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Deploying Adobe LiveCycle Launchpad ES2 (9.5) for use by end users

2011-05-11T14:26:00.004+01:00

As in many companies these days, our users don’t have administrative permissions to their PCs or to the various servers and services we give them access to. This means that the standard one-click web page deployment of LiveCycle Launchpad won’t work for our users, and also we have to configure the permissions within LiveCycle to give them the permissions needed. Here’s how we got it working:

Dropbox

2011-01-30T18:00:00.004Z

Just started using Dropbox to sync between my PC, server, Android phone and the web, it really is great. Easiest and simplest syncing solution I've found. Had been thinking about it for a while, and then it was Gina Trapani (of TWiG fame) releasing her new Todo.txt Touch Android app that finally convinced me, as it uses Dropbox to do the behind the scenes updates. If you sign up for Dropbox

Mozilla Weave Minimal Server Setup on Windows

2010-04-29T22:02:00.011+01:00

So I've been following Mozilla's Weave project for while, and kept meaning to have a play with it. It's one of their experimental labs projects which recently came out of beta with a 1.0 release. Essentially it's a Firefox add-in that syncs and backs up a whole load of your settings and data back to a central server, including your bookmarks (and I have a lot!), saved passwords, preferences,

EVE Central Market Upload Utility Trojan Keylogger Warning

2008-08-19T19:54:00.005+01:00

Please see the update at the bottom of this article. I no longer suspect EVE Central or it's Market Uploader utility of any wrongdoing here. So a friend of mine found that around a £1000 of money had been siphoned from his bank account recently (all in bank transfers of under £150). After talking to the bank about he found that the attacker had got into his bank account using the web login.

Open Parliament

2008-03-07T10:07:00.004Z

Dad's organization (OFE) are organizing a petition to convince the European Parliament Government to change their IT systems over to using open standards. Head over to www.openparliament.eu to sign up and show your support Citizens and stakeholder groups should not have to use the software of a single company in order to communicate with their elected officials or participate in the legislative

EveBerry

2008-03-04T20:31:00.004Z

This post's been sitting in my queue for a while, sorry! Vlad (of Mozilla and Firefox fame) posted to the EVE-Online fourms a while ago about his new EveBerry tool, that can be downloaded here: EveBerry -- a BlackBerry EVE Character Monitor:. It's similar to EVEMon and market monitoring apps, but for your Blackberry smartphone (assuming you have one, I do) and is very, very cool and very, very

I CAN HAS BOTZ

2008-03-04T19:22:00.005Z

Since my last set of Lol Bots images (featuring Red Dwarf's Kryten, Ghost in the Shell's Tachikoma and Fritz Lang's Maria), the site seemed to go quiet for quite a few months. Luckily over the last few weeks rstevens has grabbed the editorial reins back and posted a slew of new images, including two more of mine. I started off a little late for Valentine's with Kryten and Camille: (It really was

Safari for Windows Update

2007-06-18T19:52:00.000+01:00

An update to the previous post: Safari for Windows. I'd like to say that the Safari 3.01 beta update fixed the problems with my curved borders mentioned in the the previous post, but I probably ought to stick my hand up and admit that uploading the updated CSS file that's been sitting on my hard disk for about 2 months is almost certainly what fixed it! So Safari's new border radius properties do

Safari for Windows

2007-06-11T20:37:00.000+01:00

So Apple have just released a beta of the "Safari 3 web browser for Windows! First impressions are great, all my web sites, and my favourite sites seem to work well, and look beautiful. Text flowing around flowing objects is definitely better than Firefox 2 or IE 7. Text just looks great full stop. Downsides, its a bit like when Apple first shoved all that brushed chrome theme stuff over

LOL BOTS for teh w1n!

