Snow Leopard Certificate Sillyness

I love OS X and every iteration has gotten better and better. But every once in a while tasks that should be simple–aren’t. Take the case of trying to add a S/MIME certificate to the Keychain.

In the past, simply double-clicking on the .p12 file would prompt for the passphrase and import it into the login [...]

DeltaCopy on Windows 7 and Scheduled Tasks

DeltaCopy is a great easy to use rsync client (and server) for Windows. Based on Cygwin, it front-end the rsync client and adds the capabilities to schedule tasks and send email notifications.

In the past under Windows XP, scheduling tasks was a breeze. It still is under Windows 7, except by default they don’t run. I [...]

Wacom Graphire Tablet and Photoshop CS4 64-Bit

Overall Photoshop CS4 Extended is running like a champ in 64-bit mode. It sees 6GB of RAM and all my plugins are working fine. However, my older Wacom Graphire tablet isn’t working for pressure sensitivty in Photoshop. There is a solution!

CentOS 5.2 – Apache – Kerberos / Active Directory Authentication

Linux and Windows Active Directory (AD) integration has come a long ways since 2000. It is now quite easy to take advantage of Kerberos for managing authentication at the host level (user logins and such). Surprisingly, it’s just as easy to the same in Apache now.

This posting will walk you through the steps needed to [...]

What to Install When a Hard Drive Gets Fried

When it’s time to lay down a new operating system on Intel system, do you go for:

Windows Vista?
Linux?
Windows XP?
Hackintosh?
Windows 7 Beta?

iGoogle – How to Remove Left Navigation Bar

Log into iGoogle recently? Are the changes on the left side not to your liking? Well, it appears that Google haven’t added an option to change it back to the way it was, but a Slashdot poster has a working solution (required Firefox and Adblock Plus). From the Slashdot post:

NVW55V (994264) on Sun [...]

SQL Server Management Studio Access to Remote Domains

So you need to access a SQL Server (2005) using the SQL Server Management Studio. The server is running with Active Directory only authentication, but your laptop isn’t in the target domain and you only have access to the SQL server port (TCP 1433). What to do?

Well, Galin Iliev has the answer. By using the [...]

Setting Default View

I like Office 2008 for the Mac much better than 2004, but the idiosyncrasies still crop up. To change the default view from Page Layout to Normal, goto the menu Excel->Preferences… then under Authoring select View, Preferred new sheets, set to normal.

You can also change the default font and size here too. You will have [...]