Archive for May, 2009
Mail2Web is no longer free but I have a solution for your free exchange like active syncing!
May 21st
Can you believe that www.Mail2Web.com killed their free Exchange account’s ability to be sync over the air with activesync? I was more than pissed when I heard about it. You read about Commodore using it to sync his calendar and to do’s with his then fiancé who is now his wife. Commodore still needs that functionality and Mail2Web aint doing it for us anymore.
Guess who is going to save the day? It’s AskTheAdmin! Well actually it’s Google but the answer is brought to you by AskTheAdmin!
Google now has Activesync support on m.google.com meaning they can create a new gmail account and both sync to it! Let
s check out how it works:
Start Wandows Ngrmadly (Funny)
May 19th
Hide a .rar archive inside a jpg image
May 18th
Yes boys and girls you read that correctly. You can hide a rar file inside a jpg file that will open the image when double clicked, through very clever command line shenanigans.
Let’s check it out:
Grab your super secret .rar file, copy it to the same directory as your not so super secret jpg image. Let’s use c:\test for our example.
Open up a command prompt by clicking Start/Run and typing “cmd” and click ok.
In the DOS window, type “cd c:\test” to navigate to our folder
Type “copy /b input.jpg + input.rar ouput.jpg
(input jpg is the picture that will show when it is opened, input.rar is the secret file you want to hide and output.jpg will be the name of the new combined file)
It is as simple as that!
You can double click the new file and it will show it as a picture, BUT… if you open it with winrar, you will see the files contained.
How can I join a Ubuntu machine to my domain?
May 14th
When my old boss at Websense first introduced me to the world of Linux, being from a Windows shop, I naturally asked him how to join my Linux workstation to the domain. He of course said, “Why would you want to do that? Don’t taint the pureness of open source!” So I never pressed the issue.
That is, until yesterday afternoon. I decided to give it a go again, and I have to tell you they have made it really easy. I read some blog posts on this before, and it used to be kind of a pain in the arse to do it. Not any more with the use of LikeWise Open which is available in the Ubuntu repositories.
To install it and set it up, just do the following steps (Via AnotherSysadmin.Wordpress.Com):
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install likewise-opensudo domainjoin-cli join fqdn.of.your.domain Administratorsudo update-rc.d likewise-open defaultssudo /etc/init.d/likewise-open start
After that is done, you can log out, then log back in with your domain\username account (You have to add the domain\ first). Here is the beautiful screen shot of my Ubuntu machine in Active directory:
Pretty cool right? I bet you never knew it could be that easy to do. Try it yourself. Let me know how it goes in the comments.
Display Outlook 2007 contacts by last name.
May 13th
From within Outlook 2007 your contacts are sorted by FirstName, LastName. At first look it seems like this is the only way you can have it… But, after some digging I came across a method that allows you to reverse it.
If you want to have the contacts sorted by last name instead by using the following method:
1. Open Microsoft Outlook.
2. From the Tools menu, click Account Settings.
3. On the Address Books tab, click Outlook Address Book.
4. Click Change.
5. Under the list of Outlook Address Books, select the one you want to change the sort order for.
6. Click File As (Smith, John).
7. Click Close.
8. Click Close again.
Exit Outlook to have your changes applied. Once you re-open Outlook, you can verify that the sort order has been changed to last name. From the Tools menu, click Options. From the Preferences tab, click the Contact Options button. Verify that Last, First is listed as the Default “File As” order.
[Via LockerGnome]
Get down with the Geek Movement! Can you name all these Geeks?
May 11th
An awesome bit of geek information submitted by our good friend The Slothman… Check it out and see if you name each of these self-proclaimed geeks before they tell you who they are at the end!
And no TheAdmiN was not featured… Thanks for looking out Kevin!
Enjoy!
