It tastes like burning

Install the Dust Theme on Arch Linux

Chad — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:52:23 +0000

From my wiki:

http://www.cdavis.us/wiki/index.php/Install_the_Dust_theme_on_Arch_Linux

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Smoke Free Kenosha

Chad — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:34:26 +0000

As a non-smoker, I’m not the one who should suffer. I will be voting YES on the smoke-free workplaces referendum on November 4th.

More info: http://breathefreekenosha.googlepages.com/homepage

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Blackberry issues for a client

Chad — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:14:34 +0000

A client of mine, whose has about 5 Blackberry users contacted me early yesterday morning in a panic. They were reporting that no one was receiving emails on their blackberrys anymore, and that it’s been happening since last Friday. Here’s the back story, on Thursday of last week I promoted one of their servers to a domain controller as we’re getting ready to decommission an older server. So the client was quick to blame my changes for the blackberrys stopping to work. Now this client does not run a blackberry enterprise server, and I really had no idea how they communicating with the Exchange server. I’ve heard they connected through Outlook Web access, and OWA was working fine.

I spent the majority of Monday digging through server log files searching for anything that could be causing the issue. We rebooted every server and their Cisco, and the Blackberrys still were not getting email. My onsite contact was freaking out because the blackberry users are all upper management and she was under a lot of pressure to get them working again as all the users were traveling and were relying on the phone for email. At some point in the afternoon, she asked if I could revert the changes I made to the one server. I told her that I didn’t believe the issue was caused from my change and I didn’t think it would be wise to demote the server back to a member server. As the day ended, we got new reports from the users that their email was working until sometime Saturday morning. Now I was more confident it wasn’t because of my changes. I told her I would come onsite the next day and work with one of the blackberrys and blackberry support and get it figured out.

So today I drive an hour to their office and with blackberry in hand begin looking in to how they are setup. Find that the email setup happens through a blackberry website that is particular to their provider. While in this setup, there is an ‘Advanced Settings’ area, and that is where I found the issue. I find a form that has their OWA URL, except that it was wrong. The URL that was listed was almost right, but was simply missing an s, as in https://. Once I added the s and saved it out, they phones started syncing again. I have their OWA requiring and SSL connection and it has been that way for a long time, which makes me ask, what happened? Did the URL in the setup change for 5 users on 3 different providers? Or was that address always missing the s, but it was smart enough to redirect to the https page and that broke on Saturday? Regardless of what it was, it wasn’t my fault or related to promoting a server on their network.

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I need to do a new blog post

Chad — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:15:01 +0000

It’s sad that my last post is almost two months old.

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My daughters sing the Ramones

Chad — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:59:19 +0000

Here’s my 5 year old daughters, Jennifer and Kaitlyn singing along to Beat On The Brat by the Ramones.

They get off to a little bit of a rough start but eventually get in to the groove.

My girls sing the Ramones from Chad Davis on Vimeo.

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Gwibber

Chad — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:09:33 +0000

What is Gwibber? Well, quoted from their website:

Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, and Digg.

I only learned of this app ths morning, but was interested in checking it out because if it’s new support for identi.ca.

I’ve constructed a quick HOWTO about getting it installed on Arch Linux, but I’m sure the instructions could be modified easily enough to get it working on most distros.

Howto: Installing Gwibber on Arch Linux

I can be followed on multiple social networks:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/cdavis
Identi.ca: http://identi.ca/cdavis
Plurk: http://www.plurk.com/user/tuxstorm

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Netflix is keeping profiles

Chad — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:02:10 +0000

I just recieved an email from Netflix that states they are keeping the user profiles that so many of their subscribers use.

I use their profiles for managing our queue, and thought that getting rid of them was a pretty bad idea, but I wasn’t going to do anything drastic, like cancel my service. Netflix is just too great. But like many, I am happy to here they are not eliminating profiles.

Here’s what they had to say:

We Are Keeping Netflix Profiles

Dear Chad,

You spoke, and we listened. We are keeping Profiles. Thank you for all the calls and emails telling us how important Profiles are.

We are sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. We hope the next time you hear from us we will delight, and not disappoint, you.

-Your friends at Netflix

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Windows Server DNS question

Chad — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:06:43 +0000

Using the internal DNS server(Windows 2003 Server), can I point a single URL from a legitimate domain to a certain IP address, while leaving all other variances of that domain pointing to their existing location?

Here’s an example of what I’m looking for.

http://www.notourdomain.com/ needs to route over the internet
http://inside.notourdomain.com/ needs to be routed over an internal VPN connection

Can it be done?

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I keep getting burned by Security Enhanced IE

Chad — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:42:21 +0000

So I’ve created a wiki article to help remind me about it with the easy steps to remove it.

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Yet another social network - Plurk

Chad — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:59:32 +0000

I’m not sure how to describe what exactly Plurk is, but it is similar to twitter, but different.

Well, I’m on plurk now too, you can follow my plurks here.

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