James Lloyd

This morning, I flicked on the media centre to listen to some music, browsing to music library and the music is jumping all over the shop. What appeared to be happening, was media centre re scanning my library. This was very annoying particularly as I hadn't added anything in a couple of months. So whats the solution, seeing as the wife has gone Christmas shopping, I decided to format the system and install OSx 10.4.9 an uphuck release. bit ott?

Note: This does not work without a service pack, requires Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 at least I have been pulling my hair out trying to get, PHP to bind to Active Directory with Secure LDAP (LDAPS) on port 636. This is in fact rediculously simple, so I can only assume everyone who's has worked this out doesn't want to share it with the rest of us!. Solution:.....

These instructions have been updated for Ubuntu 8.10 HERE I did this a while a go, when i was getting asterisk to forward my home voice mail to me and my wifes email address'. Add the following to your sendmail.mc define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.gmail.com:465') define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl

I have been assigned at work as technical lead for a 500 host virtualisation project, my first part of which is to assess the current virtualisation technologies and produce a report explaining the benefits of each etc. As part of this process I'm including windows 2008.

Ju st found this how to get your Vista refund!

Thought i'd list a couple of Mac OSX annoyances, as you generally dont see them documented any where. Bare in mind I use Linux, OSX, and all windows flavours (including vista (ick :P )), so I constantly flick between them.

Just been playing around with leopard for a couple of days now. No problems with Isync and my (Nokia 8800) or my wife's (Sony k800i) hoorah!. However I just went to send a text message to my wife using address book over bluetooth, as I would of in 10.4 and the feature has been removed. There appears to be no mention of bluetooth at all in address book.

Last night rebuilt my Mac book Pro with leopard, a very painless exercise. First new and amazing feature, the welcome movie is now full screen! The OS UI has been tweaked every so slightly notably making the top bar slightly transparent and the dock is now a bit shiny and a bit slanty. Your probably realising that the new features are a bit weak so i'll list them: