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What I Learned Today: Ack and Ephemerides

In astronomy, goodstuff, linux, osx, programming, technology, what i learned today on 15 January 2009 with no comments

Been so busy there’s barely been any time to think about blogging. Today’s edition of What I Learned Today covers two totally separate topics. The first is: Ack Ack you say?! Yes. ack. Ack is a command line utility that searches through files for patterns of text. It’s like grep except…it’s more friendly, has some [...]

Where’s the Calendar?

In horseshit, idiocy, linux, microsoft, technology on 6 September 2008 with no comments

When you are working in XP, and you need to view a calendar to see what day of the week a particular date falls on, how do you do it? Well, if you are like 95% of non-corporate windows users (not getting your time from a domain controller or time server), you probably double click [...]

Configuring LDAP Authentication using SugarCRM and Active Directory

In linux, microsoft on 5 March 2008 tagged ldap, sugarcrm with 5 comments

This seems to be a fairly undocumented hot topic that I’ve been trying to find an answer to for the last couple of days. Let me preface this by saying I am not an expert in SugarCRM or LDAP, but I finally got it up and running. Here’s my settings for getting SugarCRM Version 5.0.0b [...]

New Linux Distros for 2007

In linux on 3 January 2007 with no comments

So here it is. A silly list of my Linux predictions regarding new distributions for 2007. I hope it’s not too stupid and someone besides me actually gets a laugh out of this. Jewbuntu Auto power off or sleep mode determined by Sabbath mode timer and slider for setting degree of observance. Image filter extension [...]