2007-06-10T20:39:00.001+01:00

I never really got the whole captioned (or macro-d) kittens craze, as exemplified at I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER, maybe its because I'm just not a cat person (the guinea pigs work for me though). However LOL BOTS is a concept that I can totally get behind. And have. My three submissions to the site (so far) are below: I started off by injecting a little bit of class into the proceedings: (I feel that

Good luck Nick!

2007-04-21T12:41:00.000+01:00

My little brother, Nick, is currently racing across Europe in the Scumball 3000 European Car Race Rally. Him and three friends have bought a sub £500 Saab car and are spending 4 days racing across at least 5 countries, waking up each morning not knowing where they're driving to that evening. Good luck to him, I think he'll need it stuck in the same car for days on end, with 3 smelly mates, with

Youth, Privacy and the Modern World

2007-02-12T20:19:00.000Z

Okay, I'm not even 30 yet and things have conspired to make me feel old. I thought I was in touch, a real geek and a full part of the internet generation. It turns out that I may be some of that, but I still have one foot in the old world. I read somewhere recently where a member of the 'older generation' was talking to a 'youngster' about calendars, and the youngster couldn't understand the

ServiceCenter/Firefox Printing Redux

2006-12-20T21:11:00.000Z

Some may remember this post from back in July when I was having trouble printing from a web app after upgrading from Firefox 1.0x to Firefox 1.5. Wherein I laid out a way to fix the problem using a custom usercontent.css file, and also logged a bug on the Mozilla Bugzilla system. Well it looks like its come to an end! Not with today's Firefox 2.0.0.1 update, as you might imagine. But the latest

Tune!

2006-11-08T00:12:00.000Z

Thanks are due to Colin Murray's Black Hole on his Radio 1 show just now. He's introduced me to definitely the night's greatest song, almost certainly the week's greatest and quite possibly the year's. Well I've had it on repeat for quite a while now and haven't grown sick anyway :) If you were lucky enough to listen to the show live, or were quick enough to listen to it from the Black Hole's

Active Directory Group Membership Queries

2006-09-25T14:48:00.001+01:00

The problem with being known as the person who can pull a list of group members from AD into a text file in a few seconds, you become a "go-to guy" for other AD queries. Which wouldn’t be such a bad thing, except that there aren't pre-written scripts for them all! I received a request today to ask if I could pull out a list from AD of everyone who was a member of both a departmental group and a

Unisys ServiceCenter Firefox printing fix

2006-07-27T01:34:00.000+01:00

For anyone still living in Unisys-land (aren't I glad they're not filling out my wage slip any more ), and for anyone else forced to use their "idiosyncratic" (read shite) web tools here's a little something. If you've been forced to use the web (ie HTML not Java) version of their (Peregrine-based) ServiceCenter tool, you'll notice that its dog-slow if you're using IE and has a whole myriad of

At last they're mine!

2006-05-09T01:18:00.003+01:00

Remember way back when when I entered the MSN World's Best App competition with my Connect Four game? Remember just a few months back when the winners were announced? Well... my second place prizes have (finally) arrived! I'm currently playing around with my Oakley Thump sunnies, loading them up with music and looking just slightly silly :). Also included in the prize is a nice, shiny copy of

Maximum w00tage!

2006-02-06T13:09:00.001Z

So MSN just announced the winners of their World's Best App contest today (or maybe late yesterday, can't do these timezone calculations in my head Have a look down the list of winners, see that game in 2nd place called Connect Four? I made that Edit 11/2/06:Looks like its official! The official "Inside Windows Live Messenger" blog has just posted an article on Messenger’s Worlds Best App

The most useful tool ever?

2006-02-01T22:38:00.000Z

Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0 Alright, maybe its a bit of an exageration, but this really did save my bacon the other day, and it is very useful if its what you need and things are formatted badly enough that WinDiff can't help you.

This entry has been brought to you by the letters "C" and "N", and the feeling of pain

2006-01-31T00:17:00.002Z

Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits. Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing. Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice. Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was

Hot scar action!

