The argument with users should go like this – We block malware/adware. If Mapquest has recently changed partnerships and signed with someone who has a negative reputation, that does not give us a valid reason to stop using exisiting tools to block malware/adware. Write to mapquest or use Google maps, Bing maps, etc.

Mapquest hangs on Loading and just spins

OOOPS. I meant this one-

How did I miss that there was that new charlie the unicorn video AND one they got paid to do for Hot Topic?

Open your network connections and look for the TAP adapter. Mine is v9 from the upgrade a few days ago.

Open TCP v4 settings

Advanced button

I added my AD server as the first DNS entry, untangle dns is second

WINS tab – enter your wins server addy, if you don’t have wins, put it on, it is useful still for things like OWA and exchange 2003. Several other MS things don’t work properly without it 9 years after it was supposed to die

Netbios over TCP- enable that

Back on the DNS tab, i told it to append my domain.com name. It was trying to append my .is-a-geek.com domain name from my house a few times in troubleshooting. I have vpn working without this setting at a warehouse client of mine. So don’t worry if you dont have a domain to add.

That should be it. I’ll post the bat file I wrote for restarting the openvpn service and pinging when I have a few more minutes to post.

Don’t forget you can go into services and start openvpn as a service. It won’t connect inside your network by default. So it automatically knows when to enable. This is great for doing remote maintenance when users are online. This gets you around user complaints about the openvpn gui having to run as adminstrator on vista and 7 because it is happy as a service.

For the search engines-

Untangle openvpn won’t map a drive using name DNS

Openvpn dns mapping windows vista

Keepassx – I was able to download my mozy backup of my keepass file in about a minute from the mozy site. I installed keepassx and opened up my keepass file. Worked great.

Openoffice – For simple and I mean simple tasks openoffice is ok. I was able to grab a few excel sheets off my sharepoint server, edit then put back. I am very annoyed that if openoffice opens an .xlsx file it tries to save as its own .oxx documents. Linux people just don’t get it.Normal users can’t handle that.

Logmein – Big fail in Ubuntu. The logmein browser plugin flashes every time you input a click or keystroke in firefox. The solution is that firefox doesn’t work. Use Opera. Sounds a lot like in Windows getting away from IE and using Firefox. So much irony, hypocrisy and fun.