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Author Archives: Brandon Yap

Shopp category and tag urls/slugs not working

Should you find your Shopp categories and tags urls/slugs not work, it may be because you changed your permalink structure after installing Shopp. To fix this, go to Settings -> Permalinks, and re-save settings. Your categories and tags should work now.  

Switching to from Internode to TPG

What? Are you crazy?? That’s what you’re thinking isn’t it. First off, why I am writing this post. I want to share my unbiased experience switching from Internode to TPG. Let me assure you that this is not a sponsored post! As you no doubt would have recently heard, iiNet have bought Internode. I’ve been… Continue Reading

Virtual machine must be running in order to be migrated

Lately i’ve run into a strange issue where an ESXi server gets into a state where VMs running on it are not able to be migrated to other ESXi servers. This is the error that comes up when you try to vMotion the problematic VMs. A general system error occured: Virtual machine must be running… Continue Reading

Playing downloaded H.264 content on an unjailbroken Apple TV 2

H.264 content out there in the wild is often produced using the open source x264 encoding library. This article focuses on playing that content back on your Apple TV 2 in an unjailbroken state. This article presumes you have purchased legal copies of the movies you’ve downloaded on DVD or Blu-Ray and are too lazy… Continue Reading

Headway and pingbacks not displaying properly

If you use the excellent WordPress theme framework Headway, you may have stumbled on Pingbacks not being formatted properly. I have spoken to the developers about it and they are looking into it. They say they’ll make sure its fixed in 3.0.6. In the meanwhile, you can see an example of incorrect formatting here.