2005-12-18T21:18:00.002Z

So, just in case anyone had any morbid curiosity and wanted to see my chin scar and its 9 stitches, I've just added a new photo album containing some views of what's left of my chin after the unfortunate incident!Random memories from that day:everyone at work saying "What are you doing here? Why aren't you at home?",the nurse at work "Woahh, that's a deep cut!" and "You need to get that looked

Play Connect 4 in MSN Messenger!

2005-12-16T11:41:00.000Z

My first entry to the MSN World's Best App competition, an online, multi-player version of the classic Connect Four game, has just made it through the checking process and is now live on MSN! Please try it out, have a game with me, or anyone else you know on Messenger: Just click here to play multiplayer Connect Four! (requires Internet Explorer and MSN Messenger) Please play it as much as you

So... not the best day I've had lately

2005-12-16T11:02:00.000Z

So I was riding my bike to the station yesterday morning, when I suddenly lost all grip on my tires, the bike slipped out from under me, and I ended up sliding across the tarmac on my face. On the upside, my cycle helmet is totally unscratched, undented and untouched. On the downside, I spent the morning in St Bart's Hospital getting a load of X-rays taken, various parts of me prodded, and I've

MSN Compo Entered!

2005-12-11T23:27:00.000Z

Have finally got round to submitting my first entry to the MSN Messenger World's Best App Contest. Thanks to everyone who's helped me out with the testing of this one and the little test apps, especially the people who pointed out my bugs mistakes deliberate errors. Just got to wait for it to appear now, and see how the world takes me!

Me me me!

2005-12-11T18:34:00.001Z

So I was bored and did a few Google searches on "my-name is" here's the results: James is bribing me with chocolate James is a COUNTERFEIT! James is also a mail application platform James is based upon the Apache Avalon application framework James is not writing about how to become a Christian James is as forthright as an Old Testament prophet James is offering you a free MP3 Download of an

Webstats weirdness

2005-11-17T09:58:00.000Z

So I was looking through all of my various online web stats, starting with Google Adsense (conclusions so far: pointless on this blog, making a small amount on other sites). Then on to actual web server stats... So on my main domain, the main search terms sending people to me? gnome pictures uk nympho nympho maniac gnome fans I just wonder whether there's any cross-over between those two

So, Javascript is a workable programming language!

2005-11-01T17:29:00.000Z

I've used a fair bit of JavaScript code in the past to add client-side flourishes to web-pages and build simple, calculator-style apps, but I've never really done anything very complex with it before. I think that probably the last time that I tried writing any serious kind of an app using JavaScript was back in the Netscape 3/IE 3 days, and it was very, very painful. Since my apparently futile

I don't know what's scarier...

2005-10-12T20:24:00.000+01:00

Just how clueless the British police are (well the Met anyway), or the fact that this could so easily have been me The Reg: Security pros savage Tsunami hacker verdict The gist of the story: Typing "../../../" into your URL bar can now be a criminal offence punishable by a £1000 fine, even if there are no malicious motives in your actions. I mean how clueless do you have to be to think that one

On the British Film Industry

2005-10-09T01:59:00.000+01:00

So, here in the Brit-land, whenever its a bit of a slow news day and the cinema's filled up with American imports, the usual pundits sit up and start bemoaning the state of the British Film Industry. Sure we've had the odd success every now and then. Everyone points to "Four Weddings and a Funeral", and "Notting Hill" but come on, Richard Curtis does not a film industry make. You can add in the '

Geek, moi?

