Technology
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Dynamic Publishing with Smarty
I've been trying to get dynamic publishing working today, specifically with the category archives. Well, I think I'm finally there. Thanks to some of Brad's amazing Smarty-fu, a whole lot of testing and a fair number of insults hurled in the way of the server, my category templates…
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Trying Scuttle for Bookmarks
After seeing this short-but-sweet post from Phil, I figured Scuttle sounds really interesting. I am frequently annoyed at how often del.icio.us is slow, barely responsive, or even down altogether. This isn't to fault the service – it's free and I have no place to complain. But it is…
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Terminal Services to Domain Controller
Every once in a while – usually on smaller companies who only have a single server – you may need to permit a particular user or group permission to log onto the domain controller. Naturally, this is a bit of a security risk. But let's face it -…
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Searching with Firefox
Seems that Arvind is talking up some Firefox search plugins. That's cool. I really love the extensibility of Firefox and how it is so easy to add stuff to it. What I really don't get is why you'd want a search plugin. They simply aren't necessary. I mean…
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Windows XP Firewall Exceptions
I'm installing a handful of computers today, and one of the things I'm doing is loading UltraVNC on them. Well, these computers are way behind on updates, and several of them require SP2, which as you may or may not know, turns on the firewall even if you've…
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Microsoft Junk Mail
How utterly appropriate. Microsoft Outlook tags its very own test message as junk and sends it to the Junk E-Mail folder. Did Uncle Bill not find that inappropriate somehow?…
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Windows 2000 Password Recovery
The other day I had a server that no one could access. It wasn't actually being used or anything, but the company has been talking about using a server for a while, so it seemed to make sense to see if the one they had could actually be…
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Mapping with Google and Firefox
By now, you've surely heard about Google Maps. This is a very cool mapping service, which easily blows away both Yahoo! Maps and Mapquest. As with most other services, it could always stand to be closer at hand. It seems that someone has created an extension for the…
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Outlook Error 0x80040600
I just ran into this bizarre error in Outlook, that told me absolutely nothing – the detail says Unknown Error (it also refers to a messaging interface). This particular beauty came up while sending and receiving while I was trying it – may have occurred at other times…
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Trying to Block the Bad People
I've received only a small taste of the trackback spam that has been floating around, yet it's still enough to be annoying, especially since I didn't really have any good way of addressing it. With comments, I can moderate them. I can make sure they have approval. Not…