Made to Order Software Corporation - transfer

Handling of Pop-up Windows by SimpleMenu

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:40:54 +0000

Feature

By default, SimpleMenu is not shown on pop-up windows. There is a flag in the SimpleMenu settings that can be unchecked to avoid this side effect. The pop-up capability is often detected when you open a new tab from the current window. It will depend on the browser and the link being clicked1.

Quick Fix

When the menu is only used by the administrators, it is possible to simply open a new tab and copy and paste the URL from the existing window with the missing menu to the new

1. We are trying to ameliorate the code, but it is not easy to make it work properly 100% of the time.

Help for To Do List End Users

Alexis Wilke — Mon, 24 May 2010 05:49:11 +0000

Introduction

This page documents the usage of the To Do List module to end users (i.e. not how to install and setup the module, but how to create To Do List items, share them, mark them started/finished, etc.)

For administrative information check out the To Do List module help.

70Gb of transfer!

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:22:00 +0000

This month, we’ll reach over 70Gb of transfer on our server. This is a problem since most of it is due to bad spiders. Robots trying to get emails off our websites.

So, we had to install an Apache security module to prevent such attacks. It is sad that we have to take such measures for bad coders prevention.

If you also have an Apache server and want to protect your system, look at this website: http://www.modsecurity.org/