Archive for November, 2006

Music Maestro!

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Time for another great song on lucvansteen.net
This song from 1987 is written about and from the point of view of a battered child—at the time an uncommon subject for a pop hit.
Other great songs of this singer/songwriter are “Marlene on the wall” and “Tom’s diner”
Listen and enjoy this tune:

Converting AVI files into Vodcasts

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

You have made this awesome video you want to share with the rest of world. Ok, you can post it on youtube.com but I like having my stuff on my own server(s).
So what do you need to do?
Step 1 :Your video fragment of course.
Step 2 : A tool to convert the .avi file [...]

Tips on Conference calling

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

Here are my tips for a successful conference call.
Tip 1: D-5 = Create an invitation 5 days before the conference call containing the number, password, agenda, …
Tip 2: D-2 = Send a reminder to required and optional attendees.
Tip 3: D = During the conference call make use of the mute button to make offline [...]

Back from IT Forum 2006 in Barcelona

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

This week I’ve spend most of my time in Barcelona/Spain attending Microsoft IT Forum 2006.
Exchange 2007 with Unified Messaging is awesome!!! Combined with Live Communications Server and the SkillTeam IP Telephony Solution, Calliope, you are able to build a true unified platform.
Such a solution will be installed as soon as possible in our [...]

Fedora Core 6 and Wifi on IBM R50

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Problems with your wifi on your IBM R50 laptop when using FC6?
Just update the drivers!
Here is the solution provided by my colleague Philippe Daumerie.
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release5.rpm
yum install ipw2100-firmware
That’s all folks.

Press Announcement : Grote aanwervingsronde bij SkillTeam

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Het Brusselse informaticabedrijf SkillTeam werft tientallen werknemers aan. Dat heeft grotendeels te maken door een samenwerking met het moederbedrijf IBM het BvD-it Services uit Hoeilaart rond SAP-oplossingen, die gebruikt worden voor de ondersteuning van de bedrijfsprocessen van een moderne onderneming. Het is de bedoeling om dat aanbod verder uit te breiden. Daarbij zullen IBM-oplossingen [...]

Upgrading from XP to Fedora Core 6

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

Converting your corporate pc or portable to Linux is not that simple as it seems.
You need to retain the same level of functionalities or even better.
Is it possible to convert a corporate pc to Linux anyway? I’m using Linux for a long time as a server platform but never as a corporate desktop [...]

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