Category Archives: work

Automatic intranet Sharepoint site authentication using Firefox

By Jed | Published: February 9, 2012

Because you don’t like entering your domain user/login:password everytime you try to check your Sharepoint site… 1. Open Firefox. 2. Type “about:config” on the address bar. 3. Enter “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” on the filter bar. 4. Double-click on “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” and add the url for your sharepoint site (can be comma delimited for multiple sites, eg: “mysharepoint.company.com,home.company.com” 5. [...]

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Configure Outlook for GMX

By Jed | Published: January 14, 2012

Just follow the pictures, please. I’m too lazy to type right now. The important thing is to get the ports and settings right. 1. Tools > Account Settings, click New. 2. Choose Microsoft Echange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP 3. Tick “Manually configure server settings or additional server types” 4. Choose Internet E-mail 5. Fill up [...]

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Coloring my code

By Jed | Published: December 28, 2011

Been using Windows for coding a lot lately. My editors of choice are Programmer’s Notepad and Notepad++. Used to do the whole Emacs thing back then but that’s getting heavy with all the different machines I use. So if you code a lot you should also take the time to adjust the color scheme of [...]

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Sharepoint Designer 2010 woes

By Jed | Published: May 19, 2011

Been tasked to do a Sharepoint 2010 workflow at work (another one lined up after this project). Doing workflows on Sharepoint Designer is like dancing with your legs hobbled. You should be able to do loops.  You can’t do that in Sharepoint Designer. I know it’s not a full blown programming language and we can [...]

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Org

By admin | Published: February 17, 2011

http://orgmode.org/

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How to give “Everyone” Win32 ACLs :)

By admin | Published: January 6, 2011

Note: You can only do this if you are admin in a win32 machine. Scenario: You are using a shared computer which has a folder with all it’s contents set to be unreadable, undeletable by another user. Download SetACL from http://helgeklein.com/ If you’re target folder is D:\unreadable, do this: setacl -on “d:\unreadable” -ot file -actn [...]

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How to force Internet Explorer to prompt you to save your passwords, again.

By admin | Published: October 20, 2010

When you login to a certain site for the first time, Internet Explorer will prompt you if you want to save your login credentials (login name and password).

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Install problems due to malformed digital signatures – Rebuilding the catroot2 folder

By admin | Published: September 30, 2010

When you install something in Windows, it first tests the digital signature included in the installer to see if it has a valid certificate.

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Synch Sharepoint via SyncToy

By admin | Published: July 31, 2010

As simple as mapping a network drive to your Sharepoint folder then using SyncToy to sync it with your local folder.

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Getting my act together

By admin | Published: November 6, 2008

Work is work. Nice to have a job during times like this. But right now I just go in, do the work, and get out. I can’t sustain that. I know I’ll get burned-out. The only question is when. I have to pull my act together. Have a process of some sort. I have to [...]

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