Die Zeit neigt sich dem Ende entgegen – Arbeiten für die AD Logistik GmbH #1

Mich interessiert brennend ob es noch andere Ausgebeutete gibt, die derzeit für die AD Logistik GmbH in Witten arbeiten und sich ob deren Praktiken im Vergleich zur GO Zeitarbeit an den Kopf fassen. Ohne jetzt viel umherzuschwafeln eins vorweg: Die Leute im Büro sind allesamt super nett und hilfsbereit wenn es mal klemmt irgendwo. Da kann ich mich nicht beschweren drüber. Was mir allerdings momentan immer mehr gegen den Strich geht ist, das die AD Logistik GmbH im Gegensatz zur GO Zeitarbeit wohl eher die Ausbeuter-Firma ist, die ihre Leute für 7€/Std. arbeiten schickt wohingegen die Leute mit einem GO Vertrag dank des Tarifanschlusses mindestens 7.51€/Std. verdienen (gleicher Einsatzort, gleiche zu erbringende Arbeitsleistung) und durch besagten Tarifanschluss natürlich auch Anspruch auf Urlaubs- und Weihnachtsgeld gemäß Tarifvertrag haben.

Was mich stutzen lässt ist das sowohl die AD Logistik GmbH als auch GO Zeitarbeit dieselben Geschäftsführer haben lt. Auszug aus dem Handelsregister, selbst die Emailadresse für die AD Logistik GmbH zeigt auf die go-zeitarbeit.de Domain. Stutzen allerdings indirekt, da sich mir momentan da noch der Sinn hinter entzieht, aber wozu hat man Wirtschafts-Anwälte im Freundeskreis die einem das sicherlich die Tage mal erläutern werden. Ist aber auch egal im Moment, meine Motivation weiter für die AD Logistik GmbH zu arbeiten schwindet in den letzten Tagen merklich, wenn man bedenkt welche “Enttäuschungen” man damit erleben muss im beruflichen Sinne. Nichts gegen den Job selbst den ich momentan mache, der ist ok. Allerdings lässt die Professionalität einger Herren, voran genannt sei hier ein Herr G., der sich auf die Beantwortung meiner Frage nach einer möglichen Erhöhung des Stundenlohnes nach Ablauf der Probezeit, wie bei GO Zeitarbeit der Fall, unerklärlich viel Zeit für die Beantwortung lässt. Ausser einem gemurmelten “Ich schaue mal was man da machen kann” vor ein paar Tagen kam bisher leider keinerlei Feedback, so das ich davon ausgehen muss das die Anfrage entweder “ausgesessen” werden soll und er hofft das sich das von allein erledigt, oder aber es ist in Vergessenheit geraten. Letzteres ist aber nahezu auszuschließen, da er gestern auf meine Frage ob es denn schon ein Update gibt scheinbar genau wusste worum es ging. Daher ist leider vom ersteren auszugehen, was aber perfekt in mein Bild dieses Mannes passt :)

Wie dem auch sei, ich werd dran bleiben und hier nach und nach häppchenweise meine Erlebnisse des letzten Jahres schildern. Und vorweg abschließend: Wenn ihr euch dort bewerbt, betet zu Gott das ihr über die GO Zeitarbeit eingestellt werdet hehe. Die Tage schilder ich mal ein paar amüsante Erlebnisse die ich der Allgemeinheit auf keinen Fall vorenthalten möchte. Es gab ja wie ich eingangs erwähnte bis auf die Entwicklung der letzten 1-1.5 Monate eigentlich nicht viel zu klagen und ich hatte ne Menge Spaß mit diversen Kollegen, auch wenn es hier und da mal geknallt hat. Aber einige Leute werden mir deffo fehlen wenn ich dem Land den Rücken kehre…..Simönchen ist so ein Dingen was ich gerne als Haustier mitnehmen würde :)

 

