Category Archives: System Administration

Ruby/LDAP 0.9.3

I have just released Ruby/LDAP 0.9.3. This is mostly a bug-fix release. The changes from 0.9.2 are listed below: LDAP::Schema#names and LDAP::Schema#attr will now allow names with hyphens and/or underscores. A warning about @sasl_quiet when run in debug mode has … Continue reading

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In Camera

Sarah went out this morning to her first La Leche League meeting (you should blog about that, Sarah), so I seized the opportunity to upgrade Gallery from version 1.5.2-pl2 to 2.1rc1. The new version has lots of nice new features, … Continue reading

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The Rise Of The Office

The time has finally come to resurrect my old office from Mountain View. I put my desk together Monday evening and then set about unpacking my computers and turning them back on after nigh on six months of disuse. My … Continue reading

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Catching Up With Time

I’d forgotten to change the time on my digital camera from PDT to CEST, so all of the photos I’ve taken since getting here have timestamps and EXIF headers that are nine hours off. Rather than live with this, I … Continue reading

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Nokia 9500 and untrusted certificates

Picking up my e-mail on my new Nokia Communicator 9500 was becoming annoying, because the self-signed certificate on my mail server is untrusted by my device. In these circumstances, the 9500 will ask you evey time it picks up your … Continue reading

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