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Ohio LinuxFest Volunteers Needed
On September 30, LOPSA will have a booth at the Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus. We could use some help with volunteers in the booth helping to explain LOPSA and sign up new members. If you’re local to Columbus and can spend some time at the booth, please let me (spp at lopsa . org) know.
Using Bluetooth to synch Windows Mobile devices
Despite all my on-line searching, I couldn’t get my T60 Thinkpad running the “Thinkpad Bluetooth with Enhanced Data Rate software” Bluetooth stack to synchronize with my Windows Mobile 5 Cingular 8125 phone, using Bluetooth. Here’s what some other guys and I ended up figuring out today:
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TechReach Simulation Day – Sep 19
From Brent Chapman:
TechReach International is a new non-profit organization being formed to deploy no-cost telecommunications services into humanitarian relief efforts, using trained/certified volunteer communications specialists and state of the art technology.
On Tuesday 19 September 2006, from 12:30pm to 6:30pm, TechReach International will be hosting a “Simulation Day” on the Intuit campus in Mountain View, to demonstrate proven technologies in a simulated field environment.
Cool TWiki trick: auto-print changed documents
We’ve been using the TWiki system for documentation at work for a while now. But there’s some documents that while they’re convenient to edit in the TWiki, really need to have a paper version available in the data center. Luckily, our data center contains a duplex-capable printer, some red binders and occassionally some student assistants…
Role sensitive content in Drupal
Let’s try this again. A subject for another blog, I’ve been asked to help a local small retailer join the eCommerce revolution. The owner has finally decided that he needs to be online or he faces obsolecense. I’m not a heavy web or software developer, so I was looking around for off-the-shelf (off-the-net?) open source…
Save early, save often….
I’ve just gotten about half way through a blog post about some (at least to me) cool drupal work I was doing. I wanted to check and make sure that I used the proper Textile formatting on a piece of the blog, so I dropped down to the “[ inline:xx ] tags” link to check,…
SysAdmin of the year – yeah, NA only
I really appreciate these contests, but sadly there are severe limitations. From the Rules page: All entry information is collected in the United States. The Contest is open only to residents of the U.S. and Canada excluding Quebec due to restrictive contest laws. Anyway, what kind of businessman do you expect to put their SysAdmin…
Getting WIndows admins to come around to Samba
So we’ve had this extremely busy summer. Last summer our new Dean laid down the law and told every department in our college to start working together and come up with a unified IT environment by the start of Fall semester ’06. We spent about 8 months just getting everyone to agree on what authentication,…
KDE Auto-login woes
A few years ago, I asked SAGE whether I really needed to read the postmaster e-mail. They said yes, so I now check our postmaster e-mail. However, I use my desktop machine: I POP down the mail and then using Thunderbird’s local mail filters.
Whenever the power goes out to our building, however, my desktop reboots but it doesn’t kick off Thunderbird. To do so, I needed to set up KDE to auto-login to my machine.
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