Wenn ihr selbst bei der AD Logistik oder der GO Zeitarbeit in Witten arbeitet würden mich auch, wie ganz am Anfang geschrieben, eure Meinungen und Eindrücke bzw. Erlebnisse mit der Firma selbst interessieren. Ihr könnt diese als Kommentar schreiben, oder mir per Email/Kontakt-Formular zukommen lassen. Kommentar zu diesem Blog-Beitrag wäre allerdings lieber da es sicherlich für die Allgemeinheit interessant ist was ihr für eigene Erfahrungen mit den besagten Firmen gemacht habt. Die Kommentare werden natürlich anonym veröffentlicht, bzw. könnt ihr euch ja schon beim Erstellen des Kommentares einen fiktiven Namen verpassen um etwaige Rückschlüsse auf eure eigene Identität auszuschliessen. Also ran ans Keyboard und fleissig kommentiert :)

Shii – Die Wii für Frauen

Mit den extrem spannenden Spielen Shave Invaders, Extrem Knitting IV, Kitchen Queens, Steamy Iron II, Livingromm Mania, Tring Star & Suckend Life. Soll nochmal einer sagen es gibt keine Konsolen für Frauen :)

Besonders das letzte Spiel sieht sehr interessant aus hehe. Und das sowas aus Holland kommt…ist ja klar oder? :)

Mar 8th, 2010

Step-by-Step Guide to Start Your Own Website

To set up a website, there are three steps you will need to take:

1. Get Your Domain Name
A domain name is a name you want to call your website. For example, the domain name of the website you’re reading now is “threehosts.com”. To obtain a domain name, you have to pay an annual fee to a registrar for the right to use that name. Take into consideration that you cannot buy a domain for life. You get it for a period of one to ten years. If you fail to renew the domain name at the end of its term, the registration of the domain will be revoked and the domain name may be acquired by another party.

2. Choose a Web Host and Sign Up For an Account
A web hosting service provides you with online space. This enables you to get your web pages online at your registered domain name.

3. Design Your Web Pages and Get Them Online
There are three ways to create and get your website online:

1- Some web hosts offer Easy-To-Use Site Builder that helps you build your web pages without difficulty, even if you are not skilled in using any website creating software. Their web builder is a WYSIWYG program (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get). This means that the finished page will display exactly the way it was designed.

2- You can create the pages offline with your favorite program (DreamWeaver, FrontPage, etc.), and then upload them to your web host. This is another easy way to get your website online.

3- Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your site directly from the FrontPage application. This means that you will not have to upload files through FTP, or another method. Microsoft FrontPage is a popular WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft.

How to Choose a Reliable Web Host?

Four points to consider when choosing a web hosting service:

Reliability and uptime
Hosting uptime refers to the percentage of time the host is accessible via the internet. It is very important your service be uptime (functioning and available for use). It means you can access your account whenever you want to update your web pages, and users can enter your website whenever they refer to your site address. If your hosting service is not uptime it can be catastrophic!

Disk space
Web hosting space is the amount of room that the web host provides to store your HTML, graphic, video/audio and other files. This figure is most commonly stated in gigabytes. If you don’t know how much space you need for your website, you can choose a web host with unlimited disk space, which allows you to build as many web pages as you want.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth (or data transfer) refers to the amount of data that is accessed by your visitors. Web hosts define bandwidth as the total amount of data access from your server over a month’s time. This figure is most commonly expressed in gigabytes. If you don’t know how much bandwidth you need for your website, you can pick a web host with unlimited data transfer, which allows you to support as many visitors as you want.

Ease of Control Panel

It is important that the control panel is easy to use and all information can be accessed easily.

4. Where Can I Get Started? How Much Does It Cost?
First, take into consideration that web hosting is a global service. It does not matter what country you are located in. It is good to note that the cost of hosting services in most countries is generally a little more expensive in comparison to the same services in Canada and the United States. Specifically, American web hosts offer a much better value for money than any local hosting.

If you want to start your website, we recommend getting your domain and web hosting plan from the same company. This way, it is often possible to get your domain for free, due to some web hosting services offering a domain as a free gift today. Moreover, these web hosts usually offer a free “Site Builder”’ to create your website without paying any additional fees. By taking advantage of all of the aforementioned services, everything you need for setting up your website is provided just in one hosting package.

