Entries by Stefan Helander

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 […]

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 […]

Calibrate Vivotek PT7137 from URL

The Vivotek PT7137 is a pan-tilt network camera from Vivotek. After panning and tilting for some time, especially after hitting the boundaries a couple of times, the camera is in need of calibration. You can see this if you have some predefined postition and selecting it doesn’t bring the camera centered to the selected position. Calibrating the […]