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Most Google services are now avaible over encrypted ssl connections. Google Apps now offers the option to enforce ssl for most of it’s services. Here is the overview: Email – Yes. Calendar – Yes. Docs – Yes. Sites – Yes. Chat – Yes. SSL supports Chat in Gmail. The Google Talk Client is always over [...]

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The good days of having a customized start page for Google Apps are over. As of December 1st 2008 Google has ceased offering the Start Page Service to all new Google Apps customers.  This isn’t the only cut back Google has made as now only 100 e-mail  accounts are available with the free Standard version [...]

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If you get this error you probably compiled mencoder and mplayer without Xvid support. To fix this error you need to re-compile mencoder and add Xvid codec support. Please refer to this guide Compile Mencoder and Mplayer with Xvid and H264 Support

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Recently we were discussing our favorite phones and gadgets. By now we use our phones as mobile terminals so when the question of upgrading came up we looked at the requirements we have from that perspective. The first requirement is an SSH client of course. Most smart phones do have an SSH client of sorts [...]

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This post will show how you can easily upgrade ASDM (Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager for ASA) to the latest version on a Cisco ASA5500 firewall using the command line interface. In order to do this you will need the latest asdm image (you will need a proper cisco cco user and contract to download [...]

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Our top 5 blog posts in terms of number of clicks received in 2008 INSTALL FFMPEG FFMPEG-PHP AND AUDIO BINARIES ON CENTOS / RHEL SYSTEM WITH CPANEL by Gerold This guide is intented for the installatiion of ffmpeg, ffmpeg-php, mplayer, mencoder, lame mp3 encoder, flvtool2, libVorbis, and libogg and tested on CentOS5 and RHEL3 systems [...]

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