OK Go, On Treadmills
OK, I know it’s last month’s fad, but it still makes me smile:
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White and Nerdy
Wierd Al’s White and Nerdy is my new favorite song:
Cameratoss
Take a camera, set it for a long exposure, point it at a light source, and toss it into the air. The results are astounding, when done right!
The Turnpike Prank
In the great Turnpike Prank, John Hagrave of Zug finds out who will break first, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority or Mariah Carrey.
Stuff on My Cat
Stuff on My Cat – for those who love to put stuff on their cats.
Identity Manager: AD to NDS sync fixed
I got three more emails today from staff members who were not in our Help desk software (because their accounts never made it to Active Directory from NDS), so I decided to dig a little deeper into the problem.
Looking at the DirXML console, I noticed some users were erroring out with the message: “problem 1005 (CONSTANT_ATT_TYPE), Atta 0, AttphysicalDeliveryOfficeNamephysicalDeliveryOfficeName)”.
Now I already knew “physicalDeliveryOfficeName” mapped to the NDS Location value from setting up our help desk software. Looking at the users they had one thing in common: Read More »Identity Manager: AD to NDS sync fixed
CIT 200 – unregistered error & solution
Sometime after my review of Linksys’s CIT 200 cordless Skype phone, my phone claimed it was ‘unregistered’ and wouldn’t talk to the computer. Unfortunately, the manual does not tell you how to fix this situation. However, the Internet is a wealth of information and I came up with the following steps to fix the problem:Read More »CIT 200 – unregistered error & solution
Adblock vs Google Adsense
One of my favorite things about Firefox is the Adblock/Filterset.G extension combination. I don’t mind some ads, but when most of the pages I go to have more whirling and spinning that a county fair, it makes me motion-sick! The… Read More »Adblock vs Google Adsense
Identity Manager (or not!)
This summer we installed Identity Manager on one of our NetWare boxes, and anticipated loads of extra free time from a reduced user management work
- Allow for user password self-service
- Sync GroupWise passwords with NDS passwords
- Import staff accounts into AD from NDS
Users expect to be able to reset their own passwords with a challenge-response system. So far this part of the system is working great – however we haven’t rolled it out across all users as we need to develop some training so that when the 1st day that logging in will ask you to answer questions comes that users know what to do.
The other two options could prove to be significant time savers. Having GroupWise sync with NDS – especially when initially creating users should reduce administration time quite a bit. AD sync will allow all of the millions of Windows apps that are AD aware to use the account info in AD and save boatloads of time by not requiring separate account administration.
In reality, I’m fairly disappointed with what we have so far…
Read More »Identity Manager (or not!)
The Google Maps Guide to Ghostbusters
What trip to NYC would be complete without a visit to Ghostbusters HQ? What’s that? You don’t know were it is? How about Dana Barrett’s Apartment? With the Google Maps Guide to Ghostbusters you’ll be on your way to all… Read More »The Google Maps Guide to Ghostbusters