Archive | September, 2008

20 September 2008 ~ 3 Comments

XBox 360 Red Ring of Death

Yep, the title pretty tells the story. I’m getting the damn RRoD of on system, I have it just short of 1 year and it is crapped out, freezing in the middle of play. I’m getting the general hardware failure lights, which luckily MS has extended the warranty for this failure out to 3 years. [...]

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15 September 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Browser Compatibility Rant

Just got down spending about 3 hours trying to get a simple gallery page to render the same across multiple browsers. It is crazy trying to get all browsers to work. I think we are dropping IE6 and FF2 from strict compatibility tests. As long as the data is rendered, we are [...]

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10 September 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Redmine Follow Up – LDAP and AD Authentication

In a previous post about Redmine I mentioned that I was having problems with LDAP and 2003 Active Directory authentication. Now I considered myself to have a fair amount of LDAP and Active Directory experience. I have set up samba PD and set up PAM to auth against LDAP. Even to grab [...]

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09 September 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Data Cleansing

Should be enough said, but apperently it isn’t. Yes, I had a dumb user moment, and had a space at the end of one of my inputs. Which the application saved, and passed on to another “plugin” and failed to make the connection, silently btw. The space should of been cleansed out [...]

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09 September 2008 ~ 8 Comments

Redmine – lean and powerful project management

I’ve started to use Redmine a bit in my personal business to help manage the few projects that go through my doors. A buddy, Brian Wigginton, turned me on to it. We have spent several nights looking for a good app that can manage, tasks, issue and project workflow from beginning to completion. [...]

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04 September 2008 ~ 0 Comments

New Theme

I grabbed a new theme for my blog today. The original theme was Vector Lover over at style styleshout I’ve got most of it implement. I don’t have the active link highlight working, as well as a few css bugs, especially when logged in. Over all though I think it is going [...]

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04 September 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Windows and Active Directory Management from Linux

Browsing the web today, I found two nice tools for managing AD in Linux. First up is adtool. The home page is at http://gp2x.org/adtool/. This is a tool that lets you manage the objects in active directory without having to know too much knowledge of LDAP. You will have to know [...]

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