I’ve had a chance to catch up on the talk regarding the iPad and have had some interesting conversations about Apple as a whole in the past few hours. Many of the things i’ve been hearing lead me to get on my soapbox again – this time on the whole apple ecosystem and how it fits into my life.
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Today was the unveiling of the Apple’s official foray into the tablet market. I can’t wait to get my hands on this device, and I’ve already downloaded the SDK. Read on to see why I think the tablet is an excellently placed device in the market.
I’ve got a really old Solaris app that requires Xforwarding.
Due to some security policies on the system, ssh -X wasn’t working out for me. I decided to manually set the display on the remote machine to point at a local X server.
I ended up having to make the following changes to the preferences to allow remote display forwarding (not through ssh)
It’s a good idea to toggle the settings back when you’re done.
This issue and various solutions, seems to be pretty rampant on the internet – i’ve just run into it myself
The solution for me was quite simple. The URL you are publishing to must be present in the Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) list of your SharePoint site. I was trying to publish to the IP rather than the server name, which was not in said list.
The URL you are publishing to must be present in the Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) list of your SharePoint site.
I was attempting this strange behaviour due to some temporary naming issues that i’m having in my lab network. While most SharePoint folk will not come across this error, I figured it might be useful to throw in my two cents as other people may tossing together temporary sites with little regard to the proper configuration of AAMs.
One of the comments on this blog post clued me in. The person mentioned missing host headers, at which point I realized that IIS probably doesn’t send them if you’re not requesting a “valid” SharePoint URL, as SharePoint itself probably adds the MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices header which Infopath uses to determine if the publishing target is valid.
I have a new ESXi box to play with and decided to try to connect to a VMware server machine using the infrastructure client. Lo and behold, it worked!
All you can really do is create VMs and view the consoles, but it works a heck of a lot better than the web interface.
If you’ve got it running on a non-standard port, you can connect to the SSL enabled port via
<ip of machine>:<vmware ssl port>
I’ve got a few sites sitting on this poor web server, which all need SSL for things like webdav and administrative access. I don’t like the SSL errors that come up on the sites, as they all share an IP. To remedy this, I’ve created my own CA and have signed certificates that are good for multiple domains. I’ve distributed my root certificate to everyone who wants to trust me for the purpose of SSL on my sites, or any other certificates that I happen to sign.
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My buddy at overtherailing.com posted a really cool snippet that he picked up on the internet. I am in turn posting it here:
function n {
"$@"
status=$?
if [ "$status" == "0" ] ; then
result="completed"
else
result="FAILED ($status)"
fi
growlnotify -m "Script $result" -s "$@"
}
Non-mac users, eat your heart out.
For bonus points, you can plug this sucker into prowl. I plan to make a standalone prowl equivalent for use on other *nix platforms with cURL support.
I’ve been fighting an issue with VMware Vmotion timing out at 10%. The log file for the VM simply stated “Timed out waiting for migration start request”
Happily, I found a solution - run the following commands on your ESX hosts:
service mgmt-vmware restart service vmware-vpxa restart
Thanks to Jonathan Medd for posting this useful tidbit.
I recently broke a cisco 1700 router by uploading a bad IOS. Rather than reconfigure a bunch of networking stuff, I decided to try uploading the image via xmodem. Read more…
It seems like all the smartphone love is dedicated to the iPhone. Even here in Viet Nam where there is no “official” iPhone presence, all the cool kids have an iPhone. My poor G1 gets no love…
Chris, via Android gets no love! @ d o l l m o n t . n e t.
I’ll admit it. I’m an avid iPhone user. While the lack of background tasks gets on my nerves once in a while, overall I find it to be the best phone I’ve ever had.
Chris, makes a valid point in his post about Apple’s marketing department being a driving force in the success, however I don’t think that’s all there is to it. Read more…
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