# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `glibc-doc-reference’ and `info’ packages installed, try:
# `info libc “Name Service Switch”‘ for information about this file.

passwd:         compat
group:          compat
shadow:         compat

hosts:          files dns mdns4 wins
networks:       files

protocols:      db files
services:       db files
ethers:         db files
rpc:            db files

netgroup:       nis

Running my Ubuntu laptop alongside my dual monitor work computer with Synergy immediately creates a triple monitor and dual OS system. Besides the inability to drag windows across computers (uhm… think about it, not possible anyways) this software is amazing. It even allows the ability to share your clipboard amongst all the computers and handles window focusing beautifully, as well as many other amazing features. But what can I run it on??

• Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me (the Windows 95 family)
• Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP (the Windows NT family)
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
• Unix
  • X Windows version 11 revision 4 or up
  • XTEST extension
    (use “xdpyinfo | grep XTEST” to check for XTEST)

There you have it. Go try out this piece of wonderful invention!

The multiple platform support enables you to stay in touch with your contacts whether you are working at your PC or on the go with your mobile phone. With Palringo, you can keep in touch with friends on popular instant messaging services such as ICQ, MSN, Gadu-Gadu, AIM, and Google Talk. That’s just the start though! See anything interesting? Just snap a photo and send it to your friends instantly. Don’t like typing on quirky mobile phone keypads? With Palringo, you can just talk naturally in the form of short voice clips - think of it like a Walkie-Talkie on steroids.

After setting up SVN and a repository for the intranet files, I had to figure out a way to set up the web hosting. In order to provide hosting for all individual copies and for the main copy I had to set up network drives for each user. Each individual copy was in a named folder all under one common folder. I used samba to allow users to access their files and set up apache to serve the PHP content out of each folder. Each user then mapped the folder on their workstations and used whichever SVN tool they wanted to check out the files into their new network drive. Their individual copies were now set up and ready to use.

This system is meant to manage the content for our development copy of the intranet only. After files were pushed through SVN they should then appear in the main development checkout. I set up a cron job to pull updated files from SVN and put them into our primary copy of the development intranet. This was our main beta for our changes to be tested and that primary revisions would be pulled from and pushed live.

This was the best solution I could come up with for this problem. To my surprise I didn’t find anybody else on the Internet with similar problems. This way seems to work just fine for us though and will hopefully help out anybody else looking to manage a project like this.

Daniel Parmenter, age 20, last of Westchester, Ill.

Catalina Garcia, age 20, last of Cicero, Ill.

Ryanne Mace, age 19, last of Carpentersville, Ill.

Julianna Gehant (pronounced Ghee-hant), age 32, last of Mendota, Ill.

Gayle Dubowski, age 20, last of Carol Stream, Ill.

I will be leaving here shortly for the vigil. I am leaving early to join my fellow Huskies in the MLK commons to intercept the wackos that may be coming to soil our grief.

Huskie pride!