my quick fix

Category: Computers

  • Intel Rapid Storage Technology alerts to Google Apps account

    Problem: Intel Rapid Storage Technology allows for system warning and error alerts to be sent to an email address (or several if you want). In the mail settings it does allow for the port to be set, but there aren’t any authentication options.

    Solution: Contrary to my previous beliefs, Google DOES seem to allow you to send unauthenticated on port 25 as long as it’s addressed to an address in your own domain. So I set:

  • FROM address to ‘app@mydomain.com’
  • TO address to ‘myaddress@mydomain.com’
  • Port to ’25’
  • Host to aspmx.l.google.com
      • And it works.. now I don’t get this.. surely it’s an open relay then? Comments?

  • Get ID of the WordPress ‘Front Page’ in Theme’s functions.php

    Problem: I wanted to add some Meta Boxes to the homepage only, and have them only visible in WP-Admin when editing that page.

    Solution:  Provided that a page has been selected in wp-admin > General Settings > Reading Settings > A Static Page [Front Page], then this code can be used to pull that value out as a Page ID: (more…)

  • phpMyAdmin Fatal Error with imageftbbox() after clicking ‘Profiling’ checkbox

    Problem: I accidentally clicked the ‘Profiling’ textbox in the Browse view of phpMyAdmin (see image below) and it immediately redirected the page and spat the following error:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function imageftbbox() in /Users/[whatever]/Sites/phpmyadmin/libraries/chart/pChart/pChart.class on line 1118

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  • Remove Links menu item in WordPress

    Problem: I’m customising a WP install for a client, adding some Custom Post Types and wotnot, and they aren’t going to have any need for the Links thing.

    Fix: Adding this to your theme’s (or child-theme’s) functions.php removes the page and the menu link: (more…)

  • Searching between dates in GMail

    Problem: I’m doing my tax return 🙁 And need to frequently look for emails sent and received in the 2010/11 tax year.

    Fix: Gmail is really powerful when the text search box is used. There are various advanced search operators but the ones that help here are ‘before:’ and ‘after:’. When twinned with ‘from:’ or ‘to:’ it returns exactly what you want. (more…)

  • Getting subcategory totals [shopp(‘subcategory’,’total’)] to work in Shopp Plugin 1.1.*

    Problem: Pulling the total number of products from a subcat in Shopp doesn’t seem to work out the box. For example, this code WON’T return the total even though the correct tag shopp(‘subcategory’,’total’) is used: (more…)

  • Remove prices from Variation drop-downs in Shopp WordPress plugin

    Problem: In Shopp (1.1.9) the default variations drop-down list shows prices. This isn’t always desired. This is the default usage: (more…)

  • Capture last viewed category in product view in Shopp Plugin for WordPress

    Problem: I’m using the Shopp 1.1.9 ecommerce plugin for WordPress, and my client wanted to display specific background images while showing certain products. Shopp is very complete, but one thing that is missing in the current version ‘out of the box’ is the ability to pull the ‘last viewed’ category name when viewing a product. Obviously a product can belong to more than one cat, so it can’t know which one to display… (more…)

  • What is Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset then?

    Problem: While doing some Shopp Plugin support work earlier, one customer was getting this error…

    Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset 111 of 118 bytes in /home/maxwell4/public_html/main/wp-content/plugins/shopp/core/model/Settings.php on line 228

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  • .htaccess hidden on Rackspace Cloud Sites (in FTP, with Filezilla)

    Problem: When connecting to a Rackspace Cloud site via FTP, hidden files are.. uh.. hidden. Usually Filezilla shows everything.

    Fix: There is a setting in Filezilla called ‘Force showing hidden files’ that does exactly that. To activate that, go to the ‘Server’ menu item and select it. Like this: (more…)