WP-Andreas09 – Webgazette.co.uk – Change is the only constant…
I been thinking about revamping some of my blogs. I found this theme somewhere and it looked interesting. So I downloaded it. After a little playing around I think I may use it after modifying one of the color schemes to a little more my style.
apache friends – xampp for windows
The good news is that there is a new version, 1.5.2. The bad news is that I did not find a way to upgrade. I ended up uninstalling the old version and installing a new version. For me that was not a big loss. I had been playing around with a private blog and ftp server. I opted to not save the Mysql files used by the blog. The ftp server was the critical element for me since I use it to transfer files between PCs at a non-profit I help out. I have other ways to transfer files but ftp is real convenient and fast.
Now for the gotchas! To uninstall you need to uninstall the services first. At least for me the uninstall/install process did not work without messages until I uninstalled the services. There were several files that were locked until I uninstalled the services. Maybe its just me but I do not like seeing message windows saying the installation process cannot update files that are in use.
Now when you install the XAMPP the files will be updated and the services will be installed with the standard messages.
I finally bit the bullet and ordered replacement part for my “Ghetto Box” PC. “Ghetto Box” is not meant to be deragotory. I envision that this box would have all of the characteristics an office worker needs. Since game playing and video editing is not on the agenda this box should be quite adequate with today’s office software.
AMD makes some nice processors and are generally winning the price to performance gig. I have been happy with the boxes I have put together with AMD processors in the past. However, I am looking for a processor less than $100. The Celeron from Intel is less inexpensive the AMD folks and remarkbly powerful so it has caught my fancy. I have been really pleased with the reliability I have gotten from my old Intel 815 motherboard and PIII.  The Intel chipset has earned my favor.
My selection for the box is a MSI 865GVM3 motherboard($52 Newegg) matched up with Celeron 326($57 Newegg). I put in 512 MB of Corsair Value memory to round out the package. As you can see this box will be inexpensive. I tested it out with my existing disk drives but I ended up getting a refurbished SATA drive for a longer term solution. The motherboard has a built-in Intel graphics adapter which I have found to be plenty adequate for my needs. I picked the MSI motherboard because it supports the LGA775 processors, has the Intel chipset/video driver, and is less expensive than Intel. You can see that this all fits into a very modest budget.
So what am I going to do with this box? I am going to load server software on it. No kidding! Its going to be my “dogfood server”, my beta server, my linux server, my backup workstation, etc. I already loaded up a NFR W2K server on it and it is pretty snappy at doin’ nothing. I do not planning on recommending this as a production server but I do think I can test out new server software without any issues. I still think this combinaton is a nice upgrade/repair for the cost sensitive market.
CSS Navigation Techniques (37 entries)
This is a nice visual description of the CSS navigation options available.
Yes, you CAN do that with CRM : The new ultimate guide to installing CRM 3.0 SBE:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/crm/archive/2006/04/14/90886.aspxHandy Andy once again comes through with the ultimate screenshot guide to setting up CRM on SBS
[Via E-Bitz – SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS “Diva”]
Someday when things are a little less hectic I will get around to installing and understanding Microsoft’s CRM.
bill
nLite – Deployment Tool for Unattended Windows – About
I finally got back to nLite and preparing a modified XP installation disk with SP2 and the hot fixes already applied. The last time I played with creating an updated XP installation CD-ROM, I was creating the CD-ROM and testing it with a VM on my P700 desktop. It was painfully slow! With my new Centrino Duo laptop the entire operation is much faster. I am now using version 1.07rc7 and the lastest update pack from Ryanfm. For this ISO I also decided to add Acrobat and Firefox to the preinstallation and .Net 1.1 Framework and Java to post installation tasks. Everything was installed without a problem and no required reboots. I have been planning on rebuilding my desktop again so this will be a real time saver.
gpg4win – EMail-Security using GnuPG for Windows
I saw that there was new update for GnuPG so I went over to the site to check it out. In the download information they recommended checking out gpg4win for a consolidated install package for GnuPG and several useful utilities. Most of the utilities I have used in the past were buggy, hard to install correctly, and with a very slow update schedule. Recently I had started using the explorer add-in, GPGee, and was pleasantly surprised. It made checking GPG signatures relatively painless. At gpg4win I found an install package with all of the packages, GnuPG and GPGee, I wanted to install on my laptop and a couple more, GPGol and GPGA, I was interested in trying out.
GPGcol is a plugin for Microsoft Outlook to integrate GnuPG and thus OpenPGP encryption and digital signatures. After restarting Outlook 2003 I found the tab in the preferences. When I changed my mail editor away from Word I saw the buttons for signing and encrypting with GPG. There was also a menu entry under tools for GPA.
The GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA) is a graphical user interface for the GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard). Managing keys with GnuPG has always been the hard part for me in working with GnuPG. Since I use GnuPG so infrequently I always had to return to my cheat sheet to remember how to import or refresh a user key using the command line. GPA is a GUI frontend to the GnuPG commands and seems to do the job without much fuss.
At least for me the consolidated installation via gpg4win is major step forward in improving the user experience. Finding the right tool to make GnuPG more user friendly has always been a hit or miss proposition for the occasional user. Some of the tools existed but were poorly maintained. Gpg4win has a nice collection of stable GnuPG utilities that installs easily and makes using GPG signatures and encryption easier.
Ophcrack 2 — The fastest Windows password cracker
The Ophcrack LiveCD is a bootable Linux CD-ROM containing ophcrack 2.2 and a set of tables (SSTIC04-10k). It allows for testing the strength of passwords on a Windows machine without having to install anything on it. Just put it into the CD-ROM drive, reboot and it will try to find a Windows partition, extract its SAM and start auditing the passwords.
I downloaded the iso, burned the CD, and tried it on my son’s PC(W2K Pro), my laptop(XP Home) and my desktop(XP Pro). It was impressively fast at figuring out my local Administrator passwords. Naturally it does not know about the network password since it is not stored locally. I had to run it manually with my desktop since it is a dual boot machine and Ophcrack did not detect the NT partition with windows on it.
WordPress Development Blog › Widgets Plugin
Widgets are an easy way for you to arrange and rearrange your sidebar to your hearts content without touching a line of code.
I tried this on my WordPress blog on XAMPP and it did not work. I could not drag and drop and a javascript error complained about sortable. I installed it on this website and it works.