Chat 222 double letter problem

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Short blog post today. Got tired of carrying around two phones so I appropriated my older dual sim Samsung Chat 222 phone. I soon ran into problems with my text messages, with the phone placing Greek and Russian characters instead of double letters.

After a few complaints from recipients of my texts, I decided to find the setting to switch off this silly setting, and it was not easy to find. So, in case you are having this problem, here is the setting to change

messages -> settings -> text messages -> sending options -> character support

Change the setting for character support to Unicode from the default GSM alphabet.

Upon changing this setting, all will be well.

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Posted on March 9, 2013 by Allan Jagwe in Other, Solved

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Ioncube…ooh how I loath thee

ioncubelogo_gg As a web developer in Kenya, there are things that just end up arching me every time I see them. And nothing at the moment arches me more than Ioncube. Why do I hate Iconcube so much? Well, read on. Read more »

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Posted on March 1, 2013 by Allan Jagwe in Code, php, Tools

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Crontab Log – How to log the Output of a Cron Script (and email it as well)

cron-logo-680x225 As mentioned earlier, in my world of development, I keep landing myself into sticky situations and what makes me keep my job or clients happy is that I get myself out of such sticky situations quick quickly. Now, the situation I encountered recently involved crons

I have a php script whose function is to check a certain database for messages to be sent. The script should then collect required messages and pass them on the the Goip SMS gateway. Now, how do I save the output of the sending to the gateway so that I can know which ones failed – if any – without having to add the logging function into the sending script and without having to look through cron’s own logs? Answer – simply tweak the cron command slightly to achieve logging.

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Posted on February 28, 2013 by Allan Jagwe in Code, Linux, php, Solved

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CLI Certificate Tools for Zimbra Server How To

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For the few of you who actually run your own organizational mail servers and the even fewer of those who run Zimbra, here is what you do when you encounter the following error while trying to start zimbra

Host mail.domain.tld
Unable to determine enabled services from ldap.
Unable to determine enabled services. Cache is out of date or doesn’t exist.

This is normally caused by the expiry of the certificate that Zimbra uses for ldap. All you have to do to fix the situation is generate a new valid certificate, using Zimbra’s CLI (command line interface) certificate tools.

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Posted on February 28, 2013 by Allan Jagwe in Linux, Solved, Tools

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Import CSV to MySQL using PHP

primaryimage-csv2mysql In my course of work, I normally come across many small problems that I am asked to solve and here is one of the simpler ones.

The following code is for developers looking for an easy way to import a comma separated values (CSV) file into a mysql database via PHP. The code below adds contacts from an uploaded CSV file into a MySQL table, populating three fields (name, email, phone)

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Posted on February 28, 2013 by Allan Jagwe in Code, Other, php, Solved

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