Set Up your Windows Mobile Phone

Updated: Thanks to Lukather from roundcubeforum.net a bug which wiped out email passwords has been fixed

Step 1. Modifying program\steps\settings\save_prefs.inc
Aproximately near line 28, there is a block where an array is declared. It starts with “$a_user_prefs = array(“. Just add the following line under the “‘prefer_html’ => isset($_POST['_prefer_html']) ? TRUE : FALSE,” line

// Password MOD
'password'  => isset($_POST['_password']) ? TRUE : FALSE,
// End Password MOD

Now after the “foreach ((array)$CONFIG['dont_override'] as $p)” near line 39, add the block which handles password saving to DB

// Password MOD
if (isset($_POST['_password']) && !empty($_POST['_password']))
{
$tmpEncPass = YourEncryptionFunctionHERE($_POST['_password'], "");

mysql_query("UPDATE CCC.TableWithPasswordHERE SET password = '".$tmpEncPass."' WHERE username = '".$_SESSION['username']."'")
or die(mysql_error());

$_SESSION['password'] = encrypt_passwd($_POST['_password']);
}
// End Password MOD

In case your database holds encrypted user passwords, put the name of the hashing function in place of YourEncryptionFunctionHERE. If you are storing MD5 hashes of the password in your database and the hashing function you use is md5, you would be writing that instead of YourEncryptionFunctionHERE. Don’t forget to change the query in mysql_query to make it work with your database.

Step 2. Modifying program\steps\settings\func.inc
Near line 161, look for “if ($table->size())“. Before this line, add the following block:

// Password MOD
$field_id = 'rcmfd_password';
$input_password = new html_inputfield(array('name' => '_password', 'id' => $field_id, 'size' => 20));

$table->add('title', html::label($field_id, /*Q(rcube_label('skin'))*/ 'Password'));
$table->add(null, $input_password->show());
// End Password MOD

Feel free to ask for help by writing a comment!

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Do you know someone on this planet who can manage to destroy a 399€ jewel in less than a hour? Now you do. I just tried to update the BIOS of my new, flaming, MSI Wind U100 Black when I found out power wasn’t plugged. So I thought “what’s the problem, let’s just plug it in”. I wish I had never done that: keyboard suddenly stopped working. I tried rebooting to Windows XP (a pure DOS environment is required for BIOS updates) but, sadly, nothing changed. Keyboard was not working, no keystrokes where detected, I wasn’t even able to get into BIOS, since DEL key wasn’t working as well. But, before getting too despaired, I tried to unplug Wind’s power sources (yes, even the battery!). After a few minutes, I turned it on again and keyboard was working again.

I hope you will find this article useful, it could save your heart from breaking in case you encounter this very same issue

1) Download an FTP client (FileZila is recommended)
2) Create a new connection profile using your Dreambox address (192.168.x.x for example), root as username and dreambox as password (some firmware have no default password set for this, so just leave it empty)
3) Connect!

Easy, isn’t it?

This (LINK) article by Thomas Guest explains you exactly how to do all that stuff in a simple and elegant way!

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack

Sweet, isn’t it?

Roundcube is an alternative, not as mature as the aforementioned, open source software released under GPL license which comes with an awesome default skin. Sadly, it still misses one important thing: the control to make user able to change their own password. But that’s your lucky day: I made a small patch to allow this in Roundcube 0.1 (stable).

My work is based on polinoma’s code found here. You need to apply the patch file (check here if you don’t know how to) which is found at the end of this article or follow the instructions below. Either way, you need to tweak the program\steps\settings\save_prefs.inc file to tell Roundcube how your password is stored in the database.

Step 1. Modifying program\steps\settings\save_prefs.inc
Aproximately near line 27, there is a block where an array is declared. It starts with “$a_user_prefs = array(“. Just add the following line under the “‘prefer_html’ => isset($_POST['_prefer_html']) ? TRUE : FALSE,” line

// Password MOD
'password'  => isset($_POST['_password']) ? TRUE : FALSE,
// End Password MOD

Now after the “foreach ((array)$CONFIG['dont_override'] as $p)” near line 39, add the block which handles password saving to DB

// Password MOD
if (isset($_POST['_password']))
{
$tmpEncPass = YourEncryptionFunctionHERE($_POST['_password'], "");

mysql_query("UPDATE CCC.TableWithPasswordHERE SET password = '".$tmpEncPass."' WHERE username = '".$_SESSION['username']."'")
or die(mysql_error());

$_SESSION['password'] = encrypt_passwd($_POST['_password']);
}
// End Password MOD

In case your database holds encrypted user passwords, put the name of the hashing function in place of YourEncryptionFunctionHERE. If you are storing MD5 hashes of the password in your database and the hashing function you use is md5, you would be writing that instead of YourEncryptionFunctionHERE. Don’t forget to change the query in mysql_query to make it work with your database.

Step 2. Modifying program\steps\settings\func.inc
Near line 200, look for “$out .= “\n</table>$form_end”;“. Before this line, add the following block:

// Password MOD
$field_id = 'rcmfd_password';
$input_password = new textfield(array('name' => '_password', 'id' => $field_id, 'size' => 20));
$out .= sprintf("<tr><td class=\"title\"><label for=\"%s\">%s</label></td><td>%s (empty = unchanged)</td></tr>\n",
$field_id,
rep_specialchars_output(rcube_label('password')),
$input_password->show();
// End Password MOD

If you followed my instructions, it should already be working (hopefully). As usual, if you have any trouble feel free to ask for help by writing a comment!

Patch file for Roundcube 0.1 (Stable)

Requirements

- Broadband Internet connection
- Internet Stream recording software (Cool-Recorder, SDP Downloader, etc.)
- A working VLCF-Final plugin installation on your Dreambox which correctly communicates with your PC (check my previous tutorial for help on this stuff)

Let’s do it!

First of all, you need the address of the stream you want to bounce back to your Dreambox. If you don’t know it, try to watch the stream in your browser. Right click in the video area and choose Properties from the menu. In this window, look for the Location property (names may change depending on the web player, just be sure to look for an URI): that’s the address of the stream.

Now run VLC, and leave it running on the background, since this is needed for VLCF-Final plugin on your Dreambox to work. Once you’re done with that, run the stream recording software you’ve chosen and paste the stream address in it. Then choose the path and file name to write the stream to, but don’t forget it needs to be in a folder that VLCF-Final is configured to scan (if you can’t understand, look for vlcf_original.xml in this article).

Now run VLCF-Final plugin from the plugins panel on your Dreambox and open the file you are writing the stream to. After few seconds, the stream should play on your TV

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$paypal_contentlink =  "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=".$options['business']."&currency_code=".$options['currency']."&amount=".$options['amount']."&[...]

$paypal_link = "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=".$options['business']."&currency_code=".$options['currency']."&amount=".$options['amount']."&return=".$options['thankspage']."&lc=US&item_name=".str_replace(" ","+",$args['title']);

And add, after the first & in each of the occurrence of the variable, the string lc=US& including the “;”. You can change the language of the page by specifying a different country code instead of US (which stands for United States, so an English page is displayed). Query your favorite search engine for a list of country codes.