I don’t remember the year we decided to try, 2003 probably. It was a New Year’s Eve, near the same hour of the night when I proposed to Adrienne. I still remember the thrill of intentional unprotected sex. A mixture of excitement, apprehension, hope and orgasam. After that, the time between 2004 and 2010 was [...]
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I’m always on the lookout for well made, beautiful insect art. Not just pinned insects in a box (as showcased in many an entomologist’s office and home), nor the pseudoscientific version of “look! Bugs are pretty when they have wings and don’t bite!” type of thing. No…I’m more looking for a cross between scientific names [...]
Individual in the Enterprise Firefox, Thunderbird have full-fledged graphical settings editors. It is easy for a user to change the behavior of his or her web browser with a few mouse clicks. While this approach is sensible for the home user, GUIs hamper software configuration in the corporate enterprise. Although Mozilla products textually represent preferences [...]
Previously, we saw that Mozilla MCD can inspect a user’s environment using getEnv(). It can also retrieve information from an LDAP directory. I use this feature to inform Firefox and Thunderbird of the user in detail. The corporate directory knows the user’s full name, mail server and authentication credentials. autoconfig takes this and, among other [...]
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A challenge with software Managing software for thousands of users presents a formidable challenge to the system administrator. Publishing corporate policy, using standard environments and providing clear end-user documentation helps. However, it doesn’t beat automatically doing it right. This is the power of MCD autoconfig. In an earlier post, I introduced MCD as a way [...]
What is MCD? MCD (aka AutoConfig) is a script used to programmatically configure Mozilla products such as Firefox and Thunderbird in the enterprise for multiple users. Part of my job is to ensure 33,385 people have the right settings to check their email and browse the web. Centralizing their set up with autoconfig removes the [...]