2005-10-01T23:22:00.000+01:00

So I popped into Toys "R" Us today (the "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"-er in me is really disturbed by the double apostrophes around the poor 'r') and picked up a few things: Sega Arcade Gallery for the Game Boy Advance, Medal of Honor Underground for the GBA Target Exclusive Clone Trooper figure (well acually the UK/European version with a sticker over the bit of text on the back that says "This

A Retrospective of Star Wars Galaxies Facts

2005-09-26T20:43:00.000+01:00

This is the first of a series of posts of info that I'd previously compiled and posted to my old guild's website. I'm backing them up here in case they go missing (since the guild has!), it will be cleaned up, edited and added to later. Rage of the Wookiees and Kashyyyk info: ROTW related Friday Features: Kachirho: The main Wookiee city on Kashyyyk Etyyy: The Rodian Hunting Grounds Myyydril

Ross Noble

2005-08-28T01:31:00.000+01:00

"please overtake quietly - refugees asleep" - Graffiti on the back of a van "Show me... show me... show me... Show me where your mother lives!" - Confused climaxer

In the end there can be only one!

2005-08-26T11:53:00.001+01:00

Steve's abandoning me then So I guess the time has finally arrived when I have to deal with the muppets on my own.

"We Are Not Afraid" campaign spreads to Cowes

2005-08-08T11:15:00.000+01:00

Isle of Wight Today - RECORD FIREWORKS CROWN BUMPER WEEK Not specifically blogging about that news story, but I've just been away for a week racing a J/109 at Cowes Week (sorry, Skandia Cowes Week 2005 to give its full official title) and the presence of a "We Are Not Afraid" symbol on the side of the Class 0 yacht Nokia Enigma has me in two minds. (photo is from the above story in the Isle of

This one's for Steve

2005-07-05T00:52:00.000+01:00

From this year's Big Brother contestants: Science: "These cups are filthy all the time." Eugene: "I always drink tea and coffee normally out of a mug, but when I'm around my friends I drink it out of a glass. One of my friends, him and his family, they drink out of pint glasses, everything and including tea."

Buy my stuff!

2005-01-20T23:50:00.000Z

You've got just under a week to net yourself either a new video card or an OEM version of DOOM 3: Creative 3DBlaster Titanium 4200 (GeForce Ti 4200 64Mb) DOOM 3 (PC Game) - Full official OEM version, new

Don't Mind Me

2004-11-09T13:39:00.000Z

If any of you could click my Kings of Chaos recruiting link, I'd be very grateful.Its a painless process, just click the link and then answer the simple "What number is in the box below?" question, and then I gain power!Power! muhahhahaha!!1!!one!

With thanks to Monty Python

2004-03-30T09:53:00.000+01:00

Some things in life are bad, they can really make you mad - other things can make you swear and curse. When you're chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble - give a whistle - and this'll help things turn out for the best, and - Always look on the bright side of life always look on the bright side of life If life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten - and that's to laugh and

Best Update Notes Ever!

2004-03-05T21:26:00.000Z

Star Wars Galaxies *** Mar 05, 2004 Test Center Update *** Misc: Gave Mon Mothma some clothes

Don't mess around with Jim!

2004-01-30T11:23:00.000Z

And they say, "You don't tug on Superman's cape, You don't spit into the wind You don't pull the mask off that ol' Lone Ranger And you don't mess around with Jim."

Some great stuff for Londoners

2003-11-01T12:27:00.000Z

A couple of great things to look at for Londoners (for those who live there, those just passing through and those like me who just work there). From the LRB, Peter Campbell's : Why does it take so long to mend an escalator? Also The Open Guide to London a new Wiki dedicated to London (and especially its bars and restaurants).

SWG Pets

2003-10-25T23:44:00.000+01:00

Excerpt from chat log from Stratics chat with SWG developers Official SWGHoC Log - from SWG Stratics: "(Csavin) with mounts coming in game, are there any plans to skew the game back to star wars and away from pokemon? CH's being so prevelant is starting to ruin the 'starwarsiness' of it all (oodBnar) oohh.. (Q-3PO) Actually I hear George is going back and adding CG pets behind all the main

Extensions I have browsed

2003-10-22T23:53:00.000+01:00

A follow up to a previous post on my favourite Mozilla (and other Gecko browser) extensions. Just put Mozilla Firebird 0.7 on my laptop, and I've noticed that the style sheet switcher that I used to add in as an extension is now included by default. Excellent! Hopefully this will encourage a few more web sites to take advantage of alternative styles, and show us what they can do. So now that I

Potential Poo

2003-04-22T15:13:00.000+01:00

Q: How much potential poo am I in at the moment? A: An awful lot!

