WRT160n v3 flawed 3.0.02 firmware: DHCP can’t keep track of leases: IP conflicts all over the place

Very often here at the office we have loss of internet connection even though it seems the local network connection never goes down. Besides losing the internet connection, my laptop frequently displays a message saying there’s an IP conflict, which doesn’t make much sense as the only DHCP server running… Continue reading

NGINX with Kohana 3.x friendly URLs

I really enjoy working with Kohana and since I got a server from one of the hosting companies listed at LowEndBox, I decided to ditch Apache and go with Nginx, thing is… I also like pretty URLs 🙂 As a backup from the comment located here: http://forum.kohanaframework.org/discussion/comment/11553/#Comment_11553 I’m copying and… Continue reading

php:// function to clean string for SEO usage

If you need a good function to clean strings to use them as URLs for SEO purposes, here’s a suggestion: function chunk_special_chars($string) { $normalizeChars = array( ‘Š’=>’S’, ‘š’=>’s’, ‘Ð’=>’Dj’,’Ž’=>’Z’, ‘ž’=>’z’, ‘À’=>’A’, ‘Á’=>’A’, ‘Â’=>’A’, ‘Ã’=>’A’, ‘Ä’=>’A’, ‘Å’=>’A’, ‘Æ’=>’A’, ‘Ç’=>’C’, ‘È’=>’E’, ‘É’=>’E’, ‘Ê’=>’E’, ‘Ë’=>’E’, ‘Ì’=>’I’, ‘Í’=>’I’, ‘Î’=>’I’, ‘Ï’=>’I’, ‘Ñ’=>’N’, ‘Ò’=>’O’, ‘Ó’=>’O’, ‘Ô’=>’O’, ‘Õ’=>’O’,… Continue reading

/bin/bash: Remove Dreamweaver synchronization “stuff” from your hosting

As an online note, I’m writing this post to remind myself and help others that still suffer using Dreamweaver on a daily basis and at some point end up having a bunch of unwanted folders and files that Dreamweaver keeps for synchronization information. To remove all that from a Linux… Continue reading