Archive for the ‘Fixed’ Category

Streamyx SMTP AUTH mail proxy

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

I thought I'd better write a quick up date to the previous article I wrote, since it gets a lot of hits. The information is a bit outdated in the old article, and our problems have moved on since. I changed our sendmail config at lolyco.com some time ago, in ...

Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Just a quick note, just in case someone else sees this message. I got this error this morning when I logged in as a non-root user on a Slackware server I'd upgraded yesterday. In an act of blind faith, I used 'slackpkg upgrade-all', and then the fun began. Incidentally, if you're ...

osCommerce shipping modules: Pos Laju, Pos Malaysia Air Parcel

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

My old-style shipping modules are broken after Pos Malaysia's last (January 2011) site update. I'm no longer maintaining them, but have replaced them with a single shipping module (now based on an API at shipping-quote.net which is more versatile, faster, more reliable and simpler. See here: http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/19/spider-my-shipping-modules-v0-3-for-oscommerce-zen-cart-pos-malaysia/ Just updated these two shipping ...

Writing a search engine widget for firefox / IE7

Friday, August 15th, 2008

I had been wondering how difficult it would be to make a search engine widget for spider.my - there's so much important stuff yet to be done, but I got distracted by the gloss! The great news is - very easy! You can visit spider.my now and add its search ...

Search suggestions with MYSQL Levenshtein distance

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Up until a couple of days ago, the Spider.my search page applied only minimal formatting to hits, and no extra page decoration. The 'blank screen of death' appeared for a search miss: no results, no page content. Just to reassure the user the empty page was 'normal', I'd put a lame ...