Archive for January, 2006

Internet Explorer cuts off the ‘W’ with 11px Arial

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I noticed several times that sometimes Internet Explorer cuts off the left leg of the W. After a little investigation, I found that this happens when a W in 11px Arial touches the left border of a box without left padding or margin. If the box is the first element in another box, and that […]

Setting up a Strato HighEnd Server with Plesk

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

The Strato HighEnd Root Servers come with Plesk 7.5 preinstalled, and everything is ready to roll. But looking at phpinfo()’s output, it was obvious that there were still things to do to get to a system on which ez publish websites would run. Here is what I did.

Agile Messenger - Problem solved

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

I finally received a satisfactory answer to my problems with Agile Messenger. They gave me three free months, and have talked to my provider (I don’t know whether they talked to the SMS service provider or to E-Plus) and that I won’t be charged for the SMS. Here is the entire mail:

Deficiencies in Strato’s ServerAdmin 24

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

For a client, we rent a Strato Server with ServerAdmin24 pre-installed. ServerAdmin 24 is a customized ViSAS version.
The web interface is supposed to give a hassle-free access to typical tasks of the server admin, clients, and domain owners. But outbound email from PHP did not work, and neither could FTP users set up through the […]

Agile Messenger - Update

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Last Friday, Agile Messenger support replied to my complaints. They more or less suggested to forget about the EUR 9,97 I already spent and pay another EUR 19,95. Here is their mail, and my answer, as well as a mail I sent to mblox.com, the payment provider that Agile Mobile uses.