AANDCP IT Solutions

Category: General

  • Importing Movable Type to WordPress

    When importing into WordPress, the importer doesn’t seem to like accents and umlauts. One of my hosting customers is now going through the entries now and finding that where there is a word with an accent or umlaut in it (e.g. the first “a” in Trollhättan), the importer will stop at that letter and does…

  • Issues with WP eDegrees° theme and FCG

    If you are using the latest release of the eDegree° WordPress theme and you can’t get the Featured Content Gallery to work on the front page, welcome to my world! After a lot of searching, I finally found the solution here. The secret is to comment-out the second line of the wp-content/themes/edegree/js/functions.js.

  • Campaign Monitor + Rails = Awesomeness

    Once you have Rails up and going on Mac OS X Server, you can add useful plugins to extend the functionality and perform some useful tasks. One such solution would be to integrate with Campaign Monitor so you can subscribe new users/members/shoppers to lists within Campaign Monitor for later mail-outs. Start by adding some extra…

  • Insanely Annoying SQL Server Web Database Problem

    Well… I have been working with a customer all afternoon trying to get a MSSQL Database uploaded from their office server to a web hosting environment. Check this out: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/01/11/tip-trick-how-to-upload-a-sql-file-to-a-hoster-and-execute-it-to-deploy-a-sql-database.aspx

  • MikroTik

    MikroTik has been developing, installing and selling wireless routers since 1995. MikroTik’s current software product, MikroTik RouterOS v4, is a software router system which makes it easy for any VAR, ISP, or network admin to make a PC router for wireless, wide area, or local area networks. RouterOS 5 is available now, although not for…

  • MIME Decoding of a screwed up email message

    On a server I run for a customer, I have MailScanner (don’t flame me.. it works!) configure to parse their incoming email. Anyway, one of their messages got clobbered by MailScanner and rather than quarantining the attachments as it normally does, it quarantined the whole message, and they needed the file from within the message.

  • JavaScript Gallery

    I have just found possibly the easiest and fastest gallery to get going ever! http://www.gcmingati.net/wordpress/wp-content/lab/jquery/imagestrip/imageslide-plugin.html Check it out… and all credit to Gian Carlo Mingati.

  • Windows Administrator Local Logon Issue

    If you get yourself in the unfortunate position of having changed the privileges of Administrator such that you can no longer log in as Administrator either locally or as a service… check this out! There is a way around, given that you’ve got another Windows machine you can put the hard drive into. Warning: this…

  • Quote of the Day

    If you’re eating it and its so hot that you’re hating life, then you’ve probably put too much chilli in…

  • suPHP and Plesk 8

    For anyone struggling with getting suPHP and Plesk 8 happening together – I have a solution. I have found this excellent, although slightly out-dated, article. While it was pretty much spot on the money, I will add a couple of pointers.

  • Enabling WebDAV for Calendaring on Debian

    Check out this article I found: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/285 It is pretty much spot-on the money, except that I had to resort to using Auth Basic with a standard htpasswd file. I am not sure on the details on that yet – it was a proof of concept for a couple of users. Once I have played…

  • svchost.exe and msi.dll errors on Windows

    Check out this link: http://swigartconsulting.blogs.com/tech_blender/2006/07/windows_update_.html It saved me from rebuilding a friends laptop.

  • Managing SSL with Apache

    This is the best document I have found on OpenSSL and using Apache. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html All credit to the original authors!

  • VMWare and Debian

    I have been trying to take advantage of a quad-CPU Xeon server that I have recently acquired and decided to run VMWare. I have just installed it using the instructions I found here: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/03/vmware-server-beta-on-debian-status.html There are a couple of changes that I had to make… apt-get install gcc-4.0 ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 /usr/bin/gcc apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.16-2-686-smp…

  • Fixed Cyrus mailboxes on Mac OS X Server 10.3

    Log into the server as root: sudo -u cyrus /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r -f user/xxx