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Mac Mini A1176 logic board
Well, I had some opportunity today to work with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. I had created a Windows 2008 R2 VM in Parallels awhile back for testing (inevitably, I’ll someday be made to implement that crap onto the network), and a few folks have inquired once or twice about exchange…
Four hours later, I discovered that there was no POP3 collector service/method. (I’ve stayed away from exchange since the 2003 version, as outsourcing is often more cost effective when only a few mailboxes are required.) So I’d seen it in SBS on accounts I had taken over. Anyway, long story short is that after making the necessary adjustments to get incoming mail and outbound mail to work (without affecting our hosted mail accounts), I’ve decided to try and fix my old Mac Mini. Apple calendar sharing along with hosted IMAP accounts will do more or less what we need for free, and exchange (as with all things Microsoft) is such bloatware.
Stay tuned to see if this was a big waste ‘o time…
UPDATE: FAIL 
So for the past week or so, I’ve been updating my basic knowledge of HTML, and learning to easily position elements with CSS.
- I’ve learned that my greatest learning curve in web development will be graphic design.
- I’ve had some success in re-coding a portion of the existing website, removing tables and effects attributes on HTML tags, preferring to include this in the attached style sheet.
- I’ve learned that SEO is contingent upon clean HTML on the landing pages in addition to good content, and information that prompts visitors to stay on the site – what they were looking for in the first place.
We’ve setup a Facebook account, and linked it to the website. Content is weak, but we are working on that as we determine how best to utilize our IT assets. For the moment, I’m focused on learning more about CSS3, HTML5, jQuery, Javascript, PHP & MySQL. — All of these will be necessary to automate the collection/processing of data collected through web forms on the company website.
As far as the graphic design aspect of our expanded online presence is concerned, I am eager to learn how to do this on my own. I also have external resources that I can call upon for larger projects.
This post also serves as a test of the WordBooker plug-in for Word-press and demonstration of facebook-blog link impact on web traffic. Traffic can be tracked via Google Analytics as well as AWSTATS.
Hooray! After a few hours of struggle, I now have Gnome Classic running with the window picker option enabled and working. What a piece of shit Unity is. Also, my netbook is noticeably slower in 11.10 than 11.04. May have to add the extra stick of RAM after all…
Chrome OS just became a lot more useful for businesses and schools with the release of the Citrix Receiver. Now Chrome OS users will be able to use the Citrix Receiver just as they’d be able to on other computers, smartphones, and tablets. Citrix Receiver is available now in the Chrome Web Store as a Tech Preview. With it you can connect to your Windows PC running either XenDesktop or XenApp. So now you’ll be able to access apps like Photoshop on Chrome OS, or important documents that might not be stored in the cloud for whatever reason. To make…
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Saw this come across the news feed today. This is a big step for virtual computing users of Chrome OS.