Bastard Operator From Hell
Any BOFHs out there recognizing themselves? 🙂 (Yes, I know, this is not the original BOFH, but this guy is acting like a BOFH.)
Author Archive for: stefan
Entries by Stefan Helander
All icons on the desktop has Microsoft Internet Explorer icon
There is a practical joke being spread to Windows Vista users trying to fool them to associate .lnk (shortcuts) files with Microsoft Internet Explorer (MS IE). The so called joke in this is that it is very easy to do, but almost impossble to undo of you are not a skilled computer technician. This is […]
FreeBSD 6.3 end-of-life January 31, 2010
The FreeBSD 6.3-Release is heading towards it’s End-Of-Life on January 31, 2010. This means the release is no longer supported and maintained by the FreeBSD security team. Users are strongly recommended to upgrade. Conservative users can upgrade to FreeBSD 6.4-Release (EoL November 30, 2010) or FreeBSD 7.1 (EoL January 31, 2011) which both are extended […]
New year – and a little year 2010 bug
The 200x ended and we went into 2010. So we got ourselves a little 2010 bug. It was in the spam filtering software Spamassassin. Or to be more precise in it’s rulesets. The problem was actually discovered and fixed months ago but someone forgot to include it in the rulesets for Spamassassin 3.2.x. No hard […]
FTP not working in passive mode – proftpd, iptables and ISPconfig
If you are using proftpd FTP server together with iptables firewall, which is the case if you for example are using ISPconfig, you will probably have problems using FTP against your server in passive mode. The problem is that the iptables firewall will not allow the incoming connections in passive mode. The solution is to configure proftpd to use […]
Linksys WRT54GL and inbound VPN (PPTP) forwarding
Before you read this entire post – this was posted after I just installed the router and configured it for VPN (PPTP) pass through. A week or so later, when I was abroad and needed my VPN the most (of course), it had stopped working. To make a long story short – my router is […]
Homemade steam rocket on ice
How to have some fun with technology!
Joomla! templates looking strange in MSIE8
Some Joomla! templates looks nice in all browsers except Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8). One easy solution is to add the following line to the <head> section of the index.php for the template in question: <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"/> Be careful to check that your site works as expected after applying this solution.
How to move a osCommerce site
When you move an osCommerce installation from one webserver to another it often isn’t possible to just move it and update your DNS-names, unless the conditions, like paths and database users etc are exactly the same. This is a step by step guide how to do it, and if you find something that I didn’t […]
Remove control characters (^M) by search and replace in vi
If you edit a text file in a UNIX or Linux environment that has it’s origin in the DOS or Windows world, you will see that every line ends with the control character ^M. The reason is that the UNIX or Linux world only use one control character to mark an end of line and […]