Category archive for ‘Geek Speak’ 
Shibboleth – a Key Piece to the Student connectEd Puzzle (Comments Off)
1/19/12 •
Last year, UNB student email was migrated from Webmail to the new connectEd environment, a fully integrated and supported suite of productivity tools for email, calendaring, messaging, collaboration, and more. In order to integrate students’ connectEd [...]
Look out pipsqueak IPv4, there’s a new IP boss in town (Comments Off)
10/13/11 •
Did you ever think the world would run out of telephone numbers? Ok, so we might still have a while to go before that happens, but we are getting close to running out of the numbers [...]
Looking at Audio and Video Streaming (Comments Off)
6/15/11 •
Audio/Video streaming is a term you may not hear very often, but it’s a core technology at the heart of today’s internet experience. If you’ve ever watched a video on YouTube, rented a movie from iTunes, [...]
Does size really matter? MB versus MiB (Comments Off)
6/08/11 •
You’ve probably heard all about megabytes and gigabytes, but have you heard about mebibytes and gibibytes? Most of the time, when we talk about how much storage space is available on an electronic device we speak [...]
How to easily get sample text without writing it yourself (Comments Off)
3/23/11 •
When designing a publication, like a brochure, poster, booklet, or newsletter, you may not have the text written and ready, but you might like to have some sample text to help with your layout. Instead of [...]
Welcome to the “Cloud”: The Home of Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and More! (Comments Off)
3/02/11 •
Ever heard the term “Cloud Computing” and wondered what it’s all about? Believe it or not, you probably know a lot more about this tech term than you give yourself credit for. Most of us have [...]
Solaris 10 LDAP Authentication (Comments Off)
9/24/10 •
With Directory Services (LDAP, eDirectory, Active Directory) being so prevalent in the Enterprise today, it is of little wonder why IT Departments would want to authenticate access to workstations via their primary Directory Service. Getting Windows [...]