Mind of Matt

Category: Computing

  • How to fix KMail’s akionadi resource being stuck on “connection established”?

    The symptom is that KMail won't fetch mails for one of your IMAP accounts anymore, and if you open Akonadi Console (akonadiconsole), it shows there "Connection established" for the resources in question, rather than "Ready" as it should say. To fix this (until it recurrs), open the Akonadi Console (akonadiconsole) and restart the akonadi server […]

  • What are best practice principles for web server security?

    There is no such thing as perfect security. And in practice, the time resourced needed for hardening a server are an additional limitation for the security level you can reach. That's why I searched for adequate security principles to guide us when securing a web server. Here's my proposal, feel free to discuss. To develop […]

  • How to fix the screen backlight of the HTC Desire HD?

    First, to diagnose whether the whole screen does not work or just not the backlight, you can do this: Power up the phone, it will vibrate shortly to acknowledge that it starts. Wait for 2 minutes to let the phone finish booting, so you can be sure there "should be" something on the screen. Use […]

  • Where in the world can I use a HTC Desire / Sensation phone?

    You can, but potentially only in the GSM (2G) network (then, you would get only GPRS / EDGE data connections, no UMTS (3G) ones). To make sure you can use a North American smartphone also in Europe, you have to look at what frequency bands are supported by the phone, and what frequency bands are […]

  • Freedom Fones Knowledge Base

    This is the index for all the open content (licensed CC-BY 3.0) knowledge base articles of my little phone repair and modding business called "Freedom Fones". Hope it's useful! Please report errors and inaccuracies. Maintenance: Model specific manuals These manuals link to other model-specific articles that are not listed here. Manual: Maintaining and modding the […]

  • How to install Acquia Drupal Commons 7.0-3.x locally?

    This is my way of installing it, on an Ubuntu Linux 12.04 host. Make sure you meet the installation requirements of Drupal 7 (as per its INSTALL.txt). The simplest set of alternatives: Apache 2.0 or greater PHP 5.2.4 or greater MySQL 5.0.15 or greater Create a directory where you want your Drupal installation to reside. […]

  • How to add PuSH to a RSS feed?

    If you have admin access to the software that generates the RSS feed, you have a lot of options as detailed here. If you don't have that admin access, or want an easier solution, the only working ones that I found are in this list. Working and probably working solutions: Feedburner. It is proposed that one […]