Archive for the ‘Fixed’ Category

Streamyx SMTP server authentication problem

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

The SMTP AUTH settings in this post have been updated in a later article. It has been a busy few days. I'd noticed a couple of funny messages in the maillog generated by our sendmail daemon, but put them to the back of my mind. Here's an example: Jun 10 00:29:16 box0043 ...

Google AdSense on WordPress

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I'm enjoying using WordPress - some things have just been designed very well. I searched for advice on getting AdSense advertisements on my blog, and ended up installing a couple of different AdSense plugins that were ... okay, but seemed a bit overkill for what I want. It's actually very ...

WordPress Permalink problem

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Perhaps like me you're new to WordPress, and perhaps like me you thought permalinks are a good idea. Perhaps, like me, you changed your settings so that your blog articles which once were: http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=9 could look like this: http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2008/06/08/google-adsense-down/ So you chose your pretty permalink option (there are many other ways of beautifying your ...

osCommerce-2.2rc2a

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Installed the latest stable osCommerce distribution today, on a new domain. It's a slightly newer version than the one that's providing the Lolyco.com shop. The installer is a breeze. There's a chance I overlooked some of the installer's complaints last time. On the front page of the installer there's a ...

Procrastination will have to come back another time

Friday, June 6th, 2008

A little pep talk can work wonders, thanks to Ekompute at WebMasterMalaysia. He has got some interesting projects on the go - check out his wikipedia for the time-challenged: dummipedia.org. Wanting to get a blog up and running on lolyco.com, I had a quick read of wikipedia (I am predictable) and ...