I am not sure it has much value for SBS customers. I setup a collaboration site and tried to envision our Habitat for Humanity affiliate using it. Although Office Live Collaboration looks like it has the potential to do the job, it would require a lot of customization to get board members to look at [...]
Entries from October 2006
Comment on Office Live Collaboration Site
October 31st, 2006 · No Comments · Nonprofit, SBS2K-SBS2K3
Getting QuickBooks to run as non admin on a stand alone workstation setup
October 29th, 2006 · No Comments · QuickBooks
With a shout out to Mike in the blog comments… he said “I was troubleshooting an installation of QB07 on a 2003 Terminal Server. I had all the security modifications that I have used for the previous versions and it still wouldn’t work. What I discovered is that normal users don’t have but need rights [...]
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Mozilla - Home of the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client
October 27th, 2006 · No Comments · OpenSource, QuickBooks
Mozilla - Home of the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client
The number one reason for me to update to version 2 of Firefox is spell check. This should improve my blog writing throughout the internet. It will probably be some time for me before I update IE6 to IE7. I am still using QuickBooks [...]
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WP installation keeps reverting to default theme « WordPress Support
October 27th, 2006 · No Comments · CSS/WebDesign
WP installation keeps reverting to default theme « WordPress Support
For the last couple of days I have been struggling with a sneaky “bug” with WordPress. I had changed over to a new theme but it would revert back to the default theme at irregular intervals. The problem I eventually found was related to the fact [...]
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MistyLook Theme for a Charity blog
October 23rd, 2006 · 3 Comments · CSS/WebDesign, Nonprofit
I got distracted again! The Development Dirctor for our Habitat affiliate was complaining about the stale content on the affiliate’s website. For some time I have been thinking about the appropriate format for a charity website. I have begun to believe that a blog style website is a natural fit for charity websites. The social [...]
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Server Guide part 2: Affordable and Manageable Storage
October 19th, 2006 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
Our server guides’ goal is to give a you a comprehensive overview of server technology. In this second part we introduce you to server storage technology and what you must consider to find decently priced, high performance, and manageable server technology.
Link to Server Guide part 2: Affordable and Manageable Storage
This is a really nicely [...]
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Solutions from PC Magazine: Left- and Right-Align on One Line
October 18th, 2006 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
I use Microsoft Word from Office XP. I would like to know how I can left-align and right-align separate pieces of text in the same sentence; for instance, in a resume. I would like to apply this formatting to existing documents as well.
Jason Dubz
That’s easily done. Select Tabs from the Format menu and [...]
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Autodiscover RSS Feeds with IE7
October 16th, 2006 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
I had a feed that was specified as a RDF+XML feed. Firefox’s autodiscover would find the RSS feed and put a little orange chicklet in the address bar. IE7 was not changing the color of its RSS chicklet when I visited the site so I surmised that it was not finding the feed. In conjunction with switching the feed [...]
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Torpark as a network diagnostic tool
October 14th, 2006 · No Comments · General
Yesterday I had just finished creating an add-on domain for one of my web sites when the site went down. I waited a little while but it did not come back up. I could not even ping the server. I was pretty sure it was an internal problem that they would resolve pretty quickly so [...]
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My Top 10 Best Wordpress Plugins « John Chow dot Com
October 12th, 2006 · No Comments · WordPress
My Top 10 Best Wordpress Plugins « John Chow dot Com
This is a nice collection of useful Plugins.
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Not all backups are created equal
October 11th, 2006 · No Comments · General
A few months ago I got an external USB drive. My plan was to use it to backup my laptop. It came with some software that came with it called Bounceback Express. The software was easy to use and it looked like it would do the job. Bounceback is not complicated. It mirrors my drive. [...]
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Update to Excel Macro to import IIF transactions
October 9th, 2006 · 1 Comment · QuickBooks
A while back I wrote a new macro to import IIF transactions, New Excel Macro to import IIF transactions. Last week I put it to the test and found several bugs. All of the bugs were minor but annoying. They created a lot more work for me but I am hopeful the next time I test [...]
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Checking out Windows Vista RC1
October 6th, 2006 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
I finally decided to give Vista a whirl. I was not terribly interested in being a beta tester. RC1 sounded a little more up my alley. Recently Microsoft had made it even easier to try out Vista so I downloaded the iso. Despite using their downloader I had to restart the download several times. I [...]
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