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High tech related entries

Skunk Works

Posted on 2011/11/29 by Balazs

Skunk Works   <<The nickname Lockheed employees gave to their organization is an adaptation of the name for the ultra-secret high security “Skunk Works” moonshine operation featured in Al Capp’s widely popular comic strip Li’l Amber, which ran from 1934 … Continue reading →

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How to uninstall IBM Lotus Notes client from the Macintosh on OS X

Posted on 2011/11/23 by Balazs

You can uninstall IBM® Lotus® Notes® by dragging Notes.app from /Applications to the trash. This preserves user data. You can also uninstall Notes using the uninstaller application supplied with the Notes install media. This preserves user data as well. You … Continue reading →

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Lotus Notes Traveler Setup on iPhone

Posted on 2011/11/19 by Balazs

Setting Up Lotus Notes Traveler on your iPhone This tutorial will walk you through how to set up Lotus Notes Travel on your iPhone, to allow you to have your Lotus Domino server account sync native eMail, iCal, and AddressBook … Continue reading →

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PC LAW upgrade instructions

Posted on 2011/11/11 by Balazs

Here are the latest links form Lexis Nexis on PC LAW upgrade: http://www.lexisnexis.com/law-firm-practice-management/pclaw/?content=for-customers http://support.lexisnexis.com/pclaw10/record.asp?ArticleID=10609

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How to query the Domino 8.5.3 LDAP database with ldapsearch

Posted on 2011/11/10 by Balazs

By default the ldapsearch utility is installed on the Domino server in the “bin” directory where all the other utilities are.  You need a local domain admin to bind a domino query on the local server, and you need its … Continue reading →

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Creating an easy to deploy SSL certificate in PEM format

Posted on 2011/11/07 by Balazs

When ordering a secure certificate, most often one has to deal with the following files: certificate key file (aka private key): .key certificate request file: .csr primary certificate file (issued by the CA): .crt certificate chain (aka intermediate certificate, or … Continue reading →

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Hello Xtend

Posted on 2011/11/06 by Balazs

The Eclipse foundation announced today the availability of Xtend, and improvement on the Java language, that remains compatible. See the video below, and check out the Xtend website to see for yourself, how Xtend embraces Java, while improving it readability … Continue reading →

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What is the difference between site to site and mobile VPN?

Posted on 2011/11/03 by Balazs

For most businesses, there are two types of VPN that apply: site to site VPN: this is used to link sites, such as your office and the data center, mobile VPN: this is used to link mobile or home users … Continue reading →

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How to install Tomcat 6 on RHEL 6 or CentOS 6

Posted on 2011/10/31 by Balazs

Here are some steps to install Tomcat 6 on Red Hat 6 (or CentOS 6).   First we are going to prepare the repository: yum install yum-priorities rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/generic/free/RPMS/jpackage-utils-5.0.0-7.jpp6.noarch.rpm Next we will install … Continue reading →

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Install Packages on OpenBSD 4.x and OpenBSD 5.x

Posted on 2011/10/26 by Balazs

To install binary packages on OpenBSD, the package manager needs to have the correct download URL.  This URL changes based on OpenBSD version and architecture.  Here is how to set it independently: export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/$(uname -r)/packages/$(machine -a)/ Once that is done, … Continue reading →

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