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My blog has moved

June 11, 2012
By Ben Chapman

Dear readers, As of June 1, my blog has moved to http://benjaminjchapman.wordpress.com/ . I’ve exported all of the old pages, so everything should be there. Let me know if you see any issues. Yes, I’m still at Emory Law – we’re just retiring some services and moving things around. Please check over there for...

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A custom digital signage kiosk

February 8, 2012
By Ben Chapman
A custom digital signage kiosk

Here’s a quick photo gallery of our new custom digital signage kiosk, located at the entrance to the IT suite. We use BrightSign digital signage boxes. This particular model (HD110) does not have network capability, but there is a network jack in the kiosk...

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Securely browsing Emory LDAP from Mac OSX

January 26, 2011
By Ben Chapman
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This walks through the steps required to securely access the Emory LDAP services running on our Active Directory infrastructure. It uses the ancient but still excellent LDAP Browser/Editor written by Jarek Gawor. Although the program is 10 years old, it works perfectly well with...

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What is that device on my network?

December 3, 2010
By Ben Chapman
What is that device on my network?

It’s that time of year when I start poking around our network trying to update the various records that we keep of the various devices on our network. Unfortunately,...

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When the Ax Man Cometh – rethinking higher ed Web/IT

November 29, 2010
By Ben Chapman

Over the weekend, I watched an interesting video inteview on higheredlive. See the video link after the break. It’s a video from Seth Odell and Mark Greenfield on the...

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Saving your bacon: recovering from a serious Linux issue

November 10, 2010
By Ben Chapman
Saving your bacon: recovering from a serious Linux issue

This is a slightly more detailed post than usual, based on bitter experience. How do you recover when you've accidentally deleted all the files in your /etc/ directory? Here's...

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