Mar 8th, 2010

Wordpress 2.9 Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLPROTO_FIL

Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLPROTO_FILE cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/*****/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1302

A lot of people got or are still getting this error message when upgrading to WordPress 2.9 and their cronjobs simply stopped working, preventing things like scheduled posts to be be published. To solve this issue all you need to do is to download the attached archive and overwrite the files on your server with the files from the archive and WordPress will be back to normal, error will be gone and you cron jobs like scheduled posts will work again. If you don´t want to download the archive you could also try to fix it like this. Edit /wp-includes/http.php and change the if statement on line 1300 to this:

if ( defined( 'CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS' ) ) {
// EDF - The option doesn't work with safe mode or when open_basedir is set. More
// research is probably necessary however this seems to fix the problems I was
// seeing in the "WordPress Development Blog" section of the Dashboard.
if ( !ini_get('safe_mode') && !ini_get('open_basedir') ) {
$timeout_ms = (int) ceil( 1000 * $r['timeout'] );
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS, $timeout_ms );
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, $timeout_ms );
}
} else {
$timeout = (int) ceil( $r['timeout'] );
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout );
}  

Mar 8th, 2010

Installing Invision Power Board

A brief walkthrough of installing Invision Power Board. As i don´t own a license for it i had to use a nulled DGT release of IPB 3.0.3 but the installation process isn´t really different from the legit version so let´s get going. I won´t post any links to download the nulled version of it but trust me, it´s easy enough to find on the net. Just use your most valuable tool -> your brain

Uploading IPB to your server
Assuming that you found or bought Invision Power Board you are stuck with a ZIP file that you need to extract before uploading. Depending on where you obtained your copy you might also sit in front of a RAR file. Same as for the ZIP file -> Go and extract it.  Judging by the name the directory upload sounds very interesting, doesn´t it? And surprisingly we need to upload all the contents of this directory to your server. Assuming you would like to install your IPB in a subdirectory /forum you need to upload all files and folders from the /upload directory to the /forum directory.

After uploading, but before starting the installation, you need to change permissions on certain directories to successfuly install IPB. What files and directores need their permissions will be shown on your screen. Nothing really difficult here, if you need help with changing around permissions let us know and we will walk you through it.

Starting the installation
Files and everything are uploaded, permissions have been changed as necessary so now it´s about time to start the installation. To do so all you need to do is point your browser to the location where you uploaded IPB to. Let´s say you installed it in a directory named /forum and your domain is http://www.yourdomain.com then you need to open http://www.yourdomain.com/forum. This will start the installation and the first thing you see is the pre-installation screen that lists the requirements for IPB to run. Nothing really interesting here so move on to the next screen by simply clicking Next.
Now you are looking at some really boring text, generally referred to the End User License Agreement, or short EULA. Either read it and fall asleep while doing so or don´t read it and skip this step by ticking the checkbox and click Next.

Say hello to the Applications screen. This lists what IP applications are currently installed on your system. The Default Applications can´t be changed anyway so focus on the bottom half that offers two options. A calendar app and a portal solution. Leave both ticked and click Next to continue the installation.
Next screen now shows you the paths to your IPB installation. The Install Directory is nothing but the path to the directory in which you wish to install IPB. This normally is filled automatically so you don´t need to worry about that. Same for the Install Address. This should also be automatically filled, if not enter your URL to the forum. As simple as that, basically a no-brainer i´d say. So move on to the next step.
Now things get ugly hehe. This part lets you configure your database connection. If you haven´t set up a mysql database already then it´s about time to do so. Enter your mysql details, leave the MySQL Table Type untouched. If you plan on installing IPB using an already existing mysql database that has some tables in it already then it´d probably be a wise choice to add a table prefix to avoid duplicate table names or make it easier for you to spot which tables in your database belong to IPB. I suggest using ipb_ as table prefix. After you filled everything in click Next.

