I finally took the plunge and installed Windows 7 on my Dell Netbook (Inspiron mini iM10-008B). I originally bought the Dell to make it into a Hackbook but after I realized how time-intensive the initial setup may be, I looked to installing Win 7 for instant newness gratification. Initially, I was going to install the …

Some things just belong on Linux. Like Subversion and Apache, for instance. I've seen the ghetto workarounds for Windows-based Apache installs and no thanks -- I'd much rather waste my time on ghetto SharePoint workarounds. But I sure do like the way Windows-based web servers such as IIS seamlessly and securely …

This was ridiculous. Since apache-devel isn't available in SLES (and I do understand why, but give me the option at least!), I had to sync up one of my SLES machines to an OpenSuSE repository and get all of my necessary packages required to compile mod_auth_pam. I was required to downgrade quite a few packages, but …

Thank Science for SuSE Linux Enterprise 11; it's made this process relatively easy. SLES 10 SP2 was giving me a headache because of some Windows 2008 based Active Directory authentication issues but upgrading SLES 11 took care of all that. First thing is first, setup samba to authenticate to AD. Next, install the …

Well that couldn't have been easier! Here's all it takes to authenticate SLES 11 to Windows Server 2008 based Active Directory. During the initial install of SLES, I performed the following: Selected samba-client and winbind during the software installer phase Added my domain's DNS servers to the intitial network …

Recently, we migrated a web application to a SharePoint server. The web application is a custom built ASP/ASPX app that supports Integrated Windows Authentication. We were able to run the application successfully using Anonymous Access but we were unable to authenticate from remote computers when Anonymous Access was …

Thanks to everyone who has written to me about the name conflict between my WordPress plugin, Quick Code, and David Gwyer's plugin, Quick Code. I created the Quick Code plugin three and a half years ago so I'm not sure how the conflict happened but I decided to just rename my plugin to Dirty Code. I chose the name …

I don't usually make a habit of posting about my favorite WordPress plugins but this WPtouch is worth the mention. I was looking to make my blog more iPhone friendly, without making any adjustments to my normal theme and WPtouch gave me exactly what I wanted. To quote their website: More than just a plugin, WPtouch is …

I wish I had access to this resource when I was first working with SharePoint. If you get as confused as I do when trying to decide between making a site a Site Collection or Sub-site, check out this fantastic article on Steve Goodyear's Blog called Determining Between SharePoint Site Collections and Sub-sites. It even …

So if this happens Error The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services on Server page in SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress. Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services. This is probably the reason: …