2003-04-19T23:31:00.000+01:00

Do I look like a construction industry recruitment specialist? No? Well stop sending me your CVs. Further to my earlier email concerning the above, I attach my CV for your evaluation. I have five years East Africa experience and several years experience with overseas water utilities. My experience has covered Zoning , Water meters, bye-laws , water legislation and related activities. I am

2003-04-17T11:35:00.000+01:00

Thoughts on default and recommended security modes and what it reveals about the people expected to use the systems. When you have a large network, with a large number of servers, and a number of network/server administrators there essentially two different ways to set up the supervisor/administrative rights and which route you go down reveals a lot about your overall philosophy. Method 1:

2003-04-16T09:25:00.000+01:00

Wow, just had Mozilla crash on me. What a shock! I'm running Mozilla 1.3 at the moment and this is the first time I can remember Mozilla crashing since I had a corrupt plugin install back when I was using Mozilla 1.1! I'd completely forgotten about the feedback agent, so it was a real shock when that appeared. Still I guess that's a fairly decent MTBF: two major milestone releases!

2003-04-14T14:01:00.000+01:00

OK I've just spent the last few days converting jardBRAIN so that it can export an RSS feed. This involved rewriting and generalising some of the internals (which wasn't such a bad thing as I'd been meaning to do it myself for ages anyway, I just needed some external stimulus to give me a good reason, and a boot up the jacksie). So all's going well, I settled on RSS version 2.0 in the end.

2003-04-04T15:53:00.000+01:00

What really annoys worries me about Windows XP are its silent failures. I've been using XP Home edition on my personal laptop for about nine months, and I've been using XP Professional at work for four or five months. During this time it's had its little quirks, annoyances and, I'll even grant, it's moments of brilliance and overall I've learned to tolerate it as an operating system, maybe even

2003-04-02T00:06:00.000+01:00

Well, I've just spent £200 on a watch, what have you done today? (But it's so cool, I can barely contain my excitement, and at least I didn't go fo the £499 version, even if that one is so cool I nearly wet myself looking at it)

2003-03-27T00:49:00.000Z

Telewest Incompetence Glad to see I'm not the only one having problems with them, I'd hate to think that they were singling out members of the Imperial Galactic Navy Remnants for their customer dis-service, see Telewest Review: "I hate them with a passion reserved only for them!" and of course Incompetence, thy name is Telewest, not forgetting Telewest help desk and organisational incompetence.

2003-03-26T23:18:00.000Z

It's true, I really can't browse with any other web browser any more. I've tried I really have. I've tried to wean myself off Mozilla and its Gecko-powered siblings, but I really can't do it. I know I need to lose this feeling of absolute power and control before it goes to my head, I know I need to watch this feeling of safety and contented happiness and redevelop my healthy sense of paranoia.

2003-03-23T02:08:00.000Z

Pure geek porn in khaki and olive green.

2003-03-15T19:43:00.000Z

Incompetence, thy name is Telewest.

2003-03-07T23:46:00.000Z

I always love it when someone new discovers and learns to love something that I've loved for ages, and Mozilla is definitely one of those things that I've managed to evangelize friends to in the past. So it's great to see someone else not only discover and learn to love Mozilla but also write a great page evangelizing Mozilla for bloggers.

2003-02-13T21:52:00.000Z

Things that wind me up, today: Forms on web sites that don't use the label tag, especially with radio buttons and checkboxes. Why should I be forced to aim my mouse pointer at some tiny, little target just because you so-called professional web developer can't be arsed to learn and utilise some incredibly easy part of the HTML spec. It's not even as if it's difficult to use: