Change Office 2010 product / license key

Much simpler than making registry changes etc...
Go to 'Control Panel' > 'Programs and Features'
Highlight your version of Office 2010 and click 'Change'
Choose 'Enter a Product Key'
Allow the change to go through, and you're done!

LDAP Authentication settings for Joomla Active Directory

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Name: Authentication - LDAP

Enabled: Yes

Type: authentication

Plugin File: ldap.php

Access Level: PublicRegisteredSpecial

Order: Authentication - LDAP



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Host: Your AD server

Port: 389 (or whatever you've got LDAP running on)

LDAP V3: Yes

Negotiate: TLS No

Follow referrals: No

Authorisation Method: Bind Directly as User

Base DN : OU=SBSUsers,OU=Users,OU=MyBusiness,DC=yourdomain,DC=local (this DN is the base on SBS 2008 as an example)

Search String: sAMAccountName=[search]

User's DN: yourdomain\[username]



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Connect username: cn=your ldap username,cn=Users,dc=yourdomain,dc=local

Connect password: c'mon, you don't really need me to explain this one...



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Map: Full Name: displayName

Map: E-mail: mail

Map: User ID: sAMAccountName

Snow Leopard Server Address Book URI

Snow Leopard Server 10.6 Address book URI is: http://192.168.1.1:8800/addressbooks/users/johnsmith/addressbook/

Doesn't seem to be in any of their documentation...

How to remove a blog entry from blogger.com

So I go to the link at the bottom of the page...
and...

Looks like the guys in the doco department figured it out :P

How to make Pioneer DVR-216 DVD drive region free when you already have latest firmware

Ok, so I wanted to make my drive region free so I could play all those cheap DVDs I got off ebay without having to decode each one. I won't go into the steps of making a DVD drive region free, since there are so many out there ( see http://server4.doom9.org/index.html?/rpc1.htm if you don't know how).

These guides are good if you don't have the latest firmware installed on your drive, but what if you do?

I had a Pioneer DVR-216 drive running 1.09 firmware--the latest (as of the time of writing). Trying to run patched firmware (http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php) only gave me the error: FW is already the latest

Because the patched firmware was the same version it wouldn't allow me to re-run the firmware update. So, with a simple hack we just need to trick the updater into thinking we're installing a later version of the firmware:

1.Get yourself a copy of CDVDInfo if you haven't already. We want to see if our process works.
2.Download the latest firmware for your drive (official or from rpc1.org, we're going to crack it anyway.
3.Run the firmware upgrade and take note where it extracts to (it should fail with the "FW is already the latest error") By default mine went to: C:\DVR216\FW109EU
4.In the extracted directory you should have two files, an .exe and a file named something like S0015001.109
5.Edit the S0015001.109 file with something like Notepad++ and go to about line 4 where it has the revision level. Change the revision level to something higher, eg. mine was 1.09 I changed it to 1.10 Save the file.
6.If your firmware isn't the region-free copy, download MediaCodeSpeedEdit (http://ala42.cdfreaks.com/MCSE/)
7.In MediaCodeSpeedEdit, load the firmware file we edited above, from the bottom right, check "RPC1 Patch" . Save the firmware.
8.Back in the extracted firmware directory, run the .exe file to upgrade your firmware. You should be prompted if you wish to upgrade your firmware from 1.09 to 1.10 (or whatever version no. you changed the file to).
9.Run the CDVDInfo tool, you should receive a "No Lock Detected" message.
10.(Remember that you still need to run something like dvd43 to get your OS to accept DVDs from multiple regions)