If you have an e-mail account @otenet.gr you may find out that when connecting your laptop to another network (say you’re travelling) you can’t send SMTP e-mails. To fix this make sure you set your STMP server settings to use SSL encryption and provide the port number 465 for connection. If you use Outlook (Express) […]

Yesterday, it was high-time we did the migration of the database server which hosts the P.O.S database from a SQL Server 2000 (yes, it’s not a typo) instance to a “new” instance of SQL Server 2008. We have checked everything or we thought we did anyway. A sneaky detail was left out to be tackled at 02:00 in the morning… :-) The story is ...