Archive for 'FAIL'

Opencart Sessions Not Closing – TMP Drive/DIR Full!

Posted 07 November 2011 | By | Categories: Day to Day, eCommerce, Errors, FAIL | 1 Comment

We’ve been using opencart for a number of large online shop’s recently, its much more scalable and has much cleaner code than other shopping cart packages available. There are a number of things it does so much better than the rest, stuff like different pricing groups, one page checkout etc etc etc. However, there are [...]

Removing the VAT from a VAT Inclusive Price

Posted 06 September 2011 | By | Categories: FAIL, Problem Solving | No Comments

Ok, so we just spent the last 30 mins figuring out how to remove the VAT (20%) from a VAT inclusive price. The reason for this, is a customer of ours has an awesome online shop made by us – and all his prices are INCLUSIVE of VAT/Tax. He trades internationally, so we’ve been working on a [...]

Google+ Scam Widening

Posted 05 July 2011 | By | Categories: FAIL, Google | No Comments

Just days after the launch of new social networking platform, Google+, there are reports that a Canadian hacking group have been sending scam ‘invites’ to people, which then take them to a pharmaceutical website rather than the social network. The invite only beta format of Google+ was picked upon by the group known as ‘Partnerka’ [...]

Skype Suffers Worldwide Failure

Posted 27 May 2011 | By | Categories: FAIL, Microsoft | No Comments

Yesterday, just 2 weeks after Microsoft completed the massive £5.2bn takeover of internet phone service Skype, it suffered a worldwide technical failure making people unable to make calls, sign into the instant messenger service, or access the Skype website. The service was down for several hours before a fix was issued through deleting a file call [...]

Google Move To Fix Android Leak

Posted 23 May 2011 | By | Categories: Errors, FAIL, Fix, Google | No Comments

Google are currently rolling out a fix to their android phones following a warning from German security researchers that 99% of their handsets were potentially leaking information. The security flaw means that hackers would be able to obtain information from peoples calendars and contacts applications – and its been warned that this these sort of [...]