The "Create an administrator account" thing coming up now. This almost always is a good sign as the installation is almost finished when it comes to creating an administrator. This isn´t only true for IPB but for almost any other script. As soon as you are asked to create an administrator account you know you are almost done with it. Bearing that in mind create your administrator account now, use a reasonably secure password (characters, numbers) and click Next. This is it for now, as you can see on screen the installer has gathered enough details to start the installation and you are supposed to click Start Installation…... Just click it and let IPB do the rest of it. It will now start creating mysql tables in your database and fill them with default data. You can see the progress on screen and IPB will tell you what its installer is about to do, so just lean back and wait ´til it´s done. IPB, witty as it is, will let you know when the installation is completed by displaying a screen saying "Hey, i am done." And that´s it. You are now able to use your IPB and configure it as you see fit. If you have trouble installing it let us know by creating an installation request and we´ll set it up for.

  Do not forget to remove the /installation directory after you completed the installation

eDirectory not loading categories

A number of people seem to have problems making eDirectory load the categories list, or categories tree if you like, when adding a new listing. This happens with pretty much every nulled version of eDirectory 7 i think, though i can only confirm that issue for the “nulled by Brazil” release and there is a relatively easy solution to that. Actually there are two steps that can solve the problem. The first one is a simple file edit that needs to be performed. Change the code in line 18 of /scripts/categorytree.js to

document.getElementById(prefix+"categorytree_id_"+ category_id).innerHTML =
"<li class=\"loading\">"+showText("Loading Categories")+"</li>";

Replace “Loading Categories” with whatever you want eDirectory to show when it loads the category list. This step in some cases solves the the problem with the categories list not loading. If this doesn´t work for you and eDirectory still seems to load the categories list forever simply either edit or add a new category in eDirectory´s site manager. This turned out to solve the problem for people that performed the above code change to no avail. Overall i have to say that the nulled versions of eDirectory contain that many bugs/erros that you should probably look for another script that does the same. It´s much like a vicious circle, you fix one bug and bam…you run right into the next one. A lot of things don´t work like mobile search, default template is missing some radio buttons that are present in other templates and so on.

Mar 7th, 2010

Comment problem with Defensio Anti-Spam sorted

Guess the problem that comments weren´t saved was down to the Defension Antispam plugin that i used. Turned out that the moment i deactivated it comments were saved just fine and also showed up in the WP Dashboard. So it´s back to good old Akismet i think, though i really liked Defensio and would´ve loved to keep it. Maybe it´s a combination of hacks i use that made Defensio go haywire but i´d rather keep all the plugins than Defensio. Needless to say that the minute i turned Defensio off i received a number of Spam comments hehe :)

Mar 6th, 2010

How to install Discuz english version

Crossday Discuz! Board (or simply Discuz!) is an Internet forum developed by Comsenz Technology Ltd. It is built on the PHP scripting language, supporting MySQL and PostgreSQL database management systems. Discuz! is free for personal use. A commercial license costs 3000 renminbi. The newest version of Discuz! Board is Discuz! 7.0. It is now widely used in China and Hong Kong, but has not been very popular in other countries/places due to lack of support for other languages. The latest English version of 7.0 is developed by 3rd party and preview edition released. Discuz! is comparable to other forum software, matching with English leaders such as vBulletin or Invision Power Board. Version 5.0.0 features a
WYSIWYG editor, inline moderation, a detailed statistics center, Personal Messaging system, a plugins/modules system, custom BBCode, custom Profile Fields, etc.

Discuz! also includes many unique features out of the box, such as a “User Awards” system which allows Administrators to present awards to users (displayed on posts and in profiles as “Medals”) in admin-specified categories; a “Forum League” option which functions as a sort of affiliates system, allowing Administrators to place links (along with an image and description) at the bottom of the forum, above the statistics area; a built-in ad manager which gives you the ability to display image or text ads in a multitude of ways, from floating to a header or footer include; a “Thread Types” system that allows administrators to define different types of threads for specific forums, and has the user select a type when posting a new thread which will then be displayed in the thread list; the ability to check an “Anonymous” box when posting, which hides the posters identity (administrators can view the poster). Discuz! also has some unique moderator functions, such as the ability to copy threads and bump threads, as well as a “highlighter”, which allows moderators/administrators to draw attention to more important topics by colorizing and formatting (Bold, Italics, Underline) the thread title.

