Some week ago my laptop complained while trying to save a file that there was some error writing to the disk. I had two choices – wait until the harddisk breaks, preferably when I am overloaded with work and a deadline is coming up (that is a law of nature). Or I could buy a […]
This translation train wreck has somehow slipped through Canon quality check. The menu is in Swedish and controls sound effects of the camera. Instead of just writing Sound (“Ljud” in Swedish) with the selection On or Off the translator wrote “Ljud av” which backtranslates to “Sound off”. In order to disable the sound you should […]
It is a good idea to run mysqldump by cron to regurlarly make backups of your MySQL databases. An easy way to do this is by adding the –all-databases parameter. This way you will have a backup of all your databases – in one file though. If the amount of data and the number of […]
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 […]