Author Archives: Tom V

IT in my DNA

A few months ago I got a message on LinkedIn to “prove” I got IT in my DNA and win a Windows phone 7. These where the prices: 1-5: Windows Phone 7 6-10: Mini laptop 11-20: Entrance ticket for TechDays 2011 21-30: Windows 7 licence 31-40: TechNet subscription 41-50: Fnac coupon of 50 € 51-311: [...]

Ubuntu: Installing Apache, MySQL, PHP and Samba, sFTP

I ran a local virtual Ubuntu server for a while, but as I formatted my PC I thought it was time to do it on another way, yet today I switched back to a virtual Ubuntu server, to continue PHP-web-development. As some functions are not working 100% the same on Linux and windows, I really [...]

Weard StackTrace behaviour

A colleague noticed that changing a combobox wasn’t showing the changes in the text fields below. When testing, I saw it WAS working. But with the click-once application not. After some time I noticed running the release without visual studio, it didn’t work. Although it worked when running with visual studio. Also the debug version [...]

phpBB2CH to phpBB3

Converting phpBB2CH aka Ptifo to phpBB3 On my  installed board (still partially found on m2tec.be/forum) I installed phpBB2CH (Categories Hierarchy)  also known as Ptifo. Basically it adds sub-forums, forum links, advanced permissions, board announcements and many more features. It broke support with most (or better said with almost all) mods for phpBB2. But had or has a [...]

Java MD5 (hex)

I needed to make a program in java which logins with the vBulletin login system. As you may know, many php boards use MD5 for hashing passwords. vBulletin uses a “more advanced way” of hashing, just like phpBB3. phpBB2 used just old plain MD5 hashes. So I needed to find out how I could use MD5 in [...]

Welcome

I finally worked at the website and here we are! A month ago my laptop HDD broke, I couldn’t boot anymore. All my work from school was on it so I really thought I was screwed big time. After a few hours hard disk checking it was only at 2%, not really good … So [...]