How to change the language and background of the Cisco SPA504G

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 | Cisco SPA504G, VOIP | 10 Comments

This tutorial shows how to change the language of your VOIP phone Cisco SPA 504G / SPA508G / SPA500 series (Firmware 7.5.5)
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Eclipse on Mac OS X – Workspace error on NFS mounts

Friday, March 26th, 2010 | Eclipse, Mac OS X | 13 Comments

If you are using Eclipse on Mac OS X and experience a “Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one” after moving your workspace to a NFS share, try running eclipse with these arguments:

./eclipse -vmargs -Dosgi.locking=java.io

or you may add this line to your /Application/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse.ini file:

-Dosgi.locking=java.io

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Lua 5.1 for Delphi 2010

Monday, September 28th, 2009 | Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi Programming, Lua | 38 Comments

This is a Lua 5.1 Wrapper for Delphi 2009 and Delphi 2010 which automatically creates OOP callback functions.
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WordPress Plugin – QR Code Tag v1.0

Saturday, September 19th, 2009 | Wordpress | 47 Comments

QR Code Tag

Use QR Codes (Google API or QR Code Lib) anywhere in your WordPress blog, as a Widget, Shortcode, Tooltip or with a PHP function.
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Favourite Android applications

Friday, September 18th, 2009 | Android | 4 Comments

Here are some of my favorite free essential Android applications
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Hint: Blank Typo3 installation screen

Friday, August 14th, 2009 | Typo3 | 1 Comment

If you experience a blank installation screen while trying to setup Typo3, take a look at your mysql database time out setting in your php.ini file:

If this exceeds your max_execution_time setting, you’ll get a blank typo3 installation screen. Set it to a low vale, e.g. 5.

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How to create an ESXi v4 Whitebox ISO with Windows Tools

Monday, July 27th, 2009 | VMWare | 65 Comments

This is a short tutorial on how to build a custom ESXi v4.0 Whitebox ISO with Windows Tools (and an Ubuntu-VMImage for VMWare Player) by integrating a new driver (RTL8169 network card) into the Community Driver Pack and integrating this pack into the ISO, too.
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Ext: tt_news – no translation for name of months

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 | Typo3 | No Comments

Typo3-Extension: tt_news – non translated month names

If you stumble across this problem, maybe you haven’t installed the right locale on your linux computer.  Open a new shell and type

This prints out all available locales. Refer to your OS manual on how to install additional locales.
Try this php script for testing locales (taken from php manual setlocale)

<?php
/* Set locale to Dutch */
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_NL');

/* Output: vrijdag 22 december 1978 */
echo strftime("%A %e %B %Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 22, 1978));

/* try different possible locale names for german as of PHP 4.3.0 */
$loc_de = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro', 'de_DE', 'de', 'ge');
echo
"Preferred locale for german on this system is '$loc_de'";
?>

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check_apachestatus_auto.pl v1.2 released

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 | Nagios | 16 Comments

A Nagios plugin that parses the status page of an apache or lighttpd server, the plugin returns the response time, the amount of idle, busy, open (apache only) and total slots. The perfdata returns the status of all slots including Requests/sec, Bytes/Request and Bytes/sec. Optionally you can specify how much slots should be available. Use http(s) and basic user authentication with non standard server-status urls. This is an enhanced version of an enhanced version of Lieven De Bodt’s check_apachestatus.pl.

Detailed info at http://blog.spreendigital.de/nagios/?#check_apachestatus_auto

Whats new
v1.1 Works with lighttpd server-status as well, added accesses perfdata (Lighttpd v1.4.19 tested)
v1.2 Updated perf data to be PNP compliant, added proxy option

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Ext: indexed_search – Disable indexing of meta tags

Monday, May 11th, 2009 | Typo3 | No Comments

Typo3-Extension: Indexed Search Engine – how to disable the indexing of meta tags (description, etc.)

Just put this line into your template setup code

config.index_metatags =

That’s all. Do not use

config.index_metatags = 0

because this does not work (indexing still occurs).

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