Entries by Stefan Helander

PeToUSB can’t find USB stick in Vista

When running PeToUSB under Microsoft Vista it might not be able to detect your USB memory stick. It displays “No USB Disks Found!”. The solution is to right click PeToUSB.exe and select “Run as administrator”. If that don’t help, try rebooting your system making sure the USB memory stick is inserted while Microsoft Vista boots […]

Horde Groupware Webmail alarms.php memory problem

To enable alarms in Horde Groupware Webmail you must add the following to your crontab: # Horde Alarms */5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/horde/scripts/alarms.php Depending on your system, the paths above might be different. You may experience the following error message when the script is run by cron: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted […]

Mysterious new mail icon in system tray

A new mail notification that occurs on the system tray looking like this: Nothing will happen when you hover the mouse over it or clicking on it. It is hard to understand which software this icon belongs to. The answer is Vodafone Mobile Connect which is a software used to connect with 3G mobile networks […]

Shutdown Windows Vista via Remote desktop

When you connect to a host running Microsoft Vista remote via Remote Desktop, the Shut down button is replaced by Disconnect. To shutdown the host remote click on Windows Security just above the normal place for the shutdown/logout/disconnect buttons. This will bring up the standard screeen for switching user, task manager etc. At the right a […]

Mac-adress lookup tool

When troubleshooting networks, when there is an IP-address conflict for example, it is sometimes useful to lookup the vendor of the mac-addresses. This way you can identify the brand of the conflicting host. A tool for doing this is found here. It contains information about both ethernet and bluetooth manufacturers.

VirtueMart installation problem (Joomla!)

If the installation of VirtueMart version 1.1.3 for Joomla! 1.5.10 fails, a manual installation is needed. The error message says that some critical components of VirtueMart are missing. In addition to the following instructions, read the VirtueMart installation manual. Download the VirtueMart Manual Installation package for Joomla! 1.5 from VirtueMart website. Unzip the contents of the archive to […]