June 25, 2008
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 good resource if you trying to learn this power full and free program. Hope the rest of your conference goes well for you. Cheers!
http://creatingdrew.com/2008/06/10-great-sites-for-gimp-tutorials-and-guides/
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June 12, 2008
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 I could recommend to them was to use IE when they checked their mail. Until now.
Solution: Found a Firefox add-on that emulates IE within Firefox. IT’s called IETabs and it works great. I was able to login to OWA under premium mode and had no problems whatsoever. What’s nice is that you can toggle back and forth or open a tab in IE mode but the other tabs are Firefox. IETabs works with version 3 or Firefox and I only used this on OWA 2003 not the new OWA for Exchange 2007. If you have used this add-on for OWA 2007, please let me know your thoughts and if it works to your satisfaction.
Links:
IETabs for Firefox
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June 5, 2008
Problem: One of our employees came to me with a frozen iPhone. It was stuck on a process and would not budge. Tried to power it off by pressing the sleep button for a few seconds but no response.
Solution: Held down the Sleep and the Home button for what seemed like 10 seconds or so and then it forced a hard reset. He told me he tried that but I’m thinking that he didn’t hold it down long enough.
Only 4 more days until the Worldwide Developers’ Conference and hopefully Steve jobs will announce the 3G iPhone. Already have my request filled out to get it purchased from AT&T.
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May 27, 2008
Problem: All of a sudden, audio streaming radio stations stopped working using Astaro version 6.312. Also noticed some other sites were having issues. The problem was that that they were sites that did browser checks and then would error out saying that active scripting needed to be enabled. Didn’t realize it at first but both issues were related.
Solution: Turned the anonymity level on the HTTP proxy, within my Astaro Firewall, to none and it fixed the problem.
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May 13, 2008
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 all at once, or so I thought. Turns out, the version of XP I had is pre-service pack 1 and I got the following error:
“Setup has detected that the version of Service Pack installed on your system is lower than what is necessary to apply this hotfix.
At minimum, you must have Service Pack 1 installed.”
People who know me can attest that I’m not one to partake in bashing Microsoft but this is ridicules and kind of a microcosm of what they are doing wrong in Redmond. You would think that with all the billions of dollars and resources at their disposal, they could write a service pack that could be applied to any version of Windows. Guess not! At least this isn’t the frustration that I felt when I first installed SP2 back in the day. Now, I gotta find my “good” SP2 disc that I thought I didn’t need anymore.
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