VirtualEdit in Vim
I really like vim, and here’s yet another reason. I can transpose columns in a text table, using visual block mode. As a quick example, let’s say I ...
Author: Geoff
Sr. System Administrator at the University of Vermont
Recalcitrant Vista SP1 install
I have spent a number of hours troubleshooting the installation of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on a particular Dell Optiplex 755, but I finally succeeded. Symp...
securing wordpress
I finally found some info about getting current verions of WordPress to use SSL for Logins and wp-admin. I have enabled the settings on both my blogs, and it ap...
Oops. Forgot to enable RDP!
In deploying a server, today, I forgot to enable the Remote Desktop service for administration of the system, and I hadn’t yet joined it to the domain. I ...
Viewing Oracle Calendar in Outlook 2007
Long ago, UVM’s Chief of SkunkWorks, Wesley Wright, put together a script to pull information out of our Oracle Calendar server. It can be used to display...
Connecting to SharePoint with My Network Places (WinXP)
SharePoint supports connections the use the WebDAV protocol, which provides read and write capabilities over HTTP. In Windows Vista, you can actually map a driv...
Google TechTalks – OpenID
I was intrigued by a post on Scott Hanselman’s blog regarding OpenID. I was interested in enabling OpenID authentication to my blogs, but had some p...
Event: IT-Discuss Live – SharePoint
Please join your IT colleagues for the first IT-Discuss Live event! UVM IT-Discuss Live – SharePoint Friday, October 10 11:30 am to 1:30 pm [Update: locat...
TinyMCE fixed!
I finally got around to using a javascript debugger to find out why the visual editor refused to work for me. I got the following error when there was an attemp...
Troubleshooting Windows Activation
Troubleshooting Vista volume activation via KMS