Configuring Zimbra as the default mail client mailto: function when using ubuntu linux

Posted by Adrian on Jul 29, 2009 in Open Source | 0 comments This script from Dan at Zomgee is excellent, and allows you to compile your own XPI firefox addon in under 2 minutes (using nothing more than a basic text editor and your mailserver domain name) that makes all mailto: links open up in Zimbra, not evolution of similar.  Its easy and works for me using Zimbra client on an ubuntu 9.04 linux machine with Firefox 3.0.12.  Nice work...
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Linux Against Poverty – in the UK?

Posted by Adrian on Jul 28, 2009 in Open Source | 3 comments The concept of taking older and redundant windows PCs, triageing them, clean installing linux and passing the machines onto good homes is an excellent one, and cuts out an awful lot of legal problems.  Its being done in the USA and I wonder when it will happen in the uk? If anyone knows if and when this is going to happen, please let me know and we have a bunch of old machnes we can contribute...
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Mercian Labels MD achieves elite Chartered Director status

Posted by Adrian on Jul 28, 2009 in Labels, press releases | 0 comments PRESS RELEASE 28 July 2009 Cannock, Staffordshire, UK Dr Adrian Steele, Managing Director of Cannock based Mercian Labels is the latest director to join the elite group of individuals who have achieved the Institute of Director’s Chartered Director status. Adrian is now one of only 700 directors to become a Chartered Director in the UK out of the Institutes membership of over 45,000. He...
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Labels Event 2010

Posted by Adrian on Jul 24, 2009 in Labels | 0 comments As a founder member of the British Short Run Labelling Association, we have been been supporting the new UK labelling event through our network in the past year since I first came to hear of it late last year.  The Label Event 2010 is not competition to Label Expo, the definative labelling show held every 2 years, but a commercially driven seminar day with an exciting agenda for all those...
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1.3 terabyte broadband – a door to a better future in east africa

Posted by Adrian on Jul 24, 2009 in business | 0 comments Some years ago I travelled around countries in southern Africa, and was struck by the unrealised potential of the local economies as they didnt have any decent web access to compete with the Indian sub continent and China.  Well yesterday a major milestone was acheived with the commisioning of the Seacom undersea cable.  Its a small but important step to empowering the local economies of east...
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Josh from the open source community joins us for a week of work experience

Posted by Adrian on Jul 13, 2009 in Open Source | 2 comments At Mercian Labels we have benefited hugely from open source software, but unfortunately it is rare that we actually get a chance to help out anyone from the community back.  However, this week it has been a pleasure to host Josh Holland, who has been here hacking us with a new VPN connection on our ubuntu server and the technical stuff needed to integrate Zimbra email into our own CRM. Josh...
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Royal Mail’s not so ‘tamper proof’ self adhesive stamps

Posted by Adrian on Jul 13, 2009 in Labels, Security Labels | 1 comment Only a couple of months ago the Royal Mail issued what it claimed to be a ‘tamper proof’ stamp to cut down on the illegal reuse of stamps in the UK.  Yesterday a houseguest showed me how these stamps can be removed with ease, using absolutely no equipment at all. It is that easy, and the stamp labels are hardly ‘tamper proof’.  Contrast that with our own Dual Layer...
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google chrome OS – no thank you

Posted by Adrian on Jul 8, 2009 in Open Source | 0 comments The blogosphere has been awash today with the news that Google are launching their own operating system.  Of course its easy to say I told you so, but I can confess to putting Chris DeBona, Google’s Open Source Manager on the spot at Lugradio live 2007 Q&As as to when Google would release its own Linux Distro, as strategically it didnt seem sensible for them not to do so.  I didnt...
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LabelExpo 2009 coming up

Posted by Adrian on Jul 7, 2009 in Labels | 0 comments Every 2 years the global label industry descend on Brussells for the biggest labelling show in the Calendar, Label Expo. It is a “must visit” show for anyone seriously involved in labelling, and I will be there on Friday 25th September and Saturday 26th September this year. Please contact me if you are also going and fancy meeting up to discuss anything; I’d be happy to meet...
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RIM Blackberry needs to support Zimbra

Posted by Adrian on Jul 7, 2009 in Open Source | 0 comments We are recruiting a new member to our team and they have asked for a blackberry as their email device of choice, something we have never used before in house.  Having looked into this, it seems like a real can of worms. What I would expect is that there is an easy way of connecting a zimbra server to a blackberry device using a protocol similar to IMAP or the nokia exchange server that I use on...
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the new adsl2+ with annex M service from nildram with the netgear dg834g modem

Posted by Adrian on Jul 2, 2009 in Open Source | 0 comments We have been longstanding customers of Nildram broadband, and recently upgraded one of our lines to the latest generation of high upload speed line offering upto 16mb down / 2.5mb up using annex m. Anyone considering this service may be interested in these results: EXISTING NETGEAR DG834 v4 ROUTER (allegedly not annex m compatible but still works fine with 5.01.09 firmware): connection speed...
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