So we had to reboot the coffee pot this morning. It wouldn’t run.
It took calling in our Windows guy to figure it out though. Such a thing never even crossed us Linux guys minds as we go months or years without rebooting. On top of that, after the reboot, the clock had to be reset or it wouldn’t run.
We figure Microsoft is writing the operating systems for coffee pots nowadays.
I’ve heard a lot of hype about 37signals new product, Highrise. So I thought I would give it a whirl. I started reading about it before I signed up for the free edition and got curious about how it integrates with email.
It turns out that there is absolutely no LDAP support. Why in the world would you want to use a contact management package that didn’t have LDAP support? Isn’t this supposed to provide a shared address book? What are these guys thinking? There is no way I’m going to maintain both a list of Highrise contacts and a separate address book in my email program.
Now I’m beginning to understand these guys’ strategy. They charge a small fee for a little app here and a little app there, none of which make a complete tool (except maybe basecamp – though one might argue Highrise should have just been included in the next Basecamp release). In the end you end up buying all their apps to get what you need and end up paying megabucks because they nickel and dime you to death.
Basecamp is the only one of their products I use. The rest all seem to have one or more fatal flaws. IMHO, these products are way overhyped.
Novell did a fabulous job with these.
I must confess, In my previous post about Bricolage, I had not yet finished the installation. I have now after running into a few snags.
One issue was getting Bricolage and PostgreSQL to communicate. I had missed an obscure little portion of the installation guide that said that if your PostgreSQL is configured to use ‘IDENT sameuser’ authentication, then you must use the same username for ‘Bricolage Postgres Username’ as you did for ‘Apache User’. That snagged me for a while but once I knocked it down I was on my way.
The next problem I came across was setting up the destination site. I configured a destination site with ftp access. Unfortunately, the ftp access made by Bricolage is not logged (at least as far as I can tell) and so you can’t see what is going on. It took me a while to figure out that I was using the wrong username.
Aside from poor documentation and a complex install, Bricolage is awesome. After playing around with it some more I can’t imagine a content management system closer to my ideal concept of a CMS than Bricolage. It’s ingenious.
I’ve always wondered at the idiocy of Samson when he told Delilah about his hair. The fact was that he had enough evidence to know that she would betray him if he told her the real truth. How could he be so stupid.
I finally realized that he was not stupid. Nobody could be that stupid.
The reason he told Delilah the truth is because he didn’t believe it was the truth. His sin was unbelief.
I just heard about ScrubIT (hat tip to Andrew Mitry). It is a clever way of blocking porn and filtering other types of bad content. You basically just change your DNS settings to point at their servers and you are all done. I was planning to implement DansGuardian for Crossroads sometime this year, but I think I’ll give this a try first. It took me less than five minutes to set it up on my home DLink router and now all my computers are clean.
Yes, I know, it’s easy to circumvent if you know what you are doing, but I don’t think that will be a problem in the church office. ;)
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