Let´s install Discuz

Download a copy of Discuz! 7.0 english Preview Edition and extract it on your computer.
First and obvious step is uploading all the files from the /upload folder to your webspace. Here it´s down to you if you want to upload it into a subdirectory or to your root. To do so all you need is a FTP client of your choice and some time. Pretty boring step and not much to explain here. Simply upload the files and you are almost done. After the upload has finished you need to change permissions on a few files and folders, otherwise Discuz won´t install nor run properly. Files/Folders in question are:

  • ./templates
  • ./attachments
  • ./forumdata
  • ./forumdata/cache
  • ./forumdata/templates
  • ./forumdata/threadcaches
  • ./forumdata/logs

Set the permissions for these folders to 0777

Starting the installation

To start the installation all you need to do is to open your webbroswer and point it to wherever you uploaded Discuz to. Let´s say you uploaded it to

http://www.yourdomain.com/forum

then you will need to point your webbrowser to

http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/install

to start the installation. Wherever you uploaded it add the /install at the end and you should see the Welcome screen of Discuz! Since you want to install Discuz you should agree to the conditions, don´t you? That´s all you can do with the initial screen so no more words about that. Just agree and move on to the next step in which Discuz checks your server for compatibility with Discuz. If anything is wrong or some requirements are not met Discuz will tell your. In case you forgot to change the permissions on the folders i listed earlier Discuz will now have a laugh at you, there also might be some pointing and snickering about how lame you are hehe. So if you forgot to change permissions….do it now. If everything´s alright just click the “All check passed – redirecting to next step” button at the bottom of the screen.

Next is the database configuration which shouldn´t be much of a problem really…that is if you have your database set up already and it´s details at hand. How to set up a mysql database and what the details look like differs from hosting company to hosting company, if you need help with that give me a shout and i´ll be there. You also have to set up an administrator account on the same screen which, i think the name has given it away already, will be the user that administers the system (ideally you hehe).

Entered all details? Cool, click the button at the bottom which will make the magic happen and fill your mysql database with tables and some basic data for Discuz to function properly. You will see the process of the installation in a small window, just wait until its finished and Discuz will forward you to the “All went well you can now run Discuz” screen that tells you that you are just one click away from seeing your newly installed forum in action Any questions regarding the installation or problems getting it up (….i am speaking about Discuz) just let me know and i´ll try to help as much as i can. Though the installation is very easy there might be things you just can´t get worked out.

Attention: After finishing the installation remove the /install directory from your server

Mar 6th, 2010

000webhost – How to create your own custom 404 error page

Whenever someone is visiting your webpage and follows a link that doesn´t work anymore 000webhost.com will show it´s own 404 error page which is loaded with ads and only displays a link to a second error page that redirects your visitor to the 000webhost.com page plus displaying some more ads. Now that´s crap and doesn´t leave a good impression. How about telling your visitor that the page he is looking for isn´t there anymore in a more professional way?

To do that you will need to create a custom error page that is displayed whenever a dead link is clicked or anything else happens that would call a 404 error page. This quick tutorial will show you what you need and how you set up a custom error page. As the 000webhost.com cpanel doesn´t
allow to define custom error pages we need to apply a little trick so 000webhost.com displays your error page instead of their ad-loaded thing. What do we need for that? First thing we need is a text file. So simply open Notepad on your computer, and paste the following code in it

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html


The first part stops people viewing your .htaccess file. The second part tells the webserver to redirect any 404 errors to the file 404.html. Right, now save the file as htaccess.txt, then upload it to your server´s root directory public_html and rename it to .htaccess. What is left to do now is to actually create a 404 page your own. There are a lot of templates out there, just google for "404 gallery" or something to get an idea of what error pages could look like. When you are done creating the page, save it as 404.html and upload it to your servers root directory as well. Now go and try opening a page that you know doesn´t exist and you will be shown your very own customized 404 errorpage. It could, for example, look something like this 404. You could also create custom pages for any other error that might appear, such as error 403 or 406. It´s done pretty much the same way: Create the error page, upload it to your server and reference it in the .htaccess file to make the webserver aware of there being a specific document for that error. For example adding a 406 and 403 error page would look like

