My experience with Radmind


I have been working on a fairly interesting project recently that involves implementing our some 75 Macs to a system called Radmind. Radmind is, “A suite of Unix command-line tools and a server designed to remotely administer the file systems of multiple Unix machines.” as described by the University of Michigan’s RSUG group.

I had several changes I wanted to make to the default install of Radmind to help with load on a particular server. Our current setup and some changes I made are documented below;

Going Green… What does it mean to you?


About a year ago the company I work for decided to jump onto the “Green Bandwagon” with an initiative named, Cox Conserves. At first I laughed and said how can a media company that prints newspapers daily be environmentally conscious? I thought wrong and realized steps had already been taken to reduce the impact, some being the use of recycled paper, soy based inks instead of petroleum, reduced page size, and the real power we posses - informing the public on what they can do to live green.

Simplify Media: Share your iTunes library over the Internet


Ever been at work or on the road and wanted to listen to a certain song you had on your computer at home? What about sharing your music with friends by just using iTunes?

Both of those situations are possible with an awesome application called Simplify Media. Simplify Media works on both Mac OS X and Windows, with iTunes and Winamp.

How to sync iPhone info separately from iTunes Library


On a daily basis, I use two computers, my iMac at home and the PowerBook I use at work. I ran into a situation where I wanted to sync my info such as contacts, calendars and mail accounts from my work laptop while still being able to sync my iTunes library from my iMac. Unknown to me this is possible without any iTunes hacks or plugins, so here is how it is done.

On the computer you want to sync your info with just check the items you want to sync under the info tab and leave the rest of the tabs unchecked. Hit apply and perform a sync.

Developing an Intranet with Drupal Part 1: Server Setup and Authentication


I have been developing a new intranet site based on Drupal 6 for the past two months. I decided I would write a series of post explaining the setup, since Drupal is such a widely used CMS used by large to small websites all over the web.

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