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Archive for August, 2004
Pleasure Boat Captians for Truth
This site is a real eye opener — I especially like the ad.
Tuesday, August 31st, 2004. Posted in Politics | 1 Comment »>
Panther Server mail services and Active Directory
Apple’s been making great strides in incorporating Mac OS X into Windows networks, but it’s still not all there. I’ve got a new XServe that will be a file and email server for our organization. The file services setup and integration with Active Directory authentication was a total breeze…not so with Mail services [...]
Monday, August 30th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 3 Comments »>
RE: Plone, Active Directory authentication, Mac OS X
One more note, go to the LDAP schema tab in the LDAPUserFolderExt and map Active Directory’s “mail” attribute to Plone’s “email” attribute so you don’t have to manually set user’s email addresses. That’s assuming, of course, you’ve bothered to enter email address in your AD.
Friday, August 27th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
PIL on Panther
These instructions were useful for getting the Python Imaging Library install on Panther, and into my Plone setup. The only alterations I made were to use the most current versions of gzip and PIL, and the post-configure steps on PIL are no longer necessary as of v1.1.4.
Friday, August 27th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
RE: Plone, Active Directory authentication, Mac OS X
To add to this, I was unable to store group information in Plone and have it apply properly to the LDAP authenticated users — so I setup dedicated groups in Active Directory, and changed my group source in acl_users to LDAP, then configured mapping to the Plone roles…then it all worked great!
Friday, August 27th, 2004. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>
Plone, Active Directory authentication, Mac OS X
There may be an easier way to do this, but this is what I just went through to setup my Panther-based Plone install to authenticate users using LDAP to connect to Active Directory.
First, the Mac OS X Plone installer (v2.0.3) does not include the python ldap modules, nor does the version of python that ships [...]
Thursday, August 26th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 5 Comments »>
Sprint PCS problems
I’ve could tell a really long tale about Sprint PCS at this juncture. Most of it would be pretty boring. After working with 3 different reps over the last 6 months, they have still not been able to get our business account straightened out with the correct combination of billing and rate plans.
Finally, [...]
Wednesday, August 25th, 2004. Posted in Work | No Comments »>
Yahoo’s image bot
Yahoo’s image search bot doesn’t pay attention to robots.txt files, apparently. Our family site has been a “no index” zone for a long time, but the images from it are appearing in Yahoo image search results. I haven’t dug through the logs to see when they index them, but I’m seeing the referrers, [...]
Wednesday, August 25th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends, Technology | No Comments »>
Wireless network connection is not connected
Well, this was no surprise to me, but XP SP2 seems really concerned about it. Anytime I boot my laptop and wireless is not available, it tells me about it with an annoying balloon up by the taskbar. I figured it was a new setting, so I dug around in the wireless network [...]
Wednesday, August 25th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 3 Comments »>
Oil
Huh, we’re going to run out of oil. It’s probably never going to get any cheaper. Huh. Geez, maybe you think we need leaders that will help do something about that? I’d hate for our lack of foresight and planning to comeback and bite us in the ass someday.
Wednesday, August 25th, 2004. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>
Panther Server’s Apache setup is weird!
Just read this hint before trying to configure Plone — or any virtual host — to run behind it.
Monday, August 23rd, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
XP SP2
Currently installing Windows XP SP2 on my laptop. Hope this doesn’t turn out to be a bad idea. Major Windows updates always scare me.
Friday, August 20th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Popcorn warning
Reading this story, I’m not sure if I’m more scared that a 3-yr-old choked on popcorn, or that the parents brought a 3-yr-old to see “Alien vs. Predator”.
Tuesday, August 17th, 2004. Posted in Misc, Movies | No Comments »>
How APC and AdTran ruined my day
A COM cable is a COM cable is a COM cable, right? Well, for the record, the 9-pin COM cable connectors APC ships with it’s UPS units does not have a connection on all nine pins.
You may want to remember this when you are looking for a COM cable to use to make a [...]
Tuesday, August 17th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>
T1 turnup
Well, I got two of three new T1s turned up successfully. Yesterday was a little flaky on the data side because it took a while for my DNS host changes to make it back to the root servers, and, I managed to make a typo in the IP address on one of my submissions, [...]
Friday, August 13th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »> « Previous Entries