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
ErrorDocument 403 /403.html
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
ErrorDocument 406 /406.html

Mar 6th, 2010

eDirectory 7 – How to install eDirectory 7

This is for all the bad guy that haven´t got a clue as to how they go on about installing the [B]brazil[/B] release of eDirectory 7. I got to do that a few days ago and that´s probably been the worst script ever to install as it needed quite a few edits to work properly. To save you from going through all the hassle i went through i´ll come up with a brief description of how to get eDirectory 7 working.

Uploading eDirectory 7

That´s probably the simplest thing about the installation. Just use some ftp client to upload the files and folders to your desired location. Wait until the upload is finished and be done with it.

Importing the MySQL database

As pretty much every script of that caliber eDirectory requires a mysql database. If you haven´t set up one do so and write down your mysql database details because you´ll need them in a bit. Back to the mysql part. Have a look inside the /bd folder of the script, you will find a database dump file in there that´s named db293318886_2009_08_02_15_18.sql. Import that file into your mysql database via phpMyAdmin or whatever tool your hosting company offers. Size of the file is about 415kb so importing the file shouldn´t be much of a problem even on servers that have tight restrictions on database imports. Wait until the import is done.  is. That´s it for the mysql part.

Editing the configuration file

Next step is to change the configuration file which can be found in the /conf folder. Open config.inc.php in a texteditor. The relevant part to edit is this:

   1: define(EDIR_ADMIN_EMAIL, "admin@site.com");
   2:
   3:     # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   4:     # DATABASE CONNECTION PARAMETERS
   5:     # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   6:     define(DEFAULT_DB,         "DIRECTORYDB");
   7:     define(_DIRECTORYDB_HOST,  "localhost");
   8:     define(_DIRECTORYDB_USER,  "username");
   9:     define(_DIRECTORYDB_PASS,  "pase");
  10:     define(_DIRECTORYDB_NAME,  "database");
  11:     define(_DIRECTORYDB_EMAIL, EDIR_ADMIN_EMAIL);
  12:     if (DEMO_DEV_MODE || !$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]) {
  13:         define(_DIRECTORYDB_DEBUG, "display");
  14:     } else {
  15:         define(_DIRECTORYDB_DEBUG, "hide");
  16:     }
  17:
  18:     # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  19:     # DEFINE EDIRECTORY FOLDER
  20:     # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  21:     if (!defined("EDIRECTORY_FOLDER")) define(EDIRECTORY_FOLDER, "/edir");

Change the admin email to your email address and replace the entries for the mysql database with your details (mysql user, password, name of the database and server).

The second important change is in this line

   1: if (!defined("EDIRECTORY_FOLDER")) define(EDIRECTORY_FOLDER, "/edir");

Replace /edir with the path to the directory you uploaded eDirectory to. Then save the file and open your eDirectory installation in your browser. Theoretically it now should show up.

Changing the default language

You will notice that parts of the script are in portugues despite the fact that in the mysql database the default language is set to “en_us“. To change the default language you have to edit another file that is found inside the /conf directory as well. Open language.inc.php in a text editor and look for this bit of code:

   1: /set default language
   2:     //any changes in lines bellow must to be changed in database (table lang)
   3:     $edir_default_language = "pt_br";

Change it to

   1: /set default language
   2:     //any changes in lines bellow must to be changed in database (table lang)
   3:     $edir_default_language = "en_us";

and save the file. After this change the site will show up in english.

  • Configure your site in Sitemanager

    The last step is to configure your site as you see fit. To do so open the Sitemanager which is located at

    http://yourdir/sitemgr

    Replace yourdir with your actual URL to your eDirectory installation and login with these details:

    User: admin

    Pass: admin

That´s it, you can now start to configure your site.