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Archive for September, 2005

Fixing trailing slash problems with blojsom…

So I was getting annoyed that I couldn't claim my weblog via Technorati without faking it, as blojsom requires a trailing slash at the end of the URL to go to the correct blog, and Technorati strips the slash from your url when you submit it.
Googling around brought up an entry by andwest talking about [...]

A good Wiki for OS X with LDAP authentication.

So as part of my eternal quest to never ever have to deploy services that require their own authentication database, I’ve been poking around for a good Wiki for OS X that can authenticate to Open Directory without too much faffing around.
As my main aim for setting up a Wiki was to provide a space [...]

Fixing DropBox problems with 10.4 clients and 10.3.x AFP servers.

We mustn't have tested this thoroughly enough when we were forced into rapidly deploying 10.4 on our labs of new iMac G5s, but we started having major problems with DropBoxes on our 10.3.9 AFP servers.
Network users logging in on a 10.4.x client were unable to write files to DropBoxes, although when using a 10.3.x client, [...]