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Quick Notes on Media WIki with Collections Extension

I spend some time at work figuring out how to get Media Wiki to work with the Collection Extension. The Collection Extension is a nice plugin that will allow you to export wiki pages as a PDF and create a … Continue reading

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Getting Ubuntu Server to work in VirtualBox

A few years back I built a production server using Ubuntu 6.04 running in a virtual machine with VMWare Server on top of Windows 2003 server. I needed a proxy server that worked. The software we ran on Windows crashed … Continue reading

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Gmail Notifier over SSL (AKA Make it Secure)

I was looking through the archives over at osxdaily.com and found this sweet post on securing Gmail Notifier. Gmail Notifier is a application that sits on your menu bar and checks you gmail account for new mail and lets you know … Continue reading

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