It will be a week or so until my 3G iPhone comes in but that’s no big deal because I am still able to update my current iPhone to the 2.0 software, or so I thought.   Needless to say, the upgrade is going less than smoothly.  First, I had to update all the apple software [...]

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For all of you that attended my presentation at the TIE conference on open source content management systems, thank you for coming and for being a great/patient audience.  Anyway, we were talking up Gimp quite a bit in the presentation and I stumbled on this web site  and thought I would share it as a [...]

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Problem:  Ever since we moved to Outlook Web Access (OWA), I have had some complaints from users saying that it basically sucks in Firefox.    Since FireFox doesn’t support the ActiveX components of OWA, you have to login in basic mode which pretty much takes away all the cool features of OWA.  The only thing that [...]

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Today, I was given an older Dell Laptop to reinstall Windows XP.  Used the recovery discs that they provide and 30 minutes later, the laptop is up and running, almost.   I had to service pack it and since Microsoft recently released service pack 3, I figured I will download that and patch the whole thing [...]

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Problem:  Using Astaro content filter, we were having issues with people using anonymous proxies to bypass the filter using HTTPS (port 443) instead of standard port 80.  Turns out that the Astaro content filter only processes port 80 traffic, thus leaving a pretty big hole for us to fill.  I could use packet filter rules [...]

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