Archive for November, 2003

Various news

Tuesday, November 25th, 2003

Security: All or nothing effort
Phone carriers brace for service-swapping rush
Sharp announces SL-6000 series
O&O Defrag Professional Edition Version 6
AppDeploy.com - Application Deploymet site

Text Editor for Linux and Windows

Tuesday, November 25th, 2003

Here is a review about a text editor for both platforms I use.

This is going to be my next phone

Tuesday, November 25th, 2003

Taking a close look at Handspring’s new Treo 600

[via NewsForge]

Setting up server tools for spam- and virus-free mail

Tuesday, November 25th, 2003

Setting up server tools for spam- and virus-free mail

[via NewsForge]

Rdesktop goodness Another reason I can run *nix

Tuesday, November 25th, 2003

Rdesktop yields remote possibilities

[via NewsForge]

Some links I have been meaning to post.

Monday, November 24th, 2003

Plone is an intresting content management system for my websites
Tweakomatic will help me setup an auto configuration script for my OS’s
IISToolShed is a great site for IIS tools
AWStats will be useful in processing our IIS Logs
I finally got a new computer now it is time to Overclock the 400SC

Windows 2003 Clustering

Monday, November 24th, 2003

Guide to Creating and Configuring a Server Cluster Under Windows Server 2003


[via Larkware News]

One step closer to running linux as my main OS

Thursday, November 20th, 2003

NTLM Authentication Supported by Mozilla on All Platforms

[via mozillaZine]

Team Contacts for Exchange

Thursday, November 20th, 2003

Team Contacts Synchronizes user contact lists with a central contact list in an Exchange public folder. Automatically merges changes when two uses update the same contact in their personal Contacts folder.

[via Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News]

Handy tool to make OWA 2003 default Email Client

Thursday, November 20th, 2003

OWA Mail 2003 for Microsoft Office Sets Outlook Web Access as the default mail client so that Microsoft Office applications can send the current document via OWA by choosing File | Send To. Mailto: links create an OWA message, as do Simple MAPI applications. For Exchange 2000 and 2003.

[via Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News]

WiFi Scanner to use at the office.

Thursday, November 20th, 2003

WifiScanner - analyzer and detector of 802.11b stations and access points (0.9.3) WifiScanner is an analyzer and detector of 802.11b stations and access points.

[via TuxMobil]

Intresting Alliance

Thursday, November 20th, 2003

Sun and AOL form StarOffice Pact 20 Nov 2003: The register reports on Sun and AOL forming a StarOffice pact.”Fresh off a major Linux desktop win in China, Sun Microsystems has found a PC friend closer to home with AOL now piloting a program to ship sub-$300 desktops running StarOffice.”

[via RootPrompt.org — Nothing but Unix]

Repairing and Compacting MS Access DB’s

Thursday, November 20th, 2003

Here is a useful site if you have to repair or compress Access Databases.

Microsoft’s SQL Analyzer

Thursday, November 20th, 2003

Microsoft SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer [BETA]
Download

Keyboard shortcuts

Thursday, November 20th, 2003

1.   Learn the basics of all Microsoft products’ keyboard shortcuts.
2.   Become expert in Visual Studio .NET keyboard shortcuts.
3.   Serve some speed with SQL Server shortcuts.
4.   Mozilla browsers go here, IE browsers go here and select your IE version.
5.   Do you use Google? Of course you do. Check out Google Labs’ experimental Keyboard Shortcuts searching.

Great tidbits from the web

Friday, November 7th, 2003

Ever wanted a really small font to save on screen space?

This is an excellent toolbar that Mike@Larkware pointed out. it has some great features and it is open source

If you have ever been an administrator of an IIS/ASP webserver this is something you dread

Here is a good visual monitoring app for *nix and windows

I soooo want a Athlon FX system like this one

And since I love WAP and Love RSS maybe I can build something like this on my own with help from this walkthrough

Mozilla Firebird

Monday, November 3rd, 2003

I consider myself a power internet user. I typically have at least four browser windows open and the nature of my job dictates that I be able to diagnose issues with web servers as fast as possible. So in that persuit I have tried just about every web browser on the MS and Linux platform. And while there are some outstanding browsers out there I have come to love Mozilla Firebird. It is by far one of the best availible on either platform. With so many powerful addons it can really help in diagnoses and hacking around websites. Below are a the Extensions I use on all my PC’s

Here is the list I currently have installed.

  • AdBlock
  • Bugxula
  • Checky 2.0
  • Diggler
  • Download Sort
  • EditCSS
  • Firebird Help
  • googlebar - I am debating this one.
  • IEview
  • Javascript Console Status
  • JSconsole
  • Linky
  • LiveHttpHeaders
  • Magpie
  • Mozilla Amazon Browser - for home
  • PNH Developer Toolbar
  • Popup Count
  • Preferential - Waiting on .6 to be released
  • QuickManager
  • Session Saver
  • Spiderzilla
  • Tabbrowser Extensions
  • Things They Left Out
  • User Agent Switcher
  • Web Developer
  • Here is a good reference for tips
  • QuickTools - Another one I haven’t used yet