Category Archive: Technology
September 17, 2016 / by Marco / analytics, byod, communications, company, managment, Mobile, productivity, security, telecommunications, Wireless
REASONS EVERY COMPANY NEEDS WIRELESS EXPENSE MANAGEMENT
As the organization grows in business, the expenses and the intricacy of keeping tabs on your company, also increases. Soon you may run out of time and resources that you require to manage your company’s increasing telecommunications need. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Programs Employees bring their devices to office including Mac, Laptops, Smartphone’s and […]
read moreSeptember 9, 2016 / by Marco / automation, batch, batch files, files, launch, links, Start, website, Windows
FIX FOR WINDOWS BATCH FILE THAT DOES NOT CONTINUE LAUNCHING
Windows batch files are great for basic automation, especially if you add it to your Windows Startup. However, I just ran into a problem with executing multiple commands in a batch file – they would not continue and just pause until the program is exited. Here is an example of the original batch file: @echo […]
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HOW TO INSTALL DD-WRT ON TPLINK WA830RE
I had a spare TP-LINK wireless extender lying around and decided to try installing DD-WRT (a free Linux-based firmware for several wireless routers) so I could see some of the software features on this firmware. Why? Apparently, there are so many features the wireless extender can do if it has the right software, so I […]
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DISABLING A SERVICE IN CENTOS
I’ve done this a couple of times and I keep forgetting the commands so I thought I’d better write them down. In order to disable a specific service in CentOS startup use the following command. In particular the dovecot service chkconfig dovecot off chkconfig dovecot –del So basically it’s: chkconfig [name of service] off chkconfig […]
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3 REASONS TO HIRE A PROFESSIONAL FOR COMPUTER REPAIRS
In the modern world, more and more people rely on their computer than ever before. Nearly all of the information people get on a daily basis is accessed via their computer. For most business owners, their computers and computer network are an integral part of the way the conduct their daily operations. Over time, the […]
read moreAugust 8, 2016 / by Marco / centos, files, rsync, server, synch, synchronise, virtual private server, VPS
SETTING UP RSYNC FOR FILE SYNCHRONISATION
The first thing to do is check to see whether you have rsync installed on your VPS. Just type rsync. If it comes back with: [root@test ~]# rsync rsync version 3.0.6 protocol version 30 Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site: rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit […]
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WOOCOMMERCE ORDER STUCK ON HOLD
I’m selling a virtual product where people can download from the website but it seems like every time the order is placed and the payment is processed via PayPal, the order is placed ON HOLD. I need to manually change the status from ON HOLD to COMPLETED before the customer received the download link. So […]
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XCODE ISSUE UPLOADING TO ITUNES APP STORE THIS CERTIFICATE HAS AN INVALID ISSUER
I tried uploading a new build of my app to the iTunes App store and received the error message “This Certificate has an invalid issuer”. After researching on the Internet an article recommended to delete the WWDR Certificate from the Keychain and install the latest one as it expired on February 14,2016. I thought I […]
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USB 2.0 j5CREATE STOPPED WORKING
Today, I experienced an issue with the USB 2.0 DVI J5CREATE dongle and it wasn’t displaying when I connected my display port cable to the Surface Pro 2. I run 3 screens on the Surface Pro 2. The setup is like this: One is the tablet monitor, the second via the Display Port – I […]
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HOW TO DISABLE CHROME AUTOMATIC TAB DISCARDING
If you’re like me, I open multiple Tabs in Chrome that can sometime reach 10-20 tabs. In some of those tabs I run web apps that just run in the background. Recently I discovered an annoying feature that made the Tabs reload when they are clicked on. This meant that the process that was running […]
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RESOLVING ISSUE WITH CROSS ORIGIN RESOURCE SHARING POLICY FOR WEBSITES
Another issue that we experienced was displaying content from different domains especially when using HTTP and HTTPS. Here’s an example of the error message: Font from origin ‘https://website’ has been blocked from loading by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. Origin ‘http://website’ is therefore not allowed access. The […]
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DISPLAYING HTTP CONTENT IN HTTPS PAGES
This week we had to look at an issue with displaying HTTP (insecure) content in a HTTPS (secure) page. According to a number of sites, different browsers by default don’t allow this as the HTTPS page is secure and displaying non-secure content is a no-no. This is called displaying MIXED CONTENT. The error message you would […]
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