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Iphone 3g, TomTom, JVC kd-r801, Brodit carkit (navigation, music and calling)

Posted in by Durk Hellinga on September 07, 2009

Being an owner of the Iphone 3g since the day of release i was waiting for TomTom to release their app. When they released it i was eager to try it.

 

At first the app seemed to work fine. After a few weeks of navigating i came...

Web Analytics

Posted in SysAdmin by on April 23, 2009

Thirteen months since the last post, that's a bit long....

 

A couple of days ago i stumbled upon www.piwik.org

I wasn't looking for such a tool but i just happened to run into it, and cought my attention.

Everybody (or...

Countermeasures

Posted in General, TYPO3 by Lammert Hellinga on March 11, 2008

I don't mind having visitors on this website, i don't even mind if it are more than a thousand in a week but i do mind if it are spammers and every single one decides to leave a [censored] comment.

So after being sick and tired...

Traffic Monitoring

Posted in SysAdmin by Lammert Hellinga on January 18, 2008

Almost all day i'm busy trying to fix a bug in one of the websites we created for a customer. At the end of the afternoon around 5 PM i was still unsuccesfull solving it so i decided to work a bit more on the problem from home....

M-Audio Midisport Uno and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)

Posted in General by Lammert Hellinga on November 23, 2007

I sometimes like to fiddle around with some producing tools trying to create some music. Back in the Tiger days i used to use my M-Audio Midisport Uno for this, unfortunatly this device doesn't work with Leopard yet :(

 

Though...

How to write a TYPO3 extension (frontend plugin)

Posted in TYPO3 by Durk Hellinga on August 27, 2007

This document is writen for the single purpose of helping people start developing their TYPO3 extension. It's not a step by step guide but it should point you in the right direction. There is enough information online but not...

Import a CSV File into a MySQL Table

Posted in MySQL by Lammert Hellinga on August 14, 2007

Today i found myself having a CSV file (or Comma Seperated Values) with over 432000 lines. But for some project i'm working on i would like to have those values inside a MySQL Database. I already knew how to export a table to a...

chmod directories recursively

Posted in SysAdmin by Lammert Hellinga on August 13, 2007

Quite often i use "chmod -R 755 something" to set permissions on all things inside a directory but today i wanted to do the same but only on directories.

To do this is actually quite simple "find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;"...

TYPO3 and Shared hosting

Posted in TYPO3 by Lammert Hellinga on May 30, 2007

Until now i was used setting up TYPO3 on servers which i own or private servers on which i have full control and PHP isn't running in safe mode. Sometime around last christmas i was asked to create a website for the inn where we...

Secure passwords with Netatalk

Posted in SysAdmin by Lammert Hellinga on May 26, 2007

Being a Mac user i sometimes want to transfer some file between my mac and my linux server. The obvious way to do this is using AFP. Debian provides a nice package offering this protocol named "netatalk".

Easy to install by...