Identity Management & Access

Inexpensive Glass Whiteboard

Looking for an inexpensive glass whiteboard for your office?  I came across this piece together from IKEA parts you can use to build one for about $100 or less.  I decide it would work nicely in my home office, so here is my setup. IKEA Hackers: Not...

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NAS build in progress…

I picked up a HP N40L along with some other goodies for it.  I'll be providing an overview of the system with use of UnRaid in the near future. As soon as I finish up the build, which is a little time consuming but well worth it, I will provide a write up on all...

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Vsphere 5 Web Client Issues

We upgraded from ESX 2.5 to Vsphere 5, after logging into the Vsphere 5 Web Client I was prompted with a error that stated it couldn't find the Inventory Service. Here are the steps to resolve that issue. - Stop the vCenter Inventory Service. - From the Windows Start...

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Drupal Modules for your Portal

After a few months of having our new portal up and running, I thought it would be good to share some the modules we have put to use.  We are using many more, but these are the main ones to point out. Drupal 7 Modules Homebox This took some work to get it tweaked...

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Google’s free LMS is coming soon…

Keep an eye out for this one. Google and Pearson have teamed up to create a free Learning Management System/Social Network for Education. It is primarily focused for Higher Education, but should be interesting to say the least. It's suppose to drop ship in the...

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Creating a K12 portal with Drupal

Over the past month, we have been working on getting the new portal up and running using Drupal 7. We are ready to launch on Monday and thought I would share our welcome video that quickly goes over some of the features. I'll provide more information on Drupal...

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OS X Server 10.6 on vSphere 5

Among the many of those disturbed by the Licensing of vSphere 5, it seems that OS X 10.6 Server will be supported as a guest operating system. What's New in VMware vSphere 5 vSphere 5 Pricing To run Mac OS X in a virtual machine, ESXi must be running on Apple branded...

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Deploy Firefox

Looking for a way to deploy Firefox with default/locked preferences? Well it's built-in to Firefox, two files to config and it's done. You can have it override all existing preferences also. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences

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Gluster 3.1 to 3.2 Upgrade

Decided it would be worth updating our Gluster storage to the newest version, it adds a few new features and bug fixes.  This upgrade with simple and easy to do with no data loss You can find the instructions here Upgrading to Gluster 3.1 from 3.1.x The upgrade...

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Example of Google Docs 3.0 API’s

Currently we are in the process of rewriting our portal for the district. We are looking to tie more into Google App's within our portal. So, we thought this would be a good time for us to start going down the path or pulling the data and pushing data back.First thing...

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