Been working on rebuild our CAS Server for a few days now. We needed to CAS pull additional attributes out of Active Directory for some of our SSO services. So I'm going to quickly walk through what you need to do you set this server up. Requirements: Apache Tomcat...
While traveling down the path of using Drupal 7 has a portal for the District, I came across this Open Source Web Conferencing Platform. This platform can be up and running in minutes using their VM Appliance. It allows for multiple rooms, screen sharing,...
VMware's management client for iPad available: " VMware has released the vSphere Client for iPad, with which IT staff will be able to monitor and manage their virtualized infrastructure. "
A few months ago, we provide our technicians with iPad's to help them be a bit more productive. The overall goal was to give the technician the ability to view and edit their work orders on the go. Typically they would either stop off at a computer in the...
For those who like the way GitHub or Gitorious works, there is good news! You can run your own Gitorious server to host a public and/or private git repository. I currently have a Gitorious server running in the hopes of forming an area where local school...
In a previous post, I described our situation with storage and finding a way to reuse the XRaid's we had in the racks. By using a IDE2SATA adapter and a notebook 7200rpm drive, we were able to replace all the drives in a fairly cheap manner. Right now, I have 70...
Thought I would share this bit of trouble I ran into. I installed Ubuntu Server 9.10 on our ESX Farm, which uses Intel E1000 network adapters, which don't play well out the box with Ubuntu. You will need to build a driver for it to use first. Here is...
After day of playing around, I was finally success in building a Gitorious Server. It's a great alternative to GitHub, plus you can host your own server for free. I'll provide some more information on how to set in up in the next week.
I've been meaning to post this up, but I've been using this set of tools for awhile now to rename accounts and various other tasks. It helps to maintain Google App's using a set of tools that run in python, it's open source and free to use. To rename an account...
If you had questions on Licensing for apps through the new Mac App Store, you should see the following. It states you can install on any Apple you own as long as it is for personal or non-commercial use. Terms Mac App Store
Currently I'm working on rebuilding our web storage infrastructure for our District. Currently we have 6 XRAID's that have 40,000+ hours on the drives and aren't currently being used right now. I was in need of DAS to setup my Gluster Cluster, so I decided...
DHTMLX has released their alpha version of mobile version of their components. After 5 minutes of testing, I must say it's everything I expected. Future versions are likely to be even better. http://www.dhtmlx.com/blog/?p=791
This is still a work in progress, but so far very successful. Gluster Storage Platform allows you to basically build your own storage cloud. It allows for CIFS, NFS, FTP, and it's own native GlusterFS connector. And here is my own experiencing with setting it...
I'm currently in process of rebuilding our web server cluster, and thought I would do some searching on improving how our configuration and logs are stored. Little did I know there are some modules out there that can help us do that. First, I have completed the...
For those who enjoyed the write up on how to set Gmail as a default email provider, you can also add Google Doc's to the right-click new menu. Tutorial Here
In need of a new storage platform? I suggest checking out Gluster (http://www.gluster.org/). Gluster provides an open source solution for creating basically your own cloud. Highly scalable, high-availability, and easy to setup. Currently I'm in process of setuping up...
Just saw today on DHTMLX blog that they are developing a mobile library for iOS and Android. I'm sure it will be just a easy to use and useful as their normal suite. DHTMLX Library for Mobile and Touch Devices
Windows: We'll need to modify a registry key for this one. Looking under [HKEY_CLASS_ROOTmailtoshellopencommand] You'll need to change the default key to the following (Changing youdomain.com to your domain) rundll32.exe...
Want to sync your Active Directory passwords to Google Apps? No problem. There is a great tool in the Google Code repository. Hashing Password Filter This code creates a SHA1 hash of the user’s password and puts it into a attribute field whenever a users password is...
Working to integrate better with our portal and not worry about users passwords. I have used OAuth with PHP to create a channel between our portal and Google Apps. First thing you need to do is setup OAuth Access on Google Apps. 1. Open Google Apps Control Panel 2....