by Ashdown Technologies | Nov 17, 2015 | Support Alerts, Technical Nuggets
Due to changes in the encryption and credit card industries over the past year, older web browsers are being left behind in supporting the latest security requirements. For those of you who happen to be still be on Microsoft Windows XP or Vista and are using Internet...
by Ashdown Technologies | Sep 9, 2015 | Technical Nuggets
In Google Chrome 45, a bug was introduced that caused issues with column positioning and width assessment in table columns. This impacted one of our customers and broke their site very badly by incorrectly positioning their right sidebar. It also caused a width...
by colin | Apr 3, 2015 | Technical Nuggets
Have you ever been confused about IMAP and POP3 when setting up your device to access your email account? With careful setup you can access all your email from all your devices; avoid going over-quota at the mail server; and have a single location where all your...
by colin | Dec 8, 2014 | Technical Nuggets
When using the WooCommerce Authorize.net AIM module, don’t forget that the configuration needs a different API ID and Transaction Key when in Test Mode from that when in Production Mode. This is because the module accesses the Authorize.net sandbox when in Test...
by colin | Oct 30, 2014 | Support Alerts
You may have read about a vulnerability in a security package called SSL v3. Servers around the world are turning off SSL v3 and using a replacement system. You may receive emails from such services as Authorize.net, UPS or PayPal that they are doing this. A...
by colin | Sep 25, 2014 | Support Alerts
You no doubt have heard of the bug found recently in the shell program BASH. This is a software package run on Linux servers to provide, amongst other things, command line functionality. On our servers we do not provide either the public or our customers with shell...
by Ashdown Technologies | Jul 30, 2014 | Technical Nuggets
We recently upgraded and patched one of our VMWare ESXi 4.1 implementations. After doing so, we found that the server performance was terrible. Not only were virtual machines running poorly on it, we found gaps in the performance graphs in the vSphere Client and long...
by colin | Apr 11, 2014 | Support Alerts
You no doubt have heard of the bug found recently in OpenSSL. This is a security package run on Linux servers like those we run here at Ashdown. So did our servers put you at risk? The short answer is no. The majority of our web servers run a version of OpenSSL that...
by colin | Jan 16, 2014 | Technical Nuggets
If you are a developer using this Social Networking Package you’ll already know that the documentation is pretty thin. It uses PHPFox template functions similar to Smarty, but not identical. We have been unable to find any documentation on the functions...
by colin | Nov 13, 2013 | Technical Nuggets
Introduction We use poppassd to implement a feature that allows our email customers to change their account password. It is a service that runs on the system that hosts the account, using xinetd. The Poppassd/CentOS 6 Problem We recently discovered that the version we...
