RIM has just announced it will be adding AOL and Yahoo IM capability to their Blackberry products. I’ve been looking at replacing my cell phone & PDA with a combo device, and have been intrigued by RIM’s Blackberries. We run GroupWise at work, and I was impressed by the BlackBerry/Groupwise webinar I recently saw. I [...]
Following right on the heals of their article on Linux/eDirectory integration, this week’s CoolSolutions has a great story on Mac OS X and eDirectory integration. I’ve been wanting to give this a try for a while, since we’re still about 1/5 Mac. It’s a very in-depth read, and doesn’t look like the process has become [...]
Prospective students who used a flaw posted in online discussion forums to access the ApplyYourself service will not be attending Harvard or MIT anytime soon. From the Boston.com article: ‘Schmalensee said he made his decision to reject the 32 applicants after seeing the directions posted by the hacker. ”The instructions are reasonably elaborate,” he said. [...]
Prospective students who used a flaw posted in online discussion forums to access the ApplyYourself service will not be attending Harvard or MIT anytime soon. From the Boston.com article: ‘Schmalensee said he made his decision to reject the 32 applicants after seeing the directions posted by the hacker. ”The instructions are reasonably elaborate,” he said. [...]
Network World has an interesting article on Software Streaming that caught my interest. It sounds like they are describing a product similar to Apple’s NetBoot, which I’ve Seen in action at CCC. The article however is very sparse on details – a lot of theory, but no actual how-to’s or off the shelf software to [...]
Kerry Garrison has an interesting tutorial on using Asterisk@Home on his website. The best bit for me was his suggestion for getting Digium Wildcard X100P FXO cards on eBay for $6.95 each…. I’m still researching the MultiVoIP MVP210 I’ve got on my desk, and seeing what it can do… Tweet
Cool Solutions strikes again with a great document on authenticating SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 and NLD to eDirectory via LDAP. I’ve had this project on the “back burner” for some time now in conjunction with LTSP, and this walkthrough will make it a bit easier, since it looks like it corrects some of the [...]
Scientists have discovered that Plasmons can be used to make very small items invisible. From the article: The proposal involves using plasmons — tiny electronic excitations on the surfaces of some metals — to cancel out the visible light or other radiation coming from an object. “A proper design … may induce a dramatic drop [...]
I found this device interesting, as I just bought an external dual-layer DVD burner for about $100 less than this and a standalone DVD recorder for about $300… so if I had picked this up instead, I would have saved $200….. and gotten the same functionality. Tweet
Here is an interesting idea on logging student (or user) computer useage from the login script. It’s one of those ideas that’s so simple you wonder why you didn’t think of it. Tweet