Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category

Minimum Xen VPS for LAMP (osCommerce/WordPress) at XenSmart

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_525" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="XenSmart Unmanaged Xen VPS in the UK"][/caption] First a confession - I tried to 'go stingy' and put Lolyco.com on a XS-128 (128MB RAM) VPS at XenSmart, and it really didn't work. It was initially OK, but after a few visitors, it had filled up both the ...

IE8 Cookie problem

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

It's 3am, so this will be brief. Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome are all happily accepting HTTP cookies from wossis.com, but IE8 was gaily ignoring them. The problem is speech / quotation marks in the Set-Cookie line: Set-Cookie: MIFS="qVZziOA7"; Path="/" ...works in 3 out of 4 browsers. IE8 pretends it never saw ...

Correct response for wrong Host: field in HTTP request header

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Still frantically trying to get Spinneret into shape for a first open-source release. I'm also working on a new project that I'm quite excited about, which is providing plenty of examples of where Spinneret could be improved! The new project is hosted on a VPS at VPSLink (recommended, so far!). Today's ...

Streamyx email client setup: TM’s configuration out of date?

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

While testing a Java-based mail server I've been working on, I noticed I could no longer send email from my Streamyx email account. I never use it, except for testing, or to delete the spam that builds up from TM Net, so it has been a while. TM's 'Setting Up SMTP ...

Paypal: Your refund must not exceed your available balance

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

You have to love Paypal because it always just works. Well, always except for those times when it doesn't. And then you have to 'Contact Us'. And then it's abysmally bad. A Lolyco customer changed their mind subsequent to paying for an order, but prior to shipping. No problem! We ...