I’ve had a few comments on my earlier post with the request that I finish documenting the steps to get the SquirrelMail address book to show LDAP users from OpenDirectory in Leopard server. Here it is: First, I uncommented the LDAP section as provided in the SquirrelMail configuration at /etc/squirrelmail/config/config.php, but it was missing one parameter, for the protocol. Actually you don’t need to have that with 10.4 if you use the “V2 compatible” option in OpenDirectory. On 10.5 you no longer have that option and need to specify LDAP V3 in the SquirrelMail config file: $ldap_server[0] = Array( ‘host’…
Looking For A Specialized Telephone Service
I’m assisting some of our linguistically inclined faculty and some of their colleagues at other institutions locate a telephone recording service. It is to record speakers of Hawaiian and other indigenous languages having normal conversations so that they may be analyzed at a later date. Participants need to be able to call each other from mobile phone or land line, and it needs to be easy to do as many of these folks are elderly and not technologically inclined. What I envision is a service where by: call originator calls this service. They may dial a unique number for their…
Object-Centered Sociality: Food For Thought
Mahalo to Conor O’Neill for pointing out this post from John Breslin entitled The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics which connected me to Jyri Engeström’s essay on Why some social network services work and others don’t — Or: the case for object-centered sociality . Both opened my eyes a bit as I continue the ponder the usefulness and feasibility of a monolingual Hawaiian language communication system. I had been looking at how we were going to create a service that would be useful enough to our young speakers to perhaps entice them to cut…
Leopard Server, Day 1
I spent most of the day installing Leopard Server on an old PPC Mac Mini. Not the best machine to deploy on by any stretch but certainly adequate for our technology team to take it for a test drive. As this is the fifth (or so) OS X Server I’ve set up I wasn’t expecting too much trouble, though I’ve never set one up before that was going to offer as wide a range of services as this particular system will need to. The others were mostly for either serving web pages or lab management/file serving grunts. After botching the…