Shifting Focus

So its 2010, one month down and counting. While I am busy away doing a whole bunch of stuff I am also thinking of changing the focus of this blog to something that is now, um, more focused. I realized that over the year(s) that I have been writing on this blog that something has been missing and I think that something is vision.

So with the help of a very special and dear friend, I have been able to sit down and rethink my ideas and now come up with something that is probably going to be much more useful that just some scribbling or ramblings on a wall. Any Facebook or Twitter-er can do that easily and this blog will now try to make and maintain some level of focus.

The intention here is write articles that focus more on IT related applications and their uses, how you can apply IT in your life to achieve some sort of quality to the things you do. It will encompass ideas that can help you to make your IT experience more meaningful and finally, allow IT to work for you and not you to work for IT (like me

With that said, here’s to starting brand new again!

My Facebook Experience

Earlier this week, I ran into an old acquaintance at work and boy was it amazing. Meeting up an old friend can be very exciting at times, especially if you had a very good affiliation with that person. While conversing,  I made mention to him about the other friends I usually meet up while I am on the internet and he became enthusiastic to meet the same group. But how and where? I smiled as I said, “Facebook”.

His response was that he heard about it, but never even checked it out. However, now that I mention it ( and did a bit of marketing on their behalf) he is going to join Facebook.

Desktop Linux Made Easy: Ubuntu 9.10 Review!

On October 29th, 2009, Canonical released their usual half yearly cycle software, Ubuntu codenamed “Karmic Koala”. Ubuntu, if you don’t already know, is a version or distro (distribution) of the GNU/Linux Operating System which is based on Debian. Ubuntu is aimed primarily at Desktop User, even though there is a fully qualified Server version available. A new version of this software is available every six months and comes with a whole bunch of other applications and features.

Configure Form Based Authentication f…

Configure Form Based Authentication for OWA

Implementing Form Based Authentication in Exchange (FBA) for Outlook Web Access (OWA) is very simple and can be setup easily and makes it as easy for your users as using GMail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail or any other web-based email.

Why use FBA?

There are several security benefits to running FBA:

1. If the session is inactive for a period of time, the session will
expire. The only way to gain access again is to re-authenticate.
2. Users can no longer click the Remember my password check box in Internet Explorer.

Team Dakeung at SFD2009

See article https://dakeung.com/2009/09/23/team-dakeung-at-sfd-2009/