Category: General
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Confluence 4.0 is now available
The team at Atlassian have just released version 4.0 of their fantastic Wiki platform, Confluence. You can find out more information here: Faster. Richer. Simpler. A new standard in content collaboration. We have already downloaded the upgrade (as we have been using Confluence for a year or so now for documentation) and installed it without…
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The Likability of Angry Birds
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/angry_birds
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A quick theme change
Sorry for the inconvenience with the bad theme… I tend to only use the backend of WordPress to post content etc, and wrongly, rarely check the front page for functionality. I have done some more digging on the old theme I was using and have switched back to the default WordPress theme for WordPress 3.2.…
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OpenVPN 2 Cookbook: a book from Packt Publishing
From the Packt website: OpenVPN 2 Cookbook provides solutions to common OpenVPN problems. The book covers everything a system administrator needs to manage and run an OpenVPN network, from point to point networks to troubleshooting. OpenVPN 2 Cookbook offers all the information you need to successfully manage your network. Covering all the common networks, including…
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Fortinet IPv6 Tunnel with HE.net
After spending some time working on IPv6 using the MikroTik, I thought I would expand my horizons and suss out other networking devices that might lend themselves to IPv6 connectivity… initially with tunnels, but then also as a directly connected device. A FortiGate 60B looked like a good place to start. There is a lot…
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IPv6 Readiness
Well… it’s official… the AANDCP IT Solutions home office is now connected to the Internet via IPv6 using Hurricane Electric’s TunnelBroker solution. It works great… have carried out some basic testing with Google, FaceBook, and a handful of IPv6 only websites. The MikroTik routers that I use proved to be especially easy to get going!
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AANDCP IT Solutions is a Google Apps Authorised Reseller
AANDCP IT Solutions is a Google Apps Authorised Reseller. If you and your organisation would like to migrate to Google Apps, please contact AANDCP IT Solutions. We will set you up with a trial, assist you with migration from your existing platform and help you fully integrate Google’s platforms and solutions into your school, business…
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WordPress S3 Module for Media Content Migration
I have just installed and configured this great Amazon S3 content management module for a site with 15K+ visits per day. The great work done by the developer was definitely worth the contribution made, and it was easy enough to understand and improve upon. So I did… I have a development build of the module…
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WordPress 3.0.1 is out
WordPress 3.0.1 is out for download and automatic installation. I have already upgraded this site and am working through my customers’ sites as time allows. This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable…
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WordPress 3.0 is out
WordPress 3.0 is out and available for download. You can check it out here. I have installed it from scratch for one project and I have installed the upgrade using the built-in upgrade tools. Both have been very successful. The new interface improvements are great and it seems very stable. All of my existing templates…
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Amazon CloudFront and media distribution
So I have finally gotten around to setting up an Amazon CloudFront solution for a hosting customer. Set up an Amazon S3 bucket, upload some content to it (in this case, some .flv files for a film promotion site) and then sign into the AWS console and set up a CloudFront distribution point, selecting the…
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Using Preview to merge and create multi-page PDFs
The Preview.app in 10.5 and newer has many new features. One that appears to be undocumented, however, is the creation (merging) of multi-page PDF documents. It’s simple: Use Preview to open up the two PDFs you would like to merge. Choose View » Show Sidebar (or click the Sidebar button). Make sure both PDFs are…
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Importing Movable Type to WordPress
When importing into WordPress, the importer doesn’t seem to like accents and umlauts. One of my hosting customers is now going through the entries now and finding that where there is a word with an accent or umlaut in it (e.g. the first “a” in Trollhättan), the importer will stop at that letter and does…
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Issues with WP eDegrees° theme and FCG
If you are using the latest release of the eDegree° WordPress theme and you can’t get the Featured Content Gallery to work on the front page, welcome to my world! After a lot of searching, I finally found the solution here. The secret is to comment-out the second line of the wp-content/themes/edegree/js/functions.js.