Category: Computers

GDATA Provider

April 2, 2007 - Computers , Internet , Technology , Windows - by admin - 2 Comments

I’ve been hunting for a decent calendaring protocol system for a while now, and been investigating ITIP, IMIP, iCal, xmlrpc, caldav, and finally WCAP. Having initially settled on WCAP, as a result of having a fairly decent plugin available for Lightning, I set about trying to find a decent Calendar […]

Evolution

March 6, 2007 - Computers , Cool things , Linux , Novell , Technology - by admin - No Comments

It’s been around for a while and I vaguely recall checking out the collection of Zip files, but it took this article to encourage me to give it a shot again. Evolution now has (well, back in July 2006) a slick Windows installer to ease the pain of dependency checks […]

Linux & Active Directory

February 14, 2007 - Computers , Linux , Technology , Windows - by admin - 1 Comment

I used to deal with Linux in Active Directory quite a bit, especially with Winbind, Samba and Active Directory. It’s amazing how quickly things change, and I already feel as if my knowledge is atrophying at an exponential rate…

Zap Bugs

February 10, 2007 - Asterisk , Bugs , Computers , Linux , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

A couple of weeks ago, I commented on a bug that is affecting Zaptel software and hardware, both on the bug tracker, and more recently on the Asterisk users mailing list. Maybe I’m going about it the wrong way, but absolutely nobody seems to be interested in what appears to […]

Transparent proxy

February 9, 2007 - Computers , Linux , Web - by admin - No Comments

Just finished setting up a transparent proxy at home, to keep track of some visitors to my network. I have a Linux machine acting as a router, but it doesn’t have that much power, and a much more powerful server acting as the proxy server. For this reason, Step 6 […]