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  • Upgrading iPhone – the iphone could not be restored an unknown error occurred 1013

    On seeing JailBreakMe has released a new version – which allows me to upgrade to the 4.3.3 firmware – I thought I’d update my iPhone4 – but annoyingly kept getting the following error message (whether doing an update or a full restore) : “The iphone could not be restored an unknown error occurred 1013” In…

  • Delaying external javascript/content loading on a website…

    One customer of ours, has a considerable amount of content which is loaded from third parties (generally adverts and tracking code). To the extent that it takes some time for page(s) to load on their website. On the website itself, there’s normally just a call to a single external JS file – which once included…

  • Running along….

    I think I’m back into my running ‘habit’ again, after finally overcoming an achilles tendon and so on. I randomly installed RunKeeper on my iPhone, and I seem to be running at about 4minutes 30seconds per kilometer (I did 9.6km at this pace). The furthest I’ve been recently is about 13-14 miles, I think… So,…

  • Magento not finding product images (solution)

    I migrated a Magento instance from one host to another, and in the process earnt myself some free beer; everything went well, apart from some of the thumbnail images not appearing. The image URLs would look like : /media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/images/catalog/product/placeholder/image.jpg Things tried which didn’t help : rebuilding various Magento image caches and so on (login as…

  • Getting a kvm serial console with grub2

    I’ve a few kvm guest servers, which I’ve been accessing using vnc – but this is a bit of a pain (getting port forwarding setup etc). Host and guests run Debian Squeeze with Grub2 installed/in use. So, here’s how to do the ‘virsh console ‘ thing … Edit /etc/default/grub, specify GRUB_TERMINAL=console GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND=”serial –unit=0 –speed=115200 –word=8…

  • fsck -y (or fsck yes…)

    Tip for the day: Edit /etc/default/rcS on Debian/Ubuntu servers, and set FSCKFIX=yes (default of no) so next time your server runs fsck at startup, and spends hours doing it to only moan when it finds an error, and tells you to waste more time by running fsck with ‘-y’ (to fix it). Quite why fsck…

  • All in a day’s work…. (magento and putty)

    Here’s a random summary of some vaguely interesting techie things today. Magento Migration When exporting a Magento website from a third party (e.g 1&1), you’ll need to : Copy all files across; the ‘var’ directory can probably be omitted as it’s full of cache like stuff. ‘media’ and ‘var’ look like they need to be…

  • The pain of bios updating (M3N78-VM / ASUS)

    I’ve hopefully bought a new CPU to stick in the office server. All being well, it’ll be super quick and so on. Looking at ASUS’s website, I made sure to choose a CPU the motherboard supports. I saw it required a BOS update, so fine… that shouldn’t be hard, right? Think again. Downloaded BIOS file…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-13

    Can't be bothered to give up chocolate for lent. Pancakes on the other hand will not be missed. #lent #fb # Reminders: * @PHPWM meeting tomorrow (free beer/pizza phpwm.org); * It's Pie Week; * Pancake today tomorrow. Nom nom nom #Fatties #fb # rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah I have…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-06

    “@gpjt: I always wondered what those buttons on my camera did: http://t.co/HV6rHhw” # Landed: BCN. # Sarcasm seems lost on Liverpudlians. # Tweet tweet tweet # Tweet tweet tweet #fb # It's very relaxing listening to a baby sleeping on your chest. Slings rule. # “@chartoftheday: CHART OF THE DAY: Here's How The Xoom Stacks…