Sony Ericsson Vivaz hidden menus codes
Sony Ericsson’s Vivaz has several hidden menus codes for diplaying software (firmware) version, bluetooth address, wireless MAC address, total call time, performing a soft reset, a full reset or entering the service menu.
To see the codes…
WordPress incorrectly loads styles, scripts via HTTPS and the solution
I’ve recently stumbled upon the weird issue of Wordpress loading its styles and scripts via HTTPS although it wasn’t configured to use SSL. The website did indeed have a SSL certificate installed and usable.
I eventually found some useful information about Wordpress’ is_ssl() function…
Restarting Windows Explorer on Windows 7
Apparently there’s a hidden way of cleanly restarting Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) in Windows (ever since Xp) without killing it via Task Manager.
This can be quite useful in case of weird bugs or when one simply needs a way to restart the explorer.exe process in a non-intrusive way. To do this…
Make Virtualmin 4 correctly display available memory on OpenVZ
Virtualmin displayed wrong amount of available memory on OpenVZ systems for a while (displaying either the guaranteed RAM instead of the burst or some random smaller value).
After the update to Virtualmin 4.02, the available RAM graph completely vanished from the system information page. To fix this…
Modding WP CodeFreeze to lock bbPress as well
CodeFreeze is a very handy plugin that helps you freeze the state of your Wordpress website before and during a move (to a new server, for example). The only minus I found so far is that it doesn’t (yet) include support for the bbPress Wordpres plugin as well, leaving all forums open for new topics and replies.
Thankfully, making CodeFreeze handle bbPress as well only requires a couple of new lines of code…
PHP script to add WordPress admin user
I recently needed to add a new administrator username to a Wordpress install.
Doing this manually via SQL is not the most difficult task in the world, but it can be quite a challenge as it requires special access (either to mysqladmin or something like phpMyAdmin) and SQL knowledge.
Plus there’s a always room for error when messing around with SQL data.
