miranda and office communicator 2007
After we upgraded our Instant Messaging to the new version of Microsoft Office Communications Server, I have been told to install Office Communicator 2007 in order to be able to connect from outside of our firewall. The new version of OCS apparently requires two seperate connections: one if you are inside the firewall, and one if you are outside on the internet. Why OCS requires two different IP addresses to work this way, I have no idea.
“So what?” you ask.
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Filed on September 5, 2008
grabbing a screenshot from a pocket pc
Ever since I got an 8525 Windows Mobile smartphone from Cingular (now AT&T Wireless), I’ve been really into modifying it and developing for it. The phone itself is pretty incredible. Being able to check email and/or web sites whenever you want gets addicting after a while. It would be very hard to go back to my old disconnected days. Some people say its bad to be too connected, but my feeling is you can always ignore it if you want.
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where did that window go?
If you use a dual monitor or switch resolutions a lot, you have probably come across this problem. You’re using your Windows application and it pops up a dialog box. Only problem is, the dialog box is off of the screen. D’oh! That has happened to me on multiple occasions until one time when I had enough and googled it. Turns out there is a nice easy solution.
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Filed on January 30, 2008
setting up mediawiki with active directory
The problem is this: How do you get MediaWiki which runs on top of XAMPP to be secure using Active Directory?
We wanted to secure our MediaWiki site so that users can log in using their Active Directory account. In addition we wanted only some users to be able to read the Wiki pages and a smaller subset of those users to be able to edit pages.
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Filed on January 28, 2008