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Ballerspiel – A song found again!

Published on May 16, 2012 in Uncategorized

Must been in the late 90′s when I first heard this song. As far as I remember it was bundled with the fist issue of GameStar (a German computer games magazine). Enjoy!

 
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How-To enable Likewise-Open Active Directory authentication in Ubuntu 12.04

Published on May 15, 2012 in OS

This assumes, that you already have installed Likewise-Open and properly joined to the DC.

First you need to edit you LightGDM config to:

cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[SeatDefaults]
greeter-show-manual-login=true
greeter-session=unity-greeter
user-session=gnome
autologin-user=

This will (re)enable the possibility for non local users to authenticate. Since NetworkManager user local DNS-caching. A login might fail or takes forever. By the time writing the DNS-caching seems buggy to me anyway. Uncomment it for unleashing your Likewise-Open:

cat /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
#dns=dnsmasq
[ifupdown]
managed=false

Thats it!

 
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Configure Exchange Server for correct mailhandling with Thunderbird (attachments etc.)

Published on February 6, 2012 in Software

When using Exchange Server with Thunderbird clients over IMAP, you might get problems with wrong attachments in Thunderbird. However you will be able to open the attachments correctly with Outlook Web Access. Unfortunately Microsoft changed the message size which is a RFC violation. Now there are two options to correct this: Read more…

 
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