New blog

Since I found myself explaining the same basic things over and over again, and also found interesting stuff that I wanted to look into without having the time atm, I started a new blog dedicated to PrestaShop.
Here I will write solutions/explanations that I used to write in the PrestaShop forum, and from when I have something written just link to the post.
Also, with the tag Note to Self, I'll post things that I want to remember/look into.

Mapping network drives with Windows 7

I had some big problems mapping up my NAS on my new mini-PC that runs Windows 7.
It was very weird, because it just wouldn't accept the user name or password, which I knew were correct.

A number of hits on google suggested that the only solution was to upgrade to Premium.
But after a while I found this suggestion
Enable XP compatible mode, or some such by...
Create this new value in the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa]
"lmcompatibilitylevel"=dword:00000002
And voila, it works just like it ought to.
Apparently M$ changed how networking works but left no information about this where one actually use it. So everything looks just right, except that the password won't work.

I wonder how many actually upgrades without any reason, just because it said so on the interwebs...

Chinese New Year is coming up!

To celebrate the Chinese New Year, I will have a sale on the webshop for one week.
Prices on selected items, mostly Chinese, will be reduced by 10-38%

Doppelganger Week

At first when people started to change the pic on Facebook to some famous look-a-like, I thought that there are noone famous whom I look like.
But then I remembered that a friend used to think I looked like Roky Erickson, so I googled a bit for pictures...
And me then, from when I did my military service...

Mahjong

From the News on the Webshop

Feeling lazy, but still maybe it's time to write something.
So, here goes. Copy/Pasted from http://mohsart.se/

There seems to have been problems ordering on the site from Nov 9, but it should be fixed now.
It seems like the problem occured when ordering the last item of something. When that happens, the webshop is configured to notify me to order more, but the folder with email templates for that functionality was empty for Swedish language. Surely a Prestashop bug, but should be ok now.

I have added a couple of links to the info block, I had that information in the links block before (actually, it's still there) but this way looks a little bit better imo.
As you can see, I have links to other webshops selling the same stuff that I sell.
This is because I care more about that You can order what You are looking for than to maximize my selling. Also, I am quite confident that I can stand the competition.
I would add Swedish sites as well, but I'm afraid that there are no sites that are good enough. SunAi in Stockholm may qualify, but just barely.

Oh, almost forgot: I added a new carrier for those ordering only books, by choosing that one, shipping costs will be much more accurate. Shipping really is a pain in the xxx, because I can only try to estimate it from either weight or price. I will try to hack the module to at least only show the carriers that are applicable, ie no Schenker for packages > 40 cm and not this last addition if the order doesn't contain only books.

Stockholms Spelkonvent

I helgen har jag försökt frälsa deltagare på Stockholms Spelkonvent, vilket visade sig lite svårare än väntat.
De hade placerat mig tillsammans med Mahjongspelare från Uppsala, vilket var bra - viss synergieffekt där.
MEN vi hade tilldelats ett rum längst upp och i ena änden av korridoren (iofs nära trappan) så jag misstänker att färre än önskat hittade dit.

Staffars Serier som satt på våningen under klagade också på oväntat lågt intresse och var missnöjda med att inte sitta i anslutning till kafeterian.

Jag sålde två böcker, och ett 9x9-bräde och ett budget-set (som redan var beställt av kunden i fråga och därmed knappast räknas) så det var väl tur att jag inte var där i egenskap av butik utan som demare av Go (som butik hade jag fått betala en avgift som gjort att jag gått back på kalaset).

Visst intresse visades för Xiangqi och Shogi (och även Go) och jag fick ge bort en handfull visitkort, så helt bortkastat var det nog inte.