is missing or messed up. The problem is that you […]
When you’re travelling as a professional nerd, you regularly needs to access the Internet. Internet cafés can be expensive and 3G… don’t think about using it abroad. It ususally costs a fortune. I joined the FON network where you share your broadband connection at home to other FON-users and in return you are able to […]
To see it, you need a telnet client installed. In Linux and Microsoft Windows previous to Vista a telnet client is built in (obviously Microsoft figured no-one uses telnet anymore in Vista). To see the movie, just do telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl In Windows XP, click Start and then Run and type the line above in the run-command […]
I use the Vivotek PT7137 network camera connected through wifi/wlan to my network. Even though it is located only 7 meters from my accesspoint (with a couple of walls in between) the camera lost connection once in a while. And it wouldn’t reconnect unless I rebooted the camera. Upgrading to the latest firmware (v2.6 2009-04-14) […]
The PHP functions htmlspecialchars and it’s reverse htmlspecialchars_decode only handles the following characters: ‘&’ (ampersand) becomes ‘&’ ‘”‘ (double quote) becomes ‘"’ when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set. ”’ (single quote) becomes ‘'’ only when ENT_QUOTES is set. ‘<‘ (less than) becomes ‘<’ ‘>’ (greater than) becomes ‘>’ If you want to output html text containing nordic/german characters […]
If you are installing the TYPO3 content management system (CMS), after uploading the files to your web server and setting some directory permissions, you are supposed to point your browser to your web server’s root where you just have installed TYPO3 in order to continue the installation. A screen similar to this is displayed: Enter […]
Just issue the command: # cat /etc/debian_version squeeze/sid
There are two ways: # cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l or # lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 Codename: karmic The latter is slower but gives more information.