In this post we will discuss the steps to integrate Moodle with LDAP. In our case we are using 389DS as our LDAP server. Please follow the steps below for the integration
2. You will see another screen where you have to enable the LDAP server plugin as shown in image below…
Moodle development has always been active. In recent years the changes has resulted in improved end users and teachers experience. Administration process and interface has also improved a lot.
We see most of the major upgrade from version 1.9 to 2.0. Most of these changes has been improved and refined over time up to 2.2. We continue to observer the same improvement process to continue for the upcoming release of 2.3 with few new features.
New Moodle promises for easier management for teachers, better user experience for student and many performance enhancements and additional integration for administrators. The product looks more promising and stable for large deployment in education and business use.
Being a Network administrators, systems administrators we always like to have some tools handy to look into, troubleshoot or just to figure things out. There are many open source, free tools available specialized for different purposes
In this blog I shall attempt to list some of them, give a brief description and list the available platform. I prefer to run these tools from a laptop on both windows and linux platform. I also prefer to have the ability to carry them around in a pen drive in a portable format. Linux boot disks are also useful in these cases
Ping is the most basic tool we use to check connectivity. We also use arp to check the local broadcast domain and the arp resolution table. traceroute(linux)/tracert(windows) is used to check the path to the destination host. “mtr” is a powerful tool to view the network part for a longer period of time, usually installed as an additional package. Windows version of mtr is also available, even a portable version. One more useful tool comes mostly of out the box is nslookup (windows and linux) and dig for linux; they are very useful troubleshooting identifying dns related investigation. “whois” is one more tool useful to find out more in some ip or domain name, owner, contact authority, as number etc. Last but not the least netstat available both in windows and linux is a useful tool to find out the local network status easily. A follow the link for a detail tutorial on how to use these basic tools.
OpenVAS Screen shot
At times, network admins need to change their IP address, they need to do it fast and go back and forth with the configurations. They do so for troubleshooting, debugging, testing etc etc etc…
This tiny free tool is a useful solution for that. I like the look of it too.. it is simple and open source
iPad/iPhone enterprise deployment
In my opinion a tablet is most useful if used as a consumer (read your mail, news, presentation, view documents etc) as oppose to a content creator. The limiting factor is how much content you might be able to create using an iPad, even one with Bluetooth keyboard. The enterprise standard integration of an iPad is probably derived from the idea of integrating laptop in a business environment. While we run a laptop program which is integrated to the business environment, we look into accessibility, data security, authentication, enterprise application integration and miscellaneous productivity software and tools. Ability to do seamless integration, providing backup and recovery services and technical support is the key to its success. In this blog I shall try to describe how to deploy tablet for enterprises/ educational institutes in a step by step
Computer and human interface will probably be one of the most important areas of development in next few decades. While we work to master our technology to make computers work for us more efficiently, and double processing power every 18month, little we have seen to improve our direct interaction with computers.
What we seen is form factor changes (tablet/smart phone), introduction to motion sensing input (Kinect), use of GPS, accelerometer, google goggle, google glass, etc. In my opinion, we probably took a step back by heavily depending upon touch keyboards moving away from using 10 fingers (QWERTY keyboard) to 2 fingers. Fashion statements have become one of the key driving factors in the market. Most of our attempts to make handwriting recognition popular were never successful.
Our ability to instruct computers directly from our brain will probably be one of the great leap forward. We have the technology in hand. Project BrainGate is one of them.
BrainGate is a brain implant system, currently under development and in clinical trials, designed to help those who have lost control of their limbs, or other bodily functions, such as patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or spinal cord injury. The sensor, which is implanted into the brain, monitors brain activity in the patient and converts the intention of the user into computer commands.
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Prefix: We have been planning to upgrade our Citrix XenServer from 5.0 to the latest version 6.0.
XenServer only permits upgrades from the last major release. For example, in order to upgrade from version 5.0.0 to version 5.6, you must first upgrade version 5.0.0 to version 5.5, and then upgrade version 5.5 to version
5.6, and to 6.0 and so on.
As I couldn’t find a straight forward upgrade only documentation online. I am creating one. This can be used for a full upgrade from 5.0 to 6.0.1 or any of its subsets independently
If you are upgrading to a feature pack, XenServer permits a direct upgrade from the preceding release. For
example, you can upgrade directly from version 5.5 to version 5.6 Service Pack 2
Are you still using IE?
According to statcounter, Google Chrome has finally overtaken IE last week. It also shows a slow decline on Firefox usage. It would be interesting to follow this chart once Windows 8 comes out. Maybe in windows tablet they will force us to use Internet explorer? Maybe in this browser war the winner will finally be decided by the OS and the hardware manufacturer together. Like so many other things these days.. there is only one way to find out
The Highest Resolution Image of our Planet
It’s been taken by Russia’s latest weather satellite, the Electro-L. Elektro-L is now orbiting Earth on a geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometers above the equator. The satellite took the photos at a massive 121 megapixels. Electro-L’s images were made combining three visible light wavelengths and one infrared, according to Gizmodo. I just love to have this opportunity to showcase this picture in my blog.
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Source planet–earth.ca/
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