I just came across an immensely useful piece of software: ScreenRecycler (www.screenrecycler.com). It is basically a display driver mapping to a VNC server that allows your primary MacBook pro to provide the VNC server to another computer, and to use that VNC served display as secondary display on the...
Continue reading...Attention when upgrading to Firefox 3.6 on Linux and using VMWare Server Console
When upgrading e.g. to Ubuntu 10.4, Firefox will get its current version updated to 3.6. Unfortunately, the VMWare Server Console plugin will refuse to work with Firefox 3.6. For this reason, if you need to use the plugin, you can download Firefox 3.5.9 e.g. from mozilla.cdn.cacheboy.net/firefox/releases/3.5.9/linux-i686/de/firefox-3.5.9.tar.bz2 and install it...
Continue reading...Who counts – Some thoughts that could apply to a consultant…
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat...
Continue reading...How to manage virtual mail domain aliases with ISPConfig 3
Here’s a small script I’ve implemented as a MySQL stored procedure that allows you to include a virtual domain mapping scheme for the Version 3.0 of ISPConfig. ISPConfig – see www.ispconfig.org – is an excellent tool for managing virtual domains on a shared mail/webserver. The thing that I found...
Continue reading...Installation Prerequisites for a normal AIX Installation of XIR3.1
I cannot remember how many times I’ve come on to projects, where though we were told that everything was in place so that we could directly start installing, in fact nothing was in place, no-one was available, and we just lost a lot of time. So, once and for...
Continue reading...Architectural Thoughts
Since the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP I’ve the pleasure to meet a substantial number of customers who have their SAP systems in place and want to add Business Objects Enterprise basically as an add-on onto the hardware they’re running SAP on. From their perspective, Business Objects is...
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